PC Gaming
I’ve always liked the way that certain online games give rise to folk heroes. The fuel rats in Elite: Dangerous, that one EVE guy with a powerful lust for Megathrons, that guy who was banned from using his own severed toe to power-level an Old School RuneScape character—this is the stuff of which legends are…
Something I’ve really enjoyed over the last decade of PC gaming has been the shift in genres like JRPGs, going from console homebodies to multiplatform behemoths and even, in some cases, finding an even better home on our desktops. We’ve even seen an increase in Japanese developers gunning for simultaneous console and PC releases—Capcom’s Monster…
You’re bombarded with complex systems and confusing jargon straightaway in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, from chroma and lumina, to gommages, pictos, and Nevrons. It’s certainly a lot to take in, and that’s before you even get to the nitty gritty of RPG mechanics, one of the most anxiety-inducing of which is attributes. You’ll want the…
The FBI’s annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report has been published, and it makes for some grim reading. Beyond the staggering statistic that the IC3 has received an average of more than 2,000 complaints a day over the past five years, the Bureau reports that last year’s losses to cybercriminals totalled $16.6 billion, with…
Given they’re over two and half years old and plagued with reliability concerns, you might be surprised to learn that Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs are selling like high-temperature baked comestibles. That’s according to Intel itself in its latest earnings call for investors. Raptor Lake refers to Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen CPUs for mobile and…
The survival MMO Dune: Awakening is set to release June 10, but just before that, some players will get the chance to bask in the harsh sun in what sounds like an absolutely massive beta weekend. “From May 9 until May 12, the largest beta yet will take place, with a huge number of new…
As a survival fan, I appreciate what Funcom has done with Dune: Awakening’s water and hydration system. I played about 25 hours of the beta over the past couple of weeks, and water is a major concern right out of the gate—not a surprise on the desert planet of Arrakis. And each time you solve…
If a Dune game has a rite of passage, surely it’s being swallowed by a sandworm. It happened to me about 10 hours into the Dune: Awakening beta and it took me quite a while to recover, because there was no chance of running back to collect my dropped gear like you can when you…
I’ve been living on a beta version of Dune: Awakening’s Arrakis for the last couple weeks, and despite the game being just over a month away from launch, there were some pretty big limitations on how much I could settle into desert life. Only low-level crafting was available, and just three of the first map’s…
Oblivion Remastered fixes many of the original game’s crimes. You no longer have to grind your minor skills to level efficiently, for instance. Alas, it’s left one of them intact: levelled loot. Fortunately, modder Trainwiz—who you probably know either from adding working trains to New Vegas or turning all of Skyrim’s dragons into Ohio—has already…