PC News

To escalate its relationship-straining putting contests, Golf With Your Friends 2 is turning to chaos and custom courses
PC

To escalate its relationship-straining putting contests, Golf With Your Friends 2 is turning to chaos and custom courses

Before friendslop, there was friendgolf. Sorry, Golf With Your Friends. Released in early access in 2016, Blacklight Interactive’s devilishly competitive crazy golf sim ended up joining Among Us as a Covid lockdown darling, allowing those of us bored with pretending not to betray and victimise our oldest chums on spaceships to do so openly, on cartoon golfing greens. Now Golf With Your Friends 2 is in the works, at Golf 1’s DLC developers Radical Forge, and it sounds like it wants t

Rock Paper Shotgun 30.07.2026 13:59 Uhr
Halo on helium has arrived less than a week after modders got their hands on Campaign Evolved, though AI might've been used to chipmunk Chief and Cortana
PC

Halo on helium has arrived less than a week after modders got their hands on Campaign Evolved, though AI might've been used to chipmunk Chief and Cortana

Update: Exactly two minutes after publishing, I noticed that Halo - Chipmunk Edition's creator has AI-generated music videos on their YouTube channel. Laugh rescinded pending further evidence. Beware that searching for Halo: Campaign Evolved mods is very much a game of avoid/try to spot the AI use at the moment for those averse to the tech. Original story follows: Halo: Campaign Evolved's now it's out in full, so naturally the mods are flowing. In taking a look through the early ones, which inc

Rock Paper Shotgun 30.07.2026 12:13 Uhr
"Our business did not grow with our audience": post-layoffs, Xbox execs are trying to sell a gaming division bounce back by summer 2027
PC

"Our business did not grow with our audience": post-layoffs, Xbox execs are trying to sell a gaming division bounce back by summer 2027

Efforts by those now running Xbox to convince onlookers that the gaming division of Microsoft is now in a better place to start hauling in the ever-growing money numbers those overseeing it crave have continued alongside Microsoft first financial report since this month's mass layoffs. Both Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and her boss Satya Nadella have declared they're looking for the division to be growing financially again by about this time next year. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 30.07.2026 10:44 Uhr
BeamNG.drive, Steam's finest car pancake maker, gets its biggest update yet with overhauled graphics, fresh rally stages and a sporty new coupe
PC

BeamNG.drive, Steam's finest car pancake maker, gets its biggest update yet with overhauled graphics, fresh rally stages and a sporty new coupe

BeamNG.drive's long been one of the easiest games to reccomend to a car lover cruising the streets of Steam. As Graham wrote in 2017, it's a moddable sandbox dedicated to vehicular destruction physics, in which every bump, crumple, and slam results in a glorious bending of metal and smashing of glass. BeamNG's been growing via updates for ages, and its devs say the latest is the biggest yet. Read more

Rock Paper Shotgun 30.07.2026 09:41 Uhr