I’ve been squirrelled away in the PC Gamer office all week testing Halo: Campaign Evolved on all manner of hardware, including a beastly rig with an RTX 5080 and Ryzen 7 7700X3D. To my surprise, the difference between Low and Ultra is incredibly subtle and, frankly, not worth the performance hit. Across the majority of
The rest of the financial report isn’t such pleasant reading for the troubled firm, however. Ubisoft’s Q1 Net Bookings reached €256m, which is down 9% year-on-year (though slightly above guidance, at least). Interestingly enough, the better-than-expected revenue for the company all around is pinned on “record performance for Invincible: Guarding the Globe”, an idle squad
Halo Studios has an almost impossible task with Halo: Campaign Evolved. They are to infiltrate the world of Bungie’s masterwork, and attempt to create a facsimile of it in an inferior engine, with precious few of the original developers to help steer them in the right direction. Conditions are hostile – so hostile, in fact,
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As detailed in the company’s latest blog update, the keyword here is ‘customisation’. First, it’s now possible to create custom categories for your wishlisted games, and assign future additions to the ones you’ve created. The criteria is entirely unrestricted, and all categories are now displayed at the top of the page. A single click lets
Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, co-founder and COO Robert Wachen tells TechCrunch. The round was led by Sequoia, with Andreessen Horowitz, SK Hynix, Jane Street, and Diffusion Capital also participating, along with other, earlier
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“Over the past year, we’ve continued to learn a lot about multiplayer matchmaking through player data and community feedback,” the announcement said. “We’re also excited to see all the recent love for Black Ops and Black Ops 2, which reinforced that there are many elements of those experiences that players appreciate.” As such, Black Ops
PC gaming isn’t always the most inclusive space. Besides the high price of everything from components to games, standard gaming peripherals such as a keyboard and mouse can exclude lots of folks with limited mobility. An expanding array of assistive devices is attempting to bridge that gap. Augmental describes itself as a company specialising in
That’s according to Bethesda workers union OneBGS, which made the claim on social media Bethesda reportedly notified employees in Montréal of their termination on 17th July, detailing an exit package OneBGS calls “the smallest severance legally possible without bargaining with the union.” The union also claims this contradicts what employees were told in a video
News by Sherif Saed Senior Contributor Published on July 23, 2026 Follow Exodus (2027) Hasbro, the parent company of Dungeons and Dragons owner Wizards of the Coast, is seemingly scaling back its video game ambitions. The company, which had initiated a plan in 2022 to become a major publisher, has already cancelled several of its
New research from Counterpoint corroborates that the PC market has finally been impacted by the memory crisis to the extent that global shipments have gone down for the first time since the first quarter of 2025. In the second quarter this year there were 4% fewer global PC shipments than the same time last year.
