Today's high refresh rate monitors are far better than the smeary, washed out LCDs of the 2000s—but even the best of the best are still chasing the clarity of CRTs.

IDC Research has released its figures regarding worldwide PC shipments in the third quarter of 2026, and would you believe it, they've dropped considerably.

Sometimes I like knowing exactly what I'm getting out of game romances. I wouldn't want a farmlife sim to take this approach, for instance, but it's neat that Nivalis Nights did.

"We're not getting any younger, and the world seems to be ending, so if we were ever going to make Machinarium 2, now is the right time," Amanita CEO and designer Jakub Dvorský said.

"Given current circumstances, you might think I'm just primed to notice nightmarish aristocrats bleeding us alive to sustain themselves. But after too many hours of spreadsheet data entry, I'm convinced devs really have been dabbling more heavily in Draculas as the economy feels increasingly dire."

Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who left the company and the videogame industry at the end of 2023 following its acquisition by Microsoft, is back in the game.

"A fan translation group named WINE has released five English translations for PC-98 games in the last three years, including a pair of horror adventures called Dead of the Brain and Dead of the Brain 2. And the first one is now getting an official release on Steam just in time for Halloween..."

"Thompson, who lives in Florida, is clearly unhappy with various GTA 6 promotional partnerships being enacted across the state. 'If you don't understand that government promotion of commercial interests is fascism then we have very little to talk about,' Thompson told me."

Finally got to the bottom of the 27-year-old mystery that's been HAUNTING the videogame industry since its discovery

EA's free-to-play, early access Skate reboot can now be played offline and in private servers with custom maps—but not by EA's doing. "Honestly didn't realize how big this was going to be," modder zee_x64 told PC Gamer over Discord this week. "We were just doing it for the love of the game."

"This trailer was produced by a trusted external partner who had explicitly confirmed that GenAI would not be used. But, among other things, there's a sixth finger and, well, that's pretty hard to explain away. For that we apologise."