PC Gaming
While the RTS genre is as busy as it’s ever been, when it comes to big success stories, they have been few and far between. While there are smaller teams doing interesting things, the major launches of the last couple of years have largely been disappointing sequels and throwbacks. Even the RTS I’m most excited…
All hail the new king. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched, which strikes me as a hell of a nervy first boot. You always hold your breath the first few times you fire up a freshly-built gaming PC, don’t you? However,…
Hyte kinda blew up in early 2021; its Y60 chassis changed the game in the world of PC cases in a wild way. As soon as you could blink an eye, every media outlet, influencer, and PC enthusiast had one of those shiny fishbowls strapped to their Instagram page, complete with the latest hardware. And…
Peripherals specialist Logitech and the repair gurus at iFixit are ganging up to deliver that most noble of pursuits, making your devices last longer. The basic gist is to sell genuine Logitech parts on iFixit along with listing step-by-step repair guides. A quick tally of the guides on the Logitech Repair Hub on iFixit suggests…
Epic Games has for several years now been engaged in a legal war with Apple and Google, centered around the closed ecosystems of iOS and Android: Where developers have no choice but to pay a 30% store fee on all revenue. The massive success of Fortnite seems to have brought this into sharp relief for…
The dataminers appear to have struck some hypothetical gold while panning for details in, bemusingly, Cataclysm Classic’s public test realm (PTR) of all places. In case you aren’t in the know, player housing—an oft-requested feature of the 20 year old MMO—is absolutely coming to World of Warcraft in the game’s next expansion, Midnight. The only…
Pocketpair, the developers behind Palworld, has announced its first project as a publisher—a new horror game alongside Surgent Studios. This comes a few months after the studio responsible for Tales of Kenzera: Zau put its team on notice for redundancy. “We noticed a pattern in the entertainment industry, and Pocketpair has given us the opportunity…
In a press Q&A ahead of today’s Xbox developer direct, id Software creative director Hugo Martin and executive producer Marty Stratton expanded on some of the gameplay changes coming to Doom: The Dark Ages. In particular, they outlined how some of the criticisms of 2020’s Doom Eternal led the team to look for inspiration in…
We’re fast approaching five years since the launch of Doom Eternal, and while Doom: The Dark Ages is shaping up to be a more stripped-back attempt at the Doom formula with its medieval aesthetic, the Doom: The Dark Ages system requirements feel straight out of the future. If you want to run this pulpy shooter…
Final Fantasy 14’s community has been frayed at the edges recently, as widespread awareness of a modding tool that allows stalkers—an issue FF14 has had for a while—to have access to every alternate character on their target’s account. Dawntrail received a more powerful blacklisting system to help fight stalking behaviour, but the mod actually takes…