PC Gaming
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. I made the mistake of trying to organise my heaving gaming shelves a few weeks ago, a seemingly benign task that has quickly grown into an all-out…
Larian is out of the D&D game and that’s left Wizards of the Coast scrambling a little bit to figure out how to follow it up. Today the studio revealed at least one of its plans for a post-Baldur’s Gate 3 world: A publishing deal with Giant Skull for “an all-new singleplayer action-adventure title set…
Dune: Awakening is out in three days (for deluxe and ultimate edition pre-purchasers) but here’s a last minute surprise: the survival MMO will support private servers. Funcom announced today that for Dune: Awakening “rentable private servers will be available from head start launch on June 5th!” It’s worth noting you won’t be able to go…
Lying dead in the sand, a few feet away from Mothma and his scorpion pal fighting the two remaining members of my Elden Ring Nightreign trio, I had plenty of time to stare off into the night sky and ask myself where it all went wrong. I had spent the entire run looking after these…
IO Interactive has announced the name of its upcoming James Bond game, and says we’ll get out first look at it this week. The title is 007 First Light which certainly sounds like an origin story, and the studio has previously made clear this is what to expect. The announcement post also adds a tagline:…
In days of yore, before we had all this internet nonsense, leaks happened organically, concretely. They happened in printed books and in frantic conversations in the cloisters. In the time of the Roman Republic, unannounced videogames were leaked by loose-lipped sculptors in unguarded moments, out of their gourds on hippocras. A more civilised age, and…
Although Elden Ring Nightreign has a main story, which you’ll finish by beating the Night Aspect, most of the narrative actually comes from the characters’ Remembrances. These are quests that see you talking to NPCs, completing “personal objectives” while on expeditions in Limveld, or beating a boss in a separate instance. Unlocking and beating Remembrance…
What started out as just another gamer finding their brand new graphics card missing and replaced in the box by some random piece of junk, has turned into a potentially big headache for Zotac and a compromised Chinese factory shipping not-RTX 5090s out the front door. Late last week one redditor posted about their poor…
You might’ve figured this out on your own if you clicked that headline, but just to repeat it here—this article will contain spoilers for the ending of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. All of it. You have been warned. I finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 last month, and it’s still stuck with me, like a bit…
As a man who writes for a living, I have no actual useful abilities. That means that—while I keep close track of the Bethesda modding scene—I often don’t really understand what all the very smart people who work in it are actually speaking about. As far as I’m concerned, a ‘script extender’ means putting a…