As the new year kicks into high gear with an amazing slate of PS5 game releases like The Last of Us Part II Remastered, Tekken 8 and Helldivers 2, along with FINAL FANTASY VII Rebirth later this month, we’re pleased to roll out another PS5 system software beta today with a number of quality-of-life enhancements…
On December 18, Comcast notified customers of a “recent data security incident” with one of its software companies that exposed their personal information to an outside party. In October, someone gained “unauthorized access” to customers’ usernames and hashed passwords for a period of four days. And it gets worse: Comcast says that “for some customers,…
Well, Anthem is dead, and let’s be honest with ourselves: It’s fine. Most of us forgot Anthem even existed long before the final call, and we were genuinely surprised to discover last summer that the servers were still running. Which isn’t so much an indictment of the game but of the system that produced it….
Over on Bluesky, industry analyst mauronl shared some info from Devolver Digital’s 2024 wrap-up for investors, including lifetime revenue figures for 10 of its games. Sitting at number one, with over $US90 million earned, is the folk-horror Happy Tree Friends dungeon-crawler Cult of the Lamb. Number two, with over $US80 million in lifetime revenue, is…
Those little speakers built into your monitor have a problem: they’re just too small. The laws of physics have a tight grip on audio reproduction, and the sad fact is that large, expensive speakers will always be better than smaller ones, as well as looking cooler and making you more attractive to the kind of…
Life is better on two wheels! This year saw the surprising news that Software Creations’ cancelled Barbie game, Barbie: Vacation Adventure, would finally be getting a commercial release, after more than 30 years (as part of Digital Eclipse’s Barbie Rewind collection). Remarkably, though, it seems that this isn’t the only cancelled title from the Plok!…
Some overlooked games you might have missed. 2023 has been an absolutely ridiculous year for gaming. Despite not having much in the announced lineup in January, it wound up being one of the strongest showings since Switch’s launch, with belters like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Pikmin 4,…
Gabe Newell is widely regarded as the big name (and the big brain) behind Valve, and thus Half-Life and all that has sprung forth from it. But Valve, Half-Life, and the gamers who love it owe something of an unspoken debt to another man, a foundational games industry titan himself, who despite having no despite…
Reinstall (Image credit: Future) This Reinstall feature was originally published in issue 422 of the PC Gamer magazine. To get the rest of our exclusive mag content, you can purchase or subscribe to PC Gamer via Magazines Direct. To hijack a robot I have to stay nearby for a non-trivial amount of time. When I…
I’m now 200+ hours deep in Baldur’s Gate 3 and midway through my third run, a massive time sink I have decided to blame on a teenager-strength crush on Astarion and the slightly more sensible desire to really sink my teeth into the magnificent battle system. I want to fully understand it. I want to…