Holidays are coming. You know the festive season is well and truly here when No Gravity Games announces its annual ‘Switchmas Giveaway’, where the studio dishes out a selection of its back catalogue for free. Well, the time is almost upon us once more, as No Gravity Games has announced that this year’s giveaway will…
With survival MMO Dune: Awakening on the brink of release, Funcom has detailed one of the central features of the endgame: the Landsraad. In Dune’s fiction, the Landsraad is a council made up of the heads of the Great Houses: most notably House Atreides and House Harkonnen. In a new video you can see below,…
Following last week’s report of excessive wear on a graphics card’s contact pins, suggested to be the result of using an Asus motherboard’s quick-release PCIe slot, Asus has released a statement. In it, the company suggests no actual damage is likely to occur as a result. The issue, as one PC builder explained on bilibili,…
Top Deal: Few things are as therapeutic as building a new PC. Unfortunately, it can also be expensive, though it doesn’t have to be, especially if you run with an AMD foundation. To prove it, check out today’s top deal for an AMD FX-6300 Vishera for $100 with $1 shipping (normally $110 – use coupon…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. There’s…
AI company Anthropic says it recently disrupted “a sophisticated cybercriminal operation” that relied heavily upon its Claude code in a “vibe hacking” scheme targeting at least 17 separate organizations, including government agencies. “The actor used AI to what we believe is an unprecedented degree,” Anthropic wrote (via the BBC). “Claude Code was used to automate…
The first glimpse of Silent Hill: Townfall at today’s State of Play stream—after being announced a a couple of years ago—almost tricked me into thinking it wasn’t Silent Hill at all. There was a woman on a radio and some fog, but that was followed by a full minute of club swinging and revolver shooting…
Here follows a transcript of every conversation I have had with another human being about Stalker 2 since I scored it 83% in our Stalker 2 review, back in 2024: SOME GUY: I’m kind of curious about Stalker 2, but I’m wary. I’ve heard that game is really buggy.JOSH: It’s gotten a lot better since…
Discord is introducing more nuance into how it punishes users that break the rules. In the coming weeks, the chat app will begin to phase out permanent bans for “many violations,” instead opting for temporary bans of one year. In a press briefing held on the app, senior director of policy Savannah Badalich said Discord…
Yesterday, Slay the Spire 2 developer Mega Crit pushed its “first BIG post-launch patch” to the game’s opt-in beta branch, giving players a chance to test the update’s changes ahead of their eventual implementation on the main branch. The beta patch brought “a huge balance pass,” retuning enemies, artifacts, and both the costs and effects…