PC Gaming
For the past handful of years, Black Ops has been increasingly—as our own Ted Litchfield put it—suffering from a case of ‘Fortnitification’. That is, whatever core aesthetic identity it had is due to vanish into the hole of crossovers and garish skins. While there’s been a quiet murmuring of fury from the community over these…
It may surprise you to learn that I’m deeply sceptical of the whole ‘tech that looks retro but boasts modern capabilities’ trend. With a classic console collection steadily gathering dust, I’m clearly not immune to nostalgic hardware. So, could I be swayed by JapanNext’s JN-V236G180F-RETRO monitor? The name does little to endear me so far….
If Path of Exile 2‘s best early game Witch build had a motto it’d be ‘work smarter, not harder.’ Well, either that or ‘burn them all and let god sort them out.’ The Witch is PoE 2’s answer to Diablo’s Necromancer, and a lot of your play will revolve around configuring your retinue of skeletal…
If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is, especially if the item in question is a digital key for a brand-new game that can be swiped away using DRM witchcraft just as swiftly as it can be activated. That’s what happened with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which Humble Bundle…
I’m as guilty as anyone of harbouring games on my hard drive for years on end, telling myself that I’ll pick them up again ‘any day now’, but inevitably leaving them to gather digital dust (LA Noire: 3 years and 78 days). But there are a few games that earn their long-term residency on my…
Anyone else feel like the past decade has been one of the gradual normalisation of privacy-defiling practices? If so, you’ll be saddened to hear that Mozilla is binning the ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) privacy option in version 135 of Firefox. It’s already gone in the Nightly developer release and it should be gone from the…
I dread to think how bad things would have been had Intel released this Arc B580 graphics card back in the summer. All year long we’ve been expecting the new Battlemage GPU architecture to arrive in a new suite of discrete Intel graphics cards, but we’ve had to wait until the very last minute of…
Christmas is a wonderful time of year. It’s full of reunions, hot chocolate, presents, and organisational stress. Most people are bogged down with travel plans, parties, presents, gift wrapping, and the like—which is a bit of a stressor for us DMs, who are already perpetually organising something for our players. Luckily, there’s going to be…
Path of Exile 2 has been out on Steam Early Access for nary a week, but already it’s been a wild ride of record-breaking player counts, servers buckling under the load, and overpowered builds that can one-shot bosses (though when they’re not being ganked by broken builds, the bosses are actually way more challenging than…
It’s been four years since It Takes Two, the phenomenally good dedicated co-op adventure that was Hazelight’s last outing. That game has sold an astonishing 20 million copies and is by far the biggest success that EA’s Originals label has seen: So no surprise the publisher has signed up the studio’s next joint, and the…