Need to know What is it?: A short sidescroller full of vampires and disappointment. Expect to pay: $20/£16Developer: Bit Bot MediaPublisher: Crystal DynamicsReviewed on: RTX 4090, Intel i9-13900k, 32GB RAMMultiplayer?: NoSteam Deck: VerifiedLink: Official site Legacy of Kain is the kind of series where everyone needs to take a big hit of the bong before…
The UK’s Telegraph newspaper is claiming that “spending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices.” That sounds like potentially good news on several levels. But does it stack up? As we reported, OpenAI shuttered its Sora video-generation tool last week. The AI outfit also cancelled a multi-billion-dollar deal with Oracle to extend the Stargate…
The High-Gain Antenna is a new player project in Arc Raiders, added in the Flashpoint update. Similar to the Trophy Display project, you’ll need to gather a bunch of different items to donate to the High-Gain Antenna project (including some brand-new materials) to construct your own Arc-detecting machine. With Shredders escaping Stella Montis, Assessors revealing…
Fraser Brown, Online Editor (Image credit: Future) Last week: I gushed about Crimson Desert. This week: Oh, will you look at that, I’m doing it again. Even among Crimson Desert’s most ardent fans, like myself, the consensus seems to be that the game’s weakest element is its storytelling. And despite everything I’m about to write…
We’ve long been sceptical of 8 kHz polling here at PC Gamer. At least based on how it feels experientially, provided I’m using a good mouse with a solid connection, there feels like very little difference between 8 kHz, 4 kHz, 2 kHz, and heck, even 1 kHz polling. But felt experience, while important, isn’t…
Why Classic Game Design Still Works One of the defining features of early video games was their simplicity. Developers working in the late 1970s and 1980s faced strict technical limitations. Hardware could only support limited memory, graphics, and processing power. As a result, developers focused on creating clear objectives and tightly balanced gameplay mechanics. This…
On April 7, we’re officially offering the new upgraded version of PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) to Assassin’s Creed Shadows PS5 Pro players, alongside Title Update 1.1.9. PSSR is an AI library that analyzes game images pixel by pixel as it upscales them, and it’s been used to boost the effective resolution of over 50…
“The best Evercade handheld experience that is available”. Evercade maker Blaze has just lifted the lid on its latest system, the Evercade Nexus. The Nexus joins the EXP, VS, Alpha and Super Pocket as part of the growing Evercade ecosystem, which is based around retro games running under emulation and distributed on physical cartridges. Read…
Gee, ya think? The Super Mario Galaxy Movie releases this week (tomorrow, in fact!) and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it seems like it’s set to be a massive success. According to Deadline (thanks, Eurogamer), the movie is projected to make $350m worldwide across the five-day Easter weekend. While this is slightly lower than the $377m achieved by…
Genius! We don’t really pay much attention to them these days because they’re now hidden away inside your gaming system, but once upon a time, cartridge labels were on full display whenever you were playing a game. With the exception of the NES, pretty much every classic system had the cartridge protruding out of the…