PC Gaming
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…
PC Gamer’s Mollie Taylor had some very nice things to say about the Starsand Island demo she played in December 2025, and fellow cozy-knower Lauren Morton shared even stronger feelings in February, declaring Starsand Island “the first can’t-miss cozy game of 2026.” Yet if you head over to Steam right now, you will miss it,…
I’m fairly completionist with my RPGs: I only just beat New Vegas for the first time after 300 hours, 15 years, and I don’t know how many abortive playthroughs because I refuse to wrap one up until I’ve done everything—and I often get tired or distracted before I can finish everything. I thought I did…
As part of its 14,000 layoffs in October 2025, Amazon made major cuts to its gaming division, claiming that it was shifting its strategy away from ill-advised attempts at competing with Steam through mismanaged AAA projects and focusing instead on its Luna cloud gaming service. Despite that supposed refocusing, Luna just got smaller. As of…
It’s rough out there for RAM prices. It’ll be a long time before memory prices become properly sensible again, but apparently spot prices have recently dropped. I’d like to take the wins where I can, but I’m not sure the time for celebration is anywhere near. To briefly recap, the AI industry’s bottomless appetite for…
In a seminar on April 8, a handful of groups from the French government got together to discuss digital sovereignty and “accelerating the reduction of its extra-European dependencies.” One such act is to move away from Windows, the US-made operating system, entirely. The solution? Linux. As noted by Tom’s Hardware, and detailed in a report,…
If you found a ticket that let you fly all the way to Amsterdam just lying on the beach, what would you do with it? Would you turn it in or try to sell it at your own pop up trash shack on the beach? Hypothetically speaking, I’d sell it at my pop up trash…
It’s fair to say that Apple’s new MacBook Neo has given the Windows-based laptop market something to think about. Powered by the same chip used in the iPhone 16, the $599 computer has reportedly been selling very well. That’s despite it only having 512 GB as the best storage option. But if you’re as handy…
PC gaming has always been an expensive hobby, even if you stick to entry-level hardware. So much so that the majority of enthusiasts only upgrade their systems piecemeal, one component every so often, or get a new rig after many long years. But if you were hoping to build a new gaming PC or update…