PC Gaming
Doom, one of the most influential videogames of all time, was famously distributed via the shareware model: The game’s first chapter was completely free, and if you liked it, you sent id Software some money and they mailed you the remaining two episodes. What would sometimes happen in those pre-online days, though, is that less-than-scrupulous…
When I was a writer for The Wirecutter more than a decade ago, we were obsessed with finding and recommending the singular best version of any specific product, because it felt like there was so much crap to wade through online. Today I wistfully long for the Amazon of 2013, before it came to be…
Ghost Recon WildlandsNovember 13 will mark the 25th anniversary of Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, but Ubisoft is getting the celebration ball rolling a little early with a major update to Ghost Recon Wildlands featuring major visual and gameplay enhancements, and an all-new mission “set in a darker, more oppressive Bolivia.” Bolivia, you may recall,…
Last month, we covered Warhorse Studios’ European trademark filings for Kingdom Come Salvation, which provided an early indication of what title we can expect for the third “Kingdom Come adventure” that Warhorse announced was in the works in May. Beyond the name, the filing featured tantalizing language about “services for matching users with computer games,”…
Take it from me, a gamer rocking the last-gen Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super and still loving life: your rig doesn’t need the most bleeding edge graphics card. That’s especially true when the 50-series cards can easily set you back many more smackers than Nvidia’s MSRP. The RTX 5090 is especially bad for this right…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is known for being, well, smutty—so much so that when the game first came out, we were in fierce, rigorous, masterful debates over it (stop giggling). The game has a lot of sensual scenes, but it also comes with a streamer-friendly mode to cover up all the jiblets and tatas. A streamer-friendly…
After years of speculation, after reams of fan theories and screenshot analysis, we’ll be finally getting a full look at Grand Theft Auto 6 on… hold on, Netflix? Really? Right, okay, sure. This news comes courtesy of the site itself, which has a preview page that reads: “Coming August 27: See an extended look at…
What if a faceplate wasn’t just for looks? I am working on a new kind of faceplate from r/steammachine The Steam Machine may be hard to get a hold of and prohibitively expensive, but as is ever the case with Valve, its community is very creative. It’s not even been two months since its launch,…
The Steam Controller has a pretty niche feature called Grip Sense, which is a pair of capacitive touch sensors inside the handles that can sense when you are touching them. Though you may not use it, Valve thinks you should “Because it’s, like, cool” and even recommends a couple of sweet shortcuts to use with…
During my world-exclusive hands-on preview of Onimusha: Way of the Sword in Capcom’s headquarters in Osaka, Japan, I interviewed the animation director, Hiroshi Yugen, about creating the incredible sword-fighting animations for the game. When the star of the game is the legendary sword master, Miyamoto Musashi, a warrior who won over 60 duels during his…