PC Gaming
I’ll admit, I was sceptical of Marathon‘s Ranked mode at first. How do you even make a proper competitive system in an extraction shooter, where a win and a loss aren’t quite so easily defined? Well, Bungie’s done it. Though to get it all to work, it’s quite complicated. You earn and lose points to…
We reported recently that Optiscaler, the community tool for enabling AMD’s latest FSR 4 upscaling technologies on older GPUs, had added support for Vulkan games. Now comes news that the tool enables FSR 4 on AMD RX 6000 GPUs, also known as RDNA 2 and now two generations old, without the need for driver mods….
Everyone knows the routine of getting as many animals in Minecraft as possible, but never being able to tell them apart. Hoping you got lucky and found a name tag while exploring got old fast. Luckily, now you can craft a name tag, you won’t have to face those problems or get yours and your…
Minecraft’s Tiny Takeover unleashed a horde of adorable reskins for its baby mobs, but as is the way with all mobs in Minecraft, they all grow up eventually. You won’t be able to enjoy the cutesy appearance of every creature forever, but thanks to the golden dandelion, you can stunt the growth of a handful…
I’m carrying half a ton of metal scrap and the soul of my dead daughter over the crest of a red sand dune when a mournful folk song begins to play, the words All that I want is a home inside the woods, and a woman that I can love spilling softly out of the…
There’s a chance, if you don’t care about / dislike NFTs (same), Web3 games (same), or cryptocurrency (three for three), you’ve never heard of Pudgy Penguins. But the NFT brand has somehow made its way onto Walmart shelves and launched a game this month, which has already been hit by a pretty nasty phishing scam….
Among the many debates surrounding Nvidia’s DLSS 5 announcement is one about artist autonomy and creative freedom. Effectively, the question is ‘do these tools hinder or contribute to artistic direction?’, and developers are pretty mixed on that one, to put it lightly. Where the likes of Bethesda boss Todd Howard and Capcom executive Jun Takeuchi…
Indie games survived the theoretical “indiepocalypse” of 10 years ago and they survived the influx of AAA escapees of five years ago, and if we were going to coin a new era of indie games right now, it’s “survival,” says the CEO of indie developer and publisher Finji, Rebekah Saltsman, and not in the fun…
As if there wasn’t already preposterous levels of demand for computer memory, Micron has identified two new classes of device that will soon be gobbling up RAM in huge quantities. Apparently, both autonomous cars and humanoid robots will need hundreds of gigabytes of the stuff. Speaking during Micron’s recent earnings call with Wall Street’s best…
One of the most irritating facets of the AI hullabaloo—as someone moderately invested in making things—is the assertion that AI finally ‘unlocks creatives to make bigger, better things’ or some other codswallop. Bah, I say—the truth being that creative arts like writing, drawing, painting, or acting are immensely complicated professions, and when I look at…