PC Gaming
Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin’s Creed Shadows will run on Steam Deck at launch, which is great albeit unexpected news. It’s unexpected, because last month Ubisoft ruled out Steam Deck support, pointing out—quite reasonably—that Valve’s handheld is “below our minimum specs for PC“. So what’s changed? Presumably the studio has done some testing, tweaked some…
The last time I saw my version of Henry in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 he was covered in dirt and blood and wearing a pair of pants he stole off a corpse. Not exactly a fashion kingpin, let alone an actual king. And even for those who have been more successful with their Henry: he…
PC Gamer’s Ted Litchfield expressed hope in January that there might be room for Valve to reconsider its rejection of Classic Offensive, an eight-years-in-the-making mod for Counter Strike: Global Offensive that aims to recreate the experience of Counter-Strike 1.6. And it’s a good day for Ted, because an update posted today on X says Valve…
Intel has a new CEO: Lip-Bu Tan. Once a member of Intel’s board of directors, Tan joins from his current position as chairman of Walden International and Founding Managing Partner at Walden Catalyst Ventures. If all of that means nothing to you, he also once won the same award as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and…
The SAG-AFTRA union says “progress has been made” in negotiations over the videogame voice and motion capture actors strike that was called in July 2024, but warned that the most recent proposal submitted by the bargaining group is “filled with alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse.” The strike, which officially…
It’s almost spice time. Survival MMO Dune: Awakening launches on May 20, and we’re all sitting here not-so patiently in our stillsuits and wearing our nose-tubes until the day we wait to finally set foot on the sands of Arrakis. But let’s not worry about tromping around on the blistering hot sand dunes just yet….
A minor kerfuffle in the Balatro subreddit has led developer LocalThunk to weigh in on the topic of AI-generated art, and his position is clear: It hurts artists, and it’s not welcome. As documented by RPS, the whole thing began when a now-former subreddit moderator named DrTankHead jumped into a thread questioning the presence of…
If there’s one thing everyone knows about the upcoming life sim Inzoi it’s that it’s The Sims but beautifully hyper-realistic. Or it will be, if you’ve upgraded your PC in the last five or so years. But folks like me with a slightly older GPU might be viewing its Unreal Engine 5-powered graphics through a…
BioWare veteran Mark Darrah, who left the company in 2020 before returning to shepherd Dragon Age: The Veilguard to the finish line, has recently been posting videos about his time in the industry: And the latest is about delays. Darrah’s take on delays is simple: If you really need one, it’s better to bite the…
Rise of the Ronin arrived on Steam this week, a year after its debut on PlayStation 5, and I’m sorry to say it’s not going well, as players are reporting serious performance problems with the game. Koei Tecmo says it’s now “investigating” the reports and working on a patch that will hopefully “fix or improve…