PC Gaming
The recent deluge of layoffs at Blizzard (and Microsoft’s wider gaming division) has been utterly brutal—especially since several employees uprooted their lives to come and work at the company, with some employed there for just four months. While there’s no way to soften that sort of blow, one crafty ex-Blizzard employee did manage a small…
Doom has had one of the most remarkable afterlives of any game, from the still-thriving modding and speedrunning scenes to the meme-slash-mission of getting this thing running on any and all technology available to humanity. You’ve seen the pregnancy tests, the Lego brick, the potatoes, the engineers who got it going on a 1-milliwatt chip…
Further details are beginning to leak for AMD’s next generation of desktop processors built on the Zen 5 architecture. These new “Granite Ridge” CPUs are currently expected for release in the first half of this year, and we’re now starting to see information that looks to add some credence to the earlier rumours referencing the…
I’m genuinely hoping Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League doesn’t sink itself. There is something to be said for live-service fatigue, but I am not immune to the appeal of numbers going up, and it looks like it could conceivably be a good time. Here to punch another hole in my hope-boat is the news…
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Dread Delusion is one of the games I’m most excited for: a lo-fi, indie take on a Morrowind-style weird fantasy world, the medieval societies clinging to a field of asteroids slowly orbiting a small red star. That world just got a little bit weirder thanks to the addition of Dread Delusion’s first new major region…
Upcoming puzzle-crafting-programming game Craftomation 101 gives you a frozen planet, some politely agreeable robots, and a bunch of raw materials. From there it’s your job to tell them how to assemble enough heat, power, and industrial materials to bootstrap a terraforming process that’ll make this world a warmer place. The most appealing bit is obviously…
Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best MMOs: Massive worlds Best RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good…
The latest dev diary for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is dedicated to the horror RPG’s combat system, outlining three gameplay styles players will be able to choose between. Alex Skidmore, creative director at The Chinese Room, begins with the “strategic stalker” playstyle, which is your stealth assassin package for backstab-likers. “Did you enjoy…
Back in 2022 the developers of an indie roguelike announced their game Shoulders of Giants by boldly asking this question: “What if a frog piloted a mech?” They have seemingly found the answer, which is that it would be rad, because now they’re releasing two games about a frog on a mech this year, recently…