PC Gaming
Tsubame Industries is a startup from Japan whose whole business model is building giant mechs, edging us closer to the mech future I’ve dreamt of since watching Mobile Suit Gundam as a child. Ideally, though, with significantly fewer war crimes. The Archax is a four-wheeled, 15-foot-tall mech. Its cockpit features a series of monitors that…
As a city builder enthusiast and horrible mayor I’ve paved the way for plenty of disasters in my cities, like neglectfully letting peasants freeze by the dozens, losing my honey fortune to a heist, and chopping down a friendly enchanted talking tree just to get an amulet. But in new turn-based roguelike city builder Dotage,…
(Image credit: Microsoft) Since 2006, the Xbox controller has been the easiest controller to use on PC. The Xbox 360 gamepad made PC gaming with a controller convenient, and Microsoft has kept that going for nearly 20 years now. If you want a dead simple plug-and-play experience, the Xbox controller is the obvious choice, and…
Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update was supposed to be a relatively small thing, intended primarily to make life easier for modders rather than approaching the size of the feature-packed 1.5 update that once seemed like it would be Stardew Valley’s send-off. 1.6 has grown significantly in scope since then, to include things like “a major new…
Dredge is easily one of my favourite games of 2023—and considering how many bangers have released this year, that’s a pretty big deal. Its sinister blend of fishing and Eldritch horror had me hooked, and next month I’ll be able to experience even more thanks to its Pale Reach DLC. It’ll be taking things to…
There must be something in the water over in Eorzea—or a few backend bugs chewing their way through some Final Fantasy 14 code—because players have found themselves getting some unexpected power ups from totally random, persistent buffs. The issue, if you can call it that, began after Square Enix released the MMO’s latest update, adding…
Mark Zuckerberg, head honcho of the organisation formerly known as Facebook, has completed his first interview entirely conducted within his company’s eponymous Metaverse. And it’s sort of impressive, sort of unnerving and sort of meh, all rolled into one. Zuckerberg hooked up with Lex Fridman for the interview, a podcaster by whom he has been…
As any good PC enthusiast will tell you, adding fans for optimal cooling can get pretty fiddly at times. So SilverStone has decided to do something about this with its new range of AIO coolers, that honestly look absolutely nuts. Highlighted by PC Watch, SilverStone’s IceMyst closed-loop CPU coolers, first unveiled at Computex this year,…
Another day, another morsel of a patch for Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s only been three days since hotfix #8 set the world to rights by shaving Faerûn’s most self-important cat and preventing your companions from dumping all their groceries on you, but Larian’s already come out with hotfix #9. This one stops your legs from…
To be blunt, the success of Deep Rock Galactic was a surprise to me. A game about “space dwarves” mining for resources while fighting off hostile aliens in the deepest reaches of space sounds a little niche, doesn’t it? Especially without a Warhammer 40,000 license attached to it. And yet, it’s a hit: An “overwhelmingly…