PC Gaming
Rocksmith 2014 has rocked out for the last time: Almost 10 years to the day after the acclaimed learn-to-play-guitar game debuted, Ubisoft has removed it from sale on all digital storefronts. “Nearly 10 years ago we launched Rocksmith 2014 and set out on a journey of learning and playing guitar together, practicing old favorites, and…
I am a fickle mayor, it turns out. My first Cities: Skylines 2 town ended up in the bin after only a couple of hours—but I think for completely understandable reasons. It looked lumpier than my middle-aged arse. The way Colossal Order’s city-building sequel deals with terrain, and the way buildings interact with it, is…
The Black Diamond is one of the first rare materials you’ll encounter in Return to Moria, needing it as you do to repair the Mapstone in the first camp in order to unlock fast travel. While you can randomly get this material by fighting Orcs and Goblins during horde events—the first of which occurs when…
Whether it is because we work from home or spend long hours in intense gaming sessions (or a little of both) we can spend a lot of time sitting at desks. It’s only natural then to want your desk set up to be attractive and inviting without sacrificing form and function. We put so much…
In a recent Reddit AMA, the team behind Cities: Skylines 2, fielded a host of questions from the gaming community. Amongst all of its responses was a comment by Colossal Order’s Chief Technical Officer, saying that the game was made with a performance target of 30 fps. Why? Because the developers don’t believe there would…
Last week the developer of Cities: Skylines 2 warned players that the game doesn’t reach the performance benchmarks it was aiming for. I feel comfortable repeating this warning—while reviewing the game I had issues with frame rates, freezes and hiccups, occasional graphical glitches, and even a few crashes to desktop. Many other reviews cited performance…
Cities: Skylines 2 is here at last, and the new urban city builder honestly works a lot like the old 2015 one. If you’ve played Skylines before it won’t take you long to get up to speed, and if this is your first time playing there are lots of tutorials that will quickly have you…
The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection is here, bringing Metal Gear Solid 3 (the best one) to PC for the first time in a package that also contains MGS 1 and 2 plus the original MSX Metal Gear games. It’s a day I’ve been hotly anticipating for literal years: The Metal Gear games are some…
I think this tops the Megan Fox thing. Last week, Blizzard dropped an announcement asking fans to “donate to the blood harvest”, allowing them to earn some in-game swag for Diablo 4. Here’s the run-down. Until November 20, US players over 18 can submit proof of blood donation to any blood donation clinic, “such as…
American McGee’s Alice is a series that saw two games released roughly a decade apart: the eponymous original came out in 2000 on PC, and Alice: Madness Returns followed in 2011. The games were published by Electronic Arts and, over the last few years, McGee has been trying to drum up interest from both EA…