PC Gaming
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced an up to 50% price increase for Xbox Game Pass, offering the compelling value proposition of “What if one month’s access to a new Xbox-published game cost almost a quarter of the price of just buying the damn thing and owning it forever?” Microsoft’s explanation for the price hike was…
ESL Impact, a Counter-Strike 2 pro league exclusively for women, says it will suspend operations at the end of its eighth season in November. “While ESL Impact has succeeded in its mission to raise the profile of women’s Counter-Strike, despite significant investment, the current economic model is simply not sustainable,” the league wrote in today’s…
Just five days before it was set to launch into early access on Steam, the medieval-modern combat sim Kingmakers has been delayed—and, somewhat worryingly, it doesn’t have a new release target. The delay message focuses primarily on developer Redemption Road’s technical ambitions, which are very high: The studio says it “set out to push the…
Will Netflix ever actually develop and release its own big-budget videogame? That remains an open question, but it still seems determined to try—and it sure seems determined to do it using generative AI. The company is now on the hunt for a Los Angeles-based Director of Gen AI for Games, and it’s willing to pay…
Brendan Armstrong is a deputy technical director at Arrowhead Game Studios and has taken to the Helldivers 2 subreddit to explain something that’s always bothered me, but I didn’t know I needed the answer to. Why is Helldivers 2 roughly 150GB on PC, and around a third that size on consoles? Armstrong says it’s all…
Are you sick of hearing about the metaverse? Well, it seems like we aren’t done yet, as Meta has been drip-feeding details about its upcoming Horizon Engine, a Meta-specific game engine built to create experiences in Meta Horizon. This was partially unveiled just a few weeks ago, but we’ve now got a few bold claims…
October may be known as the scariest gaming month of the year, as a whole host of horror games are set to release just in time for Halloween, but in my book it’s also the first cosy month. As daylight savings creeps ever closer and the weather cools down, my primordial instinct isn’t to hunker…
AMD is reportedly in talks with Intel about the possibility of commissioning its fab business. Given American investment in domestic chips, this could be the type of win Intel has been looking for. This is all as reported by Semafar, though no word is given on how far these talks have gotten or where the…
Last month felt like a big month in PC gaming as the surprise imminent launch of long-awaited Hollow Knight: Silksong had smaller games all announcing delays to dive out of its way. Hot on its heels was Borderlands 4, both of which were sitting high on the list of top wishlisted games on Steam ahead…
I have to tell you something, and it might be a little scary—this entire world is actually a simulation designed to entertain me and my specific interests. I can draw no other conclusion from the fact that Critical Role: Campaign 4 is already everything I want out of an actual-play D&D game, and that my…