PC Gaming
In a new blog post, Microsoft says its, “commitment is to make Windows the best place to game—no matter where you play.” The company lays out a detailed checklist of all the measures it has taken to make gaming better on the PC in 2025 and name checks a few ideas for the future. It’s…
World of Warcraft‘s player housing early access is already a treat—with players immediately setting to work constructing all kinds of madcap, HOA-violating nonsense, as they very much should be. One trick players discovered (outside of being able to sit anywhere) was the ability to send their entire homes skyward. This was a UI bug—turns out…
This is a gaming tablet that makes itself hard to love, and yet there are definitely things I like about OneXPlayer’s latest Intel-based gaming tablet. Lunar Lake in tablet form does very, very well, and its Arc 140V GPU is seriously impressive when it comes to gaming performance. And then there’s that gorgeous, bright 11-inch…
The European Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into Google and whether it is imposing unfair terms on content creators and web publishers to power its AI services. The Commission’s investigation focuses on two major concerns. First, the possible use of videos uploaded to YouTube being used to train generative AI models. This being done…
The Fallout TV show returns for Season 2 next week, with the series opting for a weekly cadence that goes on till February. Season 2 takes us to the setting of Fallout: New Vegas, and PCG’s Ted Litchfield recently had the opportunity to speak to one very interested party: the lead writer of Fallout: New…
Just as was promised, Rogue is being teased as the new hero for Marvel Rivals season 5.5. This follows on from her partner Gambit being introduced at the start of the season and scenes of their wedding kicking off the narrative turmoil. We all knew that Rogue was going to be a bit of a…
The Forge—a Roblox RPG meets mining sim—throws a ton at you just within those first few minutes of questing, cave exploration, and crafting. It’s a little more serious about the RPG part of the formula than I anticipated, so when the tutorials turned me loose, I’ll admit it, I floundered. Fortunately, after countless trial-and-error crafts…
Just a hair over two years ago, I wrote about a fan translation of a landmark Japanese PS2 game, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, making a landmark “cozy” game playable in English for the very first time. We didn’t call games cozy back in the early 2000s, but were it released today, the slice-of-life adventure game…
A new social media ban takes effect in Australia from today, preventing—or in theory, preventing—teenagers and children under 16 years of age from holding accounts on 10 popular platforms. These include Twitch and TikTok, who will now have to take “reasonable steps” to keep Australian under-16s off their platforms. If they don’t, they could face…
A new social media ban takes effect in Australia from today, preventing—or in theory, preventing—teenagers and children under 16 years of age from holding accounts on 10 popular platforms. These include Twitch and TikTok, who will now have to take “reasonable steps” to keep Australian under-16s off their platforms. If they don’t, they could face…