It’s downright nuts how good this fan remake of Fallout 1 in Doom looks, and I’m begging Bethesda to take note

Of the many things that keep me awake at night—tinnitus, climate collapse, the fourth coffee of the day, man’s inhumanity to man—none is more pressing than the continued and inexplicable absence of Beamdog-style Enhanced Editions for Fallout 1 and 2. I don’t ask for much: just versions of the classics that run out-of-the-box at modern…

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Elon Musk claims to be making Microsoft competitor named Macrohard and despite the ‘tongue-in-cheek name’, the project is unfortunately ‘very real’

Windows 11 has picked up a fair bit of ire, and for understandable reasons. In the last year alone, we’ve seen reports of undeletable caches and some SSDs not playing nice with the software. Well, if you want a “purely AI” alternative from the man who ruined Twitter, Elon Musk has a bridge to sell…

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Borderlands 3 ‘sometimes felt like parody’ of itself, say writers, but 4 aims to fix that: ‘If I tried to put a meme in the game, he would come to my house with a baseball bat’

Borderlands 3’s story is… interesting. As someone who has played most of Gearbox’s loot’em shoot’ems, I agree with the general consensus that 3’s story is kinda the worst. Mind, I’ve never hopped into Pandora’s (or its associated moons’) deep narrative—but after hours of outdated memes, when a certain character sacrificed themselves to Beyonce’s “This Girl…

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KTC H27T22C-3 gaming monitor review

You know those random-branded monitors you see on Newegg or Amazon? The ones that look like stellar value on paper? Are any of them actually any good? Or are they somehow fundamentally flawed and therefore ultimately a waste of money? In the case of the KTC H27T22C-3, at least, I can answer that question. At…

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Borderlands 4 features an ’emotional’ Claptrap moment that ‘really hits hard,’ says Gearbox

Are you prepared to peer into the soul of Claptrap? Brace yourself, because according to Gearbox, Borderlands 4 contains “an emotional moment” with the slapstick robot sidekick. Gearbox has been saying on repeat that Borderlands 4‘s comedy will be “more grounded” in the Borderlands universe than Borderlands 3’s, which went a bit overboard with pop…

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Inside the Chinese PC gaming industry as it gets ready to dominate the next decade: ‘We have to work harder, we have to make the games even better’

In 2019, PC Gamer published the in-depth feature PC gaming in China: Everything you need to know about the world’s biggest PC games industry. At the time, our goal in covering what our shared hobby looks like in a country that Western players still have little insight into. “China’s PC gaming industry is the largest…

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