Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate is out today and, while there are a few "emergent issues" on Bungie's radar, so far it seems to be going pretty well, which is nice. Some players were surprised by one seeming change, though: The voice of Ikora Rey, the Warlock Vanguard, seemed a little off. There's a reason for that, as it turns out, and it'll be changed back soon enough anyway.Bungie...

If Straftat ever has no fans, that means PC Gamer is dead. We named the throwback arena shooter the best FPS of 2024, and its lump-faced, cigarette-smoking combatants have only risen in our estimation with every return we've made to its countless brutalist combat dreamscapes. Today, Straftat ascends to an even higher tier of peerlessness, adding 2v2 and free-for-all game modes for all players.And as always, you can play it...

A few weeks after delaying the unexpected Cyberpunk 2077 2.3 update out of its planned June 26 launch, it looks like a release is getting closer—and could be very close indeed, as some sites are reporting the patch will drop on July 17.At the very least, we'll find out tomorrow—July 16—what's coming in the 2.3 update, which was announced in early June with absolutely zero details. It sounds like something...

Helldivers with a flair for the dramatic (or psychotic) got good news yesterday when Arrowhead announced that, "thanks to some groundbreaking military research into pointier flag tips," the CQC-1 One True Flag melee weapon in Helldivers 2 "can now be proudly planted directly into enemies—dead or alive." Arrowhead described the heraldric upgrade as "absolute democracy" and I certainly can't argue with that, but there is one small problem: Players are...

Sometimes all you can do is take a struggling project back to the drawing board. Unfortunately for Dead Island 2 publisher Deep Silver, that's a decision that meant adding eight years and millions of dollars to the sequel's development time (via GamesIndustry.biz).In a talk at British game dev conference Develop:Brighton, former Deep Silver head of comms Martin Wein says the call to delay and overhaul Dead Island 2 was the...

I never want to be an RPG gatekeeper⁠—I want as many people as possible to find out what makes these games so great. But their inherent crustiness can make my old-head RPG favorites hard to recommend to people who haven't already bought in. I've got a lot of friends I recommend Disco Elysium to, but not very many I tell to play Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.Thankfully, Aspyr's remaster...

Neverwinter Nights 2 is one of my favorite games⁠—if you want to know why you should play it, I've got a separate write-up here. Even though NwN2 released in 2006 after the dawn of the Xbox 360, it's aged more poorly than many of its contemporaries and even predecessors, making it harder and harder to recommend over the years until now.I'm happy to say that Aspyr did a great job...

Nvidia recently became the first company to breach the $4 trillion barrier in terms of market capitalisation or its overall worth. But now there's even more good news for bean counters and investors. Sales of Nvidia's AI chips to China are back on. Well, probably.The news comes direct from Nvidia in a blog post, which says, "Nvidia is filing applications to sell the Nvidia H20 GPU again. The U.S. government...

Certain opinions are so widespread, and so oft-repeated, that I kind of get tired of hearing them even when I share them. For instance, the notion that the version of Cyrodiil we got in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion was a bland, Tolkien-ised thing compared to the descriptions of the province we got in earlier games. I agree, but also I've read variations of that take so much over the...

Remember when, as a child, you boasted about something you were really, really good at, then got called out on your skills and had to sheepishly retract? Awkward, wasn't it? Spare a thought for poor Google Gemini, then, which confidently boasted it was fantastic at chess before making excuses when it learned more about its near fifty-year-old competition.That's according to Robert Caruso, a software engineer who's become known for pitting...