PC Gaming
Sometimes in this job, my decisions are easy. I see a game called COP BASTARD has released a demo, of course I download and play that demo. Simple. The question, then, is whether there’s anything to it beyond a very good name. The answer: sort of? (Image credit: Targim) Set in ’90s Japan, but seemingly…
If you needed further evidence we live in a dystopia an editor would chuck out for being too on-the-nose, try this: per sources spoken to by MobileGamer.biz, laid-off staff at social-game dev King (as in Activision Blizzard King) are being replaced by AI. The AI they helped build, in fact. If you can cast your…
We like the Ayaneo Flip DS. So much so, it sits as our top recommendation for the best compact handheld gaming PC, with our Jacob being a particularly big fan. So you can imagine the cooing and cawing in the PC Gamer office this morning when Ayaneo launched its two new clamshell models, the Flip…
A few weeks ago, ArenaNet started teasing the next Guild Wars 2 expansion with a daily drop of mysterious icons. For the community the implication was immediately obvious: New elite specializations are being added for each character class. This should be a pretty major shakeup to buildcrafting. Each of the game’s nine classes currently has…
Last week Escape From Tarkov released a sweeping patch and what it calls a “Hardcore Wipe”—resetting progress for all players, upending how the game’s economy works, altering the progression system, and even changing the game’s structure and disabling existing maps. Naturally, players reacted in a calm and rational manner. Only kidding: most were mad as…
Transparent tech is such a throwback that I can’t help but feel nostalgic when I see it. Sure, we have fish tank cases these days, but that’s more to display our neat and tidy, cable-free interiors than to proudly display all those circuits and cables. So when I see a fully transparent PSU like this…
Whether you’re hopelessly battering your head against a tragic yet formidable boss in a soulslike, or trying to fine-tune your sniping in muggy extraction shooter Hunt: Showdown, there are few games that don’t require some level of mastery from the player. But earlier this year gamers received an unlikely ally in their perennial quest for…
We’ve reported on the rapid, almost-certainly-ecologically-unsound expansion of AI data centers before, but Meta appears to have taken things to the next level. And that level is camping. According to a SemiAnalysis report, Meta is expanding its AI hardware capabilities so rapidly, it’s putting some of its AI data center hardware in tents. Erecting brick…
I never want to be an RPG gatekeeper—I want as many people as possible to find out what makes these games so great. But their inherent crustiness can make my old-head RPG favorites hard to recommend to people who haven’t already bought in. I’ve got a lot of friends I recommend Disco Elysium to, but…
Neverwinter Nights 2 is one of my favorite games—if you want to know why you should play it, I’ve got a separate write-up here. Even though NwN2 released in 2006 after the dawn of the Xbox 360, it’s aged more poorly than many of its contemporaries and even predecessors, making it harder and harder to…