PC Gaming

Readers, our long national nightmare is over. An injustice has been rectified, light shines where once there was only darkness, your children can sleep soundly in their beds. I speak, of course, of Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix, which has restored His Majesty—everyone’s favourite overweening feline—to his original, superior, and hairless form. It’s also fixed…

Minecraft has given The Forgotten Realms a cubic makeover in the new Dungeons & Dragons DLC. The friends I play D&D with are curiously also the same friends who get the annual itch to set up a Minecraft server, and at least once a year we disappear into the realm of right angles and are…

The results of Steam’s September hardware survey have been released. Though it’s not the last word in what goes on in the PC gaming market, it provides an interesting glimpse into the hardware and software that gamers are using. According to the September results, there’s a new GPU king in town. The Nvidia GeForce RTX…

There’s a clue for today’s Wordle waiting just below if you need it, a handcrafted hint to help light the way. And if you don’t, that just leaves you with more time to browse our general tips and guides, there to ensure every guess is as productive as possible. Need something more direct? You’ve got…

Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPSes: Finest gunplay On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up…

Sneakerheads rejoice! If you’re one of those people who dreams of owning every pair of Air Jordans released since 1985, or you see yourself loafing about in a pair of Chewbacca Crocs (no judgment here), then this PC might appeal to you. You can kick that old clunker PC to the curb with the Cooler…

Activision said in May that its Overwatch and Call of Duty pro leagues were in trouble, and that efforts to turn them around “may prove unsuccessful.” And it sure looked like that’s how Activision expects it to work out based on a message shared by caster Soe Gschwind at the end of the recently-concluded Overwatch…

I get the concept behind the way Bethesda designed Starfield’s food items. In the year 2330, humanity has become a spacefaring species, blasting across the galaxy in spaceships—and just as people are sealed inside spacesuits for protection, food is kept inside clear little plastic containers. But there’s something unsatisfying about seeing a tasty chicken tikka,…

Steam Spy creator Sergiy Galyonkin, who has also spent the past six years serving as Epic Games’ head of publishing strategy, has announced that he has left company. Galyonkin’s departure comes just days after Epic confirmed significant layoffs at the company that put more than 800 people—16% of Epic’s total headcount—out of work. “Today is…

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: we’re in a golden age of city builders. Whether you’re into strategy, survival, story-driven campaigns, or even casual, no-stress construction sandboxes, there’s never been a wider selection of city builders to choose from. And there are lots more on the way. As proof that the city…