PC Gaming
The Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice anime is ticking along nicely—after a brief hubbub about potential AI use (which the director was quick to dismiss, and I never held much stock in any way, smear frames look weird), talk about the series, dubbed Sekiro: No Defeat, mostly quietened down. Well, it’s all livened up again, thanks…
When I joined PC Gamer, my life changed significantly. I set fire to my PS5 and took an axe to my Switch, but one thing I couldn’t bear to get rid of were all of my controllers. I don’t often use them while playing on PC, but they sure do come in handy from time…
One of my fondest memories of Wing Commander Privateer is the time I was chased by a kilrathi for what felt like an hour. You can’t activate a jump point when under attack in Privateer, so after I was ambushed at one by a kilrathi ship that outclassed me early on I had to flee…
If I had a nickel for every videogame set in an extraterrestrial location or protagonist who is forced to look after a child NPC, but then slowly comes to rely on them practically and emotionally as both parties form a sort of impromptu kinship with one another I’d have so many nickels I’d probably be…
Because this is a cruel world we live in, I will never get to play another Vanquish, my forever answer to the question “what videogame has the most juice?” But if I can’t play more of the knee-sliding, giant-sci-fi-mech-toppling shooter made by Capcom’s former design maestro Shinji Mikami, I will happily accept a successor from…
Nearly nine years on from the release of the first game, Slay the Spire 2 has arrived in early access. The roguelike deckbuilder sequel has been an enormous smash hit, currently bringing in over 500,000 concurrent players at peak times. But it’s still got a long road ahead of it. According to developer Mega Crit,…
Fans, coolers, power supplies, graphics cards, and, from today, a case are officially available in Noctua trim. Great news for Noctua fans; less so those that think PCs should be bright and bold rather than brown and beige. Thankfully, I’m into the Noctua look. The Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition is the Austrian cooling company’s…
After teasing it as “the future of real-time rendering“, Nvidia has finally announced DLSS 5, an AI-led model for photorealistic visuals…that mostly looks like an AI filter slapped over Resident Evil Requiem. However, it’s game developers, with their honed art direction and style, who will care the most about DLSS 5, and that reaction has…
It’s an accepted fact by Sims players that no matter how well you think you know the game, sims have a mind of their own. Sometimes you can wrestle them into behaving the way you want with arcane tricks of furniture placement or by installing mods. If you’re one of Maxis’ programmers, though, and you’re…
During the Nvidia GTC keynote, company CEO Jensen Huang reiterated the company’s commitment to gaming, stating that “This is the house that GeForce made.” However, the company is still full steam ahead on AI, leveraging the tech to “revolutionise how graphics are made” in the form of DLSS 5. We got our first look at…