More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. The visual language of games is a fascinating thing. Graphics may have become more and more detailed and elaborate, but…
I’ve just learnt what Gaussian Splatting is, and I fear it may become my entire personality. At the risk of oversimplification, Gaussian Splatting is a rendering technique that gives you ‘photo-real’ graphics at a fraction of the resource cost required by a number of other mainstream game development options. That fact alone is enough to…
Shows Sony how it should be done. When it comes to ‘new’ versions of old consoles, there are a few different options on the market right now. Nintendo, Sony and Sega have opted for software emulation on their micro-console offerings, while SNK has teamed up with Plaion to produce the Neo Geo AES+, a forthcoming…
Paradox Interactive has rolled out its “biggest update yet” for Europa Universalis 5. This is a slightly cheeky way to phrase things, considering this is only the second major update for Paradox’ latest, dizzyingly complex grand strategy. But it’s also accurate. With patch notes that Paradox claims would fill 72 pages of a Google doc,…
Surprise and delist. It’s a sad reality of modern gaming that, despite not needing physical media to play a game, the digital-only version is typically more ephemeral and subject to sudden disappearance than a cart or a disc. It only takes an expired licence or a publisher in financial trouble for games to start disappearing…
Abiotic Factor is already a massive game; you could easily spend 80+ hours exploring its sprawling, Black Mesa-ish research facility. But that hasn’t stopped developer Deep Field Games further extending the tendrils of its labyrinthine, interdimensional science lab. Last December’s “Holiday Cryosphere” update added a giant, living snowglobe that players could frolic festively around, and…
The Legend of Zelda represents, for many gamers, the birth of what is arguably the greatest, and most influential, action-adventure franchise of all time. Released early in the Nintendo Entertainment System’s lifecycle, it arrived during a formative moment when players were just beginning to experience games driven by narrative rather than pure mechanics. Only one…
I’ve always thought Half-Life didn’t have enough teenagers in it. I mean, what’s an underground research facility for if not navigating the relationship challenges of adolescence? It is, frankly, shocking that Valve so flagrantly neglected this demographic in its depiction of alien invasions and military coverups. I demand justice! I demand action! I demand Max…
Box clever. From the moment I played Gunstar Heroes on the Genesis / Mega Drive, I was a Treasure fan. I lapped up the company’s subsequent games with glee, and I consider the likes of Radiant Silvergun, Gradius V and Sin & Punishment to be some of the finest pieces of interactive entertainment ever made….
Conan Exiles received a major update earlier this week, upgrading Funcom’s sword & sorcery survival game to Unreal Engine 5 with all the graphical whizzbangs that entails. Conan Exiles Enhanced introduces Lumen-powered global illumination, enhanced geometry, improved character models, lighting and effects, among many other things. This includes an, er, improvement to one of Conan…