BeamNG.drive, a mainstay of our list of the best racing games thanks to its dedication to being a vehicular sandbox for soft-body crash-damage enthusiasts, as well as its PvP and modability, just had its biggest update. The patch includes "massive graphics changes", which means shadows should be more stable, there's HDR output support on Vulkan and Direct3D 12, physically correct light attenuation, and dynamic ambient lighting.My favorite detail is that,...

You can play Doom on a vape, a printer, an oscilloscope, a pregnancy test, an ATM, and inside Doom itself, but can you play it on a Commodore 64? The old 8-bit powerhouse was discontinued just a year after Doom's 1993 release, and while it was capable of small miracles for its time, it was not a natural home for first-person shooters. Engineer and programmer Steve McCrea has worked on...

A Canadian man who spent 18 months in jail after being convicted of charges including child luring and possession of child pornography has been formally declared innocent after his lawyers discovered a mixup in the initial investigation that pointed police at the wrong man.Brandon Klayme was arrested by police in Halifax, Nova Scotia in February 2020, according to a CBC report (via Polygon), following an investigation by police in the...

Although Steam has a handful of Hololive vtuber games already—that is, games featuring members of the popular vtuber agency—none of them are as comprehensive as Hololive Dreams. A rhythm game with a huge list of collectible characters to meet, Hololive Dreams is the closest thing we're getting to a vtuber theme park—at least until someone builds one in real life.It's also a pretty good starting point for anyone who has...

In a new update on Steam Machine sales, Valve says it's "fulfilling orders on a daily basis," and that it expects that everyone currently in the reservation queue will have an opportunity to purchase the machine they've been waiting for—by, uh, the end of the year.Announced in June, Valve's system for determining who gets first crack at a Steam Machine was essentially a lottery. Signups were taken until June 25,...

The PC is the best way to play the new Halo: Campaign Evolved remake, as well as almost every other Halo, except for one glaring flaw: no split-screen, for some reason. Xbox and PS5 get it, but PC is locked to online co-op only.Ten years ago, that's an omission that might've gone unnoticed by most, but the rise of living room PCs and local game streaming has made split-screen more...

If you're a WoW Classic player, you might want to tread carefully if you're leveling in certain parts of Kalimdor. As reported by players over on Reddit (via WoWHead), the latest patch seems to have caused piles of bugged enemies to spawn beneath the ground in a specific spot in the Stonetalon Mountains, posing a lethal threat to unsuspecting players.It's particularly dangerous for unaware hardcore players like redditor Party-Signature-8700, who...

What a fantastic time to be a horror fan. We've got the most amazing films coming every which-way, countless new indie games to enjoy, and the revitalisation of some of the best horror series gaming has, one of which being Silent Hill with its upcoming game Silent Hill: Townfall. Part of Silent Hill's revitalisation is a trend of mainline games which take the Silent Hill story and explore it in...

Microsoft's Trusted Platform Module, specifically TPM 2.0, has been part of Windows 11's system requirements since the operating system's introduction in 2021. Now that the TPM is ubiquitous, being included with most CPUs for many years, Microsoft is looking to leverage it "to activate Windows devices at scale."Currently, the enterprise sector activates Windows via Microsoft's Key Management Service (KMS), but according to the Windows IT Pro Blog, "modern organizations increasingly...