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Late in September, EA committed to two months of maintenance for The Sims 4, as its community reported a growing number of bugs afflicting the 12-year-old life sim. The publisher wants the ageing sequel to continue as the primary platform for virtual soap operas for the foreseeable future, rather than replace it and its many…

If Bethesda has a singular passion, it’s releasing updates that break your mods. Last year, the studio released a “next-gen” update for Fallout 4 that sent reams of mods to the phantom zone, and that sent a brand-new mod—one that simply rolled back Bethesda’s update—rocketing to the top of the charts. Now, Bethesda would like…

AMD has just posted its latest financial results and the message is clear: Things are good. Things are very good. Indeed, CEO Lisa Su summed it all up succinctly: “We delivered an outstanding quarter with record revenue and profitability.” Overall revenue was up 36% to $9.2 billion, while profits grew by 31% to $2.2 billion….

Final Fantasy 14‘s G’raha Tia is the sexiest man. Also, in unrelated news, his English voice actor Jonathan Bailey has been named the sexiest man alive by People Magazine. You might be shocked as I was (appalled as I was, mortified as I was) to discover that People Magazine, a publication for normal, well-adjusted readers,…

While this isn’t exactly PC gaming news, Apple recently launched a new interface for its app store when viewed in a browser. Specifically, it makes the whole shebang work just like the Apps… err… app. Still, while it looks and works as intended, Apple’s web developers forgot to do something important before making it live:…

In early 2024, Turtle Beach bought gamepad and peripherals company PDP for $118 million. Just before that happened, PDP released the Victrix Pro BFG. It was a pro gamepad with some neat customization features: The left stick and the D-Pad, and the right stick and the face buttons, both lived on modules which could be…

Rory Norris, Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: making friends with every raider over a mutual hunt for lemons in Arc Raiders. This week I’ve been: continuing to team up with players in Arc Raiders, and blasting the mean ones. Arc Raiders has a bunch of random crap for you to collect,…

Before I wrote about all things PC hardware, I enjoyed a sordid, console gaming past. My platform of choice? Sony’s curvy white box, the PlayStation 5. Having spent enough time with the console to create an alarmingly accurate mould of the DualSense controller with nothing but my palm prints, I think I’m qualified in saying…

“Open world game that doesn’t need or particularly want to be an open world game” feels like a niche subgenre, but I guess it’s a niche big enough to contain L.A. Noire and several Mafia games—and now MindsEye as well. The GTA-like shooter from the studio headed by a former GTA producer had a launch…

I tried playing the original Baldur’s Gate as a kid, but I had next to no understanding of D&D in 1998 and wound up bouncing off of BioWare’s legendary RPG because I just kept dying. Over time, some of the more esoteric aspects of videogame RPGs were sanded away, and when BioWare got to the…