PC Gaming
Gamers have been really enjoying Resident Evil Requiem—assuming they’ve been able to get the game running well. And unfortunately, Nvidia seems to have made that pretty difficult for at least some PC gamers, as there are reports that path tracing, in particular, has been causing a bit of a frame rate headache on recent drivers….
You can get to all kinds of places you’re not supposed to by going out of bounds in videogames. You might find a mysterious arena in Elden Ring. You might make it all the way to Hammerfell in Oblivion. Or you might visit the most cursed place of all: Reddit. As KnyH_82 and Connect_Base_217 both…
You may not have heard of Cookie’s Bustle. That’s partly because it’s an obscure Japanese point-and-click released by a small studio called Rodik in 1999. It’s also because of the efforts of a copyright troll, who kept playthrough videos, screenshots, fan art, and even Discord mentions of Cookie’s Bustle offline for years. Cookie’s Bustle has…
To the dismay of everyone around me, I’ve been a sucker for MMORPGs since I was a little thing. In 2002, I cut my teeth on an old Korean MMO called Priston Tale that, now I think about it, was just a more whimsical Diablo. When the game eventually went subscription-only, I cried for ages…
Highguard goes offline on March 12—that’s in eight days—but it’s nevertheless just received a massive content update adding a new playable Warden, account progression, and a skill tree. “This is our final update and it’s big,” Highguard creative director Jason McCord wrote on X. “Props to the skeleton crew at Wildlight for wanting to finish…
Over in one corner of the extraction shooter genre you have Arc Raiders, Escape from Tarkov, and Marathon doing their own spins on what I call the “backpack” shooter, where the main motivation of a match is to fill up inventory slots. In the other corner you have Hunt: Showdown, an extraction shooter that has…
A Financial Times report (via Reuters) says the US government is debating whether Tencent’s holdings in US and Finnish videogame companies pose a national security risk, and whether it should be forced to divest them. Multiple sources said cabinet officials were scheduled to have a meeting on the matter earlier this week, ahead of US…
There’s a good feeling when you earn an achievement in a game and see that fewer than 1% of players have also earned it. It makes you feel like you’ve got some real gamer cred, like you’re made of sterner stuff than almost everyone else playing. A couple of gamers—and only a couple—are basking in…
Few men, fictional or otherwise, have spinkicked their way into the hearts of as many thirsty internet admirers as Leon S. Kennedy. And given his recent upgrade to hot uncle status thanks to the devoted efforts of the women on the Resident Evil Requiem dev team, there has been an intense interest in how long…
The CEO of MindsEye developer Build a Rocket Boy says the studio now has “overwhelming evidence of organized espionage and corporate sabotage” that torpedoed the game’s launch, and is pursuing legal action as a result. Unfortunately, the enduring impact of those underhanded actions means the studio is being forced to impose another round of layoffs….