PC Gaming
The Verge has shared a leaked Sony PlayStation video demonstrating an AI-powered version of Aloy from Horizon Forbidden West taking part in a conversation with Sharwin Raghoebardajal, a director of software engineering at SIE. The video, which has since been taken down under a copyright claim, featured Aloy responding to questions from Raghoebardajal and showing…
I do love it when a retro game makes an unexpected comeback, and games don’t get much more retro than Beyond the Ice Palace. It’s been decades since the game—so old one version of it was sold on tape—made its debut, and now a sequel’s appeared, boldly calling itself Beyond the Ice Palace 2 as…
Split Fiction, the new co-op action game from Josef Fares and the team at Hazelight Studios, looks to be a hit: Hazelight revealed on Bluesky today that the game surpassed one million copies sold in just 48 hours. “The love you all show for our game is overwhelming!” the studio wrote. “Everyone here at Hazelight…
One of the most divisive aspects of Call of Duty: Warzone has been the replacement of the Verdansk map, which the game launched with in 2020, with the Caldera map in late 2021. Ever since the change a sizeable contingent of players have been unhappy, with many considering Verdansk the heart-and-soul of the game, and…
It took more than five years, but a surprise patch for Remedy’s third-person shooter/interdimensional manipulation sim Control means PC players can finally sample Dr. Yoshimi Tokui’s Guided Imagery Experience for themselves. Dr. Yoshimi Tokui’s Guided Imagery Experience is a side mission most notable for the fact that it features Hideo Kojima as the titular doctor—a…
Typically, in an Isekai anime, the main thrust of the plot involves a poor unsuspecting person dying (usually via unfortunate truck placement) and waking up in a fantasy world of magic and adventure. In the case of Stardew Valley’s latest hit mod, it’s sort of the inverse—while they don’t have trucks in the Forgotten Realms,…
I was under the impression the Nvidia RTX 50-series black screen issue was dead and buried at this point, after VBIOS updates were released for some affected cards and an official driver from Nvidia itself claimed to fix it. However, GeForce Hotfix Driver Version 572.75 claims to fix two specific problems (via Tom’s Hardware). The…
Okay, I know the statement ‘I get it now that I’ve actually tried it’ sounds a bit silly in retrospect, but Windows is a fickle bit of software. One of the best arguments for a handheld gaming PC such as the Steam Deck is how easy it is to use. You turn it on, access…
If you’re the sort of person that can’t bear to let go of that DVD collection taking up far too much room under your TV, it might be worth checking to see if any of them have fallen prone to the dreaded phenomenon of “disc rot.” Warner Bros has admitted that “select DVD titles” made…
YouTube channel Hardware Busters claims it purchased what looked like an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU from Amazon for processor testing purposes. Good for them! Upon opening the box, however, a few things stood out. One, it wasn’t the correct socket and heatspreader design for an AM5 chip, and two, an eagle-eyed viewer noticed that…