PC Gaming
I have to admit, when I saw last week that Balatro creator LocalThunk was struggling to 100% his own game, I felt a bit of schadenfreude. That final achievement he needed—Completionist++—is locked behind a truly brutal grind, and as someone who’s always looked at what’s required to earn it with horror, I felt some vindication…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is getting—rightfully, in my opinion—lauded for its heartfelt performances and deeply emotional story, which paints a deep and effective canvas of grief for its players. As part of those celebrations, the actors behind its characters are also getting their kudos, too. A smidge too much kudos for Charlie Cox, apparently. Cox…
Ineffa is the very first character from the region of Nod Krai to debut in Genshin Impact, and she might make a good addition to your team comps if you find that Fischl just isn’t enough. If you want to see her robotic abilities at their best, you’ll need to go hunting for all of…
Calling all Disney (Pixar) adults, MSI may have just unveiled the ultimate rig to make all your friends embarrassed to step foot in your gaming room. If you’ve ever wanted a Toy Story gaming PC, complete with a crane machine-style case and an entirely superfluous joystick, MSI has you covered. As spotted by Videocardz, this…
Around the 25-hour mark of Death Stranding 2, one of Japan’s most acclaimed film directors asked me to deliver a pizza to his neighbor a valley away—an anime VTuber who has withdrawn from humanity after seeing her weapons bent towards evil. “The one thing she still does seem to believe in, however,” says the extensive…
Time has a funny way of changing people’s views. Anger and mistrust can often fade into mild scepticism, and once bitter rivals can sometimes develop a healthy understanding. This certainly seems to be true of Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, and his thoughts on Microsoft and Windows in general. And just recently, the famous…
When MMOs are populated by races of all shapes and sizes, it’s inevitable that some of them—let’s face it, usually the less humanoid folk—are going to get the short end of the stick when it comes to nice-looking gear. Armor warps and stretches on a Charr’s large frame in Guild Wars 2, and helmets often…
Oh to be left alone, to sleep for three months, it’s something I’ve only ever dreamed of, but it’s a feat that Marvel Rivals’ mysterious character Blade has managed to pull off. But now, a couple of weeks before Season 3, the sleepy vampire has disappeared—suspicious. “Mrrrr! Mrrr! Mrr! (Where did he go this time?!),”…
If you only ever paid attention to its videogame efforts, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Microsoft is constantly trading blows with Apple and Nvidia for the position of ‘biggest corporation on Earth by market cap’. In our neck of the woods, Microsoft is a perpetual third to Nintendo and Sony in the console wars,…
It’s no lie that the gaming industry in recent years has been crushing. You can do a good job, a bad job, a medium job—it doesn’t matter, the sword of Damocles can plunge at any moment. I won’t go into my list of examples, partially because I’ve shared them before, but also because I’ve got…