Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, will never uninstall Doom from his PC, and has over 488 hours in Fallout 76: ‘It’s the best cryptid hunting game’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Dave Oshry, CEO of New Blood Interactive, first encountered PC…

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A YouTuber has unearthed Dark Souls 2’s enormous cut sewers map, and it’s another fascinating insight into the design of FromSoftware’s most divisive work

Whether you think Dark Souls 2 is FromSoftware’s worst Souls game or its best (as many diehard fans believe) it’s undoubtedly the game that had the roughest development in the series. The sequel went through a mid-development reboot that resulted in a complete story overhaul, as well as the various level design quirks evident in…

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Mirror’s Edge review (2009)

Mirror’s Edge review – PC Gamer issue #197 (UK, February 2009) By Graham Smith The early levels of Mirror’s Edge are the ones that best communicate the joys of the game, because they’re the ones that best deliver the free-running dream. That is: you, in an urban environment, gracefully inventing your own path from point…

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Marathon’s most popular shotgun is getting nerfed a second time, as Bungie worries it is ‘eclipsing a lot of the other short range options that exist in the game’

Since Marathon launched, one gun has dominated both the battlefield and the discourse. No, I don’t mean the Biotoxic Disinjector, which while ferociously powerful, is unlikely to appear outside of Cryo Archive due to its rarity. I’m instead referring to the almighty WSTR shotgun, by far the best weapon to carry in your back pocket…

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Almost 28 years later, the mystery of what’s under women’s skirts in Elder Scrolls spin-off Redguard has finally been solved

“This may be one of the longest running secrets in the history of The Elder Scrolls we are about to reveal,” says the holy repository of knowledge that is the Ultimate Elder Scrolls Portal, “this has seemingly stayed hidden for 28 years from general knowledge.” In 1998, Bethesda released a third-person action-adventure set in the…

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‘Are monitors anti-inflation?’: AOC argues monitors are a better upgrade than graphics cards or memory right now, which seems like the kind of thing a monitor manufacturer would say

Monitors are kind of important. Like, you need them to see the games you play, man. But on a deeper level, picking the right one to see your games as intended actually is important—be that going up to 4K for those beautifully rendered textures or OLED for true blacks. Monitor manufacturer AOC seems to agree,…

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