'Make some noise': Vanillaware reportedly wants more of its games on PC, but it's up to the publishers

A little known rendering technique that can create low-cost, photo-real graphics may be about to have its big moment in game development

A photo-real art style rarely sells me on a game. That said, over the last few months, a tech delivering low-cost, photorealistic graphics has become something of a singular obsession of mine: Gaussian splatting. Previously, I lost myself in this very basic FPS laying its scene inside a Gaussian splat of a real-world abandoned space….

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I wish Bungie would stop designing excellent multiplayer shooters and go back to making fantasy strategy games where you blow up zombies with dwarf bombs

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday feature where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in the…

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It’s bittersweet that the best time to play Destiny 2 in years coincides with its end, but I’m happy for the new players who get to experience its most liberating iteration yet

When Bungie announced the final update for Destiny 2, I felt relieved. It surprised me as well. As someone who’s spent the past six years (and over 3,000 hours) battling humanity’s enemies across the solar system, you’d think that news of my favorite MMO’s end would fill me with sadness. But no, just a bittersweet…

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This massively ambitious The Witcher 3 mod aims to recreate its biggest cut questline, and you could be the voice of Geralt of Rivia

The Witcher 3 isn’t exactly short of stuff to do, but I nonetheless lament that one of its most ambitious questlines never made it into the final game. Not only because it would have delved much more deeply into The Catriona Plague—a disease ravaging Velen that mostly serves as a background event in the final…

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