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Reinstall This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 389 in October 2023, as part of our Reinstall series. Every month we load up a beloved classic—and find out whether it holds up to our modern gaming sensibilities. A staggering eight years ago, Fallout 4 was released. Its developer, Bethesda, made the swap back…
There’s a clue for today’s Wordle ready to go, in case your game’s not revealing those helpful green letters as quickly as you hoped it would. You’ll also find the answer to the December 21 (915) puzzle on this page too, waiting to save a bad game, or just to make sure you get to…
We learned in November that Valve was working on a new feature that will enable Steam users to mark individual games in their games as “private,” preventing everyone else in the world from knowing it’s there. That feature has now gone live in the latest Steam client beta, which also includes changes to the Steam…
Diablo 4’s newest season has been its most generous yet and Blizzard just dropped a hotfix that makes it even better. The action RPG’s hardest endgame boss, Echo of Duriel, will now drop the game’s most powerful items, Uber Uniques, at twice the usual rate until the season ends on January 8. As long as…
Today Bethesda posted a recap of the year Starfield has had in the form of a few fun facts: in 2023 players visited a collective 1.9 billion planets, spent 26 million hours building ships, and ate more than 18 million battlemeal multipacks. (Weirdly, no sandwich tally was provided.) The same post also sheds more light…
It is now official: In a farewell message to employees, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has confirmed that he will be leaving the company. Kotick’s future with Activision Blizzard came into question almost as soon as Microsoft announced its intention to acquire the company back in January 2022. The decision appeared to be all but…
On December 18, Comcast notified customers of a “recent data security incident” with one of its software companies that exposed their personal information to an outside party. In October, someone gained “unauthorized access” to customers’ usernames and hashed passwords for a period of four days. And it gets worse: Comcast says that “for some customers,…
Unlike Steam, the Epic Games Store has a hard-and-fast rule against adult content. Its content guidelines state very clearly that “products with Adults Only ratings cannot be distributed on the Epic Games Store.” But it recently updated those guidelines to allow AO-rated games on the store for one specific reason: If they were given that…
Overwatch 2 has had some trouble in the past year-and-a-bit since its release—between promised PvE content being absent, an outright admission that the game has been in decline, and a ‘colourful’ reception on Steam, the game’s freemium model has been a point of contention—especially for players who bought Overwatch 1 fully-priced. A recent controversy has…
I’ve never been to Universal Studios in Hollywood, but I have been to the Universal Studios Theme Park in Florida. It was so long ago that the Jaws ride was still around, and my main memory from it is the overwhelming stench of petrol from all the very real flames that surrounded the ride. Luckily,…