PC Gaming
It’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) season, which means it’s time for industry luminaries from across the globe to descend on San Francisco to talk about, you know, advancements in SpeedTree and what-have-you. It’s also time for a shadowy camarilla of “leading game creators from all parts of the industry” to hand out the Game Developers…
Reviewing Colorful’s RTX 5070 Ti Vulcan has kinda felt like my very own savage journey into the heart of the GPU dream. ‘You took too much, man. Too much. Too much.’ This is the overriding thought left looping around my head after having benchmarked the card to hell and back over the past few weeks….
Final Fantasy 14’s patch 7.2 is coming soon—which means preliminary patch notes. While these aren’t usually of much interest, with much of the meat contained in the game’s live letters, one particular note leapt out at me: FF14’s making changes to its blacklist. I wrote a full story on this back in January, but here’s…
Look Outside is like football in that it’s a game of two halves. And in absolutely no other way is it like football, because this is a survival horror RPG about being trapped in an apartment building where your neighbors have been transformed into Cronenberg-esque monsters that are about 90% eyeballs and teeth by weight….
Microsoft has announced DirectX Raytracing 1.2 at the GDC conference with claims of “game changing” performance benefits. But the newly revised API looks an awful lot like it has incorporated some key Nvidia technologies rather than introducing new features and so may not be the ray-tracing performance panacea we’ve all been waiting for. Microsoft is…
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who can recognize Getter Robo and Mazinger Z immediately from their silhouettes, and people who have no idea what any of those words mean. Iron Saga Vs, making its debut on Steam today, is a fighting game aimed squarely at the former group. And for…
Dear reader, while I do like Game Pass—it’s often a good deal when the lineup’s strong—I think you’ll agree when I say I’ve never enjoyed the experience of using the Xbox app. Microsoft can’t seem to cobble together a user interface that works after perfecting the concept back in the Windows XP days, and it’s…
One of the first choices you’ll make when booting up a new save in Assassin’s Creed Shadows is whether to use immersive mode, alongside the equally confusing canon mode and guided exploration. The name gives you a rough idea, but the goal of immersive mode is to make Shadows a more authentic experience when you’re…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows throws a heap of important choices at you right at the beginning of the game, some even with permanent changes. Before you decide whether you’re going to play in canon mode and immersive mode, you’ll need to pick how much you want the game to hold your hand. That’s what guided exploration…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows bombards you with a handful of confusing settings right at the start of your journey. Better to get them out of the way beforehand, I suppose, yet it’s hard to grasp what each one actually does. AC Shadows’ canon mode is perhaps the biggest culprit. Like the new immersive mode and guided…