PC Gaming
I never cease to be amazed by portals in video games. Even though the tech is nearly two decades old (and older still, if you include the use of portal rendering for hidden environment transitions in Thief and other early 3D games), Portal’s seamless, real-time transitions through holes in space still feel like magic to…
Cruelty Squad is undoubtedly one of the weirdest indie breakthroughs of this decade, a wilfully obtuse and unpleasant immersive sim in which you play a corporate assassin in a lo-fi 3D world painted with vomit. But we dug its counter-cultural (and counter-mechanical) approach and, following its success, the developer has since been working on a…
Nobody could accuse me of being a fan of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It was a serious misfire from a once-exceptional studio, and while I can understand why it resonated with some players—it was pretty, breezy and had fun, snappy combat—after Andromeda and Anthem, it was the third and final strike. Yet I still find…
It’s not actually true that four-time F1 champ Max Verstappen has a racing sim rig in his private plane. But he is a serious racing sim aficionado to the extent of having one in his motorhome at European F1 races and generating controversy over his late-night sim racing antics before actual F1 races. So, when…
You’d be forgiven for thinking that a company called Advanced Micro Devices would make the majority of its profit from said tech, with coveted high-end graphic cards leading the charge. Though gaming hardware continues to do big business, it’s been completely overshadowed in recent years by an explosion in demand for data centres handling AI….
It’s got its ups and downs, but I rather like Steam early access. Being able to get in on the ground floor of something, watch it develop, and support developers whose ambitions might exceed their initial budgets is a neat thing. The downside, of course, is that sometimes the games just don’t get finished. They…
While excitement (or derision) might currently be directed towards Nvidia’s new graphics cards and AMD’s upcoming ones, let’s not forget that the past few months has seen the introduction of new CPU line-ups from both Intel and AMD. From Intel, we had the somewhat underwhelming Core Ultra 200S ‘Arrow Lake’ line-up, and from AMD, we…
It’s official, AMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 gaming graphics cards will arrive in early March. And that’s not a moment too soon given the latest figures from AMD’s gaming graphics division. It’s not pretty, folks! The news comes from AMD’s latest earnings call, laid on for the usual assembly of bankers and money men. Among various…
Completing The Lion’s Crest will be one of your first tasks if you’ve pre-ordered Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Once you complete the prologue and find yourself free in Troskowitz, this quest will let you obtain the Brunswick Armor and weapon pre-order bonuses for the game—if you didn’t pre-order, sadly you’re out of luck unless they…
I have, in the past few days, written the word ‘Bohemia’ more than I ever have or likely ever will again in my professional life. It’s down to the release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, of course, Warhorse’s really quite good medieval RPG set in the rambling forests and plains of, well, Bohemia. I reckon…