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While Sony had been increasingly dipping its toes into the PC gaming space, recent reports claimed that the console maker would be pulling back from the sector, with its first-party single player titles no longer being ported to the PC platform. Though yet to be officially announced, known insider Jason Schreier has now ‘confirmed’ that PlayStation’s Hermen Hulst informed staff of this strategy change during a recent Town Hall meeting.

This week’s free Epic Games Store offerings include Telltale’s Batman and the co-op focused tactical RPG Sunderfolk - available now.

Beautifully built but bogged down by bloatware: testing the £1749 PCSpecialist Nebula Master K

Amazon Prime / Luna’s free game offerings for the month of May have started to roll out, beginning with Mafia 2: Definitive Edition.

With this week’s free titles available to claim, Epic Games have teased that they will be giving away two ‘Mystery Games’ next Thursday.

Firaxis Games have unveiled the biggest update coming to Civilization VII, with the Test of Time patch scheduled to arrive later this month.

May’s Humble Choice line-up features a number of heavy-hitters, including Diablo IV, Shin Megami Tensei V and Crysis 3 Remastered.

Fanatical is offering multiple Build Your Own Bundles for the next few weeks, including a ‘Legendary’ and ‘Capcom Masters’ bundle.

With the launch of its latest expansion, Diablo IV has managed to surpass its previous peak player count on Steam with a CCU of just under 65 thousand.

With all of the legal issues resolved, Unknown Worlds have officially confirmed that Subnautica 2 is launching into Early Access in a couple weeks’ time.

Microsoft is reportedly working on a solution to its ever-growing Windows 11 problem, with Project K2 said to improve all aspects of the OS; gaming included.

Following its arrival on mobile platforms last month, Ubisoft’s free-to-play The Division Resurgence has now been made available on PC.

Following the successful arrival of the Steam Deck back in 2022, Valve confirmed that the product would not be receiving annual refreshes. While we have since seen the Steam Deck OLED come to fruition, the hotly-anticipated Steam Deck 2 remains an unknown quantity. According to Valve however, the team are currently “hard at work” on the next-gen handheld.

Peter Molyneux’s Masters of Albion is officially out now in Early Access on PC – launching to a ‘Mixed’ reception on Steam.

In a surprise announcement, Conan Exiles is getting a free major update, upgrading the game to UE5 while introducing a number of QoL improvements and more.

MSI has launched World of Warcraft-themed graphics cards, so we use one in a special build!

The latest update to Proton brings new support to a ton of games, while also fixing major issues related to the EA games launcher.

Alongside overwhelmingly positive reviews, Capcom’s PRAGMATA has managed to achieve record-breaking player numbers on Steam with just under 69K CCU.

In yet another major update, the PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 has been patched to make configuring games entirely seamless and automatic.

We turned the £520 everyday mini PC into a complete home server. Did it survive?

After announcing at Computex that it would launch a full system, Thermalright has finally made its debut in the pre-built PC market with the AI HydroNous R1. The system features an LCD panel and is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, cooled by an integrated liquid-cooling unit. …

MSI is expanding its presence in the pre-built PC market with the launch of the MAG Infinite S AI 2nd. This desktop aims to combine AI and gaming in a single box, pairing Intel's Core Ultra 7 265 with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti to deliver enough horsepower for 4K …

April’s Humble Choice line-up featured a wide variety of games, including Assassin’s Creed Valhalla; Daemon x Machina Titanic Scion and half a dozen others.

A passively-cooled, 24-thread PC hiding under your desk, but is the Arctic Senza flawless?

Since as far back as 2017, Garry’s Mod creator Garry Newman has been working on a spiritual successor to the iconic Source Engine-based sandbox. Utilising Valve's new Source 2 Engine, Newman’s upcoming project – s&box – has now finally gotten an official release date.

Crimson Desert was a hotly-anticipated brand new IP prior to its official launch earlier this month, with the ambitious open-world title garnering a ton of attention thanks to its pretty visuals, freeform gameplay and player agency. Upon its launch however, the game suffered from a number of issues, including rather awkward controls. Fortunately, the team at Pearl Abyss have been quick to respond to criticisms – with Crimson Desert having now climbed its way to a ‘Very Positive’ score on Steam.

It would be hard to argue that NVIDIA’s DLSS technologies haven’t been a net positive to the PC space, with the machine-learning based upscaler successfully translating lower resolution inputs into a final image which is perceivably sharper while hogging fewer resources. Though somewhat more contentious, the next evolution of DLSS came in the form of Frame Generation, using ML in order to generate additional frames for high-refresh rate gaming. Both techniques can have their issues, but generally speaking they’ve allowed for more people to experience higher-end titles at increased frame rates. DLSS 5, however, takes a sharp pivot, with a very different end goal in mind than the performance-boosting versions that came before.

Sick of RGB lighting? This could be the prebuilt for you

The cost of building or buying a PC is set to skyrocket in the coming months, as Asus joins MSI in becoming another major manufacturer to signal incoming price increases. Yi-Hsiang Liao, GM of the Asus Joint Technology Systems Division, confirmed during a recent Zenbook A16 launch event that the …

Following its latest update Street Fighter 6 has seen a surge in players, helping to push the title past its previous peak Steam concurrent player count.