Get ready to argue with your weird Uncle on Facebook again. Meta is rolling out its new fact checking solution to it's 190 million users in the United States

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14 mars 2025 à 10:35

Prepare yourself for the unhinged nature of community notes.

The Facebook 'Like' emoji logo is seen in this photo illustration on 22 August, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Fresh leak suggests Intel's on-again-off-again Arrow Lake CPU refresh is back on the menu (boys)

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 10:29

I'm not sure how much more they can polish this proverbial poop.

A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor surrounded by DDR5 memory sticks from Corsair, Kingston, and Lexar

Today's Wordle answer for Friday, March 14

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14 mars 2025 à 05:00

Get all the help you need with today's Wordle.

Go ahead and complain the discounts aren't as steep as they used to be, but Steam just had its biggest year ever for seasonal sales

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 02:31

Themed sales too.

Gabe Newell in a Valve promotional video, on a yacht.

'The future of hardware at Valve is bright': Valve celebrates the success of Steam Deck and Steam OS

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Par :shaun.prescott@futurenet.com (Shaun Prescott)

14 mars 2025 à 02:16

Hours spent playing on Steam Deck rose by 64% in 2024.

The Australian PC Awards results are in—here are the winning components, laptops, peripherals and more

PC Gamer

14 mars 2025 à 01:08

Including the ultimate Gold Award and the all-important Epic Fail Award.

The best deals in the 2025 Steam Spring Sale

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Par :tyler@pcgamer.com (Tyler Wilde)

14 mars 2025 à 00:35

The first seasonal Steam sale of the year has arrived with deals on many of last year's biggest games, and even a few discounts on brand new ones.

Gallica and the protagonist from Metaphor: ReFantazio.

One of my favorite indie RPGs is getting a follow-up made with FromSoftware's 25-year-old Super Mario Maker for first person dungeon crawlers

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Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)

13 mars 2025 à 23:20

I recently finished Lunacid for the first time, just in time.

Key art of the videogame Lunacid, showing a pale, long haired knight in purple armor contemplating a purple, flaming sword surrounded by the different phases of the moon.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 now has Steam Workshop support, and of course one of the first mods lets you adjust the 'jiggle physics'

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Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

13 mars 2025 à 22:37

The genuinely massive Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 1.2 update is now live.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 image - Henry riding a pink and blue striped horse while holding a fish

Microsoft unveils Copilot for Gaming, an AI-powered 'ultimate gaming sidekick' that will let you talk to your console so you don't have to talk to your friends

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Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

13 mars 2025 à 22:00

Early-stage work on the gaming-focused AI was revealed during today's Official Xbox Podcast.

Still image of Bastion holding a bird, taken from Microsoft's Copilot for Gaming reveal trailer

'Siege 2 was never on the table': Rainbow Six Siege X director explains why the 10-year-old FPS doesn't need a sequel

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Par :morgan.park@futurenet.com (Morgan Park)

13 mars 2025 à 21:06

"You don't get to 10 years as a live service game without the community that built you up."

Rainbow Six Siege year 9 season 2 key art - two Rainbow Six Siege operators facing each other

The best Monster Hunter Wilds mods

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Par :wesley@pcgamer.com (Wes Fenlon)

13 mars 2025 à 20:40

Monster Hunter Wilds mods for improving performance, changing your character's appearance, and more.

character creation in Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds weapon tier list

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 20:07

Our recommendations for what to wield next.

A hunter poses with a large hammer as their palico cheers nearby in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Winning $2.6 billion in this poker videogame has completely ruined fake poker for me

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Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

13 mars 2025 à 20:01

I'm so fake-rich in this poker videogame that playing fake poker has lost all real meaning.

After holding out for 10 years, Rainbow Six Siege is finally going free-to-play (kind of)

PC Gamer

Par :morgan.park@futurenet.com (Morgan Park)

13 mars 2025 à 20:00

Ubisoft calls it "free access", but its competitive modes will remain behind a paywall.

This RuneScape-looking 'simulated MMORPG' has all the nostalgia without the drama because all the other 'players' are NPCs

PC Gamer

Par :lauren@pcgamer.com (Lauren Morton)

13 mars 2025 à 19:33

I've definitely been here before.

Erenshor - A player and two simulated MMO party members stand on a plateau in front of a yellow landscape

Hello Sunshine is a desert survival sandbox where you live in the literal shadow of the colossus

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 19:32

Who needs sunscreen when you’ve got a fifty foot tall killer robot?

Pirate Bay co-founder and far-right politician found dead after plane crash

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 19:24

Carl Lundstrom was 64.

'Don't let your kids be on Roblox', Roblox CEO tells parents, before comparing himself to Walt Disney and declaring the platform 'the future of communication'

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 19:00

"I would always trust parents to make their own decisions."

Fate: Reawakened gives the nostalgic 20-year-old action RPG series a new lease on life

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 18:55

Time to take the dog for one last walk in this ageing predecessor to Torchlight.

A cold-looking gameplay shot of Fate: Reawakened

Praise be to the Omnissiah! Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 is officially in development

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Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

13 mars 2025 à 18:47

Titus is coming back for more.

Titus in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 reveal promo image

Group allegedly trying to smuggle Nvidia Blackwell chips stare down bail set at over $1 million

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Par :jessica.kinghorn@futurenet.com (Jess Kinghorn)

13 mars 2025 à 18:33

Crime doesn’t pay.

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Rainbow Six Siege is getting its first permanent mode in 10 years, and it throws every Siege rule out the window

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Par :morgan.park@futurenet.com (Morgan Park)

13 mars 2025 à 18:15

Respawns, 6v6, attackers and defenders joining forces. Dual Front feels like turbo Siege.

Despite Disco Elysium Mobile aiming to 'captivate the TikTok user,' it looks surprisingly decent—but it's still insulting to Disco's ousted creators

PC Gamer

Par :ted.litchfield@futurenet.com (Ted Litchfield)

13 mars 2025 à 18:11

Anything "Elysium" from ZA/UM is inherently fraught.

New art of Harry and Kim from Disco Elysium, with Harry holding a lit molotov cocktail.

The Steam Spring Sale 2025 is here

PC Gamer

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

13 mars 2025 à 18:01

We should all probably go outside for a while, but we're not going to.

A selection of games in the 2025 Steam Spring Sale

Monster Hunter Wilds' best change is to its layered armor, letting me finally run amok with dressup the way I should have always been able to

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 17:40

Fashion can finally be my passion.

A hunter grins and throws two peace/victory signs while wearing a Mimiphyta helm in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Venerable browser-based MMO Urban Dead is closing this week after a 20-year run, not with a bang but with a whimper

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 17:36

"No grand finale. No final catastrophe. No helicopter evac. Make your peace or your final stand."

Performers acting as zombies are seen on a train coach during the "Train to Apocalypse" event as part of the Pandora Box Artmire Festival 2024 held to attract commuters to ride the city's rapid transit system LRT (light rapid transit), in Jakarta on July 11, 2024. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP) (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images)

Saudi Arabia buys Pokémon GO maker for $3.5 billion with a 'B'

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 17:17

Poké-washing.

4 short months after saying 'We'll have to adapt and change', Netflix's AI games VP adapts and changes into a person who isn't working there anymore

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 17:14

No. Stop. Don't, come back.

Vice President, Games at Netflix Mike Verdu speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 on October 18, 2022 in San Francisco, California

Monster Hunter Wilds players can't stop blowing themselves to smithereens with its rollable barrel bombs

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 17:10

Nobody could have foreseen this.

A hunter hefts a massive Mega Barrel Bomb in Monster Hunter Wilds.

The PC Gaming Show returns this June

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 17:02

New games, new trailers, new exclusives all coming this summer.

Alienware 27 AW2725Q QD-OLED review

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 16:58

Alienware undercuts the 4K 27-inch QD-OLED competition by $200.

If you don't let us scrape copyrighted content, we will lose out to China says OpenAI as it tries to influence US government

PC Gamer

Par :jessica.kinghorn@futurenet.com (Jess Kinghorn)

13 mars 2025 à 16:22

The company also tries to frame its scraping as covered by the 'fair use doctrine'.

OpenAI logo displayed on a phone screen and ChatGPT website displayed on a laptop screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 5, 2022.

'What do you mean real actors?': Astarion's VO, who shared an awards category with Idris Elba after Baldur's Gate 3, remembers the dark ages of mocap

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 16:09

"I had agents turn down three-week mocap gigs that I didn't even know about."

Astarion, a beautiful vampire spawn in Baldur's Gate 3, looks dubiously at the player character.

'More evolution than revolution': PowerWash Simulator 2 is coming late 2025, and it's bringing online multiplayer and split-screen co-op with it

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 16:01

Ready your soapy water and sponges.

The latest big game on Steam is Fragpunk, or as I like to call it, 'kitchen-sink Counter-Strike'

PC Gamer

Par :evan@pcgamer.com (Evan Lahti)

13 mars 2025 à 16:01

Fragpunk's fun is a reminder that some things are more important than a ruthless devotion to balance.

Crusader Kings 3 saddles up for a long-awaited return to the east with its first Asian DLC, Khans of the Steppe

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 15:58

Pitch your yurt and scout out the steppes on April 28.

All Marvel Rivals characters - current and upcoming heroes

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 15:57

From iconic MCU heroes to obscure misfits, this is one stacked roster.

Marvel Rivals characters - Captain America running towards the camera.

LocalThunk gave up making Balatro for 3 months but resumed because 'I was bored but the internet was out so I couldn't play Rocket League'

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 15:51

What a Save!

Cards swirl in an interdimensional vortex in Balatro's trippy intro sequence.

Ranking AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards by their visual design, cuz, you know, I can't buy one for MSRP so have to kill my time somehow

PC Gamer

Par :robert.jones@futurenet.com (Robert Jones)

13 mars 2025 à 15:50

Ranking AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards by their visual design, cuz, you know, I can't buy one for MSRP so have to kill my time somehow

AMD Radeon Sapphire Pure RX 9070 XT graphics card for PC gaming in white colourway

As a real life museum employee, I'm a bit confused by the amount of pirate ghosts in Two Point Museum—but it's not going to stop me trying to make the most realistic exhibits I can

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 15:40

Will my expertise be a help or a hindrance?

A child stands on top of a dinosaur exhibit, hugging the nose of a dinosaur skull.

This gaming PC build smashes together the very latest components but if I did it again, I'd do it differently

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 15:14

The H9 Elite looks glorious, but with an RTX 5090 plus AMD's 9950X, it makes for a toasty little number.

A gaming PC with RGB lighting enabled on a desk.

'No AI used': Netflix's Devil May Cry showrunner confirms that all of Kevin Conroy's lines were recorded before he passed

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 15:03

"Mr Conroy gave an amazingly nuanced performance."

AI will be crammed in more of the graphics pipeline as Nvidia and Microsoft are bringing AI shading to a DirectX preview next month

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 14:29

Neural rendering might be the name of the game in future.

Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds

Nvidia says it's sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks. I'd bloody well hope so given there was essentially just the RTX 4090 for competition

PC Gamer

Par :dave.james@futurenet.com (Dave James)

13 mars 2025 à 14:03

So, combined it sold more of four different GPUs than a single $1,600 card.

Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics cards alongside an RTX 4090

I just played Half-Life 2 RTX, a fully ray-traced overhaul of the original, and its meaty headcrabs have me hankering for more

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 14:00

It's time to dust off the ol' crowbar.

Screenshots from Half-Life 2 RTX, showing the various new effects delivered by full ray tracing and enhanced assets.

Looks like a reference design AMD RX 9070 XT card has shown up in China, but let's not get carried away with thoughts of MBA cards just yet

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 13:25

Looks like an engineering sample.

AMD Radeon RX 9070/9070 XT graphics cards with artistic renders of reference design cards circled

WoW flexes its MMO player housing system in a new blog post, and it really might just beat FF14's dated furniture placement into the dirt

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 13:04

Blizzard's doing it right.

Concept art of WoW's upcoming player housing system, showing a warm homestead with a welcoming figure in shade.

In a world of WoW Classics and Old School RuneScapes… could Final Fantasy 14 ever do the same?

PC Gamer

13 mars 2025 à 12:14

Let me entertain a world where we play old FF14 all over again.

Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, March 13

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13 mars 2025 à 05:00

Help with today's Wordle if you need it.

Spectre Divide and its studio are shutting down after just six months: 'The industry is in a tough spot right now'

PC Gamer

Par :shaun.prescott@futurenet.com (Shaun Prescott)

13 mars 2025 à 03:07

The game will close within 30 days, and refunds will be granted on purchases made after the launch of season 1.

Ubisoft backflips, says Assassin's Creed Shadows will support Steam Deck at launch, but I doubt I'll actually want to play it there

PC Gamer

Par :shaun.prescott@futurenet.com (Shaun Prescott)

13 mars 2025 à 01:14

The studio is working with Valve on classification.

Naoe looking at the wrist blade in Assassin's Creed Shadows

'Diversify your fashion endgame' with this Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 mod that gives Henry fly new gambesons, pourpoints, and caftans

PC Gamer

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

12 mars 2025 à 23:55

Dress to impress with unique outerwear recreated from NPC-exclusive assets and matched with recolored accessories.

There's hope yet for Classic Offensive after its Steam rejection: The team behind the Counter-Strike 1.6 revival mod is in touch with Valve about its 'concerns'

PC Gamer

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

12 mars 2025 à 23:39

The CS:GO mod Classic Offensive hasn't come back to life, but it's not dead, either.

Masked Counter-Terrorist in helmet in forefront with sunglasses and beret-wearing CT in background touching headset

Here comes Intel's new CEO: a semiconductor veteran that won the same prestigious award as Jensen Huang and Lisa Su

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 22:17

Lip-Bu Tan has a degree in physics, a masters in nuclear engineering, and won the semiconductor industry's top award, the Robert N. Noyce award.

Recently appointed Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

8 months into their strike, videogame voice actors say the industry's latest proposal is 'filled with alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse'

PC Gamer

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

12 mars 2025 à 22:05

Progress has been made, but SAG-AFTRA says the two sides in the dispute are still far apart.

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 15: Protestors attend the SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike Picket on August 15, 2024 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Lila Seeley/Getty Images)

Dune: Awakening confirms air-to-air combat in ornithopters

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Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

12 mars 2025 à 20:33

You can mount rockets on your 'thopter which will help "when you’re dealing with other ornithopters in the sky," says Funcom.

Orithopter shooting down another in Dune

LocalThunk forbids AI-generated art on the Balatro subreddit: 'I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds'

PC Gamer

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

12 mars 2025 à 20:31

A recent kerfuffle over AI art forced the Balatro creator to get involved.

live action Jimbo the Jester from Balatro holding a playing card and addressing the camera

Oh great, the full Inzoi system requirements are posted and I'm barely above the minimum specs so I guess my Zois will be beautifully blurry

PC Gamer

Par :lauren@pcgamer.com (Lauren Morton)

12 mars 2025 à 19:34

I guess it's time for an upgrade.

Inzoi - A Zoi's face in three graphical presets showing a progression from a slightly blurry minimum specs to a higher fidelity recommended specs.

BioWare veteran says a big delay is better than lots of little ones, because sometimes you just gotta 'burn it down and take the other fork in the road'

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 19:04

"You are laying band-aid on top of band-aid on top of band-aid."

Rise of the Ronin is another crappy PC port, performance patch coming 'soon'

PC Gamer

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

12 mars 2025 à 18:44

Widespread problems with stuttering, low frame rates, and sub-par graphics have saddled Rise of the Ronin with a "mixed" rating on Steam.

The state of Final Fantasy 14 in 2025: It's in a weird spot, huh?

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 18:38

Lingering snags from Endwalker have left Dawntrail's early months feeling a bit strange, but the road ahead looks brighter.

A dead MMO that launched with a now-cancelled TV show in 2013 is coming back 4 years after servers were shut down

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 18:35

Defiance, indeed.

Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 18:15

7 GHz-plus computing here we come...?

photo shows a factory tool that places lids on data center system-on-chips at an Intel fab in Chandler, Arizona, in December 2023. In February 2024, Intel Corporation launched Intel Foundry as the world’s first systems foundry for the AI era, delivering leadership in technology, resiliency and sustainability.

OpenAI is working on a new AI model Sam Altman says is ‘good at creative writing’ but to me it reads like a 15-year-old's journal

PC Gamer

Par :jessica.kinghorn@futurenet.com (Jess Kinghorn)

12 mars 2025 à 18:06

Wanna read AI’s take on teenage poetry? Eh, not especially…

The OpenAI logo is being displayed on a smartphone with an AI brain visible in the background, in this photo illustration taken in Brussels, Belgium, on January 2, 2024. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

'This is essentially a fraudulent project': Some scientists are firing shots at Microsoft's recent quantum computing claims

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 17:42

Major majorana disputes, here.

This impractical method of getting a 1-second capture time in Monster Hunter Wilds can make you the fastest hunter alive—on paper

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 17:23

Just don't tell the Guild Knights I'm bullying frogs for bragging rights.

Alma, the handler from Monster Hunter Wilds, closes her eyes and looks a little disappointed.

Lego is going to make its videogames in-house from now on, says it would 'almost rather overinvest'

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 17:19

Blockbusters?

My favourite 4K webcam spins on a gimbal to track your face, and it's now at its lowest ever price at Amazon

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:45

Get active in your morning meetings.

The OBSBot Tiny 2 Lite on a blue background

We've just got a first look at Vergil in Netflix's upcoming Devil May Cry series alongside another key character from Devil May Cry 3

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:32

The trailer's giving late-2000s AMV.

More affordable sub-$1,000 RTX 50-series laptops likely coming in May as RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 models spotted online

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:29

Likely 8 GB GPUs with specs yet to be determined.

Audio-Technica ATH R50X review

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:21

Light, airy, punchy; there's very little to not like about this studio-reference headphone for gaming or work.

GTA 5 publisher takes legal aim at account-selling site for allegedly raking in 'millions in revenue', while recruiting hackers to keep its cogs turning

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:06

"PlayerAuctions refuses to stop."

XFX is letting you add customisable 3D printed wings to its Quicksilver RX 9070-series graphics cards

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 15:54

It's even okay with you selling your RX 9070 Quicksilver mods.

XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Quicksilver graphics card on a blue background with angel wings on either side

Corsair K70 Pro TKL review

PC Gamer

Par :jessica.kinghorn@futurenet.com (Jess Kinghorn)

12 mars 2025 à 15:22

A far from small tenkeyless board boasting a premium feature set.

The Corsair K70 Pro TKL gaming keyboard seen from above, with the wrist rest attached, on a well-lit desk. Game mode has been activated, bathing every key in red light.

So, wait, now TSMC is supposedly pitching a joint venture with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom to run Intel's ailing chip fabs?

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 13:58

And it's all because of Donald Trump? This story will run and run...

Marvel Rivals is carrying on the tradition of chaotic patches after buffing two of the most annoying heroes, but I main one of them, so I'm not complaining

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 13:38

Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good.

One of the biggest victories of Monster Hunter Wilds' streamlining is I don't have to deal with those awful gimmick fights anymore

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 13:12

Rampage mode… never loved ya.

Some Sapphire RX 9070/9070 XT graphics cards have hard-to-spot foam inside that must be removed or it 'may result in a decrease in cooling capacity or product failure'

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 12:47

No logo on the foam.

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT on a red and orange background

Gemma's English VA is right with us on Monster Hunter Wild's confusing menus, which makes me feel a little better for having to Google symbols all the time

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 12:40

"The menu is like looking at something written in a foreign language."

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