PC Gaming
After years of speculation and rumors, Rockstar is finally giving us a deeper official look at Grand Theft Auto 6. (Unlike the various unofficial looks we’ve been getting courtesy of a certain vegetable.) The GTA 6 “Extended Look” airs Thursday, August 27 on Netflix at 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT/8 pm BST. Six hours later,…
Manor Lords is on a roll—with the medieval management sim celebrating the monumental milestone of over 4 million copies sold across all stores. And to commemorate the good news comes its next major update. The new Major Update 8 will add a bunch of new features and quality-of-life bumps to Manor Lords. Soon you’ll be…
Men. What is wrong with them and how can they be fixed? Philosophers and scientists have asked this for generations, but the problem has only become understandable—and tractable—with the advent of modern technology. They are lonely. Contrary to the popular aphorism, all men are islands, struggling to exist in tempest-tossed seas. I have tried to…
We’re getting dribs and drabs of news about Arc Raiders‘ upcoming major update which is scheduled for October. A new “high-level” challenge has been promised to returning players, alongside a frozen map full of new arcs, plus there’ll also be the small addition of a photo mode. “Time to remember your raids, cameras are coming…
Microsoft has dabbled in dubious DRM over the years, having previously announced then unannounced disc-based DRM for the Xbox One back in 2013. Sony scored some free public praise on that blunder. Yet it seems like the pendulum has finally swung the other way. Sony has announced it is ending support for physical games entirely,…
Even as it achieved fractal complexity by modeling feline alcohol poisoning, procedural bardic traditions, and delayed-action thermonuclear dragonfire, the creators of Dwarf Fortress—brothers Tarn and Zach Adams—have maintained still loftier ambitions for their legendary fantasy sim. In recent years, that effort has been guided by one goal: Creating magic. Procedural, universe-specific magic, interwoven with the…
One of the quiet tragedies of Valve’s game library is a standalone Ravenholm game that never came to fruition—it was being worked on by Arkane Studios in the late 2000s, and it would’ve probably been pretty damn good if Valve had the moolah to make it. Over a decade later, an entire hour of footage…
For a new gaming monitor that ticks an awful lot of boxes, the Alienware AW3926QW has also arrived with an awful lot of controversy. Some early adopters of this epic 39-inch 5K2K OLED panel have reported numerous issues, including green tinting, so-called “vignette dimming” and adaptive refresh flicker. We’ll get into the specifics of what…
Picking the best talents in Star Wars Zero Company is something you’ll start pondering when you unlock recruitable operators in the game. Each of these will have both a class and a talent, but the good news is that you can respec both in the change specialization menu once you’ve recruited them. This means it’s…
It’s unclear whether you can respec Hawks when you first start out in Star Wars Zero Company, but the good news is you can, and it’s an entirely free process. You can change class, but also refund every Focus Point you’ve spent in its dedicated tree to start levelling another. Here’s how it’s done. How…