PC Gaming
While the list of games like Stardew Valley just keeps growing, the list of games made by Stardew’s creator is still percolating. Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone’s own next game Haunted Chocolatier is still deep in development, but it turns out that a former Stardew contributor is also working on a new life sim that may even…
Just a couple weeks after being sued by the New York Times over allegations that it copied and used “millions” of copyrighted news articles to train its large-language models, OpenAI has told the UK’s House of Lords communications and digital select committee (via The Guardian) that it has to use copyrighted materials to build its…
While X continues to spiral in relevancy, its owner Elon Musk spent the holidays grinding Diablo 4’s hardest dungeon and even teamed up with its most popular streamers for some help. “Christmas Eve I spent 17 hours on Diablo,” Musk said while guesting on Diablo streamer Wudijo’s stream a few weeks ago. Musk was too…
I hated the look of the first series of Nvidia Super cards. When it knocked out some updated Turing GPUs and created the RTX 20-series Supers, the last thing I wanted to see when checking out my new graphics card was my own face staring back at me. Mirrored surfaces are the enemy of one…
A couple months after bringing diminutive psycho-stabber Chucky to the multiplayer survival horror game Dead by Daylight, Behaviour Interactive is teasing something new—and a lot of fans are convinced that an Alan Wake crossover is on the way. In terms of substance, the tease is awfully thin: It’s a flashlight. Alan Wake is a pretty…
Some of the greatest stories about games are simply about how developers made the thing work. Ask any developer for their favourite workarounds and you’ll get a full evening’s worth of entertainment about how a giant tram is actually an NPC with a hat on, or how rabbits are actually what makes Azeroth work, and…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the big, world-changing isometric party-based RPG that everyone’s still talking about, but I’ve always felt that Pillars of Eternity is the game that really first started turning that engine over. The OG Infinity Engine vibes were strong, but it stood well on its own merits too: We called it “a deep,…
Acer has announced a slew of new gaming monitors for CES, including a 57-inch dual-4K monster. Other models include 34-inch and 39-inch OLEDs, plus a 34-inch mini-LED panel. But let’s kick off with the beast, the Acer Predator Z57. Acer isn’t saying it, but we very much suspect this is based on the very same…
Ray tracing is coming to Diablo 4 this March. Announced during Nvidia’s CES 2024 Special Address, the update will offer ray-traced reflections and shadows to better show off the carnage you leave in your wake. You can check out a brief teaser trailer for the ray tracing update in the clip embedded above. I’m just…
Valve’s omnipresent games platform Steam has started off 2024 with a bang, registering both its highest-ever number of concurrent users and also its highest-ever number of users actively playing a game. Over the last weekend 33,675,229 concurrent users were logged-in to Steam, which beats the previous record of 33,598,520 set in March 2023. During roughly…