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Last Thursday, UL Solutions celebrated the 25th birthday of 3DMark, the evergreen game graphics benchmarking tool. Since the early days of DirectX 6, there’s been a version of the tool, showing off the latest graphics features and technology, and although it’s not quite as ubiquitous as it was, you can’t deny that two-and-a-half decades is…
We are deep in the heart of the spooky season. I’m scared. Luckily the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit has provided me with some much needed relief amongst the jump scares and spooks, with a collection of BG3-related pumpkin carvings. In an attempt to distract myself from all of the terror and horror, I’ve gone through…
According to the official requirements, Microsoft says you should have 64GB of storage space on hand as a minimum before you install Windows 11, with the average install size ranging around the 20-27 GB mark. However, this hasn’t stopped developer NTDEV from pushing the OS to its limits with the release of the first beta…
A few minutes into my Frontiers of Pandora demo session, a viperwolf interrupts my exploration of the overgrown ruins of an RDA colonial outpost. I kill it with an arrow as it snarls at me. I approach and press the harvest button, watching with confusion as my na’vi character kneels, offering a prolonged prayer of…
When I first embraced my inner-demon in medieval tactical RPG Beast, I was not expecting to become a kind of satanic, horned Wolverine, ripping enemies to shreds with razor-sharp claws. My foes were equally surprised, as blood spurted out of their veins with comic book exaggeration. As I dashed around the gridless map, the miserable…
More Lords of the Fallen guides (Image credit: Hexworks / CI Games) Lords of the Fallen best weapons: Arm yourself Lords of the Fallen best class: Start strong Lords of the Fallen tips: Conquer Mournstead How to get boss weapons: Spend your Umbral Scourings How to respec: Change your build The new Lords of the…
You won’t find the crossbow in Alan Wake 2 until you start exploring Watery, an area not far from the town of Bright Falls. You’ll start seeing clues to the existence of the weapon as you get closer to the weapon’s location, by way of crossbow bolts stuck in trees. The first confirmation that it…
When it was first announced that Alan Wake 2 needs a graphics card that supports mesh shaders to run, PC gamers with AMD RX 5000-series or Nvidia GTX 10-series GPUs were immediately disappointed. It turns out the game will actually run without them, but the performance is so poor that mesh shader support really is…
October 28 marked 20 years of the Call of Duty series, as part of which some of the key designers have been talking about the greatest moments. The foundation for its overwhelming success, however, will always be original developer Infinity Ward, in particular the leap forward the studio made with the Modern Warfare series. It…
Anno 1800 gained an impressive score of 84 from us back when it was reviewed in April 2019. Reviewer Rick Lane said this “rich and sumptuous city-builder” was “comfortably the most engrossing city-builder I’ve played since Cities Skylines”, but If you’ve not had the chance to try it then the Anno 1800 Free Week event…