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The best part of Starfield is undeniably your spaceship, which can be customized or built from scratch to look like anything from a cute little ladybug to a massive Star Destroyer. 

So it’s kind of a shame you don’t have more control over your ship in Starfield. You can fight battles while hovering in orbit, but once you’re inside a planet’s atmosphere, all you can real…

IGN shared an inside look at Silent Hill: Ascension, an experimental series that was announced last year. We’ve known you’ll be able to choose the fates of its unlucky protagonists for a while. However, the full scope of these interviews has me feeling like I’ve stumbled across one of those unethical social experiments conducted in the ’80s—and I can’t decide if that’s good or bad.

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A small team of researchers at MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory have developed a transistor that’s just as good as those used to make flash memory chips, but with the added advantage of not wearing away with use. Instead of the usual silicon-based engineering, this one is made from a ferroelectric material.

Flash memory has revolutionized the storage industry and you can buy extremely …

It’s only on screen for a couple seconds, and only partially, but there’s no mistaking it: The Quake logo is drawn on a whiteboard that appears in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle reveal video from this week’s Xbox Developer Direct. Above it is a cut-off word: “-AKE 6.”

I’m guessing that MachineGames did not write “CAKE 6” on a whiteboard. 

MachineGames and id Software pa…

Get today’s Wordle off to the smoothest possible start with our general tips, here to give your daily guesses a quick refresh. There’s a clue for the June 8 (1085) game here too if you’d like something more specific, as well as today’s answer if you need a quick save. Enjoy your win.

Twelve grey letters in my first three goes? That’s got to be some sort of personal record. Thank goodness …

Somewhere in a filing cabinet is a contract. On that contract is my name and the name of my employer—PC Gamer’s publisher Future PLC—and a job title: “news writer”. And look, if someone assassinates the JFK of videogames* I’ll be there to break it down for you, but personally? I think my true job is telling you about tiny, mini, minute, trifling little mods that I find very…

Twitch has added mandatory content labels for all streamers so that viewers “can make informed choices”, and gone into some detail about what behaviours it wants labelled from now on. The labels replace the existing “Mature Content” toggle and can be applied or removed at any point during a broadcast.

The “Content Classification Labels” are:

• Mature-Rated Games
• Sexual Th…
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In a move that seems to codify a sort of “Bastards” franchise, Blue Manchu is following up its 2019 roguelike FPS Void Bastards with Wild Bastards, a more open-ended, space western take on the concept. First announced at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase, Wild Bastards is set to release some time next year.

“Roguelike FPS” gets part of the story with Void Bastards, but it’s really…

You ask me, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is a downright gaming injustice. Like Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire or Tyranny (Obsidian has form for these), it’s a game that got a lot of things very right that just never made much of a splash. I mean, don’t get me wrong, Mankind Divided sold millions of copies, but apparently not enough for anyone to bother concluding the trilogy, and it’s not one a lo…

World of Warcraft’s next three expansions are a bold gambit from Blizzard. They’ll be a story told in three parts, and—judging by the trailer for The War Within—they’ll focus on character development and emotional storytelling over big dudes in armour calling you a pitiful mortal while revealing the next step of their master plan. It’s also about to receive, arguably, its first actu…