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The various party members of Baldur’s Gate 3 are, of course, staggeringly beautiful. Whether we’re talking Ventrue Stewie Griffin, Reddit the wizard, or the jolly green fascist, all of them (plus all their pals) could easily take their turn on the catwalk if the mood struck them. That goes for everyone in your camp save…
Little things can often matter a lot and when it comes to streamlining a game’s memory usage, every gigabyte counts. One of the developers at Larian, makers of Baldur’s Gate 3, has shown that the team’s recent hard work has resulted in a 34% reduction in VRAM usage for the forthcoming Xbox Series S version….
PC Gamer’s 30th anniversary issue is on-sale today, and includes a slew of major interviews with some of the creatives that have shaped our industry and some of its most important games in history. One of those is System Shock, and Warren Spector told PCG’s editor Robert Jones his major contribution was to stop “it…
After being challenged over the company shipping $1,599 MacBooks in 2023 with just 8GB of RAM, an Apple VP has responded with the claim that it’s “probably analogous to 16GB on other systems.” With those “other systems” being PCs. Aaaaand, fight! For those who haven’t been keeping up to date with the latest Apple announcements,…
“Organisation,” wrote Vladimir Lenin, “is the strength of the working class. Without mass organisation, the proletariat is nothing. Organised, it is everything. Organisation means the unity of action, the unity of practical activity.” Lenin wrote those words in 1907, about 106 years too early to apply them to Old School RuneScape, but I’m delighted to…
PC Gamer’s all-singing all-dancing all-action 30th anniversary issue is on-sale today, and includes a slew of major interviews with the creatives that have shaped our industry and some of the most important games in history. PCG’s editor Robert Jones sat down with Warren Spector and Paul Neurath, key members of the original System Shock team,…
The latest TikTok trend involves breaking it down to a (very crisp) line read from Genshin Impact. Trying to apply structure to the meaningless is both humanity’s greatest quality and the fastest path to the abyss of thought (thanks, Polygon). The line in question is “Oratrice Mecanique d’Analyse Cardinale”, as read by Ray Chase. He’s…
Shortly after you first arrive in Sotenbori in Like a Dragon Gaiden and start working for the Akame Network, you’ll find a slightly troublesome request to locate some Okonomiyaki. The appropriately-named odd job, When will I taste Okonomiyaki?! is one of the first you can pick up in the streets of Shofukucho, but after scouring…
Microsoft has added new colour filter settings to the latest Windows 11 Insider build, which should be of major benefit to PC gamers with colour blindness. The main hook of the update are two new sliders: an intensity slider for the OS-wide colour filters and a colour boost slider. The intensity slider affects how much…
This month PC Gamer celebrates its landmark 30th anniversary issue. For three whole decades PC Gamer has been there reporting on the PC gaming industry’s biggest games, names and events, as well as its wider culture, and in this very special issue of the magazine we celebrate that heritage, both looking back on 30 years…