BlackShark V3 | 50 mm drivers: was $279.95 now $190.30The BlackShark V3 is the best gaming headset and has been since its launch in 2025. Thanks to some very impressive upgraded 50 mm drivers, the Razer unit sounds clear as a bell for gaming, with excellent mids and an overall response that makes it great for your music, too. Key specs: 50 mm Triforce Titanium Gen 2 drivers | 2.4...

Generative AI is a hot-button topic in the industry, and for good reason—it's been kinda destructive, whether that's jacking up hardware prices or putting people out of a job—and while there have been some fairly mundane use cases that seem helpful, it's been hard to escape the sheer sense of mania that's built around its use. Or the bad PR, juiced out of the sheer exhaustion we've all had from...

Need to knowWhat is it?: Plague Tale prequel goes full third-person action-adventure.Expect to pay: £44/$50Developer: AsoboPublisher: FrogwaresReviewed on: Windows 11, Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060Multiplayer?: NoSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Official siteThe Plague Tale series were puzzle-stealth games about kids trying to survive a Horrible History version of France during the Hundred Years War, sneaking past soldiers and using light to frighten hordes of rats that could strip them...

After a quiet few months, September finally hits the gas, and our list of monthly PC game happenings is filled with brand new adventures, series continuations, 1.0 updates, and events galore. I'm still playing catch-up after Gamescom, and now we've got Tokyo Game Show queued up soon. It's the same schedule every year, but somehow I'm always caught off guard.The Blood of Dawnwalker kicked off the month with a delightfully...

After years of development, a shaky launch, and layoffs a mere three weeks later, the inevitable came for Riot's tag fighter 2XKO in August: shutdown of future development after this year, and refunds for everyone who had made in-game purchases up to that point.In its announcement post, Riot admitted that it was unable to find the momentum to keep 2XKO sustainable, a sentiment that co-founder Marc Merrill echoed during a...

So you've just been shot in Battlefield and now you're lying in a mass of other players' bodies, all of you hammering the 'REVIVE MEEE' request button as medics buzz about, helping everyone but you. If only there was a way to show them how important you are, that your life is clearly worth more than Skidz69 over there. How about money?Wardogs is a Battlefield-style shooter where you can pay...

For security reasons, a Microsoft account is required to set up a fresh installation of Windows 11—unless you exploit this one weird oversight.After navigating through the usual setup screens for a fresh installation of Windows 11 Home and connecting to the internet, Windows Latest reports that you'll want to keep your eyes peeled for the 'Let’s add your Microsoft account' screen. Apparently, clicking on the small 'learn more' link in...

It's been a good while since we last heard about Balatro's big 1.1 update—a year, almost to the day, since developer LocalThunk delayed it into 2026. There's still no sign of it, but the community did catch sight of LocalThunk yesterday when he popped into the Balatro Discord to let everyone know that everything is going fine."I'm happy the leaks are going over so well," LocalThunk wrote, referring to teases...

Weird WeekendWeird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh, Rick and Ted have become obsessed with this time, whether it's the canon height of Thief's Garrett or that time someone in the Vatican pirated Football Manager.Videogames have been banned and censored for all manner of reasons, and...

It was a whirlwind dalliance. I picked up Beyond Good and Evil's 20th anniversary edition on Friday and finished it—all pearls collected, all animals snapped—by Sunday. I can't escape the lure of nostalgia: BG&E Cool Original was an important game for me as a kid. I bought it on a whim for my 11th birthday and it's been lodged in my brain ever since.Jade, forever(Image credit: Ubisoft)But it was an...