PC Gaming

In case you missed it, Borderlands 4 was released yesterday. Actually, I’m pretty sure you didn’t miss it, because your newsfeeds are now likely full of positive reviews for the game itself, but a seemingly equal amount of backlash towards its poor performance. The game currently sits at a “Mixed” rating on Steam, with the…

To me, an outsider who hasn’t had the chance to jump into Silksong yet, it seems like there’s no end to the possibilities of what players can find in Team Cherry’s latest game. I’ve heard of thieving bugs, a blood-boiling High Halls gauntlet, and something called the Twisted Bud—I don’t want to know. So it…

Gigabyte has just released three new motherboards with on-board AI to tune your Ryzen processor for top performance in games, even promising up to a 25% improvement. Thanks, bot. Back at Computex, Taiwan’s biggest tech show, we heard about the latest version of Gigabyte’s X3D Turbo Mode, a technology that would squeeze the ever-loving heck…

Treat yourself to a little help with today’s Wordle. Keep it short and sweet with our hints and clues for the September 12 (1546) puzzle, designed to give you a push in the right direction without ruining your fun. We’ve even separated them out too, making it easy for you to find exactly what you…

They may not officially be called Good Old Games any more, but GOG still sells plenty of games that are both old and good alongside new releases like Hollow Knight: Silksong. Speaking to Automaton, senior PR rep Piotr Gnyp emphasized that by saying, “GOG has been doing this for well over a decade, and we’re…

Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to one of the defining PC games of the last decade, is going to be late—and the developers swear it’s not because of Hollow Knight: Silksong. “We got together as a team to determine our new release window before Silksong’s date was announced,” Mega Crit’s community manager wrote in…

The biggest change in Borderlands 4 is undoubtedly the shift towards a full open-world. Long gone are the days of separate zones; now we can walk from end to end with no interruptions—besides killing hordes of bandits, of course. However, this change has always made navigation that much more complicated, as we’re not restricted by…

As reported by TheGamer and Le Parisien, the former French voice of Lara Croft, Françoise Cadol, has reportedly issued a cease and desist to Aspyr over what seem to be AI-generated voice lines imitating her in the remasters of Tomb Raiders 4, 5, and 6. Lara Croft’s Brazilian Portuguese actor for this portion of the…

Borderlands 4 got off to a rough start on Steam today, mostly because of performance and crash problems—you can read more about that in Nick Evanson’s heroic launch-day performance report. As I write this, there’s been no official response from Gearbox about the game’s technical issues, but it has put out a statement on another…

When it comes to the Borderland series, some things never change: The cel-shaded look Gearbox settled on all those years ago, the love-it-or-hate-it humour. And on PC, there’s one more thing you can throw into the mix: every major Borderlands game has run like a bag of frogs juggling bowling balls on release. Which is…