PC Gaming
I have a weakness for mecha games—a vulnerability so dire that I was recently driven to risk my professional credibility by defending the merits of Gundam Battle Operation 2. As you might imagine, the release of Armored Core 6 made 2023 a very good year for me, but it’s meant I’ve spent the following years…
Pirate survival game Windrose is crying out for a dedicated server if you plan to set sail for a lengthy voyage—especially if you plan to do so with friends. If you want to build the pirate fortress of your dreams, deck out your ship and make your way through the game’s sprawling skill tree, you’ll…
I looked down the barrel of my pistol, pulled the trigger, and click—silence. I knew I had plenty of Stone Bullets for my Windrose enemies, but for some reason, my gun wouldn’t fire a thing. And that’s when I remembered I needed one other key ingredient, gunpowder. It was embarrassing for me, but a good…
As you explore the ocean world of co-op pirate survival game Windrose, one way you gain XP is by discovering locations on islands and completing tasks there. Often, these tasks are to find and open treasure chests, and you can only completely clear a location by opening each chest and taking all the loot you…
Krafton is no longer listed as the publisher of Subnautica 2 on its Steam page, with subsidiary Unknown Worlds now appearing as both developer and publisher. The companies have a complicated relationship, to put it mildly. PUBG publisher Krafton acquired Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds in 2021, and then last year fired the studio’s leadership ahead…
One way in which Marvel Rivals never ceases to impress me is when it comes to creative abilities. Sure, a few are copy-pasted from other hero shooters and a couple even take inspiration from other Marvel Rivals heroes, aka: Black Cat’s dash is very similar to Black Panther’s. But there’s still so many unique ideas…
It wasn’t that long ago that you could happily use an Nvidia graphics card in an Apple Mac, either for gaming or to use Team Green’s CUDA ecosystem. But once Apple switched to its own rendering API, that was the end of it all. Until now, that is, because thanks to a new open-source driver,…
Allbirds, an [ex] shoe company with an environmental focus that has been around for over a decade now, has announced the sale of the brand and a pivot to AI. This includes a $50 million investment from “an institutional investor” into a facility, which is expected to serve the company’s goals. As detailed in its…
Crimson Desert got off to a rather rocky start, but that narrative has long since been overwritten thanks to a laundry list of quality-of-life fixups and bug squashing. It’s gone from strength to strength—hitting two million sales in the first couple days, then up to three million a few after that, and then to four…
Nothing has made it more obvious that Crimson Desert is a singleplayer game created by an MMO developer than its patch cadence and rapid evolution. The game has changed so much in little under a month, as Pearl Abyss has pumped out an absurd number of updates. Quality-of-life changes, bug fixes, implementing new features—stuff that…