Latest articles by Tyler Wilde
The coolest Prime Day board game deals, as picked by our tabletop gaming obsessives
Prime Day deals Here are the board games we'd buy from Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days event this week.
Oof: Years before Steam, a Blizzard engineer wanted to turn Battle.net into a third-party game store, but was reportedly turned down
news The Steam competitor that never was.
7 Minutes in Hell is the latest co-op horror game on Steam that wants to get you screaming over proximity chat
news Four players enter, some return.
The big PC gaming events in 2024
📆 The year ahead in gaming showcases, fan events, major esports tournaments, and industry summits.
A Valve engineer used ChatGPT to find a new matchmaking algorithm for Deadlock, and now it's in the game
news Valve is one of many developers using generative AI behind the scenes.
The PC game releases we're most excited about in October
📆 Two giant RPGs and some exciting wildcards will make for a busy month of PC gaming.
Vtuber Ironmouse breaks Twitch subscriber record, surpassing 320,000 paying viewers
news The Vtuber will donate 50% of the income to charity.
The best FPS games on PC
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
Tim Sweeney says Epic Games is now 'financially sound' after last year's layoffs and Bandcamp fumble
news "We spent the last year rebuilding and really executing solidly on all fronts," says the CEO.
The Day Before studio returns from the dead and asks for a 'second chance': 'From now on, our development and marketing will be based on the principle of honesty'
news The studio whose highly-anticipated survival game flopped last year is now asking gamers to fund its next project on Kickstarter.
Shohei Ohtani's impossible baseball skills are outpacing game developers: Konami reportedly had to buff him in a videogame that isn't even out yet
news The LA Dodgers star's legendary prowess is apparently keeping game developers on their toes.
February 2025 is now absurdly stacked with big games
news The Assassin's Creed Shadows delay adds another huge action RPG to a month that's already stuffed.
Star Wars Outlaws sales were 'softer than expected,' so Ubisoft is slamming the release-it-on-Steam button early
news Ubisoft's open world Star Wars game will come to Steam in November.
Playing PowerWash Simulator improves mood, Oxford researchers find, though not as much as sex
news Maybe they can aim for that in the sequel?
Ghost of Tsushima sequel Ghost of Yōtei announced—no word yet on a PC release, but the last one took several years to make the jump
news Ghost of Yōtei will release on PS5 in 2025, and on PC at some point after that, probably.
Palworld comes to PS5 today as Nintendo legal battle looms
news The popular creature-collecting survival game was a massive success on PC earlier this year.
Space Marine 2 board game aims to indoctrinate videogame fans into the Warhammer miniatures lifestyle
news The Space Marine 2 Recruit Edition will be available at Warhammer stores starting this Saturday.
The best VR boxing game, and my favorite VR game in general, is getting a sequel with multiplayer soon
news The Thrill of the Fight 2 will release in early access this November.
They're planning to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant to power Microsoft's cloud and AI data centers
news The plant last operated in 2019, and was the site of the most significant commercial nuclear power accident in US history.
Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk for $15M, alleges that SpaceX invaded a plot of land it owns in Texas: 'Go **** yourself, Elon Musk'
news If it wins, the card game company says it'll split the money among the backers who crowdfunded the land purchase in 2017.
League of Legends show Arcane will conclude with a 3-act finale spread across November
news Rather than one batch of episodes, Netflix is divvying up Arcane's finale across a month.
Ara: History Untold looks a lot like Civilization until you realize there's no hexes: 'We're not playing a board game, we're actually trying to simulate some of what we see in real life'
news Why grand strategy game Ara: History Untold swaps grids for irregularly-shaped regions.
EA says giving videogame characters 'life and persistence' outside of games with AI is a 'profound opportunity,' which is the kind of talk that leads to dangerous Holodeck malfunctions
news Apparently we want to bring AI videogame characters with us on calls with our parents, though it's news to me.
