PC Gaming
I didn’t have a lot of doubts going into Fellowship one last time before its early access release this week. I knew from the first time I got my hands on it last year that it had the potential to be the kind of game MMO players have wanted for a long time—including me. And…
In 1992, Games Workshop was subject to a management buyout backed by a private equity firm, saddling it with massive amounts of debt. In the years that followed, the company looked at players’ wallets like a dog looks at a string of sausages. It was not a good time to be a young lad with…
A day after Ubisoft confirmed his departure, former Assassin’s Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté says he did not choose to leave the company, but was asked to step aside by leadership after being offered a reduced role at Ubisoft’s new Vantage Studios subsidiary. Côté’s departure from Ubisoft on October 15 came without warning, and was…
Steam Next Fests are as delightful as they are overstimulating: There are so many interesting new games to sample, but there are so many new games to sample. That’s why we like to take stock after a couple days of demos to see which attracted the most attention—and what that leaves our wishlists looking like….
Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul is no stranger to videogames. He starred in the live-action film adaptation of Need For Speed in 2014 and animated film Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV in 2016. If you want a real gaming deep cut, Paul also voiced the self-proclaimed “King of Space” in the Black Mirror episode “USS Callister,” voicing…
The Borderlands 4 update that will usher in a range of balance fixes and performance improvements is taking a little longer than expected, and so will not roll out this week as planned but will instead arrive “early next week.” “Quick update that our Day 30 Update, which includes balance adjustments, performance and stability improvements,…
It took more than a year to make it happen, but the promised offline mode for The Crew 2 is finally here. “Hybrid Mode,” as it’s officially known, lets players switch between online and offline play at will, ensuring the game will remain accessible even when the remote servers are gone. A quick catch-up for…
Electronic Arts needed Battlefield 6 to be a hit, and it sure looks like it is. More than seven million copies of the game were sold over the first three days of release, making it “the biggest opening ever” for a Battlefield game. Along with the impressive sales milestone, the opening weekend also saw more…
Dead Space creator and former Striking Distance boss Glen Schofield is an advocate for AI use in game development and is not shy about it. During a keynote speech at Gamescom Asia x Thailand Games Show titled ‘Ten Ways I Come Up with Ideas’, Schofield championed generative AI as a brainstorming tool in game development,…
While they’ve been a terror for countless fledgling fortbuilders, goblin sieges in Dwarf Fortress become predictably trivial once you’ve got a good amount of mountainhome management under your belt. That’s about to change: On November 3, Dwarf Fortress gets its awaited Siege update, and a lot of dwarves are going to be a lot less…