PC Gaming
We’ve got just five days until the summer season is finally kicked out of Overwatch 2 and Season 19 ushers in the season of scares. There’ll be a new Halloween-themed battle pass, more Mythic skins than you can shake a stick at, and three modes for players to terrify themselves in. “No Overwatch Halloween would…
It’s a landmark day in the greatest ideological conflict of our time: In a blog detailing its Black Ops 7 beta takeaways, Treyarch has announced that BO7 will launch with “minimal skill consideration” as the multiplayer default, reversing a series trajectory of skill-based matchmaking implementation that dates all the way back to Call of Duty…
For many, virtual reality hardware is still an expensive niche to get into. Even our top budget pick in our best VR headset guide, the Meta Quest 3S, can still set you back nearly $300. Well, a YouTuber has rocked up with a homemade headset project using 3D printed parts and bobbins bought off AliExpress…
According to a Chinese analyst group called the XR Research Institute, Upload VR reports, Valve Deckard is set to ship at the end of this year during the holiday season. Mass production has apparently begun, and 400,000–600,000 units are expected per year. Deckard, for those unaware, is Valve’s long-, long-, long-anticipated VR headset that’s expected…
Battlefield 6 returns to the traditional class structure we’re used to from previous games—Assault, Engineer, Support, and Recon. However, the BF6 classes are quite different from their older iterations, with new gadgets and even fresh features that change up their role on the battlefield. Plus, if you’ve only played the likes of Battlefield 1 and…
The tank section is a sacred piece of shooter campaign tradition. It’s the height of virtual military bombast: an opportunity to leverage every ounce of visual tech, sound design, and available production budget into a singular sequence of rolling, thundering excess hammered home by HEAT shells and mechanized heft. In a way, it’s an achievement…
Something you should know about me is: I would kill and die for the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP), a volunteer-maintained library of all things Elder Scrolls that’s the absolute gold standard for fan wikis, so far as I’m concerned. Not for nothing were people excited when the Indie Fallout Wiki teamed up with UESP….
Given AI is meant to change everything, it’s not exactly a surprise to learn that it’s going to upend operating systems, too. At least, that’s what OpenAI has planned for ChatGPT. In a new interview, OpenAI’s ChatGPT boss Nick Turley says he wants to make the chatbot “more like an operating system” over the next…
Great, now in addition to putting Sellotape over my webcam, tissue paper in my keyholes, and tin foil over my head, I’m going to have to whisper quietly around my gaming mouse. That’s because, according to some researchers (via Igor’s Lab) our optical gaming mice might be able to spy on what we’re saying. And…
Jamie Dimon, the head of JP Morgan and widely regarded as the world’s top banker, has given a wide-ranging interview to the BBC. Metal Gear fans rejoice: The full thing can be found in the Big Boss Interview (yes, that’s really what they call it), and one of the topics Dimon is pressed on is…