On July 18, Microsoft suddenly ceased offering purchases and rentals for movies and TV shows on PC and Xbox. The change comes as a surprise to fans of the service, but users will still be able to access past purchases on Microsoft's Movies & TV app, at least for now.The change was revealed in updates on the Xbox and Windows FAQ pages for the Movies & TV app. The Windows...
The Elder Scrolls Legends was a mainstay of our list of the best card games that aren't Hearthstone, but sadly it wasn't the hit Bethesda wanted it to be. Development was halted in 2019, and in 2024 it was permanently shut down and rendered unplayable.But, like players of Warhammer Online and Star Wars Galaxies before them, players of The Elder Scrolls Legends have refused to let it lie easy in...
At its tenth TennoCon fan conference on Saturday, Digital Extremes revealed its plans for the next era of Warframe. Following a major update that'll close out 2025, Warframe will finally chart a course for a destination that's been teased for years: In 2026, the Tenno are headed to Tau.The Tau system is, to put it lightly, a pretty big deal for Warframe. It's where many of the core conflicts of...
"Using AI powered tools, they were able to achieve an amazing result with remarkable speed," Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said in a July 17 earnings call. He was referring to the recent Argentinian Netflix original The Eternaut, which includes a scene with AI-generated visual effects showing a building in Buenos Aires collapsing."The cost of it just wouldn't have been feasible for a show on that budget," Sarandos said of the...
Destiny 2's new expansion, Edge of Fate, is not having an easy time winning over players, with fewer returning to check it out and controversial balance changes souring the mood. You can also add making players physically ill to the list, with the game's new Matterspark prompting widespread complaints of motion sickness.Thankfully, Bungie is already on the case with this issue. "We will be making changes to Matterspark soon to...
Destiny 2's latest expansion The Edge of Fate is already facing an uphill battle, launching with the lowest concurrent player counts for a Destiny 2 expansion ever, while the community rail against a raft of controversial mechanical changes detailed in some of the longest patch notes Bungie has ever produced. Now, it turns out that the aforementioned changelog was still not long enough, with Bungie apologising for missing out numerous...
I recently got in touch with former Obsidian writer Eric Fenstermaker to learn everything I could about one of my favorite bits of dialogue in RPG history from Pillars of Eternity's first expansion, The White March Part 1. But this also entailed learning a lot more about Zahua, the character who delivered the line, and it struck me once again how rare he is: A CRPG monk who's actually really...
You might be reading this on a gaming PC you built yourself, but you probably can't say you built the processor from scratch with your own hands and a soldering iron. One DIY enthusiast did just that in a project that's an impressive look at how computers work, and how far they've come.First reported by Tom's Hardware, Polish computing YouTuber Majsterkowanie i nie tylko (MINT for short) posted a video...
The baby boom is over. EA has neutered a bizarre bug recently introduced to The Sims 4 that erroneously marked Sims as being pregnant, irrespective of whether they were male or had previously engaged in 'woo-hoo'.The bug initially appeared last week, slipping undetected into the game in a base game patch that coincided with the launch of the new Enchanted by Nature DLC. The bug indiscriminately identified random Sims as...
More quizzes!(Image credit: Larian Studios)Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia We've got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes.Despite a certain amount of screeching to the contrary in online spaces, one thing videogames have not lacked for over the years is ruggedly samey white male protagonists. Their jaws? Chiseled. Their hair? Brown, usually short cropped. Their names? Probably...