Valve coder confirms the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC, albeit at a ‘good deal’: ‘If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at’
The Steam Machine might remind you of a console—it's a cute little box instead of a monolith of...
We owe Skyrim’s beloved Stealth Archer to one of the designers of an all-time classic PC stealth game, who wrote Todd Howard ‘a big document of stealth in 20 different games’
I love stealth games, and I love playing a sneaky guy in bigger RPGs: Fallout, The Elder Scrolls,...
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used ‘adversarial poetry’ to jailbreak AI and it worked 62% of the time
Today, I have a new favorite phrase: "Adversarial poetry." It's not, as my colleague Josh Wolens...
Like going to the office in Animal Crossing: my most productive work-from-home experience this year was spending all day online in this virtual co-working game
Some people have a great fondness for working in an office. I am not one of them; I consider...
20 hours of Elden Ring lore videos are being crammed into one big book by Souls YouTuber VaatiVidya
To paraphrase a legendary tweet about what FromSoftware games have done to modern videogame...
Ubisoft touches up AI art ‘placeholder’ that slipped into Anno 117, but fans are not happy it was there to begin with: ‘Of all the video games, not Anno’
Ubisoft has been caught with its hand in the generative AI jar again, continuing a multi-year...
Former id Software artist argues performance and optimization is ‘as much of an art problem’ as a tech one: ‘Killzone 2 looks incredible today. FEAR looks incredible today’
I recently sat down with Defect game director and former id Software artist, Emanuel Palalic, as...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 under fire for using what sure looks like AI-generated Studio Ghibli-style calling card art
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is out today, and if you thought we were going to make it through the...
Mark your calendars: World of Warcraft will finally have player housing after 21 years when The War Within’s final patch arrives next month
The lull before a new expansion hits World of Warcraft has been dragged out for months in the...
You haven’t truly experienced PC gaming until you’ve done these 8 things
When I look back on my years of PC gaming, I realize they're punctuated by a bunch of you had to...