If you were hoping that Gears of War: Reloaded was going to be like The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered, then I have a bit of bad news for you. It's essentially 2016's Ultimate Edition of Gears of War, but with better lighting and textures—everything else, including meshes, animations, and the overall gameplay, is exactly the same.Gears of War: Ultimate Edition was a remaster itself, so Reloaded is a remastered...

Framework has finally broken the silence on the future of its modular 16-inch gaming laptop, the Framework 16. And the good news is that it actually has one. With AMD essentially exiting the mobile GPU market this generation the company only had one option, and that was to turn to Nvidia.Today, it has announced there will be a new Framework 16 graphics module—along with improvements to other components—that will house...

Our hints for today's Wordle are all neatly written up and nicely separated out, making it easy for you to fine-tune how much help you want to receive, as well as what kind of help you'd like in the first place too. Use them together, with the August 26 (1529) Wordle clue on top if you'd like a boost, and you've got a great starting point for a win (and...

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER(Image credit: Future)Last week: Got all sappy about the server browser and got very close to downloading Quake.The Battlefield 6 beta got its hooks into me and my friend group in a way few shooters can, and I know that because we're spending the 46-day wait for its release by playing other Battlefields. The natural first choice was Battlefield 2042, as it has a new event with...

Are you prepared to really know Claptrap? Brace yourself, because according to Gearbox, Borderlands 4 contains "an emotional moment" with the slapstick robot sidekick.Gearbox has been saying on repeat that Borderlands 4's comedy will be "more grounded" in the Borderlands universe than Borderlands 3's, which went a bit overboard with pop culture references.My experience in Borderlands 4's starting area agreed with that claim: It was not an all-out assault of...

In 2019, PC Gamer published the in-depth feature PC gaming in China: Everything you need to know about the world's biggest PC games industry. At the time, our goal in covering what our shared hobby looks like in a country that Western players still have little insight into."China's PC gaming industry is the largest in the world by a wide margin. The entire US games industry, including PC, mobile, and...

When I heard player housing is coming to World of Warcraft, I immediately thought of the sheer amount of stuff in the game that could find its way into your home. Blizzard could reward housing items like they do rare mounts for achieving some of the most grindy or challenging things in the game. It could be a real time sink.But thankfully that doesn't seem like that's the direction Blizzard...

In 2005 I lived and breathed fansites, many of which I can still name off the top of my head: Eyes on Final Fantasy, Zelda Universe, Animal Crossing Ahead, DK's Jungle Vine—outside of gaming magazines, these sorts of websites dominated my bookmarks folder so that I could hunt down any scrap of news from the games I was obsessed with.Another that I somehow still have bookmarked, a dozen PCs later,...

The folks at Japanese vtuber agency Otagroup are onto something. Its vtuber group of women aged 75-and-up aren't just 3D anime girl streamers anymore: they're vtuber grandmas for rent.Otagroup gained some traction in the vtuber space when its 86-year-old vtuber Hiroko went viral on X and YouTube. And now it's going to offer an online counseling service called "rental granny" where you can hire vtubers like Hiroko to hang out...

In response to a viewer question for a 200k subscriber Q&A on his YouTube channel, former BioWare producer Mark Darrah got into the fine details of what it might actually have looked like for BioWare to release Joplin, its initial pitch for a fourth Dragon Age, and whether he thinks it would have been better received than last year's The Veilguard."I do think that Joplin's gonna live as this mythological...