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Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. I’ll admit it, I used to be a bit of a Truck Sim trash-talker. I thought people who enjoyed driving a virtual truck across condensed countries had far too much free time on their hands. I blame it on the summer holidays I spent in my Dad’s truck, where 90 percent of my day consisted of napping in the cab bed, and the other 10 percent being desperate for the toilet. But lockdown fever and a particularly bad day left me desiring a late-night drive…

Due to a desynchronization between the code for the PC and console versions of Outriders, the looter-shooter’s crossplay hasn’t been working for over a week. That’s been fixed now, according to the official Outriders Twitter account. It’s not all good news, however. The bug that’s been causing some players to lose their entire inventories after a crash has continued, even after this week’s patch. The patch, which also nerfed the trickster and technomancer classes, was intended to greatly reduce the frequency of inventory wipes. But as publisher Square Enix noted in a post-launch dev news update, “Since the recent patch…

In 2018, French press outlets Canard PC, Le Monde, and Mediapart published articles about the work culture of Quantic Dream—the studio responsible for games like Fahrenheit, Beyond: Two Souls, Detroit: Become Human, and Heavy Rain. According to Canard PC’s investigation (link contains NSFW images), Quantic Dream employees were subject to a “long crunch pattern” on each game, and one manager created and shared “600 photomontages of dubious taste” featuring the faces of staff edited into the bodies of others, including porn stars and a Nazi—harassment that led to the departure of the entire IT department and a court case being…

Any new game in the Resident Evil franchise is sure to get folks excited, but the meme avalanche that ensued over Resident Evil Village’s Lady Dimitrescu was something different. She’s been the focus of attention for the last few months, but Capcom has recently branched out to show off the world map and a new character. IGN got a peek at the map, which shows the location of Castle Dimitrescu (where the PS5 demo takes place, and the tall vampire lady lives) in the north. ‘Heisenberg’s Factory,’ ‘House Beneviento,’ ‘Morseau’s Reservoir,’ and a few other interesting locations are scattered around…

Spellbreak, the free-to-play battle royale game with a fantasy theme, arrived on the Epic Games Store in September of last year. It quickly amassed 5 million players, and now developer Proletariat is keeping the fun going with a new update. Spellbreak’s Chapter 2 update, nicknamed ‘The Fracture,’ is now available on all platforms. It adds a new 5v5 objective-based mode, where you have to capture and control zones to gain points for your team. There’s also a new seasonal ranking system, like just about every other competitive multiplayer game these days, as well as new outfits to buy and more…

Stellaris is one of the best strategy games available on PC right now, a massive space sandbox that makes almost anything possible. Paradox Interactive already announced a free update for the game alongside the Nemesis Expansion, and now the developers have published a video showing off some of its features (embedded above). Stellaris 3.0 ‘Dick’ is named after Philip K Dick, the science fiction author behind The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the latter of which served as inspiration for the 1982 film Blade Runner. It’s more fun to just call it the…

Ghost Recon Breakpoint was released back in 2019, and received generally-poor reviews for its tedious gameplay and all-over-the-place design. Ubisoft promised that it would continue to update the game based on player feedback, and now the company has revealed what’s changing this year. Ubisoft reiterated last month that Ghost Recon Breakpoint would receive a few updates throughout 2021, and now a roadmap has been published. There are two major updates planned for this year: the ‘Teammate Experience Update,’ and a fall update that Ubisoft is keeping secret for the moment. (Image credit: Ubisoft)The Teammate Experience Update is primarily focused on…

Ahead of Saturday’s Age of Empires fan event, Microsoft arranged a roundtable interview with developers from Xbox Game Studios and the current developers of the Age of Empires series at Relic Entertainment. While the interview was mostly focused on the upcoming Age of Empires 4, another game came up—2002’s Age of Mythology, a spin-off that traded AoE’s more grounded history for Greek, Norse, and Egyptian mythology. Someone asked if Mythology would ever get the Definitive Edition treatment given to all three Age of Empires games. “I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: I have not forgotten about Age…