PC Gaming
We lost our way as a society when we stopped making wave-based co-op modes. “Horde mode” (as popularized by Gears of War) became the hot new thing in shooters of the late 2000s, spawning unique interpretations of PvE gauntlets in everything from Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty to Uncharted and even Mass Effect….
A little while before the fifth Patch of Baldur’s Gate 3 came along, I wrote up this news post about a teaser image Larian Studios had shared on Twitter, featuring Withers in a silly little hat warning “fun is mandatory”. I joked about being scared at the time. Little did I know, I was very…
The games industry is on fire. Countless layoffs, anxiety and strife abound. Despite that, 2023 is probably the best year I’ve ever seen for games themselves, with something new and exciting dropping every single day. Forget the award shows, we’re going hipster here—outside of the obvious indie must-haves of the year (such as Pizza Tower…
The latest patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 launched last week—bringing a whole new way to punish yourself along with it: Honour Mode. This permadeath-style challenge tasks you with completing the game before suffering a single party wipe (though you can convert it to a custom game and finish the story if you beef it). As…
The critical success of The Witcher TV series on Netflix has had an industry-wide impact. A Disco Elysium television series was announced in 2020, Netflix’s Cyberpunk 2077 anime from Studio Trigger was a smash, and last week we got the first trailer for Prime Video’s Fallout TV series. Games aren’t just for PCs any more,…
It might be because it had something of a rocky start, but it sometimes seems like Windows 11 is only just reaching its maturity, what with the continuing march of added features and substantial Windows 11 updates released over the past year. However, those of you who’ve only recently made the switch may be surprised…
A little over a week ago, an AMD patent titled Distributed Geometry was published by the US Patent Office, the patent itself was filed by AMD in April this year. The patent details a fully chiplet approach to GPUs, where the rendering workload is distributed across a collection of chips, rather than having one massive…
In case you missed it, a little-known developer called Rockstar finally revealed that its first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 would be dropping on December 5. With little more than a graphic with warm sunset tones, palm trees, and the words “Trailer 1, December 5, 9 AM ET,” the developer set fans into an…
Is that time of the month again, when Valve releases the results from its Steam hardware and software survey, and to no surprise whatsoever, Nvidia still rules the graphics card chart. The November figures show that Nvidia accounts for 72.5% of all the entries, with its Ampere-based GPUs (i.e. GeForce RTX 30-series) accounting for 27.3%…
Few careers in the last 15 years have evolved as drastically as game streaming. From grainy webcams as teenagers shrieked over jump-scares in indie horror games, to full-on studios with high-end recording equipment and meticulously curated backgrounds, streaming has become a competitive job that you need to invest a bit into if you’re to get…