PC Gaming

Earlier this week, Xbox laid off 268 people on top of the 1,600 jobs it cut earlier this year. It has shoved Obsidian into Bethesda, handed Halo to Activision, said Sayonara to Double Fine and Compulsion Games, and State of Decay developer Undead Labs, and is primed to close Hellblade developer Ninja Theory. All of…

I picked up sewing as a hobby in college and, in my youthful cockiness, skipped the pillowcase-and-curtain phase. Instead, I dove right into extravagant cosplay and Renaissance dresses, and most of my first attempts were not fit for the human body. I’m sure some of that hubris came from watching my grandmother make sewing look…

I wasn’t expecting to see a Starfield sequel any time soon, given it took Bethesda eight years to make its sci-fi RPG and the studio is currently focussed on The Elder Scrolls 6. But if the words of Starfield’s former systems designer are anything to go by, we may not see a sequel to Bethesda’s…

I’ll make this quick: Whatever you had planned for the weekend, you’ve got to carve four-and-a-half hours out for a last-minute swerve into the late ’90s. Six months in the making, YouTube essayist Majuular is back with the (I believe) penultimate video in his multi-year Ultima series. “This one was a doozy,” he wrote in…

If there’s anything the leaders of the AI era love more than watching the billion-dollar valuations of their companies tick up, it’s warning us that the software making them rich might just destroy the world. AI is going to kill us all. Now, can we have more money for data centers, please? Their next favorite…

I’ve had this goal in the back of my head to unlock all the Medic gear in Wardogs so I can become the best sawbones on the server. There’s only one piece I still don’t have—a medical bag that can both revive and heal teammates in one item. It’s unlocked at Medic level 24, which…

Key items Code to the locker in the command centre: 0825 Key to the auxiliary room found in said locker. A floppy disk found in the locker inside the auxiliary room. Opening the auxiliary lines at the end of Part 6 in Silent Hill: Townfall is perhaps its most complicated yet simple puzzle. By this…

FlyKnight is a $6, first-person RPG in the King’s Field/Lunacid mold that whips ass, looks like Old School Runescape, and feels like it could have asked for twice as much money and still been a bargain. That alone makes it one of my easiest recommendations on Steam, but it also just got a free update…

Tom’s Hardware and Respawn First recently reported on a fun new patent from those wiz kids at Microsoft, one that would dynamically pause your game to show you advertisements. Here are the big wham lines from the abstract of US 202610260258 A1, “Contextually Aware Management of Interactive Software Application Access:” “A content management system may…