Steam Deck hits 3,000 verified or playable games

Valve's portable PC hybrid the Steam Deck is a very well-received piece of kit. The ability to play PC games on the go has made it a popular device among those lucky enough to have secured one. There have been a few complaints though, such as a loud fan and a slightly limited library of games.Steam Decks themselves aren't really any easier to get, but...

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Sony expects to earn $300 million from PC games in the next 12 months

Sony recently released a business segment briefing for shareholders with the grandiose title, PlayStation: The Road to Profitable Transformation. Between declarations the PS5 would be Sony's "Biggest Platform Ever" and that Sony Group collaborations like the Uncharted movie and a Deathloop Madison beer remix would "Build Brand Relevancy" and "Amplify...

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Microsoft Flight Sim's Top Gun tie-in teaches you how to fly like a skillful maniac

Microsoft Flight Simulator is brilliant for a lot of reasons, but for me, it's pretty much just an opportunity to take leisure cruises through parts of the world I've always wanted to visit. With a new Top Gun: Maverick expansion released today, we're now invited to perform ridiculous, high-skill manoeuvres in a specially decked-out F/A-18E Super Hornet,...

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I regret to inform you Ni No Kuni's cute new MMO has blockchain crap up its sleeve

We quite liked Ni No Kuni 2 when we reviewed it back in 2018, calling it "an ambitious, beautiful JRPG that keeps on giving." Instead of following it up with another big budget console game, developer Level-5 took a different approach, releasing a mobile MMO titled Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds in 2021. Apparently it was a smash hit last June, raking in...

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What will be the biggest surprises from 'E3' 2022?

E3 is happening this year despite E3 not happening this year. The official show is gone, but that hasn't stopped June from being a big month for events (including our own PC Gaming Show) filled with game trailers and announcements. There's a whole "E3" schedule to look forward to and each one could have an announcement that will dramatically shape our...

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Stalker-like online FPS Survarium is closing next week after 7 years in early access

The Stalker-styled online FPS Survarium will close down for good at 11:59 pm Kyiv time on May 31, developer Vostok Games said today. The game will also be delisted from Steam."A bittersweet day approaches," Vostok wrote. "On one hand it is good to look to our future but on the other, it is difficult to say farewell to an old friend."We truly cannot...

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Just when you thought you've seen it all, here's some DDR5 RAM with teeny tiny RGB fans.

Just when you thought RGB was the only thing you could do to spruce up your RAM, GeIL Memory has surpassed our limited imagination of what memory kits are supposed to like. The hardware company has come up with a RAM design we never thought of before. Fans, and not just any fans, my friends: RGB fans. Making its debut at Computex this week, the GeIL...

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Cyberpunk platformer Replaced is delayed because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Revealed at the Xbox-Bethesda showcase in 2021, Replaced is a 2.5D cyberpunk action-platformer set in an alt-history 1980s US, a nation plagued by corruption, greed, and a general collapse of society in the wake of a catastrophic nuclear event. As an artificial intelligence imprisoned in a human body, players must explore the region of Phoenix-City...

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World of Warcraft finally lets Horde and Alliance players get along

Before Blizzard made it a whole world, Warcraft has always been about two sets of fantasy action figures fighting each other. Orcs and humans. Horde and Alliance. Although World of Warcraft has had the opposing factions team up in the past to defeat big bads, they've never been able to do so as a permanent function of the MMO's grouping systems. In...

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New dinosaur named 'dragon of death' even though it doesn't look like one

As common and beloved as dragons are in the games we play, I am sad to report they aren't actually real. Trust me on this: I spent about an hour looking at the sky this morning and I only saw birds, airplanes, and a couple of hippogriffs up there.On the plus side, paleontologists have unearthed the next best thing to an actual dragon. The fossils of...

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