PC Gaming
NEED TO KNOW What is it? A singleplayer first-person driving survival game with maybe the best car ever Expect to pay: $30/£25 Developer: Ironwood Studios Reviewed on: Intel i7-9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAM Multiplayer? Nope. Link: Official site With sincere apologies to the Magnum Opus from Mad Max, the Saud Kruger Orca passenger liner…
Dave James, Managing Editor Hardware (Image credit: Future) This month I have been mostly testing… handhelds and laptops: I’ve been going mobile with my gaming recently, checking out new handhelds, with new chips inside, and shiny new laptops, too. The OneXPlayer 2 Pro wasn’t super-exciting, but I’ve also got the Meteor Lake-powered OneXPlayer X1 in…
Today is apparently Bruce Wayne’s birthday, but I’m ashamed to say I’ve neglected to send him a gift. It’d be hard enough thinking about what to get a real billionaire for their anniversary, let alone one that doesn’t exist. Fortunately, Warner Bros and Valve have found another way to mark this special occasion that I…
With Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc firmly in the rear-view mirror, CD Projekt Red is now full throttle on three separate projects. We already know, more or less, what two of them are: One is a new trilogy of Witcher games codenamed Polaris, and the other is a Cyberpunk sequel codenamed Orion. But one mysterious star-themed…
We’ve come full-circle—or full cube, as it were. There’s something about this recently-announced set by Lego ideas that’s tickling my poetic sensibilities. It’s a block, represented by blocks. Now we just need a Minecraft mod porting this exact set inside it, and we’ll be three meta-layers deep. Time to party up. We’re oozing with anticipation!…
If you’ve ever posted to Reddit there’s a good chance you’re helping train the next generation of AI models with your own words, pictures, and memes, because the company’s selling access to its 20 years’ worth of content for a reported $60 million. I mean, chances are you’ve already been used to train AIs given…
I’ve written a touch about Helldivers 2’s slapstick deaths, reinforced by rapid respawns and a low punishment for beefing it—its Magika-esque friendly fire systems also contributing to its ‘Warhammer 40k Gone Wrong’ vibes. It joins Lethal Company as a game where dying is just inherently funny, each panicked, scrambling doom its own punchline. Arrowhead Games…
A question as old as time: Does size matter? When it comes to making a laptop purchasing decision, size and form factor is often key to picking the right lappy for you. However, some buyers are content to throw portability out of the window in the name of top gaming performance, and a substantial screen…
Beer has often made me feel like I’ve been twisted into some wretched new form, but it’s never been anything a couple of Panadol and a bacon sandwich couldn’t solve. I fear the dwarves of Deep Rock Galactic will soon need a more radical hangover cure than paracetamol and protein, however, as developer Ghost Ship…
Helldivers 2 has yet to recover from its disastrous weekend, where the new server cap left lots of players waiting to dive in, and the broken matchmaking made it harder to find a squad. The result: Mixed reviews on Steam, dropping 10% from the Mostly Positive rating of 78% prior to the weekend. While some…