PC Gaming
30 years after cluttering up PC keyboards with the Windows key, the key responsible for booting you to desktop at the worst possible moment in your Dota 2 match, Microsoft is poised to once again transform our keyboards. The company today unveiled the Copilot key, a new button that will help usher in, as Microsoft…
Ever been idly clicking through the Steam store and something causes you to immediately hit the brakes and add a game to the top of your wishlist? That happened to me today while looking at upcoming city builders. There’s just something about an isometric city builder with retro pixel art that immediately appeals to me,…
E3 is gone—may it rest in peace—but although the games industry no longer crams itself into the LA Convention Center every June, we’re not at all short on events. The year ahead is packed with showcases, esports tournaments, conventions, and fan gatherings, some new, some that have been going for decades. Dates haven’t been announced…
Ready Player One is a story about desperate people seeking escape from a collapsing society within the confines of a predatory digital world run by ultra-rich oligarchs who will do anything, including committing mass murder, in order to protect their positions of wealth and power. And now a company called Futureverse is teaming up with…
The Epic Games Store has unveiled one of those “oh crap, what’s my Epic account password again?” weekly free games: Eidos Montreal’s excellent 2021 adaptation of Guardians of the Galaxy. The promotion started today, and runs through next Wednesday, January 10. Coming on the heels of Crystal Dynamics’ much-maligned Avengers live service game, Guardians was…
Though “cozy” may be one of the more difficult genre trends to pin a definition on, there are ever more of us looking for the next game that’s chill, creative, cute, or some mix thereof. And in response to that growing audience, our choices for best cozy games just keep multiplying. This year looks like…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a notoriously oversexed videogame, and that’s causing headaches for some Xbox Series X-S owners who have found their accounts suspended after their consoles automatically uploaded gameplay clips of, as one redditor put it, “naked camp fun time.” Xbox rules state that even though a game is approved by Microsoft, gameplay clips…
A lawsuit filed in the Manhattan federal court last week by the New York Times claims that the defendants—Microsoft and OpenAI—have used millions of its articles to train and create its large language models (LLMs) and other products. The Times is seeking damages in realms of billions of dollars, though it doesn’t give a specific…
If you were like me, the shutdown of the GOAT superhero MMORPG City of Heroes broke your heart into itty-bitty pieces—it also probably made you happy to see people playing it again when it was revealed that the game code had been salvaged in 2019. Homecoming—alongside a bunch of other servers—promised a return to the…
Square Enix has suspended its housing demolition process in Final Fantasy 14, following an earthquake in the Noto Peninsula of Japan on New Year’s Day. The 7.6 magnitude earthquake has left thousands without power or shelter. The scale of the disaster is not yet clear, although the BBC reports at least 80 confirmed deaths. Due…