PC Gaming

One of the weirder things to happen in PC gaming this year was that a new Painkiller came out and pretty much instantly disappeared. I’m aware PC gaming moves so fast nowadays that many games get washed away without anybody noticing. But I thought Painkiller would have sufficient cultural cachet to stick around a little…

Stalker 2 has already received numerous major updates since releasing in November last year. Up to this point, though, most of those code transfusions have focussed on fixing the sequel’s many bugs or elaborating upon its mechanics, such as improving its A-life system or adding dynamic faction wars. But its latest update—Stories Untold—expands the Zone…

2025 was a huge year for Stephen King adaptations. In movie theaters this year we had The Monkey, The Long Walk, and The Running Man, and on TV there was IT: Welcome to Derry and The Institute. That makes it the biggest year for King adaptations since 2017, which gave us The Dark Tower, It…

It’s become increasingly apparent over the last few weeks that someone at FromSoftware carefully observed all the strategies players were employing before the Forsaken Hollows DLC dropped, and they were taking notes. The new map and bosses are a big middle finger to people who got comfortable with the old meta. Many Nightreign players, including…

A new Bloomberg report says Riot Games is currently working on an update to League of Legends, known internally as League Next, that will be the biggest in the game’s history. The overhaul of League’s “visual aesthetic,” as Bloomberg put it, will impact characters, battle arenas, and the interface, and is aimed at making the…

I’m no fan of zillion-dollar corporations using their boundless legal might to mercilessly imprison individuals who pirate software or act badly online. But I will admit to a certain schadenfreude when such individuals are forced to eat it in a public forum without having their whole lives destroyed. It’s something Epic Games has made a…

The Forge NPCs keep losing stuff, so it’s probably not much of a shock when the Roblox RPG sends you on a hunt to find the Bard’s lost guitar. Thankfully, this quest doesn’t have a long list of other side gigs tied to it (like when you’re asked to find Tomo’s lost cat), but the…

The ongoing saga over TikTok’s US status seems to finally be drawing to a close, with a consortium of US investors alongside the Abu Dhabi state investment firm MGX set to take control. The new owners will take over US operations of the video platform next month on Jan. 22, 2026, with the company running…