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….

I have two guinea pigs. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to have a third pig, or even a cat or a dog on top of that, and I start to feel dizzy. Crimson Desert players must scoff at my weakness. As of the latest patch, they can register up to 100…

I became a racing game aficionado at age five playing Lego Racers on my great grandfather’s Windows 95 Gateway PC. And I’ve been a car enthusiast since my days careening the Subaru Impreza Rally Car ’99 into walls on the dirt stages of Gran Turismo 2. But sim racing never quite did it for me,…

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…

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…

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…

As announced at this year’s Summer Games Fest, Palworld 1.0 arrives in less than a month. The launch version looks like it’ll introduce a lot of new stuff to Pocketpair’s Pokémon-inspired survival-crafting game, and with all those additions comes a question: will Palworld 1.0 require players to start again from scratch, or will you be…