The wait is almost over Microsoft launched its toned down Surface 3 tablet back in May with two introductory models — a $499 SKU with an Atom x7-Z8700 processor, 2GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage, and a $599 model with the same CPU and twice as much memory (4GB) and storage (128GB). At the…
Just as the Asus ROG Ally is taking on a new form in the ROG Xbox Ally, so the MSI Claw 8 is taking on a new form as an, erm, ROG Ally? Nah, kidding, it’s not an Ally, but it does look pretty similar to it with those jutting edges, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s…
Sci-fi sandbox strategy sim Stellaris will probably continue expanding until either the heat-death of the universe, or it encompasses every single notable genre trope in existence. Today, it grew a meaty little chunk of new content with the Biogenesis expansion, part of its ninth season of DLC. With this expansion, players will be able to…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. 2025 has been a bumper year for gaming headsets. I should know, I’ve been testing loads of them (along with the rest of the PCG hardware team) on a near-weekly basis. We…
Even after a standout AGDQ showing, prolific Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner Mae shows no signs of pumping the brakes any time soon. Building on the strategies shown off at AGDQ, the runner brought BG3’s all-acts world record under 20 minutes before zipping through the megahard permadeath Honour mode in 21:17 for another world record the…
A month after launch, Cronos: The New Dawn now has a native Linux build, with devs Bloober Team announcing in a post on Steam, “Today, we’ve released a native build of the game for Steam’s handheld console, which means even better performance on this platform. Enjoy Cronos on Steam, wherever you are!” Cronos: The New…
The 2017 Game Developers Conference kicks off this week with the Independent Games Summit, and if all has gone according to plan, Michelle and I will have just finished delivering a postmortem of Salt and Sanctuary, our well-received 2D Soulslike that we launched nearly a year ago on PS4. The hardest part about putting together…
In the southern hemisphere the Summer Game Fest is a winter event. The Frosty Game Fest exists as a counterpoint—highlighting more than 50 games, both new and upcoming, from Australia and New Zealand. Or as the show’s tagline puts it: “COOL SH*T FROM ANZ.” And you better pronounce it zed. Enjoying a world premiere at…
Players are dropping out of World of Warcraft’s hardest dungeon mode in droves, and Blizzard is changing everything from class balance to dungeon mechanics to try and stop the bleeding. Public testing of the next Mythic Plus dungeon season is underway this week, with the first versions of many of those changes in play. That…
Valve has just checked off a long-requested wishlist item for the Steam Deck: Downloading games even when the screen is turned off. The feature, available now in the Steam Deck’s beta client, is enabled by default when the Steam Deck is plugged in. The handheld will automatically complete all downloads in the queue with the…