As I’m making my way through the beginning of two-player co-op adventure Age Twisters alongside the founders of developer Piccolo Studios, I’m told the goal was to create a game that evokes the same feelings as watching a Pixar movie with your child. Now I am admittedly sprogless, but it wasn’t difficult to latch onto…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
“I actually did not expect to meet that goal”. If you were around in the late ’90s and you owned a PC then chances are you encountered ZSNES, one of the first retro emulators to really break into the mainstream. Coded by zsKnight, the emulator was astounding for 1997 – not only did it offer…
If you’ve ever struggled to get your hand steady enough to scan a QR code while on the go, you should try catching one made by the research team at TU Wien in Vienna, Austria. They have recently managed to create one that “covers an area of just 1.98 square micrometers—smaller than most bacteria.” In…
Spore might be one of the highest-profile disappointments in all of PC gaming, but it’s also a game I have a huge soft spot for. It was the first game I ever begged my parents to preorder for me (for my birthday at the ripe age of 8), and I adored it endlessly back when…
The first two “Twilight Syndrome” games from 1996 are currently being translated. It looks like the first two games in Human Entertainment’s horror-themed adventure series Twilight Syndrome are about to get a fan translation, judging from a set of tweets from the fan translator blamerobots. Twilight Syndrome: Tansaku-hen and Twilight Syndrome: Kyūmei-hen were a group…
When we introduced Pulse Elite in 2024, our first wireless headset featuring planar magnetic drivers and PlayStation Link connectivity, we saw positive feedback from players who enjoyed the greater precision, clarity, and level of detail it brought to their games and entertainment. Today, we’re excited to share a first look at our refreshed lineup of…
When a game has multiple endings, that can cause problems for post-ending DLC. Do you canonize one ending, which risks alienating players who chose a different one? Make the story vague enough that it could follow on from any of the endings, which can mean tying yourself into narrative knots? Rewrite the ending and provide…
Stalker 2 captured the Sprit of the PC this year—its vibrancy, inventiveness (and, yes, occasional jank). For more awards, visit our Game of the Year 2024 hub. Joshua Wolens, News Writer: This might sound odd, but what I most love about Stalker 2 is how Stalker it is: how far it goes—even in dolled-up 2024…
The European Commission has announced it is investigating Elon Musk’s X and Grok, its AI generation tool, for “manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material.” In December 2025, the social media site was hit with deepfake sexual imagery, where users could request Grok to generate pictures by simply…