PC Gaming
If you’re a fan of 4X strategy games, you’ll probably have already read through our review of Civilization 7 and perhaps my performance analysis of the game, too. As any strategy enthusiast will know, such games are almost never about the graphics and instead focus on complex AI algorithms, which test your abilities as a…
Skytech Chronos gaming PC | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 | 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 2 TB SSD | $2,949.99 $2,799.99 at Newegg (save $150)This gaming PC not only has the brand-new RTX 5080, which comes with Nvidia’s latest Multi Frame Generation magic, but it also packs a Ryzen 7 9800X3D inside. That’s the…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, the open-world ‘realistic’ RPG, stands out from the crowd by virtue of the fact that it’s one of the very few games to use Crytek’s CryEngine. Developer Warhorse Studios eschewed the likes of Unreal Engine for the original game and has stuck with CryEngine for its sequel. This is reportedly because…
Need to know What is it?: A systems-heavy RPG set around the actual historical conflict between King Wenceslas of Bohemia and his abductor and brother, Sigismund.Expect to pay: $60/£50Developer: Warhorse StudiosPublisher: Deep SilverReviewed on: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080, AMD Ryzen 3700x, 32GB RAM, Samsung 970 Plus SSDSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Official site Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2…
I have precisely one tattoo, which I paid a trained artist an exorbitant amount of money to ink into my pasty skin. YouTuber Emily The Engineer may have developed a more cost-effective solution, however, as she’s cracked open a 3D printer, bypassed its firmware, equipped it with a tattoo gun—and even found a willing volunteer…
Unless you’re one of the fewer-than-50 people who still play it regularly, there are solid odds you’ve never heard of Lusternia, Age of Ascension, a 21-year-old, free MMO that’s been quietly, contentedly trundling along for most of this century. That’s a shame, I reckon, because as someone who is decidedly ‘not an MMO guy,’ I’ve…
With each new Civilization release, fans of previous versions have taken polarising views of the changes made and it will be no different with this one. However, what might tip opinions in a particular direction is how well it runs and, to cut to the chase immediately, it’s not brilliant. It’s not terrible either, but…
Civilization 7 feels more like a series offshoot than a Civilization 6 sequel, taking the venerated grand strategy series in a different direction from the past two games. Its most radical ideas certainly offer an interesting way to play Civilization, though as things stand it doesn’t feel like the best way to play. It’s the…
The newly released PC port of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 hasn’t enjoyed the smoothest of launches, thanks to bugs and performance problems. And now it seems that one aspect of the conversion that is making things worse is the use of DirectStorage, with the system sucking up all-important GPU resources. Spider-Man 2 was ported by Nixxes…
“History rhymes. It’s not repeating itself. It rhymes.” Warhorse’s global PR manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling is paraphrasing an aphorism often attributed to Mark Twain—though its origins are actually unknown. He is bemoaning the fact that, once again, the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio has found itself embroiled in the exhausting culture war. Back in 2017, before…