PC Gaming
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…
If there’s one thing I’ve always wished for, it’s for Animal Crossing to be available on PC. It’s impossible, I know, but every time I’ve picked up a new cozy game a little voice in the back of my head has reminded me of the hundreds if not thousands of hours I’ve sunk into life…
What with all the controversy surrounding Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 tech, the company’s new Vera CPU has gone somewhat unnoticed among the more meme-worthy announcements at the GTC event. But the Vera chip—or perhaps more specifically the Olympus cores it contains—looks like a beast. So, will it ever come to the PC? We already knew…
The Il Toro is infamous for haunting the halls of Stella Montis in Arc Raiders. It was good anywhere, of course, but Stella Montis’ tight corridors made the shotgun an absolute menace in PvP, where you could rush at someone and one-tap them pretty reliably. Embark promised its time in the spotlight would come to…
Last week I sat down with Studio Wildcard co-founders Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak, mostly to grill them about Vin Diesel but also to talk about what’s happening with Ark: Survival Ascended these days. I was surprised when Stieglitz started talking not about dinosaurs but pirates, bringing up another game Studio Wildcard had developed: Atlas….