PC Gaming
Crimson Desert is one of those games that keeps falling out of the videogame filing cabinet in my brain, and then every so often I’ll remember it exists and say to myself “Hmm, I wonder what’s going on with that?” Turns out the answer to that right now is: another delay. Unfortunate. As reported by…
It feels inevitable that Google will eventually be forced spin off its Chrome web-browser and sell it to the highest bidder. There are just too many concerns over the influence Chrome has regarding Google’s stranglehold on web search. But the company’s hand has not yet been forced to do so, and you might not have…
Folk just want to kill troublesome monsters. Dragons. Dinosaurs. A horrific lava octopus. But in Monster Hunter Wilds, sating one’s bloodlust, in many cases, means putting up with some severe performance issues. Take a gander at the Steam page and you’ll see that, despite Title Update 2’s fixes, recent reviews sit at “Mostly Negative”. And…
“It’s not cheats”, says YouTuber Basically Homeless to his Counter-Strike 2 compatriots. “… It’s my muscles doing it.” This, as the app he has set up with enemy detection code ported from bona fide cheats stimulates the electrodes attached to his body. The shocks contract his muscles to move his crosshair in the direction of…
This year’s tradeshow schedule isn’t over just yet, so throw a little water in your face and make another cup of coffee. Gamescom 2025 is here to continue the videogame announcement gauntlet with its usual schedule of showcases, publisher livestreams, and previews from the show floor. I blinked and it was August, but I swear…
Having dominated my weekend, I’ve already played well over ten hours of Battlefield 6 since the start of the open beta, so seeing access ripped away from me this week has been painful. What am I supposed to do instead, EA? Thankfully, there’s still one more chance to play Battlefield 6 before it fully launches…
Though Everdark Caligo wasn’t quite as hard as players predicted—in fact, you could almost ignore her boss mechanic during the actual fight—things are about to get a whole lot spicier in Elden Ring Nightreign. FromSoftware has revealed that Libra, Creature of Night, is the newest boss to get the Everdark treatment. And to be frank,…
You probably won’t be surprised to learn that one of Lisa Su’s main priorities is to make AMD the default choice for AI GPUs. If you’re familiar with the all-business AMD CEO, it will likewise hardly be a revelation to find she’s pragmatic about how and when AMD gets there. But what happens afterwards? Now,…
Initially, the Assassin’s Creed games were about a mythological rivalry between the Assassins and the Templars—and the ways in which that historical conflict bled into the present day. It seemed, in the series’ infancy, that Ubisoft was ramping up for a full-blooded modern-world game where this conflict would reach its apex. Then it, uh, didn’t…
Living in 2025 is like gently being brushed by a feather duster made of your cyberpunk dystopian nightmares. Thankfully, every so often I’m graced with a less horrifying brush. One that says, maybe the future isn’t so bad. One like Scrubby the delightful little whiteboard cleaning robot. The future of robotics is frankly, terrifying. We…