PC Gaming
Marathon has been out for just over a month now, and it’s been great. It’s basically exactly what I wanted it to be: a PvP-focused extraction shooter with Bungie’s signature gunplay and knack for visual flair. I’ve been having an absolute blast with it since launch, and it’s a nice counterbalance to Arc Raiders‘ more…
I’m surprised to tell you that Mouse: PI For Hire is the best shooter I’ve played in ages. Not because I’m especially down on rubberhose animation, or rodents, or monochrome Unity engine environments, but because I hugely underestimated how well those disparate elements could be combined. This is a luxurious, maximalist game that commits equally…
Morbid Metal released into early access last week, and I finally got the chance to sit down and play it—and while developer Screen Juice’s new roguelike needs some proper work on its secondary elements, the good news is that the bones are good. Really good, in fact. Given their repetitive nature, the most important thing…
When I started playing Minecraft many years ago, the options for minigames were pretty slim. Aside from recreating the Hunger Games in a beloved experience known as survival games, the only thing we really had was spleef. If you don’t know what this is, it’s basically when you and a bunch of other players are…
Three months after 14 Disney games were delisted from Steam without warning, the scythe has returned to cut down a few more. As caught by the roving eye of SteamDB, 15 more games under (some form of) the Disney brand were summarily delisted from the Steam store earlier today. Here’s the full list: Disney High…
One of China’s largest chip manufacturers has apparently made plans to build two additional new foundries to the one already under construction. Once all are operational, it’s claimed that the firm’s wafer output will more than double, which could potentially make it one of the world’s largest makers of NAND flash memory chips. The firm…
Stalker 2 gets its first DLC—Cost of Hope—at an indeterminate point later this year, but before the DLC comes the pre-DLC: a free update that bolts on a new scary lab for you to explore, in anticipation of the presumably many scary labs you will encounter in Cost of Hope. The update is called Sealed…
I’ve always been terrible at pool, snooker, billiards, and every other game involving a long stick and green felt. Thus far, though, the consequences of that have been pretty mild—some social ostracisation here, a bit of being laughed at in the pub there, you know. What I’m saying is, it’s never sent me irreversibly insane….
Though the memory crisis threatens to raise the prices of half the components in a gaming rig, monitors have only come down in price. Alienware, a brand known for high-end and expensive gear, is putting out one of the most reasonably priced QD-OLED gaming monitors I’ve seen in some time, and the specs aren’t too…
One integral part of World of Warcraft back in the day was powerlevelling: I remember a starry-eyed Harvey watching Protection Paladins on YouTube sweeping through hordes of the Scarlet Crusade for a group of lucky levellers. I was completely unaware of the economic underbelly supporting it, but it sure looked cool to see someone soloing…