It started small and sensible. A miniature of an ork with one foot on a helmet to give him a more dynamic pose, or a dragon attached to a rocky protrusion to suggest flight. Somewhere in the years since then we lost our way. We went too far. We climbed too boldly and too steep, and we ended up with a dwarf, a member of a species defined by their...

Partway through Nightdive's video about remastering Thief: The Dark Project, producer Daniel Grayshon casually mentions that in the original you pressed 4 to bring up the water arrows and I realized I still remember a bunch of the keybinds for Thief's arsenal of items. The trusty blackjack was 2, rope arrows were 8, the get-out-of-jail-free flash bomb on F6, and so on."As with a lot of Nightdive games in the...

The other shoe has dropped. Following Destiny 2's last major update and widespread reports that Bungie was preparing for mass layoffs, Sony and the studio announced a "reduction in force" that includes most of the people who were working on Destiny 2, as well as several on the Marathon team and external contractors.Exact numbers have not been given by Sony, but a required WARN notice issued by the studio says...

Exceptional in almost every way, MSI's QD-OLED 321URX already tops our best 4K gaming monitor list, and that was before it had its price snipped by $85. Outstanding color accuracy, 240 Hz refresh rate, insanely quick response time, and exceptional pixel density. It's the ultimate high-end gaming panel for good reason. This deal is for Prime members only.Key specs: 32-inch | 240 Hz | 0.03 ms | QD-OLEDPrice check: Newegg...

I'll be honest, my Steam Deck is still trucking along just fine, even with four years of light between today and its 2022 release date. Nevertheless, there are more than a few people who'd quite like a Steam Deck 2 (though, uh, even they are probably prepared to wait for prices to become sane). It's been a while, after all.Well, perhaps some good news, then: in our chat with Valve...

While Chuck Tingle may be best known as the author of Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt and a proliferation of works in a similar style (shout-out to the Space Raptor Butt Trilogy as well as I Have No Butt And I Must Pound), these days he also writes legit and well-received horror novels like Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays, and is working on a book about...

Long before Heroes of Might & Magic enjoyed a triumphant return to form with Olden Era, we had King's Bounty: The Legend, a strategy-RPG in the classic HoMM mold only with a single gigantic world map rather than discrete levels, and some quirky ideas about courtly marriage. Infamously, this was the game where you could marry a frog or a zombie.The most recent sequel toned down the whimsy and ended...

Here at PC Gamer, we're all very excited about Grand Theft Auto 6—given it's one of the biggest videogame events of the decade. Rockstar games are becoming an increasingly rarer milestone that seems determined to bring some new big-swing advancement in tech. For instance, gorgeous graphics that're pretty enough to send me into an existential crisis.Given preorders went up today, you might think that has us all a-flutter with excitement....

Riot Games is making a big change to its Vanguard anti-cheat system: After an update set to go live today (and which may already be live by the time you read this) it will not launch when your PC boots up, but will instead will be "on demand," meaning it will only run when playing a game and will shut down once the gameplay is over.Vanguard was very controversial when...

Rockstar Games finally dropped the other shoe, making it official that GTA 6 will cost a whopping $80, plus an extra $20 for the Ultimate Edition if you want to enjoy, y'know, a whole bunch of clothing and hairstyles and automobiles.Yep, entire in-game stores will be closed off unless you pony up a cool hundred bills for GTA 6, making one heck of a pricey game that we'll all probably...