PC Gaming
The Woedica’s Inheritance treasure map in Avowed is harder than it first looks. While it’s easy to figure out that it’s hidden outside Paradis’ walls, that’s not exactly narrowing things down much. Not only that, but you’ll also need to open a hidden door before you can claim your goodies. Given the previous owner of…
Do you know how many sandy hills and ponds there are across Shatterscarp? A lot. That’s why the Robe of the Arcane Cheater treasure map in Avowed is so infuriating. It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. Thankfully, it’s actually really easy to reach once you know where it’s buried, and you’ll be…
As I was playing through Avowed ahead of release, probably my least favourite element in an otherwise very charming RPG was the tier system. Basically every weapon or piece of armour has a tier, and so do enemies—and this is what determines relative power, rather than levels, almost like a simplified form of Destiny’s gear…
“A horrible, demoralizing mistake.” So said Joseph Bonetti, Principal Engineering Program Manager at Intel Corporation, on Linkedin earlier this week in response to rumours that TSMC might be in talks to take control of Intel’s chip-manufacturing fabs. Perhaps inevitably, Bonetti has since deleted his LinkedIn post though it is currently preserved for posterity on archive.today…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a very good videogame, fatally undermined by a single flaw. That flaw being that damn near every bit of dried meat you try to give your dog as a treat ends up rolling off into the horizon if you try to feed him on any kind of incline whatsoever. You…
Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: Secretlab ) Image 2 of 2 (Image credit: Secretlab ) Just last year, Secretlab put out a Monster Hunter 20th anniversary edition set of Titan Evo chairs for the legendary action game, and to celebrate the upcoming launch of Monster Hunter Wilds, one more is on the way. Luckily,…
The first Monster Train had great timing: It pulled into Steam a few months after Slay the Spire left early access, which was right when I was ready for a break from spire slaying, but was still in the mood for roguelike deckbuilding. And it was a lot of fun. Five years later, history might…
The main thing I remember about the movie Black Hawk Down, a thoroughly post-Saving Private Ryan slice of gritty military hero worship, is actor Tom Sizemore sauntering around with an almost casual indifference to the bullets whizzing past his head. Even when he gets hit, he treats it as more of an annoyance than anything….
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…