Elden Ring Nightreign was a major shakeup to the formula FromSoftware cultivated over several Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring—while each of those games is a departure from the last, Nightreign’s multiplayer focus and battle royale-inspired format make it a different beast altogether. But even though it was less of an RPG than…
How does that song by the Welsh rock back Stereophonics go, again? It only takes one tree to make a thousand matches; it only takes one match to burn a thousand trees. Lest I murder this shoehorned comparison any more than necessary, it seems as though Pluma_1980’s bid to drag GTA 5 into the modern…
Resin-dent Evil? For past me, the idea of 3D printing — just the mention of it, the sound of the words — always conjured up images of stuff like Tom Cruise and his wee red balls in Minority Report. I know, the ‘precog’ machine in that particular movie wasn’t really a 3D printer, and Tom’s…
Highguard has fielded all sorts of opinions since it launched Monday. I’m not huge on it, but PC Gamer staff writer Morgan Park spoke more positively of it in his impressions—though he did say it’s “ill-timed” given the larger shift toward more casual, chaotic fun that shooters are taking right now. It seems like Highguard…
There’s no greater pain in a MOBA than seeing your favorite hero swept into the swirling void of unplayability by a hero ban, but it’s a necessary evil, at least for buttoned-up ranked play. Bans make picking and counterpicking more interesting and keep imbalanced characters off the field while players wait for a balance patch—and…
If you read the history books of the 16th century, Sayyida al-Hurra will rarely show up. The powerful women of the Mediterranean and Islam typically don’t, except as footnotes or asides. So her leadership, piracy and plundering for her people never quite made the major texts. But the “pirate queen” of Morocco is finally receiving…
If you read the history books of the 16th century, Sayyida al-Hurra will rarely show up. The powerful women of the Mediterranean and Islam typically don’t, except as footnotes or asides. So her leadership, piracy and plundering for her people never quite made the major texts. But the “pirate queen” of Morocco is finally receiving…
Jeffrey Epstein, or an account associated with his email address, was banned from Xbox Live in 2013, new documents released by the US Justice Department reveal. The ban notice cites “harassment, threats, and/or abuse of other players,” but it appears that the actual reason was that Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial for…
Jeffrey Epstein, or an account associated with his email address, was banned from Xbox Live in 2013, new documents released by the US Justice Department reveal. The ban notice cites “harassment, threats, and/or abuse of other players,” but it appears that the actual reason was that Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial for…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column 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…