PC Gaming
If Dark Souls is any indication, people take a lot of pride in mastering hard games. There’s nothing wrong with that until the moment they make it about ego: getting smart and finding creative solutions through hard games can be so much more interesting than getting good. General sentiment seemed to be that it was…
If you ask me, No Man’s Sky is at its best when it’s at its most desolate—when it’s just you, your spaceship, and the awe of an indifferent cosmos. By most metrics, No Man’s Sky has only improved since its launch in 2016, but all those massive updates and feature additions have made that delightful…
Oblivion Remastered has taken some well-judged steps to fix the original’s wonky skill and attribute system, but it’s still a very strange, unbalanced experience. Nublivion’s middle, “Adept” difficulty just feels too easy, while a single step up to “Expert” makes fighting even a basic bandit a life or death slog. Now I know why: The…
As long as you don’t call them Pokémon-likes, games where you collect little monsters and have them fight each other are just legally distinct enough to keep Nintendo’s lawyers away. At least that’s how Steam is framing an entire sale dedicated to them in what it’s calling the Creature Collector Fest. “Collect fantastical creatures, tame…
Let’s play ‘guess the game’. You’re a meticulous killer in a historical setting. Your targets are high-ranking aristocrats, priests, merchants—men and women of status who go everywhere flanked by a platoon of guards, who sleep behind barred doors, and whose entire lives are lived publicly. These people cannot enter a room without an eruption of…
Forget fighting Night Lords; picking which of the Elden Ring Nightreign classes to try on launch is going to be the real ordeal. Do you go basic and play Wylder with his grappling hook and stake driver? Do you jump right in the deep end with Recluse and her endlessly combinable magics? Or do you…
If one thing is clear about Elden Ring Nightreign, it’s that this is gonna upset a lot of folks’ expectations for what a FromSoftware Souls game is. The co-op roguelike is built around short sessions, with each complete run lasting roughly 40 minutes, and that comes with a relentless pace: if you just enjoy bashing…
The ThunderX3 Flex Pro is a strange chair, mostly because I’m not entirely sure it knows what it wants to be. A professional-looking chair with few frills, it’s at its best not when you’re sitting bolt upright concentrating on a meeting or working diligently at your keyboard, but when you’re almost dangerously reclined, gamepad in…
The new Legion is a real solid slab of gaming laptop goodness. It’s robust, feels dense, and is the most powerful and performant of all the new notebooks we’ve been testing in this generation. It may feel like a classic big gaming laptop, but it’s still got some tricks up its sleeve which make it…
Built for gaming, the AceZone A-Blaze design skirts a fine line between affordability, portability, and practicality. Against previous AceZone wireless gaming headsets, we’re looking at a fairly cut-down model meant to bring pro-gaming audio to the masses. There’s a lot of competition in this price range though, and while the A-Blaze sticks to its roots…