PC Gaming
One saving grace of a flat mate is setting up ‘family sharing’ on each other’s Steam libraries at the earliest opportunity. Another saving grace is leveraging local network game transfers to then have a go at whichever game has become your roommate’s flavour of the month, and judging them accordingly. Recently though, Steam’s local network…
Two people have been arrested by Chinese police for allegedly staying at esports hotels for the sole purpose of stealing memory from rigs. Yeah, I was unfamiliar with esports hotels too. Initially, Li worked alone, staying at a hotel in Shihezi City, according to Guangming Online (via Tom’s Hardware). With the memory crisis in full…
Over the past few months, Embark has been pulling some levers behind the scenes to improve Arc Raiders‘ matchmaking. Despite the devs previously saying matchmaking wasn’t “binary,” it didn’t feel like that in practice. My solo lobbies were peaceful walks in the park, while trio lobbies were much more violent. From these experiments, “one change…
Jay and Silent Bob first appeared in the 1994 grunge film Clerks as eccentric weed dealers. Jay was the sweary, loquacious, long haired slacker, and Silent Bob was the silent, ruminative long haired slacker. They were cult figures in the ’90s. Most of my teenage friends thought they were very funny, and Clerks is still…
I’m in such a bubble of positivity for Barbarian and Weapons director Zach Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil movie that I had no idea anyone was upset about it until I looked at the reactions to some of our coverage. The movie is Resident Evil “in name and nothing else,” one person wrote in reply to…
Do you own Ubisoft games on your Xbox console but wish you could play them on your PC—but not so much that you’re willing to pay extra for it? If your answer to that oddly specific question is “yes,” and the games in question are one of a list of 13 titles that we’ll get…
In June, Sjoerd De Jong—an Unreal Engine modder and map creator turned full-time specialist at Epic Games—announced that he was leaving the company after 12 years as its “lead evangelist” for Unreal. In a cryptic departure message, he said the games industry was at a “pivotal point,” and he’s aiming to “work out how to…
A few months ago, indie developer RetroSpecter noticed something unusual about Crashphalt, their first completed game that launched on Steam in 2018: Since their last check-in on the neglected platformer, Crashphalt had suddenly gained over 500 reviews. In its first four years, it had barely managed a dozen. And almost none of those new reviewers…
Electronic Arts’ big RPG series Dragon Age did not get a happy ending. The most recent game in the series, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, failed to meet sales targets, and EA quickly beat feet in the other direction, putting the torch to BioWare on the way out the door. It’s not often that game franchises…
Myst was a massive success: Not only was it the best-selling PC videogame of all time for years, it helped usher in the CD-ROM era, opening the door to expansive new technologies and previously unseen levels of fidelity in gaming. In 1993, Myst was nothing short of a revelation. The fortunes of Myst, and developer…