Once you've lost a few thousand hours to a MOBA, it's easy to forget how hard it was to learn. A game like League of Legends has well over a hundred playable characters, all sorts of items and jungle monsters, and even the basics can be fussy. One of the most crucial is the zen practice of "last hitting," or swinging at a hostile creep right as it's about to...

It's been established that Doom can run on produce, but porting wizardry doesn't start and end with blasting cacodemons on increasingly ludicrous hardware setups. It's sometimes the simple things that stick out most, like this web browser port of Half-Life 2. Not as silly as potatoes, but impressive all the same.It's got some kinks—my frames are a mite inconsistent and certain animations seem to be broken—but it is, in fact,...

Grinding Gear Games is on a roll. Despite announcing that the most recent expansion to Path of Exile 2 would be its last update before it leaves early access later this year, the patches keep coming. Earlier this week, the developer surprised everyone with a whole new box of toys to play with: an entire skill tree for one of its new side activities and a massive upgrade to Unique...

After a bunch of decidedly low-poly character models started leaking from League of Legends's public test servers, Riot decided to pull the ripcord: League of Legends Classic is real, though when exactly it will harken back to is yet to be seen.The reveal came in the form of a cheeky skit called "200 Years of Experience" where League of Legends executive producer Paul "Pabro" Bellezza is trapped in a Pepe...

Good news if you're one of the die-hards still clinging to Windows 10: Microsoft has added another year to its Extended Security Updates, meaning the axe won't fall until October 2027.Microsoft announced in 2024 that support for Windows 10 would be wrapped up in October 2025, bringing an effective end to one of the good Windows and not-so-gently nudging us all onto one of the sucky ones. We're keeping track...

You can tell Embark is still figuring out what to do with Arc Raiders expedition wipes, because they keep changing every season.The studio announced this week that the fourth expedition is completely changing the main incentive for wiping from permanent extra skill points to a mixture of premium currency and blueprints.Indeed, time has shown that players care more about blueprints than the opportunity to be a little bit quicker than...

What is it? Hide and seek with hand-painted camouflage.Expect to pay: $6 / £5.29Developer: lemorion_1224Publisher: lemorion_1224Reviewed on: NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super, Intel Core i7 14700KF, 32 GB RAMMultiplayer: YesSteam Deck: UnverifiedLink: SteamI want to apologize in advance to anyone who might find themselves in a Meccha Chameleon lobby with me.I'm sorry for turning our casual game of manhunt into a harrowing contest of wits. I'm sorry for painting myself into...

Back in 2025, Starbreeze turned its venerable heist-shooter Payday 2 over to a new studio, Sidetrack Games, so it could focus exclusively on trying to salvage the still-struggling Payday 3. Today we got our first look at the fruits of those efforts, and it's big news—not for Payday 3, to be clear, but for Payday 2, which is getting a major overhaul to its game engine.The engine update will see...

PC gaming entered the digital domain long before any other platform, but my heart has always lied firmly with physical media. Before I joined this team and became a full-fledged PC GamerTM, I was a console gamer—a label I have long blamed on being a child of divorce and finding it far easier to ferry an Xbox between two households than a desktop computer. And for the most part, my...

Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone recently gave us a small update on the progress of Haunted Chocolatier. He said that his next project is taking longer than expected due to the fact that it's a bigger game than Stardew Valley and because he's a perfectionist. He also explained why there are no screenshots alongside this update—or in-depth explanations of any systems—in terms that any cosy game player will understand. "Please excuse me,...