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...

Feel free to use our clue for today's Wordle whenever you're feeling a bit stuck. Unleash it right at the start if you're not sure what sort of opening word you'd like to go for, and don't worry about spoiling the fun—it's written to help, not immediately give the game away. You could always save it for later too, as a bit of a nudge just when you need it....

You know that part in Barbie The Movie where the beloved bubbly doll played by Margot Robbie totally kills the dancefloor fun by asking, "Do you guys ever think about dying?" like it's the most normal question to ask mid-bop?That's what Final Fantasy 14 has done to me with Dancing Green's theme song, Ride the Rhythm, though I'm not sure who's the Margot Robbie in this situation.As is Square Enix...

The co-op shooter FBC: Firebreak is struggling badly, but Remedy isn't giving up on it. Today the studio announced plans for its first "major update," set to arrive in late September, that it hopes will make the game more accessible to newcomers, and more engaging for veterans.FBC: Firebreak stumbled out of the gate, with serious balance problems and a real lack of content. "The good news," we said in our...

We described Crossfire: Legion as "a promising, if somewhat sparse tactical RPG" when it appeared in the 2022 PC Gaming Show, shortly after its early access launch in May of that year. It went into full release in December 2022, but never managed to gain any real traction with players, and now, a year and a half after its last update, it's going away for good."It is with the deepest...