PC Gaming
This week’s big release is GSC Gameworld’s Stalker 2, the long-awaited sequel that PCG’s Joshua Wolens found “is still Stalker, down to its bones” (for good and bad, mostly the former). Good Old Games has taken the opportunity to announce that it is adding two of the classic Stalker games (confusingly, Stalker 2 is the…
Elon Musk is many things. The world’s most annoying tweeter. A wannabe Martian. The dude partially responsible for Donald Trump’s impending return to power. And now, if his run is officially accepted, the best Diablo 4 player in the world. Musk’s love of Diablo is well documented. He’s obsessed. While he enjoys boasting about how…
Obsidian is getting ready to send us all on another RPG adventure in Eora, and just like in Pillars of Eternity, this time your Avowed companions are going to play a pretty big role. Avowed will let you collect a crew of adventurers to help you save the Living Lands from the Dream Scourge plague….
Google’s Gemini AI is an advanced large language model (LLM) available for public use, and one of those that essentially serves as a fancy chatbot: Ask Gemini to put together a brief list of factors leading to the French Revolution, and it will say “oui” and give you just that. But things took a distressing…
Look, I’m not one to tell someone they’re playing a game wrong. There’s nary a yum you’ll find me yucking. You do you, man. Want to turn the Sims into a murder-house? Great. Want to talk to the monsters in Doom? Me too. Want to turn Skyrim into a pitch-perfect recreation of the single most…
My time studying and engaging in philosophy has had me considering more than my fair share of different perspectives on the same underlying phenomena, but even I scratched my head upon hearing Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang’s latest take on AI. This being that AI is generated just like electricity, which implies it’s a resource or…
When I first played The Outer Worlds back in 2019, I was really disappointed. As a huge Fallout: New Vegas fan, I was excited for a new game in the same mould, but when I finally got it, its retro style semeed old and tired. It felt like a shadow of what came before, not…
Throughout Stalker 2, whether it’s a main quest, a side mission, or just a random encounter with another person in The Zone, you’ll often have a choice in how you interact with them. You can help them with their troubles, simply walk on by, or blast them in the face right then and there. One…
A month after the release of its debut game Unknown 9: Awakening, Bandai Namco-owned Reflector Entertainment has announced that it is laying off 18% of its workforce so it can “efficiently deliver on our most pressing objectives while guaranteeing that every member of our team can meaningfully contribute to our ongoing projects.” Reflector said the…
Intel’s new Core Ultra 200S series of desktop processors launched to a mostly negative response, due to the regression in gaming performance compared to the previous generation of chips. However, they are pretty good at content creation tasks and they consume far less power in gaming, so they could be suitable for some folks. But…