PC Gaming
Microsoft announced in March that the new Xbox mode for Windows 11, a full-screen “dedicated gaming experience,” was set to go live in April. And on the very final day of the month, with most of those last 24 hours already gone, it’s finally starting to happen. “Beginning today, we’re excited to share that Xbox…
The big MindsEye mission Blacklisted is out, and with it the promised revelation of “evidence of the sabotage” that has been alleged multiple times by Build a Rocket Boy (BARB) co-CEOs Leslie Benzies and Mark Gerhard. As a sort of sicko appreciator of MindsEye, I was looking forward to playing it, and last night I…
Last week I drove down to a fancy studio lot in Los Angeles to play Fortnite. “Play Fortnite” isn’t a very descriptive phrase these days, as the battle royale has long since evolved into a platform with numerous games under the official Epic banner, plus thousands more community-made modes. What I was there to see…
VA-11 Hall-A developer Sukeban Games unveiled a new trailer for its second game, .45 Parabellum Bloodhound, last week. We got a few more story and gameplay snippets from the anime-style action game, as well as a release window of this summer, just in time for VA-11 Hall-A’s 10-year anniversary on June 21. The explosively popular…
EVE Online developer CCP Games has announced the winners of its latest hackathon to build mods and third party tools for its blockchain-based survival MMO, EVE Frontier. The winner, CradleOS, took home $25,000 for its in-game civilization-building tool, with a remaining $55,000 split among other winners. Blockchain’s still a dirty word for me, but EVE…
I’ve never read Invincible, but through playing the acclaimed comic’s new licensed fighting game, I feel I’ve gotten to know its characters inside and out. I don’t say that because I know any more about them than when I started, but because it’s pretty easy in this game to punch people into showers of gore….
Microsoft released its Q3 FY26 earnings report yesterday, and the news on the Xbox is not entirely sunshine and lollipops. The company ate a 7% ($380 million) decrease in gaming revenue in the quarter, driven by a 5% year-over-year decline in Xbox content and services revenue and a 33% drop in Xbox hardware revenue. That’s…
The ongoing Musk v. Altman lawsuit has seen the release of various internal emails relating to OpenAI, which for now are mostly focused on the early years of the company’s founding, over roughly the period 2016-2020. OpenAI wasn’t nearly as prominent as it would later become, but one of the surprising elements is the involvement…
There’s an oddly momentous feeling to the idea of Deep Rock Galactic Survivor introducing a new class to the DRG universe. After all, the original four have been the only ones we needed for eight years now. What can you possibly add to a quartet that’s stood the test of time for that long? I…
I liked Atomfall quite a lot, especially after I stopped trying to play it like British Fallout and treated it as a linear survival-shooter instead. It was also the most successful game launch in Rebellion’s history, which is not nothing given that the company has been around for more than 30 years. Even so, I…