PC Gaming
As the sportswriter Jon Bois once said regarding Jimmy Dean Frozen Scrambled Egg Cups, “Perhaps some humiliations are private affairs.” So it was for me with Oblivion Remastered’s local map, at least until PC Gamer news writer Joshua Wolens broke the silence on this issue in our work chat: “Did it take anyone else longer…
It is the year 2025 and Bethesda wants you to tell it how to improve Oblivion. Such is the strange and rich new world we’ve been plunged into by last week’s release of Oblivion Remastered, which fixed some parts of the original game’s jank, lovingly preserved others, and introduced some entirely new bits of its…
Look, I’m not even going to mess around with a creative intro on this one. The world’s largest zip manufacturer, YKK, has made a remote-controlled, motorised, self-propelled zip, and it’s glorious. See how it connects a pair of 16-foot membrane sheets together in seconds (via The Verge). Marvel at it zipping up two halves of…
Manor Lords has been in early access for about a year now, and while that may not feel too long at all, the medieval city builder has come a long way from its impressive beginnings. And apparently, it still has a long way to go. “There’s still lots to do, and while I’ve been working…
It’s hardly news that game controllers are used in modern warfare, as the compact, multi-buttoned devices have been used by armed forces for remote applications for years. However, with the rise of the use of drone attacks in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the UK government has decided to implement further export restrictions…
If the concept of CPU delidding fills you with dread, I think you might also be a little squeamish about this one. A modder has created a functional liquid cooling system by machining straight into an Intel CPU heat spreader—and, with the help of a plastic panel and a handy bucket, it actually works. To…
With Patch 8 of Baldur’s Gate 3 landing earlier this month, I’ve saddled myself with the accursed duty of completing another Honour Mode playthrough. Given that Patch 8 gives me the constituent parts for one of D&D 5e’s oldest powergamer builds, the Sorcadin, I reckoned I’d give it a go. The Sorcadin, for the uninitiated,…
Semiwork has announced that REPO will never be free-to-play, a promise meant to avoid ever featuring microtransactions within the game. As it stands, everything you need to play, even including personalisable flourishes like customising the color of your robot, is standard-issue or unlockable with in-game currency. In a recent Q&A uploaded to YouTube, semiwork explained…
I’m fairly certain I’ve been alive long enough to see singleplayer games definitely, 100%, for sure die at least three times, roughly on par with the number of times I’ve seen industry panjandrums declare PC gaming dead, too. These days, it’s because C-suites are convinced splashy live-service games stuffed to the gills with microtransactions are…
Ah, birthdays. Love them or hate them, there’s no escaping the unwavering gaze of Father Time. Except in the world of computing, where most tech only sees a handful of birthdays before heading out to pasture. There are one or two exceptions to this, though, and this year sees the 25th birthday of USB 2.0—the…