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Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories. Assassin’s Creed Origins (Image credit: Ubisoft) Developer: UbisoftYear: 2017 I’m what you’d call a lapsed Assassin’s Creed player. I was in deep pretty much from the get-go, religiously playing every AC game since the first, year by year, as they…
As Black Friday gives way to Cyber Monday, we don’t expect all of the current deals to vanish and be replaced by new ones, so don’t worry too much about beating the clock. Things do go out of stock and some deals will expire, though, so we’ve gathered our favorite still-available Black Friday deals here….
Ugly. Confusing. Mechanically unintuitive. Designed by a madman. These are the comments I’ve received on Hinge dates, but they’re also how I’d describe Brigand: Oaxaca , a baffling but brilliant immersive sim from 2017 whose emphasis is on “total freedom of action” and murdering you repeatedly. It’s hard, and has an uncompromising old-school design approach…
“Pssst! Hey kid… Want to go on an adventure?” asks the store-page for The Edge Of Allegoria, an upcoming Game Boy-styled retro RPG. It might look like an old Pokemon game (and play like one, too, minus the creature collecting part), but this one’s for GROWN UPS. Or at least teenagers discovering the siren song…
The 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2 saw Valve release a major surprise update for the PC gaming hall-of-famer (as well as an excellent two hour documentary). It integrated Episodes 1 and 2 with the base game (so you can now play through the entire experience seamlessly), added a new commentary track from the old gang,…
A rarely-mentioned risk of games news writing is the threat of covering a game like Just Grill the Steak in the wee small hours of the morning, where the stores are closed and it’s hard to justify doing anything in the kitchen. I am extremely hungry now, and it will only get worse as I…
Devilated makes me feel drunk. With power or Everclear, I’m not entirely sure—possibly both? Looked at from a clinical distance, it’s pretty clear that this was intended to be a hybrid of Doom Eternal’s cooldown-heavy arena combat and key hunting with some light Borderlandsian lootin’ and shootin’ mechanics on top. But something went wrong. Perhaps…
It’s the weekend—time to put your feet up, relax, and look forward to winning today’s Wordle. Spend some time with it if you like, using our tips and today’s clue to gently guide you in the right direction, or turn a struggling game around. Or click your way to the November 30 (1260) answer instead…
Price watch: ➖Gigabyte RTX 4060 | 8 GB GDDR6 | 3,072 shaders | 2,565 MHz boost | $319.99 $284.97 at Amazon (save $35.02)The most popular GPU deal on Amazon right now and one of the cheapest ways to get Nvidia’s latest architecture. Faster than the RTX 3060 but the price suggests it should have been…
Price change: ➖WD Black SN850X | 1 TB | NVMe | PCIe 4.0 | 7,300 MB/s read | 6,300 MB/s write | $93.99 $79.99 at Amazon (save $14)This is still our favorite SSD for gaming, despite the strong competition and volatile prices. Unlike the cheaper SN770, the SN850X encapsulates the best PCIe 4.0 offers in…