PC Gaming

One of this year’s most interesting GDC talks was delivered by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company’s first chief marketing officer, who went over her history with the company that brought us Half-Life and Steam. There’s so much in Harrington’s career and memories to pick out, but a notable anecdote which…

Almost every element of Helldivers 2 is dripping with satire. The voice lines, story, and even individual armor pieces parody patriotism while telling a story of what could happen if corrupt governmental systems ran amuck. Well, everything except the music. “It’s jingoism, but it’s amplified with uplifting modern synth productions, and without suggesting any nuance…

You’d be forgiven for thinking REPO is a lot like Lethal Company. Both games involve fetching precious objects, hiding from things that go bump in the night, working cooperatively as nigh-identical, disposable grunts, and hollering over voice chat when things inevitably go wrong. Both games are also overnight phenomena, with REPO scrambling to adjust to…

Destiny 2 has had a turbulent history—it’s a game that, since its release in 2017, has seen many ups, downs, and outright blunders. So a GDC talk from one of Bungie’s developers titled “Rescuing a Playerbase from the Doldrums” could apply to any number of periods throughout the game’s life. At this talk specifically, though,…

The idea that you could have a mouse pad that keeps your wireless mouse charged is one that’s kept my interest ever since the launch of the first Logitech G PowerPlay wireless charging station way back in 2017. Unfortunately though, even all these years later with the release of this new version, it still seems…

It’s an important part of any life sim: giving the characters life. No one wants to play a life sim where your friends and neighbors act like drones mindlessly following daily routines to meet their needs as if they’re going step-by-step through a checklist. The developers of early access life sim Inzoi are attempting to…

To new players, or for those who haven’t stopped by in a while, getting to level 50 in Fallout 76 may seem a bit daunting. But as you need to get to said level if you want to turn your character into a ghoul, it’s a hurdle that you’ll have to overcome. Now, if you…

Ordinarily, I’d be tempted to be more than a little snarky about a golden RTX 5090, given the real-world pricing of the RTX 50-series as a whole right now. However, what I can’t argue with is auctioning one off for a charitable cause, and one particular card is likely to reach a very high price…

In the wake of tariffs set by the Trump administration and new factories in the US from world-leading chip foundry TSMC, Nvidia’s CEO says it aims to produce “several hundred billion” dollars worth of electronics in the US in the next four years. That means there’s a growing chance your next GPU will be made…

I’m not entirely sure Life is Strange: Double Exposure was a good idea conceptually—nor was series fan and PC Gamer writer Mollie Taylor, who played the thing and had a good, if “unnecessary-feeling”, time. That doesn’t mean I’m greeting today’s news with any particular sense of joy. Quite the opposite: The fact that nobody picked…