PC Gaming
In 2024, we witnessed the rise of the retail sim: games like Supermarket Simulator, Supermarket Together, and TCG Card Shop Simulator that lured players, streamers, and YouTubers with the unparalleled power fantasy of putting stuff on shelves. While the genre’s overnight emergence was surprising, its success makes sense. There’s joy to be found in mundane…
Ahead of launch, Obsidian (sarcastically) predicted that The Outer Worlds 2 companions are “the part of the game you’ll remember more than the ending.” Hey, in an action-RPG that just might be true. The companions in the first game of its not-Fallout space corporation tech dystopia were certainly one of its high points. As is…
A whole lot is riding on Football Manager 26 which, after the late cancellation of FM 25, has to deliver a major leap forward for the beloved management sim. The early signs are positive, with showcases of the new-look match engine, overhauled tactics, a reimagined UI and the debut of the women’s game all going…
The next World of Warcraft expansion, Midnight, will finally add player housing to the venerable MMO. It arrives December 3 and the early signs are very positive: Blizzard may well have dragged its feet over adding a feature that much of the competition already has but, as PCG’s Harvey Randall points out, it’s also been…
Sometimes, it’s hard to get overly excited about a new bit of PC gaming kit. Take the gaming routers, for example. We all use them (and yes, I know it’s technically more than just a router—there’s a switch and a wireless access point in the box, too), but they just sit on a shelf somewhere…
We covered this back in September, but an awful lot of people are really looking forward to Arc Raiders and so I reckon it’s worth a reminder: The open-to-all Arc Raiders server slam playtest is now live, giving everyone a chance to dive in for the weekend ahead of its full release on October 30….
PayPal’s blockchain partner, Paxos, looks to have made something of a maths-related whoopsie earlier this week, as it mistakenly minted $300 trillion worth of its stablecoin, PYUSD. That figure might look massive in its own right, but it’s even more impressive when you take into account that it’s more than double the world’s GDP—which is…
The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is a handheld gaming PC that is filled with, and fills me with, contradictions. ‘This is an Xbox,’ cries Microsoft of what is patently just a PC. ‘This is the best handheld gaming PC I’ve ever used,’ I cry of a device that I could not in good conscience…
There’s a peculiar tint to the modern digital landscape: everything is somehow both the same as it’s always been, and yet entirely different. We still use Google, but we get a handy AI summary up top. We still get phished, but it’s being done to us by AI. On this latter point, Microsoft’s 2025 Digital…
Microsoft has released a blog update detailing a raft of upcoming upgrades to Copilot, including the addition of voice activation, so you can merrily shout “Hey Copilot” at your PC and receive a response from the MS AI tool, among other things. Cool. What’s slightly troubling, however, is its declaration that it’s “making every Windows…