PC Gaming
As someone who played The Sims 3 on a tragically specced laptop, I’ll always remember feeling mildly guilty whenever I ignored its suggestion to “select only a couple of packs at a time to ensure the best game experience,” checking every box for every DLC I owned and hearing the whirr of my fans desperately…
You mess with the Don’s daughter, you pay the inevitable price. That price being a strongly worded letter from videogame publisher lawyers, you see. Take-Two has gone after NSFW mods for Mafia: The Old Country, DMCA’ing a pair of mods out of existence that stripped Isabella Torrisi down to her birthday suit. Which is a…
World of Warcraft: Midnight’s coming—the hour, nearly upon us—and while player housing is the marquee feature, I’m actually super hyped about another system Blizzard’s cooking up, as well, dubbed “Prey”, revealed this year at Gamescom 2025. We’ve all been there. You need to do your dailies. You log on. You start flying around, and a…
Miyamoto Musashi, the legend goes, had his first duel at age 13, bludgeoning a grown-ass samurai to death with a stick. Over the next several decades he killed dozens more men in duels, fought in several large-scale battles, and wrote a book about swordfighting that may or may not be entirely honest about his many…
I mean it as a compliment when I say Capcom’s Pragmata has the makings of “one of those 7 out of 10 games,” a vein of perfect weekend plays that we don’t see enough of from big budget developers anymore. This is just a snap judgment—I’ve only played about 20 minutes of the long-gestating action…
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is interesting, to say the least. It’s a sequel to both Black Ops 2 and Black Ops 6, while also making the former mostly non-canon, and we weren’t even expecting another direct sequel in the same vein as 2023’s Modern Warfare 3 to begin with. Nevertheless, it’s doing the…
Should you wish to emulate the achievements of the great Katy Perry, William Shatner and others by taking a trip on one of Blue Origin’s rockets beyond the Kármán line, I have excellent news—you can now pay for the experience with cryptocurrency. Shift4 Payments, a self-described “leader in integrated payments and commerce technology”, has announced…
If you recall, yesterday we mentioned that the Trump administration was considering a 10% stake in poor old, beleaguered Intel. Now it turns out that the mooted investment won’t strictly be in return for new money. Instead, Trump wants the 10% stake as part of the CHIPS Act deal inked under the previous Biden administration….
I’m all for a simple, no-nonsense set of instructions on how to participate in a videogame. Perhaps in Final Fantasy 14’s case, though, it could have popped a little clause underneath its two-step guide to its upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds collab to note that there’s, well, a healthy dose of triple-digit hours between them. How…
Going hands on with Silksong for the first time is oddly nerve-wracking. After six years of anticipation, hype, and desperate occult rituals, the question is: can it possibly live up to expectations? What ends up surprising me most, then, is how much the game puts me at ease. From the first moment I take control…