Items tagged with PC gaming
GOG (formerly known as Good Old Games) has been fighting an uphill battle for some time, despite being generally well-received, in a battle to stay relevant amid Steam's unapologetic market dominance. Despite gamers' widespread hatred of...
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You already know how it is: you load into a match, your buddy's having an off day, you get annoyed, he feels bad, it sucks for everyone. Why not play some games where you cooperate to destroy computerized bad guys? These still give you a lot of room for skill expression, and in some cases...
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Arc Raiders, one of the biggest hits of 2026, has been fighting cheats and exploits since day one. Recently, however, a particular item duplication exploit was popularized by streamer TheBurntPeanut, whose videos on the matter received...
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Nerds of a certain vintage get real wistful about Unreal Tournament '99, and rightfully so, but many will argue that it's the later Unreal Engine 2-based games that truly defined Unreal Tournament's identity. Unreal Tournament 2003 and the...
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Over on X/Twitter, the developers of the cross-platform PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 have touted a key compatibility milestone, with 98% of PS3 titles playable on the emulator in some form and an impressive 73% playable to completion. Of...
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Sony's PlayStation State of Play conference has several highlights, but one that particularly sticks out to us is the confirmation of a new John Wick AAA game targeted at PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. John Wick has previously...
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Black Myth: Wukong drew high critical acclaim for its top-notch production values and well-adapted Souls-like gameplay, and now its sequel Black Myth: Zhong Kui is being shown off ahead of its eventual release. The new Black Myth: Zhong...
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It's been a long time coming, but Fable is finally back, with a confirmed multi-platform autumn release window across Xbox consoles and services including Play Anywhere, PC, and PlayStation 5. A deep-dive on the new Fable, as well as this...
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AAA publisher and developer Ubisoft has released some unfortunate news. In the process of its development restructuring into six Creative Houses, Ubisoft also had to kill six games and delay seven more, with the most prominent loss being...
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Amidst rising AI discontent, some tech CEOs have formed somewhat of a united front insisting that critics of AI are somehow incorrect. In an interview on Decoder with Nilay Patel (a podcast produced by The Verge), Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan...
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To the surprise of few, leaked footage from the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 has incited a moral panic, but not from the usual Stateside suspects like disbarred attorney Jack Thompson. Instead, it is coming from Russia, with a recent...
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PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is one of the scene's crown jewels, and the development team achieved several milestones in 2025, including 70.55% game compatibility, major performance improvements (including better utilization of AVX-512...
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Recently on X/Twitter, user @Clawsomegamer spotted a preliminary listing for the Steam Machine on a Czech retailer's website. On the surface, no pricing information is displayed, but the web page's code does reveal pricing of 19,826 CZK...
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In a poignant reminder that some of a game's biggest fans are the people who actually work on them, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided voice actor Elias Toufexis sounded off about the lack of a Deus Ex sequel, after teasing some...
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Over on X, Kepler_L2, one of the more trusted leakers in the industry, claims that AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture is slated for a mid-2027 release date, with chips being built on TSMC's N3P process. This claim emerged...
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Two recent studies have highlighted gaming's potential benefits for mental health and acuity. The most recent is a study published this month by JMIR Serious Games, named Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi Games' Affordance of Childlike Wonder...
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Maingear, a well-respected boutique PC builder, has taken note of the ongoing RAM crisis and is attempting to offer a potential solution, beyond simply raising prices. Its solution is a new "BYO RAM", or "Bring Your Own RAM" program, which accepts a user's shipment of DDR5 RAM with an order of...
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One of the most influential names in the FPS genre, Vince Zampella, passed away at the age of 55 on Sunday, December 21st, in a tragic car accident with one other unidentified person. Vince Zampella worked on the Medal of Honor series...
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2025 was an eventful year for indie and AAA gaming alike, but what were the most-played new releases of 2025 per actual data? Sales and Steam charts can only tell so much of the story, but Alinea Analytics have published a report with a clear estimate on the top games in 2025 across Steam...
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Game preservation is a tricky thing, especially without resorting to emulation or dubiously-obtained ROM files. System 3 Software, however, put in the effort for fans of ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64-era games by bringing its Last...
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Players of Riot Games on the PC are familiar with the Vanguard kernel-level anti-cheat software by now. However, even with it installed and updated, gamers may have received a notice that their system is restricted from launching the...
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Bethesda is hard at work on The Elder Scrolls VI, per a recent interview with Game Informer. The hotly-anticipated game, already in playtesting, is currently "progressing really well" according to Todd Howard, with "The majority of the...
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