With over 7 years of experience with in-depth feature reporting, Steven's mission is to chronicle the fascinating ways that games intersect our lives. Whether it's colossal in-game wars in an MMO, or long-haul truckers who turn to games to protect them from the loneliness of the open road, Steven tries to unearth PC gaming's greatest untold stories. His love of PC gaming started extremely early. Without money to spend, he spent an entire day watching the progress bar on a 25mb download of the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 demo that he then played for at least a hundred hours. It was a good demo.
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News Genshin Impact is the fastest game to reach $1 billion in revenue, and its characters are why.

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$$$ Faction imbalances and outdated server infrastructure make the cost to change servers a hard pill to swallow.

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News All it took was a warrior, a priest, 57 minutes, and a hell of a lot of mana potions.

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No brakes This is how you do live service games.

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News More missions, less complexity, and a quicker grind should make flying the Railjack a lot more fun.

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news Dataminers got access to a developer build and have been spilling all sorts of juicy details.

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News Changing armor appearance costs 50 silver, which is a frustrating tax on a feature that used to be free in previous Assassin's Creed games.

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news Using Unreal Engine, Aleksandr Timoshenko reimagines Thunder Bluff as a bleak but beautiful place to live.

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Travel guide Forget betrayal and murder, being an EVE Online tourist is just as much fun.

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News If you want an endless supply of wood and greydwarf eyes, look no further.

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Doors On Twitter, game developers are commiserating together over one of the most surprisingly difficult features to implement in games.

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News Patch 9.0.5 introduces a bunch of new fixes and brings back Valor points so players can gear up easier.

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Cohh on Homes We asked Twitch streamer CohhCarnage to share his architectural wisdom so we can all be Valheim base-building pros.

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Javelin Down In the wake of BioWare's failed shooter being cancelled, Anthem's remaining players are commiserating and reflecting on what went wrong.

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Report A gallery of leaked chat logs show raiders belonging to top North American guilds using racial slurs and making hateful comments.

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News During BlizzCon 2021, Hartigan Cosplay debuted a stunning recreation of Bolvar Fordragon, complete with smoldering body embers.

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news You can apply to be a contestant on the obstacle course show, which will be filmed in Australia.

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Patience, young one Chains of Domination looks great, but its reveal at BlizzCon 2021 makes it obvious we're in for a long wait.

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Study the blade It's a hard block life.

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News Game director Ion Hazzikostas said addressing the population imbalance between Horde and Alliance is a top priority, and no option is off the table.

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News Game director Ion Hazzikostas says the team is working on a better system that'll reward you even if you lose a run.

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News Game director Ion Hazzikostas says the team is hard at work on a new system for raid gear.

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News We talk to Blizzard about the future of WoW Classic.
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