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Last week Magic: the Gathering announced its Monster Hunter collaboration, to which PC Gamer’s Lincoln Carpenter replied “hell yeah.” But after MTG shared details on the long-awaited Secret Lair drop, the internet replied—and I’m paraphrasing here—hell no. Now Wizards of the Coast is delaying the set so it can get it right. As the company…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows got its first expansion in September: Claws of Awaji. Bringing a new region, new storyline, and new icons to sprawl your objective board out even further, it was a meaty chunk of game in the vein of AC DLCs that went before it—Wrath of the Druids and Siege of Paris for Valhalla,…
There was a particular flavour to the Flash games era of the 2000s. Sites like Newgrounds overflowed with weird and wonderful experiments, hacking together new styles and genres. Some found ways to survive and live on in modern gaming, but most simply withered away, too strongly tied to that time and place. War Rats could…
Asus has just released two new security updates: one for the MyAsus app, and one for its routers. Asus itself has said that you should download these patches “immediately”, and with good reason. The MyAsus app update fixes a flaw, rated as high severity, that could give unauthorized attackers higher system privileges. On the router…
Chinese PC gaming specialist Thunderobot has launched a new PC based on an x86 chip not made by AMD or Intel (via Notebookcheck). Instead, the 16-core chip is a Hygon C86-4G CPU. But here’s the twist. That Hygon C86 is actually derived from AMD’s first-gen Zen CPU architecture. What? Yep, Thunderobot has announced the Black…
You ask me (which, by clicking on this article, you did), Yakuza 0 is one of the best games I ever played. It’s so good—such a pitch-perfect blend of high drama and high camp, and with perhaps the most engrossing minigame known to man packed in—that I kind of struggle to pick up other Yakuza…
Schedule 1 was one of 2025’s freshly-cooked batches of surprise hits. Y’know, the kind that comes out of basically nowhere and lands square in the top sellers list—and while it was a year marked with these success stories, it was also the year that saw Steam starting to put the kibosh on adult-themed games. Which,…
D-Cell Games—the developer behind the genuinely fantastic rhythm game Unbeatable—has put out a mighty strong statement as it rallies against big studio figureheads becoming increasingly blunt about integrating generative AI into game development: from Krafton’s declaration that it was pivoting to become an “AI-first” company, to Tim Sweeney clowning on Steam’s AI disclosure requirements, to…
One debate that has been swirling around Arc Raiders for some time now involves Free Loadouts, whether they should exist at all, be nerfed, or sentenced to always join matches late as penance for not putting anything of worth on the line. But I really don’t think any of these solutions are viable options. Issues…
Seemingly at odds with its generally slow actions and limited stamina (even with the best skills to boost your athleticism), Arc Raiders is brimming with broken movement tech. You can leap off a skyscraper, and as long as you grab a ledge or slide at the perfect time, you’re miraculously able to survive. You can…