PC Gaming

Last week, Valve issued an update to Counter-Strike 2 that, by some estimates, caused the collective secondhand market value of rare CS2 cosmetics to plummet by billions of dollars. While Valve’s official policy forbids the third party sale of its games’ cosmetics, its loot box monetization fuels a massive ecosystem of gambling and speculation—and in…

You’ve got your decorations and your novelty candy bowl with that little hand that jumps out and corrodes any trust the neighborhood’s children had in you, so there’s just one thing missing: an excuse to round out your backlog with a bunch of PC games on sale. Fret not, because Steam Scream Fest is here…

Surreal horror dungeon crawler Psychopomp teased that it would get a sequel before the credits even rolled, but I didn’t expect any news on that front for some time. Developer Fading Club just put out the first trailer for Psychopomp 2, about a year after the first game’s definitive Gold version launched. Psychopomp 1 used…

The generative AI wave has tech companies foaming at the mouth to get in while the getting’s good, and while that might be creating a disastrously huge financial bubble, it’s also changing the way companies operate. Microsoft has made it no secret that AI is non-negotiable for its employees, and it seems that EA is…

For most, what continues to be head-turning about Nvidia’s RTX GeForce 5090 Founders Edition GPU is either its impressive performance or its nearly $2,000 MSRP. But if you’re a real hardware sicko, you’ve only got eyes for that three-piece PCB under the hood. This multi-layered PCB is a fairly unique bit of hardware design, not…

AI is slowly making its way into every facet of life, and that means more and more fields are being manned by machines that can’t be held accountable. In many cases, AI going wrong is normally confined to a poor Google search or bad Photoshop, but on October 20, police showed up armed at a…

The first Mechanicus is one of those often overlooked gems in the world of Warhammer videogames. Creative turn-based strategy design and brilliantly sharp, funny writing elevate what could have been just another XCOM imitator. So it’s lovely to discover that Mechanicus 2 is shaping up to be even bigger and better. Playing the free demo…

Given the huge amount of heat that GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards can generate, it’s no surprise that some PC enthusiasts turn to water blocks to tackle the blaze. However, one experienced repair technician has discovered that should you make a mistake during the process of disassembling the card and applying the water block, and…

It is 2025 and we are, as a society, making Halo again. This has caused no small amount of discourse. Is there any point remaking Halo? Is Unreal Engine 5 the right vessel for a remake? Will God strike us down for putting a Halo game on a Sony console? All these questions and more…

Premium editions with early access periods, love ’em or hate ’em (let’s be real, you probably hate them), we can’t deny the fact that they help make the line go up for studios because, er, well. They keep doing it, so it’s clearly profitable enough to tank the negative PR. The Outer Worlds 2, despite…