PC Gaming
Every year we pick 100 games to hail as the best PC games that you can play today. It’s an inherently fraught endeavor. 100 is quite a large number if you’re talking about how many creepy Victorian dolls someone owns, but it’s not all that many PC games. Nearly 20,000 games released on Steam last…
On an almost daily basis, a terminally tech-brained individual insists that AI will determine the future of human creativity if we simply believe hard enough. Today, that soothsayer is Matt Shumer, an investor who offered a demonstration of his vision for AI’s videogame development potential—and was quickly blasted for it, because the vision sucks to…
Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines. Earlier this week news broke of the death of Daniel ‘Danya’ Naroditsky, a 29 year-old chess…
During Friday’s Halo World Championship esports tournament on Friday, Halo Studios was meant to unveil its next project. But the Xbox store got to it first: Halo Campaign Evolved has appeared on the site, revealing that Microsoft is remaking the iconic FPS 14 years after the last time it remade it. “Halo: Campaign Evolved is…
Today EA spilled the beans on Battlefield 6’s first major patch arriving October 28, including tweaks to weapon bloom, movement, and the sun. That’s all well and good, but I want to know when challenges will be less aggravating. The answer? Not now, but maybe next time. “We’ve seen all your feedback about the challenges…
Is it possible for any person with a computer to count the number of times Windows Update has screwed up something that was working perfectly fine the day before? It’s such a bedrock computing experience that last October, when my PC’s notification bleeps suddenly sounded like they were being filtered through a dirty fish tank,…
This week on Steam’s top-played charts, the two new releases going neck-and-neck are Battlefield 6—no surprise there—and a top-down extraction shooter about ducks. Specifically, it’s about shooting ducks as a duck. Normally my friend group would be buzzing about the meme game of the week, but it feels like I don’t know anyone outside the…
Electronic Arts has shared details on the Battlefield 6 1.1.1.0 update coming next week, which it says “marks the next step in our ongoing journey to evolve and expand the Battlefield 6 experience.” Highlights in this update include improvements to movement, tweaks aimed at ensuring more consistent weapon accuracy, an overhaul of the audio system,…
The Plants vs. Zombies remaster arrived earlier this week, and PC Gamer’s resident green thumb warrior Chris Livingston was quite taken by it, predicting that he’s likely to sink another hundred hours or so into it on his Steam Deck. The reception is much less warm on Steam, though, where fewer than half of the…
The World of Darkness TTRPG—the wider setting for Vampire: The Masquerade—has a concept of a ‘true name’: A magical, essential identity that captures the base nature of its bearer. What I posit to you is that the true name of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is not Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. It’s,…