PC Gaming
I didn’t think natural disaster remediation would be this relaxing. When I first booted up RoadCraft, a game about performing clean-up jobs with heavy vehicles, I was plunged into a reflective mood by the plangent, melancholy guitar licks that better evoke crackling campfires and copious whiskey than they do mud and exhaust fumes. The mood…
You won’t hear any lectures from me, as I know how hard it is to let go of tech that’s served you well. My last gaming laptop lasted me 10 years before the recovery partition on the hard drive finally said ‘no more!’ True, it had been ailing for some time before then, repeatedly switching…
Video game retailer GameStop has announced plans to “pursue a sale” of its operations in France and Canada, in the latest setback for the company’s international business. According to a brief press release posted to the GameStop website (via the Toronto Star) the move comes in the wake of an “evaluation of its international assets”….
Overwatch 2’s Season 16 began last night, and with it came a load of new features like perks and loot boxes, changes to the UI, and a rank reset. It’s a big update for the start of the season, but one that was very much needed thanks to the new competition that Marvel Rivals has…
Words cannot describe how much I love Avowed’s glossary of, well, words. In case you’ve not been playing Obsidian’s excellent little RPG yet, the game has a “dialogue history and lore” option you can pull up whenever someone’s not actively yapping, which’ll not only let you skim through previous dialogue. It’ll also pull up a…
If it wasn’t a $1,000+ graphics card, I’d feel sorry for the RTX 5080. It’s literally half the GPU of the big boi RTX 5090—Nvidia’s flagship GeForce Blackwell card—and yet suffers from severely limited stock and punitively high pricing. But it’s the second-tier RTX 50-series card, and can at least claim to be the second…
The Trump-tariff love fest is clearly going to run and run. But for what it’s worth, the latest PC-relevant development involves a blanket 25% tariff—and rising—on all chips coming into the USA (via Bloomberg). To be clear, nothing official has been announced, but President Trump says the tariff is “likely”. That’s a shift or perhaps…
I will never understand, dear reader, why we keep running into this baffling issue of Valve (and PC gaming in general) being underestimated. Starting at its roots, when basically no-one thought it’d work as a distribution platform—and extending into the modern age. Ethan Evans, who was the former Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon…
“This is a terrible weapon that disappoints anyone who uses it,” reads the description of the Disappointer, a unique pistol in Avowed. “Those who aren’t fooled by its appearance still occasionally attempt to use it just to see if maybe the whole thing was made to look this way as an elaborate ruse, hoping that…
Ten years ago, PC Gamer editor-in-chief Phil Savage advised Dragon Age: Inquisition players to leave the Hinterlands, the massive RPG’s gorgeous quagmire of an opening zone. Playing Avowed, I was struck by how much it presents the opposite experience in its first area, Dawnshore. I luxuriated in Dawnshore for 16 hours before finally moving on…