If it wasn’t a $1,000+ graphics card, I’d feel sorry for the RTX 5080. It’s literally half the GPU of the big boi RTX 5090—Nvidia’s flagship GeForce Blackwell card—and yet suffers from severely limited stock and punitively high pricing. But it’s the second-tier RTX 50-series card, and can at least claim to be the second…
A Skell of a good time. It’s been absolutely ages since we last set foot on Mira, the planet on which humanity seeks refuge from an alien threat in Xenoblade Chronicles X. It was perhaps only a year or two after the game first released on Wii U, in fact, that we last played it,…
The Trump-tariff love fest is clearly going to run and run. But for what it’s worth, the latest PC-relevant development involves a blanket 25% tariff—and rising—on all chips coming into the USA (via Bloomberg). To be clear, nothing official has been announced, but President Trump says the tariff is “likely”. That’s a shift or perhaps…
Pix’n Love and Aurora Game Studio first announced the project back in 2021. If you cast your mind back to April 2021, you may vaguely remember reading the news that Pix’n Love and Aurora Game Studio were working on a revival of the SNES title Nightmare Busters for PC and consoles. At the time, the…
I will never understand, dear reader, why we keep running into this baffling issue of Valve (and PC gaming in general) being underestimated. Starting at its roots, when basically no-one thought it’d work as a distribution platform—and extending into the modern age. Ethan Evans, who was the former Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon…
How much is destined for Switch 2? Annapurna Interactive has announced that its first digital showcase of the year (the creatively titled ‘Annapurna Interactive Showcase’) will be streamed on YouTube next week, providing a peek at the company’s release schedule for 2025. Arriving on 24th February at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT…
That is, unless you’re a diehard strategy fan. Following the not-so-exciting release of Kitten Kaboodle last week, this week’s Arcade Archives reissue isn’t all that more interesting, with Hamster revealing it will be bringing the 1984 Success title Othello to PS4 and Nintendo Switch on February 20th. Truth to be told, there’s not really a…
“This is a terrible weapon that disappoints anyone who uses it,” reads the description of the Disappointer, a unique pistol in Avowed. “Those who aren’t fooled by its appearance still occasionally attempt to use it just to see if maybe the whole thing was made to look this way as an elaborate ruse, hoping that…
Ten years ago, PC Gamer editor-in-chief Phil Savage advised Dragon Age: Inquisition players to leave the Hinterlands, the massive RPG’s gorgeous quagmire of an opening zone. Playing Avowed, I was struck by how much it presents the opposite experience in its first area, Dawnshore. I luxuriated in Dawnshore for 16 hours before finally moving on…
As you’d expect from an Obsidian RPG, Avowed is rich in world-building and lore. Everywhere you go, you can read books about the history of the Living Lands, quiz NPCs about the motivations of their factions, and find ruins and artifacts that hint at hidden truths. And yet I remain unsatisfied, because there is one…