PC Gaming
Last week, just about everyone in the games business was mad at Unity over a new, retroactive per-install fee for games made with the engine. Unity developers raised troubling question after troubling question about the proposal: How would installs be counted? What if someone reinstalls a game over and over? What about cases where a…
It was bound to happen—there’s another dungeon crawling PvP extraction game in the works for those of us who prefer to get our competitive kicks with swords and spells rather than guns. Recently revealed Project Crawl is calling itself “an immersive first-person PvPvE dungeon crawler” and is planning an alpha playtest on Steam next week….
Like an angry cyborg ninja with something to prove, CD Projekt Red has taken a pair of bloat-cutting mantis blades to Cyberpunk 2077’s formerly overwrought crafting and upgrade system. It now couldn’t be easier to keep a favorite iconic weapon up-to-date as your V makes the long march from level one to 60. Cyberpunk’s loot…
Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 patch has brought with it sweeping changes to game balance and progression, but the change I’ve appreciated the most since returning to the streets of Night City is how grenades and health consumables now regenerate. No longer must you toil, disassembling mountains of trash plucked from the still-warm hands of freshly killed…
Don’t say the ‘D’ word. Ever since Dust 514’s 2013 debut and subsequent flaming out a few years later, a segment of EVE fans have wanted one thing: Dust 2. Well, that and EVE Valkyrie 2. EVE Vanguard is not Dust 2: nooooo. But it is a continuation of that idea, or ideal, and perhaps…
Baldur’s Gate 3‘s latest patch—the third in two months—is out right now, and it’s a doozy. The two big headliners are things we knew about already, but just in case you missed them—Baldur’s Gate 3 is now on Mac, and there’s also now a magic mirror in your camp that’ll let you change your custom…
I feel bad for controller makers. The Xbox Core Wireless and the PlayStation DualSense are pretty much the best things you can put your hands on. Once you find a controller you like, you tend to stick with it. PowerA is going to try anyway. The company has always made reliable, affordable controllers that look…
Ever wondered what it would be like to run around the maps of Armored Core 6 with your Elden Ring character? If not, why the heck not? I’m sure this modder who imported the AC6 maps into Elden Ring surely can’t be the only one interested in exploring them, sword drawn, and ready to fight…
Starfield‘s community keeps getting smarter with their ship builds—we’ve had AI-exploiting nightmares made of corners, ladderless flat discs, and some sci-fi classics. But what about the little guys of the universe—pilots who don’t want some big, fancy warship with 500 autocannons? That’s exactly who these players are repping. The tiny ship trend’s here to stay—well,…
Kiss goodbye to native-res raster rendering. The biggest noise in PC graphics, Nvidia, thinks it’s game over. The future is—it has to be—AI rendering. In fact, AI rendering is more “real” than traditional raster graphics rendering. In a Digital Foundry round table discussion on Nvidia’s new DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction technology, Nvidia’s Vice President Applied…