PC Gaming

The big Game Pass price hike announced last week took an unexpected twist today as Microsoft has confirmed that subscribers “in certain countries” won’t actually have to pay the higher rate, at least for now. The issue first came to light on Reddit, where some users claimed to have received emails stating that their existing…

Today we got our first look at gameplay from Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, the next game from Astroneer developer System Era Softworks and published by Devolver Digital. It looks like a lot of fun, though I do have a couple reservations right out of the gate. Beginning at a space station crammed with astronauts, up to…

Remember when Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and X, said that too many game companies are owned by giant corporations and so his giant corporation was going to start a game studio to “make games great again?” And even better, in the completely ironic sense, it was going to…

The first trailer for season 4 of The Witcher on Netflix is here, showcasing the new Geralt, his new team, and most importantly of all, a debut date of October 30. We haven’t previously known the release date for the fourth season of Netflix’s best-known monster-killing show, so that’s probably the real headline news here….

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for their path-finding work in the field of quantum mechanics. It’s been a long time coming—three whole decades, in fact—but that’s seemingly how long it took to recognize that work was pivotal to the development of a whole lot of technology since the 1980s….

I’ll be honest, if you asked me to run down a list of good settings for a survival/crafting extraction shooter, ‘train’ would not feature highly. By their nature, trains are long, cramped, and narrow, and the only material you’re likely to come across is that one weird tissue that some former passenger has left wedged…

It’s Tuesday morning on the west coast, and Steam is down. The website Steamstat.us is reporting multiple errors on the gaming storefront. The APIs for multiple Valve games, including Counter-Strike 2 and Deadlock, are also registering as offline. While Steamstat.us reports that many players are still connected to Steam’s services, the store and community websites…

All is not well in Destiny 2. Last month I detailed my many issues with the Edge of Fate expansion’s new Portal—the disastrous replacement for the game’s seasonal update model. Since then, nothing about the recent Ash & Iron update has persuaded me to return. And it’s not just me: Bungie’s recent moves have done…

The latest Insider Preview build of Windows 11 includes a rather ominous update. Ominous, that is, for anyone who prefers to install Windows without being hooked up to the internet and signing up for a Microsoft account. According the to accompanying Microsoft blog post (via The Verge), Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26220.6772 dispenses with…

Vampire Survivors is aptly named—because of all the vampire stuff, sure, but more because it stubbornly refuses to die. With an announcement trailer released this morning, Vampire Survivors developer Poncle began a weeks-long teaser rollout to preview the additions of the upcoming 1.14 update, starting with the long-awaited online co-op mode. The teaser begins with…