PC Gaming

Earlier this week, Microsoft announced around 9,000 layoffs—many of which gutted teams and canceled games all over Xbox Game Studios—and it hasn’t gone over great with, well, anyone whose conscience is intact. The Communications Workers of America, a major media union with several locals within Microsoft, took the moment to address its disappointment with a…

This week, as part of an enormous round of cuts at Microsoft, the company closed down The Initiative and cancelled the ace-looking reboot of Perfect Dark it had been working on. The game had first been announced in 2020 but a “gameplay reveal” was shown in 2024’s Xbox Games Showcase: and it blew us away….

Fortnite’s frantic Blitz Royale has been the game’s most popular attraction since it launched as a time-limited mode two weeks ago—and now Epic is hinting that it might become permanent. Blitz Royale drops 32 players into a miniature Fortnite map and turbocharges the match with special powers: invisibility while sprinting, infinite ammo, faster reloads, and…

You’ve been feeling it too, haven’t you? You try to scroll up on a gaming news article and the ads crowd out the text so thoroughly you have to reload. You want to find a short guide for collectibles in a new RPG, but beneath Google’s flat-out wrong AI summary there’s only a parade of…

Actor Michael Madsen, known for his portrayal of brooding, intimidating tough guys in a career spanning more than 40 years, has died at age 67. The Hollywood Reporter says the cause of death has been reported as cardiac arrest. Madsen appeared in hundreds of films and televisions shows over the years, beginning with something called…

RAM manufacturers try their best to keep prices high for their latest memory chips, but alas, price trends have worked in our favour in recent years, despite AI’s best efforts to bolster demand and raise prices in recent months. The introduction of DDR5 saw prices increase for the latest memory, and this initial memory had…

Marvel Rivals has a monumental task in front of it after promising players a new hero every month and a half. So far, the devs have made good on their promise with new heroes every half-season, the latest being Phoenix and Blade, with the former arriving in under a week for the start of Season…

Blitz Royale is Fortnite’s newest mode, and players can’t get enough: it’s currently more popular than Fortnite’s core 100-player battle royale. I love its frantic firefights and, as I wrote at the start of the month, I hope it’ll be a gateway for new players to other game modes. It has a new map, faster…

I love graphics cards. They’re absolutely my favourite PC component. That’s not a hot take; I’m a simple man and thing-makes-pretty-pictures-flow-faster-in-front-of-eyes is an easy thing to become obsessed with. And I’ve had a long time to get nerdy with them, too, having built my first PC in the early ’90s and been professionally testing PC…

It’s become my solemn duty to keep tabs on the whole Silksong situation. The “we announced a game several years ago and barely talk about it” situation. The “we have people coming up with conspiracy theories including Napoleon” situation. The “every time there’s a showcase, we bet it all on red and lose” situation. Imagine…