PC Gaming
Steam is flooded with all manner of weird and wonderful city-builders these days. Yet few of these newer games have laid their foundations in the true heartland of the genre. If you want to build a vast, modern cityscape with intensely simulated traffic and three types of zoning, you’re pretty much stuck with Cities: Skylines…
It always bugged me that you couldn’t save the scientists in Half-Life. You’d be trundling through some grey corridor in the bowels of Black Mesa, with one or two or maybe even three lab coat wearing boffins behind you, when they’d suddenly stop for no obvious reason, announcing: “This is as far as I go!”…
If there’s one thing that the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling was known for in the 1990s, it was wasting absolutely colossal amounts of billionaire Ted Turner’s cash. You could say that the media mogul could afford it, but WCW’s spendthrift ways were because it was always something of a vanity project: Turner made his name…
Get to know Clint (Image credit: ConcernedApe) Birthday: Winter 26Occupation: BlacksmithLocation: Pelican Town SmithyLoves: Artichoke Dip, rare gemsDislikes: Unrefined Ore, Flowers Clint is one of two new marriage candidates planned for the next big Stardew Valley update, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait to befriend Pelican Town’s resident blacksmith. He’s available to visit…
In the 2026 edition of his yearly games industry report, market analyst Matthew Ball shared a sobering statistic: Since 2021, Roblox has been responsible for over 60% of the games industry’s net growth in consumer spending outside of China. Evidently, Roblox thinks those are rookie numbers. Today, Roblox announced Roblox Plus, a new subscription plan…
The US government is once again posting videos targeting gamers, but in a surprising twist it’s not using them to promote wars of aggression or gutter racism. Instead, it’s hoping to convince them to sign up to become air traffic controllers. “YOU can be the future of air traffic control,” US secretary of transportation Sean…
For an awful lot of years, Pete Hines was the face of Bethesda Softworks: For game journalists first, as the company’s marketing and PR guy, and later the public at large, when Bethesda started holding its own standalone showcases at E3. In terms of public awareness, he was pretty much the number-two guy behind Todd…
Pete Hines retired from Bethesda in 2023 after nearly a quarter-century at the company, where he did everything from writing game manuals and stuffing boxes to hosting E3 conferences and guiding the company’s global marketing and PR strategies. Three years down the road, though, he’s still one of the studio’s most staunch defenders. In a…
Pour one out for all the people who can’t stand playing Overwatch’s most popular maps, because the next season is going to make it even harder to play on anything else. Whenever a classic Overwatch map shows up as an option on the map voting screen, you know you’re probably stuck with it. Most players…
An individual threw an “incendiary device” at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman early on Friday morning, according to police and an OpenAI spokesperson. The attack damaged an “exterior gate” and caused no injuries. Less than an hour after the incident, a 20-year-old man who police say matched a description of the…