PC Gaming
It’s been five long years since IO Interactive first announced that it would be taking on Project 007, now known as 007 First Light. It’s a pairing that goes together seamlessly, as IO has been making Hitman games for almost 25 years now. But even with all that practice, it was still a huge undertaking….
007 First Light finds the sweet spot to start a James Bond videogame. It’s not necessarily an origin story, as Bond has already made his way into the lower levels of MI6, but it takes place early enough that IO Interactive can showcase a 007 that many may not have seen before, making this more…
I’m not too proud to admit that I’m pretty terrible when it comes to completing stealth missions in games. I’m the kind of player who’ll just kill every threat I see just in case they become an issue down the line. So, for this reason, taking the mantle of James Bond, a secret agent known…
The first time I played developer Overhype Studio’s first game, the ruthless Battle Brothers, my plucky crew of medieval soldiers got immediately beaten to death by bandits while trying to complete the easiest mercenary contract I could find. I was hooked. (Image credit: Overhype Studios) Not because I’m a masochist, mind, but because the depth…
In recent years Konami has remembered it owns a series called Metal Gear, and last month saw the release of the (pretty good) Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. This UE5 remake of MGS3 was as faithful as they come, possibly too faithful if anything, but it at least shows Konami is capable of producing…
Few ideas have as universal an appeal as the space bounty hunter: a character archetype that blends all the best bits of wandering ronin and western gunslingers and gives them a cool spaceship and a jetpack. But while almost everyone wants to be Boba Fett, videogames have given us few chances to live out that…
I have this uneasy feeling that, in a different life, I was a speedrunner. Not because I’m doing the videogame equivalent of ‘I could paint that’ at an art exhibit, but because whenever I sit down to play one of these games, I wind up glued to my screen for an hour in a self-perfecting…
Give it up, everyone, for the first laptop based on Intel’s portentous Panther Lake CPU, the Acer Swift 16 AI. Acer has been showing off the new portable at the IFA 2025 show despite the fact that the new laptop isn’t due to go on sale until early next year. Panther Lake, of course, is…
The Outer Worlds, Obsidian’s more-anti-corporate-than-anti-capitalist RPG, is set for a sequel. To hear our own Ted Litchfield tell it, that sequel might even be quite good. But there’s an irony here, isn’t there? The Outer Worlds 1 was conceived of in a whole other era, before Obsidian was snapped up by Microsoft (though it did…
When I reviewed The Edge of Fate, I had plenty of issues with the new direction Destiny 2 was taking. The expansion itself was… fine—a few highlights, but mostly unremarkable. The more pressing issue was the Portal, the new hub for Destiny 2’s seasonal power grind. Still, I figured I’d give it a chance. Maybe…