GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl review

First, let me admit my biases: Yes, this controller’s raspberry ripple blend of pink, blue, and purple really does work for me. That said, the GameSir T7 Pro Sugar Whirl has more going for it than just pretty face buttons, featuring TMR sticks alongside Hall effect triggers. Gorgeous and precise, this is also a wireless…

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After a public scrap between CEO and former writer, Saber Interactive finally adds AI disclaimer to Steam page and doubles down: ‘AI can and should help shape gamer experiences’

One of the unexpected stories this week has been that of a rather public spat between former Saber Interactive writer Stella Sacco, who claimed she was replaced in favour of AI, and the publisher’s CEO, who tore into her via a statement sent to This Week in Videogames. “Stella who?” asked Matt Karch, “I had…

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Microsoft’s blobby AI companion has begun his ascent to the heavens to join Clippy and Cortana. Okay, he’s being booted to another platform

Pour one out for Mico, Microsoft’s Copilot AI character that is definitely not Clippy in disguise. The blobby little companion isn’t dead, though. He’s instead being removed from Copilot’s voice mode and sent to Microsoft’s “Learn Live” platform, where he’ll work as some sort of teaching assistant. Which sounds a lot like “went to live…

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Come September, you won’t need a single Total War: Warhammer game to play its colossal, trilogy-spanning Immortal Empires campaign

Yesterday we finally got to see a full reveal for everything arriving in Total War: Warhammer 3‘s Lords of the End Times expansion and it’s a whole heap of content. We’ve got Nagash and his undead legions, a fully-fleshed out Boris Todbringer and Middenland, plus the Glottkin’s putrid hordes, and the greatest of Grey Seers,…

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Why I love my gaming notebooks

From the archives: This article originally ran in PC Gamer #326 (UK, January 2019). Something I miss when I play digital games is the tactile side of play. It’s why videogames and board games coexist in my life so beautifully. One allows for complexity beyond what a pen-and-paper can track, and the other offers tokens…

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Shoutout to this particular skeleton, who researchers believe is the first confirmed case of being totally obliterated by a trebuchet

One of the special pleasures in any medieval game is getting to field a trebuchet. In an era where warfare was largely a contest of who can keep people swinging their unfriendliest sticks around the longest before they get hungry enough to leave, there’s a sort of giddiness that comes with being the guy who’s…

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