PC Gaming
Team Fortress: Source 2, an ambitious fan project aiming to rebuild the venerable Team Fortress 2 in the Source 2 engine, has reached the end of the road. Amper Software, the team behind the project, said on Twitter today that it’s been forced to pull the plug after receiving a DMCA takedown notice from Valve….
Cosmetic microtransactions: Most of us profess to hate them, yet people are clearly still buying them. A decade ago, this kind of monetization was the territory of predatory mobile games, while mainstream gaming was still arguing about whether or not paid DLC should come preloaded on a disc. Now, Valorant has comfortably released its latest…
Two years after Twitter introduced hexagonal NFT avatars, they’re gone: As reported by TechCrunch and confirmed by numerous users, the social media platform has quietly dropped the feature, and reverted all existing NFT avatars to standard ones. NFT avatars on Twitter (now officially known as X, but we’re not calling it that) debuted in January…
If I ever needed more evidence that Build Mode and Live Mode players of The Sims are built different, this is it. Sims player Kewlcy has exemplified a Live Mode sicko by building not just one underground kidnapping bunker but an entire hidden city “for capturing and storing men.” It all seems to have started…
Despite having very little information about it yet, Diablo 4’s next season is now confirmed to go live in less than two weeks. The current season, the Season of Blood, will close at an unannounced time (likely around 10 am PT) on January 23 and season 3 will begin within the same day. Blizzard recently…
I’m never going back. Look, I tried to be normal about PC pointers, I really did. I bought regular mice, the sort whose most exciting feature was their grey scroll wheel, hoping their budget blandness would help me forget the discomfort I was fighting with. I ordered fancy ones with little customisable weights and adjustable…
Despite some technical misgivings we rated Forza Motorsport quite highly when it launched in October 2023, but others haven’t been quite as impressed. Take a trip around to Steam and you’ll quickly notice a “mostly negative” user rating across nearly 5,000 user reviews. There’s a range of complaints: Some users are struggling with bugs and…
AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) technology has been part of a regularly updated preview driver since late September, and the red team has been adding support for a host of different RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 GPUs since then. And buried in the unveiling of the Radeon RX 7600 XT at CES 2024 this week…
With a rather understated press release, Ayaneo announced a new model PC in its Next series of handheld PCs, the Next Lite. Why understated? Because Ayaneo decided to not make too much of a fuss about its standout feature: It’s the first non-Valve handheld product to use SteamOS as the operating system. The announcement itself…
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has announced a “groundbreaking AI voice agreement” as per the union’s website—and despite its claim that the agreement was “approved by affected members of the union’s voiceover performer community”, a lot of industry vets feel like their voices weren’t heard. This agreement with Replica…