PC Gaming
Valve announced Counter-Strike 2 in March, and it’s one of those delightfully esoteric competitive game sequels that outsiders might look at with tilted heads, wondering what the heck makes it different from the Counter-Strike people are playing now, while folks like resident PC Gamer CS player Rich Stanton dub it their “dream game” because the…
Cyberpunk 2077 may be the most successful flop of all time. Within weeks of launch, the RPG had sold 13 million copies, even accounting for dissatisfied players refunding the game. It made its eight year budget back in a single day. But those accomplishments couldn’t stop Cyberpunk from widely being seen as a disappointment. It…
It’s time to call it: the era of hard disks is over. While you might’ve been able to get away with storing games on an HDD in 2020, graphically-demanding games have become even more reliant on the faster load speeds of SSDs over the past few years. Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 both demanded SSDs…
The irony has been pointed out many times: When game engine Unity revealed its new per-install fee last week, game developers were possibly the most united they’ve ever been—in disgust. Even developers who don’t use Unity expressed anger or criticized the unprecedented change of terms. Perhaps the best example of this game dev rallying occurred…
After all these years, Bethesda Game Studios has finally released one of its signature first-person RPGs with functional ladders. Glorified teleporters no more: Starfield’s ladders have proper interactive climbing animations, and since Starfield makes an attempt at somewhat realistic spacecraft designs, its ships naturally contain lots of them. Also naturally, because it’s just a law…
Thermaltake View i467T R4 | Intel Core i7 12700F | Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti | 1TB SSD | 32GB DDR5 RAM | $1,599.99 at Best Buy Thermaltake has been knocking it out of the park with some desktop deals recently, and this RTX 4070 Ti system is no exception. Yeah, it’s got a last-gen CPU, but…
One of the biggest DIY repair sites, iFixit, has revised its repairability score on the iPhone 14, explaining its software “now limits many basic iPhone repairs” because it requires would be repairers to have replacement parts remotely authenticated by Apple. iFixit originally gave the iPhone 14 a 7 out of 10 repairability score but…
Some time into figuring out Fantastic Haven‘s UI and menu options, I received a notification that a gryphon—who I’d so nicely made a little patch of grassland for—had gone rogue. Tabbing back to my settlement, I watched the little rascal sprint for my quarantine building and smack it before my helpful golems came along to…
Looking to dust off Cyberpunk 2077 for the new 2.0 update? If you want the game looking, and running, like Johnny Silverhand’s Porsche 911 Turbo, you should enable one of the game’s many available upscaling technologies. You have a few to choose from: DLSS, FSR, and XeSS. You can take your pick of the lot…
Though Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty might not be quite as expansive as the Blood and Wine expansion for The Witcher 3, there is plenty to do in Dogtown. From choice-based side gigs, to new activities like Airdrops and car thefts, to the main quest itself—Dogtown may just be one district in a massive city, but…