February 2025

In an expanded documentary produced in collaboration with PC Gamer, CCP Games is providing a deeper look at the hardcore space survival MMO EVE Frontier after its showing at the 2024 PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. This more unforgiving and zoomed-in sister game to EVE Online is also in the middle of a 10-day free…

Typically I open these news stories with a quippy hook or an interesting bit of imagery—something to get you into the right mindset. In this case, however, I am stunned into metaphorical silence, because goddamn, this might be one of the most impressive challenge runs I’ve ever seen. Souls streamer dinossindgeil, also known as Nico,…

Your time in Avowed‘s second zone Emerald Stair can end even worse than it began if you don’t realize that you need to save Fior mes Ivèrno. Things start off badly enough with the failing crops, animancy zombies, and the dreamscourge, but the militant Steel Garrote has worse plans for the region if the Envoy…

That three skull difficulty rating in your quest log in Avowed sure makes it seem like you should wait a long time to approach the Delemgan Queen to close out The Animacy Method quest to recruit Giatta. It is a tough one if you’re going to fight your way through her hordes of awful Delemgan…

The catfish is out of the bag: you can in fact romance Kai in Avowed. Despite leading us to believe that there’s no romance in Avowed at all, it turns out Obsidian snuck a little in. Your potential romance with Kai isn’t the blockbuster cutscene stuff of Baldur’s Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077, it’s true….

Dawntreader is likely to be the moment you realise that Avowed doesn’t shy away from asking difficult questions even in side quests. On this occasion, it’s whether you should let another godlike use the souls of innocents to bring back their (likely still evil) god, Eothas. Just another day for the Envoy, really. The Sargamis…

I would describe my default Avowed play speed as “breakneck”. With stuff to find around every corner, I feel compelled to spend most of my time sprinting around the Living Lands grabbing up everything in sight, pausing only to stuff my cheeks with food between battles. What took me probably a bit too long to…

32-bit implementations of PhysX, Nvidia’s physics engine, will finally lose support in RTX 50 series cards, in a move to remove 32-bit CUDA application support on its latest graphics cards. Removing PhysX support means that some games from the 2000s and early 2010s will lose part of the way they implement particle and clothing effects….