PC Gaming

Oblivion Remastered has taken some well-judged steps to fix the original’s wonky skill and attribute system, but it’s still a very strange, unbalanced experience. Nublivion’s middle, “Adept” difficulty just feels too easy, while a single step up to “Expert” makes fighting even a basic bandit a life or death slog. Now I know why: The…

As long as you don’t call them Pokémon-likes, games where you collect little monsters and have them fight each other are just legally distinct enough to keep Nintendo’s lawyers away. At least that’s how Steam is framing an entire sale dedicated to them in what it’s calling the Creature Collector Fest. “Collect fantastical creatures, tame…

Let’s play ‘guess the game’. You’re a meticulous killer in a historical setting. Your targets are high-ranking aristocrats, priests, merchants—men and women of status who go everywhere flanked by a platoon of guards, who sleep behind barred doors, and whose entire lives are lived publicly. These people cannot enter a room without an eruption of…

Forget fighting Night Lords; picking which of the Elden Ring Nightreign classes to try on launch is going to be the real ordeal. Do you go basic and play Wylder with his grappling hook and stake driver? Do you jump right in the deep end with Recluse and her endlessly combinable magics? Or do you…

If one thing is clear about Elden Ring Nightreign, it’s that this is gonna upset a lot of folks’ expectations for what a FromSoftware Souls game is. The co-op roguelike is built around short sessions, with each complete run lasting roughly 40 minutes, and that comes with a relentless pace: if you just enjoy bashing…

The ThunderX3 Flex Pro is a strange chair, mostly because I’m not entirely sure it knows what it wants to be. A professional-looking chair with few frills, it’s at its best not when you’re sitting bolt upright concentrating on a meeting or working diligently at your keyboard, but when you’re almost dangerously reclined, gamepad in…

The new Legion is a real solid slab of gaming laptop goodness. It’s robust, feels dense, and is the most powerful and performant of all the new notebooks we’ve been testing in this generation. It may feel like a classic big gaming laptop, but it’s still got some tricks up its sleeve which make it…

Built for gaming, the AceZone A-Blaze design skirts a fine line between affordability, portability, and practicality. Against previous AceZone wireless gaming headsets, we’re looking at a fairly cut-down model meant to bring pro-gaming audio to the masses. There’s a lot of competition in this price range though, and while the A-Blaze sticks to its roots…

Fallout’s second season just wrapped filming, which means we’re tantalisingly close to once again screaming at each other about Fallout: New Vegas. Personally, I can’t wait. I’m already gearing up to cancel you over your terrible Raul Tejada take and write an overly long dissertation on how that guy who hangs out on the Hotel…

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 feels like a love letter to JRPGs—and that’s because it pretty much is. Director Guillaume Broche has a long-lasting history with the genre, including an ill-fated attempt to play Final Fantasy 8 before he and his brother could actually read. That’s per a recent interview with The Washington Post, wherein Guillaume…