PC Gaming
I find myself pretty gloomy about the shutdown of 2XKO—but not because I’ll miss it on a personal level. I don’t have the mental bandwidth to training-montage myself into a serious fighting game player other than a few stints with Guilty Gear: Strive, but I did have a reasonable time messing around with 2XKO during…
It takes a brave soul to ask the question “What if Doom was an incredibly slow-moving tactical shooter?” In fact, it’s not a question I ever thought I’d want an answer to—we aren’t exactly short of grim-faced, hyper-lethal first-person shooters these days. But the most recent footage of Blackout has convinced me that tactical Doom…
Former Arkane Austin head Harvey Smith recently announced his new studio, Black Pony Immersive. As the name suggests will be dedicated to making immersive sims in the tradition of Deus Ex and System Shock. It’s a commitment that I wholeheartedly support, though as is always the case with this genre, there’s a concern over whether…
As someone who grew up in the ’90s and early ’00s when cooperative games were scarce, I’m a big fan of this current era of cheap and cheerful experiences designed to play with your pals. I enjoy the knockabout vibe of games like Peak and R.E.P.O, which acknowledge their disposable nature and focus on being…
Another seemingly legit GTA 6 video surfaced today via Cyberleek, this time showing a couple minutes of high-speed driving through Vice City. The clip (which we can’t link here, but you can probably find it quickly with some web searches) begins with protagonist Jason ditching a pickup truck and carjacking a “Truffade Thrax,” a fancy…
Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports that some Rockstar employees are feeling “angry” and “frustrated” that, despite submitting to strict security measures following the 2022 hack that revealed Grand Theft Auto 6 to the world—namely the abolishment of remote work—a leak has once again sprung. Someone going by the name “Cyberleek” has been posting new GTA 6…
You might think that Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker Cyberleek, who is currently the target of what I’m sure is a five-alarm manhunt now being conducted by Take-Two and Rockstar, might want to step back into the shadows a bit—keep their head down and hope it all blows over, and all that. But no. In…
(Image credit: Future) Robots are just PCs that can walk around, and these days they’re doing a lot more than just going for a stroll. Christopher Livingston doesn’t trust them, not one bit, and is reporting on their movements monthly—and this month, Lincoln Carpenter did it, too. This week, Beijing will host the second annual…
Double Fine has fully transitioned into an independent studio after leaving Xbox earlier this year. The studio now has full publishing rights to the games it made under Microsoft and earns all the revenue when you buy them, CEO Tim Schafer confirmed on the Kinda Funny podcast. “Everything we got back, the transfer of the…
Arc Raiders‘ upcoming fifth Expedition will be its last for a good while, as developer Embark Studios is going to “pause” them until early 2027 so it can rework the whole thing. Expeditions in Arc Raiders are a pretty big deal. Functionally, they’re similar to prestiging in Call of Duty, giving high-level players a way…