PC Gaming
Escape From Tarkov released on Steam on November 15, taking the excellent extraction shooter out of beta after a mere eight years, and almost immediately had a bit of a wobble. Players found themselves unable to log in, with demand being such that developer Battlestate Games acknowledged severe server woes, and then came the inevitable…
Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2 released last month after a lengthy, difficult development, one that saw the project taken off original developer Hardsuit Labs by publisher Paradox Interactive and handed over to The Chinese Room. When it finally burst from its coffin, the critical reaction ranged from mildly positive to firmly negative, with our own Fraser…
It’s becoming harder and harder to know what the rules are when it comes to generative AI. With Meta, X, and even the UK government behind opt-out models, it feels like AI is in a “steal first, ask permission later” state. All of that could go some way to explaining why hundreds of thousands of…
At the Korean gaming conference G-Star 2025, Katsura Hashino, creative producer and game director at Atlus, presented a talk alongside fellow Atlus art director, Shigenori Soejima exploring the impact of visual storytelling: “When experience becomes memory—designing lasting impressions through art and structure”. Hashino also discussed how he’s gearing up for what sounds like a literal…
Pay no attention to the well-heeled gentlemen whispering ‘What if it’s a bubble?‘ behind the curtain—AI is the all-revolutionising tech that’s here to change the world. Ubisoft reckons AI is a revolution for games on par with “the shift to 3D.” EA’s buyers plan to lean on AI to make its $20 billion debt disappear….
Last week, TSMC reportedly opened an investigation into ex-employee Lo Wen-jen, who moved from retirement to a position at Intel. Lo held a position as the vice president of corporate strategy before retiring from TSMC in July. Lo was once involved in the research into mass production of chips at the Taiwanese chipmaking giant and…
Swapping weapons, reloading, healing, and climbing, most things in Arc Raiders take a hell of a lot of time to do. Nowhere is this clearer than when you’re carrying the crates required to open and loot Field Depots, which you’ll have to slowly lug across the map with no access to your guns. This annoying…
In the ongoing struggle to play Bloodborne on PC, PlayStation 4 emulator ShadPS4 is cleaving a path in the right direction as its most recent update (version 0.12.6) significantly boosts its performance and is more accessible for those with weaker hardware. Granted, setting up the emulation in the first place is not a simple task…
Open world online racer The Crew was recently resurrected by a team of enthusiast developers after its original developer Ubisoft wrote it off last year. But it turns out The Crew Unlimited was on course to return to the scrapyard relatively soon, had its new pit crew not nixed a peculiar bug that recalls the…
Is there a single games company that cultivates the kind of hushed, awed whispers that Valve does? As a private company, Gabe Newell’s baby doesn’t have to concern itself with putting out all the information that companies with masses of shareholders have to. And yet, it pretty much props up all of PC gaming with…