Latest articles by Tyler Wilde
Elon Musk and Sam Altman deploy each other's chatbots as proxies in public slapfight
news The feuding AI moguls went at it on X over Musk's claim that Apple is suppressing his Grok app in favor of ChatGPT.
AI chatbot once again transforms from super genius into stupid tool the moment it goes off-script: 'Grok doesn't actually know why it was suspended'
news X's AI chatbot was briefly suspended from X on Monday, and then said that its opinions on Israel were to blame.
It's PC Gamer's Gripes Week and you know what Windows 11 is… mostly fine. But it sure ain't perfect
Gripes week I asked the team to nourish my black heart with their Windows pain and I'm kinda going hungry here.
When we need it most, search sucks
Gripes Week I can't believe how hard it is to find an email in 2025.
Everything that grinds our gears about PC gaming in 2025
Grievances Introducing a week of gripes about our pastime, and using computers in general.
I thought audio driver troubleshooting hell was a thing of the '90s until I tried using Bluetooth headphones with my laptop
Gripes Week Bluetooth headphones, Windows 11, and audio drivers: A match made in hell.
Cat breeding roguelike Mewgenics includes human conditions like autism and dyslexia, but they aren't just debuffs: 'You've been given this hand, make it work'
news Mewgenics may strike a nerve by confronting players with the spectre of actual eugenics, but its creators want us to learn to work with our cats' traits.
Edmund McMillen thinks Mewgenics is his best game yet, and after playing it myself, I can see why
🐈 Hands-on with the cat breeding roguelike from the Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac creator and fellow Flash game luminary Tyler Glaiel.
The best FPS games on PC
Updated Our favorite FPS experiences of PC gaming's past and present.
A Wolfenstein TV series is in development by the Fallout TV series people: 'The story of killing Nazis is evergreen'
news Patrick Somerville, creator of Station Eleven and a writer for HBO's The Leftovers, is reportedly on board.
Gabe Newell says the difference between billionaires and the rest of us is 'an awful lot of luck'
news "...It would be great to say I'm just this absolutely f***ing wonderful person, and that I earned all of this, and that this expresses my awesomeness, but..."
Satellite internet provider Starlink is down (Update: now 'mostly recovered')
news Elon Musk and SpaceX's global internet service provider is experiencing a "network outage."
Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan dies at 71
news The wrestler reportedly died of cardiac arrest at his Florida home on Thursday morning.
Microsoft backs away from $80 games, drops The Outer Worlds 2 price to $70 'in line with current market conditions'
news "We at the Earth Directorate have worked with [REDACTED] to revise the price of The Outer Worlds 2," Obsidian joked.
RIP, Prince of Darkness: Ozzy Osbourne has died at age 76
news The heavy metal singer had an extraordinary influence on music and popular culture, and appeared in 2009 Double Fine game Brütal Legend.
'I have been fooled': Reddit user endures the roasting of a lifetime after asking how to download a 487MB book they worked on with ChatGPT for over 2 weeks
news There was no book.
What the heck is 'AI Appreciation Day'? Turns out it was started by an Elon Musk admirer who camped outside of SpaceX Starbase for a year hoping to talk to the billionaire about AI regulation
Origin story Some claim that the day was started to promote a movie, but its creator says he wants to encourage ethical AI development.
Phil Spencer retirement rumor is made up, says Microsoft
news The Xbox head is not stepping down "anytime soon."
'Patient gaming' only gets more attractive when $70 games get heavy Steam sale discounts just months after launch
Slowing down But some publishers are going in the opposite direction, launching at the old PC standard of $50 (or less) and offering smaller discounts in sales.
MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries'
news The YouTuber was buried in criticism after announcing the AI tool, which he said "literally feels like cheating."
The best deals in the 2025 Steam Summer Sale
Deals New games on sale, hidden gems, and super cheap classics in Steam's big mid-year sale.
David Cronenberg says eXistenZ wasn't about predicting modern gaming, but if the 1999 sci-fi thriller did do that, 'that's lovely'
news The movie sees Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh question reality in a surreal VR game.
The best Baldur's Gate 3 mods
MODS Buff yourself up for a lone wolf run, or if that's not your style, maybe buff up your party with eight characters? Mods make many things possible.
10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo
🎂 Happy birthday, car soccer! You're not old, you're just a classic.
Borderlands 4 hands-on: Yeah, it's just 'more Borderlands,' but Gearbox's consistency is respectable and there's a cool hoverbike
First contact The next big Borderlands game isn't transformative, but on the flip side, it also isn't a live service extraction shooter with survival elements, so that's good.
