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RSS Feed | Apple Podcasts | Spotify What’s up PC gamers? Welcome back to the PC Gamer Chat Log podcast! I hope you’ve all had a fine week so far and have managed to cram plenty of gaming time in. Maybe you’ve been sitting on your cushy gaming chair with your triple-monitor setup and your…
Remember the RTX 3080? Of course you do. While it’s easy to get caught up in the latest 40-series GPU releases, the RTX 3080 still makes for a great gaming card. It wasn’t particularly heat-prone, yet some of the third-party cards came with very large coolers to push it to the maximum. None, however, is…
Canadian programmer Gary Bowser was charged with severe fines and jail time after a Nintendo lawsuit accused him of “conspiracy to circumvent technological measures and to traffic in circumvention devices”—piracy, to unspool the legal speech—in 2020. Bowser was a member of Team-Xecuter, a group of hackers who had facilitated the use of various ROMs (read…
The Pokémon-with-guns-and-forced-labor survival game Palworld looks like the sort of thing that would be very enjoyable on a mobile device: On your morning commute, during a walk in the park, or maybe just sitting outside in your garden, if you happen to live someplace that isn’t currently drenched in snow and cold. Alas, it is…
It’s official: Palworld has a bigger population than 127 literal countries, including Senegal, Somalia, the Netherlands, and Chad. That’s according to Pocketpair’s sales statistics and this Wikipedia list of countries by population, anyway, with the news that Palworld has now sold a soul-boggling 19 million copies around the world. That’s 12 million on Steam and…
A new documentary from German games sites Game Two and GameStar has shed some more light on the disastrous development of The Day Before, and boy howdy, it’s worse than you thought. Game Two says it spoke to 16 former Fntastic employees, one of its former “volunteers,” and seven staff from The Day Before’s publisher…
Despite passing through an intense Sonic the Hedgehog phase when I was around nine years old, I wouldn’t say I gotta go particularly fast. Over the ensuing two decades I’ve rarely sought out the classic pastime of accelerating a cartoon mascot to inhumane speeds. I’ve been content leaving platforming to speedrunners, kaizo enthusiasts—really, anyone who…
The problem with the phrase “it’s like [thing] on acid!” becoming such a lame cliché is that sometimes things really are like other things on acid. The newly announced Children of the Sun, from publisher Devolver, is a dark and hallucinatory tale of a disturbed sniper taking revenge on a backwoods cult, and… well, basically…
Dredge was one of 2023’s out-of-left field indie greats—we gave it an 89 in our Dredge review, then later bestowed it with Best Setting award for our Game of the Year shoutouts. It wears that mantle well from what I’ve seen as a genuinely brilliant bit of bathophobia–inducing atmospheric horror, in which you man a…
One of the unfortunate bummers about Avowed—which is set in the Pillars of Eternity universe—is that you’ll be limited to playing either a human or an elf for story reasons, as your adventurer will be an envoy from the largely elf-slash-human dominated Aedyr Empire. That’s kinda disappointing, seeing as Aumaua, Dwarves, and the fuzzy li’l…