When I was your age, videogames were released at a rate of about seven per year, so there was plenty of room for everyone and we were all thankful for what we got. It's a bit more crowded these days—nearly 19,000 new games were released on Steam alone in 2024—and so, inevitably, some of them are left with a choice: Get their toes stepped on, or move.It happened before, probably...

Since Enshrouded launched into early access in January of last year, players have been clamoring for water. The big, beautiful world of Embervale already has lots to offer, especially since you can build on or modify the terrain just about anywhere on the map you want… but would a couple rivers and lakes here and there be out of the question? We like that sorta thing in our big open...

US president Donald Trump says Intel should give the US government a 10% stake in the company, echoing a recent statement made by US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, who said earlier this week that the US government should get an equity stake in Intel in exchange for CHIPS Act funding.Trump had actually called for the immediate resignation of Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan earlier this month over his alleged ties...

PC Gamer senior editor Rich Stanton called Metal Gear Solid Delta a "safe, but excellent" remake in his review, but the extent to which Konami faithfully recreated even the most minute aspects of 2004's Snake Eater has been tickling our lizard brain nostalgia centers. You can still wait until sniper boss The End dies of old age, and you can still muck about with the system clock to do it.When...

It sure feels like everything's a subscription these days, and subscriptions are getting more and more specific as time and capitalism grind forward. We've moved on from subscriptions that give you a bunch of games to subscriptions within specific games themselves, like Grand Theft Auto Online's GTA+.For $8 a month, you get a monthly cash allowance, free cars, free Rockstar games, and a host of other in-game benefits. It looks...

If you are familiar with AI, there's a good chance flickers of I, Robot, Blade Runner, or even Cyberpunk 2077 flash up in your mind. That's because the philosophy and ethics of what AI could be are more interesting than the thing that makes AI overviews give you the wrong search results.In a recent blog post (via TechCrunch), Microsoft's CEO of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, penned his thoughts on those advocating...

Google has released a new study [PDF warning], detailing what it claims is the environmental impact of "delivering AI at Google scale". The study estimates that a median Gemini AI text prompt uses less energy than watching nine seconds of television, and consumes "0.26 milliliters (or about five drops) of water"—but some experts have disagreed with its findings.Speaking to The Verge, Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer...

The best Hall effect keyboards offer the speediest switches money can buy. They turn your real-world actions into lightning fast reactions in-game, but there's more to them than just that. Faster response times are only one feature on what are highly customisable, often analog, switches, and deliver special abilities to gamers not possible on mechanical gaming keyboards.Razer, SteelSeries, Corsair and more all have options available using Hall effect switches—or in...

More details about Critical Role's next campaign have dropped. We knew it was being run by Dimension 20 mastermind Brennan Lee Mulligan, whereupon I joked that he'd be losing a lot of sleep juggling two massive D&D projects. Folks, I am now seriously concerned for the man, because the pitch for Critical Role Campaign 4, which premiers October 2, is buck wild.Critical Role's already-meaty cast is expanding to 13 permanent...

Everyone wants to be Ghibli and almost no one can pull it off. Hell, even Studio Ghibli sometimes struggles. So when I set eyes on Opus: Prism Peak—with its lush anime palette, verdant natural settings, and chatty animals—I confess I sucked air through my teeth. Sigono's previous Opus games are much-beloved, but none of them invite comparison to such famously incomparable art quite this hard.But dare I say it, the...