I was playing Grounded 2 recently and, in typical Mollie fashion, hurtling through the tutorial like the game was billing me by the minute. I mean, what the hell do I even need to learn? I played the first game, and it's all your basic hand-holding stuff to start out with.Sometimes you just gotta vent. This week, we're airing all our grievances with gaming and computing in 2025. Hit up...

Microsoft, and specifically the Xbox division, has been in a bit of a weird state for some time. With the pivot away from exclusives, a former Xbox team member declared "Xbox hardware is dead", and it's easy to see why. It is moving ever closer to becoming a third-party game publisher, and deals to make Xbox-branded Meta Quests and ROG Ally's certainly feel like moves made by a team slowly...

In the world of cutting-edge technology, we rarely get to see the behind-the-scenes research and development that goes on at the biggest companies. But every now and then, some details get dropped that remind you just how much better our current gear and gadgets can potentially be. Meta's VR division has showcased two such examples, codenamed Tiramisu and Boba 3, and if these represent the future of virtual reality gaming,...

I'll be honest, I really thought we'd have more gripes about Microsoft's pervasive operating system as a team. For all the excitement about SteamOS and the still-raw potential of Linux as a gaming platform, pretty much everyone on the PC Gamer team is still running Windows on their main systems. There are certainly some complaints about the big M's latest operating system, and some common complaints, too.Gripes Week(Image credit: Future)We're...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is maybe one of my favourite games of this year—it's certainly in the running—which I hope reassures you that I mean this with all the love in the world. It surprises me not one itty-bitty bit that Guillaume Broche, creative director of the game, says he "likes really sad stories".That's per a recent interview Broche had with BehindTheVoice (seen below). Spoilers for the game's endings to...

It's hard to remember Creative Assembly wasn't always synonymous with the Total War series, and yet, once upon a time, they were so well-known for sports games that pivoting away was seen as a risk. That's part of the story told in a retrospective video about the making of Total War: Shogun put together to coincide with its 25th anniversary. It makes for a fascinating insight into how different things...

Get that Friday feeling in your daily puzzle gaming by treating yourself to an easy Wordle win. We won't tell anyone if you take a sneaky peek at the August 8 (1511) answer, promise. And if you want to browse today's hints and helpful clue at any time while you're here? We didn't see a thing. Wordle? What's that?A clue for today's WordleStuck on today's Wordle? Here's a clue that...

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER(Image credit: Future)This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it's bad.This time 15 years ago, I was a staunch Battlefield guy who had every Call of Duty rebuke memorized. My beloved Bad Company 2 was the better FPS because it had vehicles, 32-player lobbies, class roles, and maps that...

When I finished my first session of Nox Mortalis' astoundingly long and open-ended demo, I was convinced it had missed the mark: Too obtuse and unforgiving. Melee combat that was spotty at best, with an overreliance on an aggravating parry mechanic. I get not having a map, but no compass in this open world game?Turns out I'm just a dumbass. My second time giving Nox Mortalis the old college try,...

Six years after BioShock 4 was first confirmed, it is not going well: Bloomberg said last week that the game had failed a recent development review, leading to the removal of studio head Kelley Gilmore and shift of creative director Hogarth de la Plante to a publishing role, and a planned overhaul of parts of the game itself. Despite those struggles, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick promises, unequivocally, that it's not...