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For this week’s instalment of ‘did you know you can play a game on that’, I present to you the humble oscilloscope. The voltage graphing instrument used to chart electrical signals over time may sound like the worst way to spend a Friday night but 1) it’s pretty neat, actually, you could learn something, and…
Tech Tales This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 387 in August, as part of our Tech Tales series. Every month we talk about the ups and downs of PC hardware, with a look back on our own history with the hobby. So the legend goes, we have bad software to thank for…
Yesterday’s cryptic Mass Effect tease revealed precious little about what we can actually expect from the upcoming sequel, but it did make one thing very clear for me: BioWare really doesn’t understand what a mess it’s currently in. A complex ARG, an ominous countdown, and not one but three thin clips in lieu of an…
Lords of the Fallen’s been getting a lot of patches. Depending on who you ask, it might be too many—while it’s neat the crew at Hexworks are this responsive to feedback, some recent changes have left a sour taste in the community’s mouth. An update that dropped November 2 made some adjustments to certain boss…
Friends, the prophets spoke true. Mere hours after rumours began to spread that Rockstar was gearing up for an official Grand Theft Auto 6 announcement ahead of a proper trailer in December, Rockstar has gone and made an official GTA 6 announcement ahead of a proper trailer in December. In a post on the Rockstar…
News of AMD’s expected Zen 4 desktop APU range has been leaked onto the interwebs and it looks like there will be at least four new chips to choose from. The leader of the Ryzen 8000G series will have eight cores, 16 threads, and 12 RDNA 3 compute units to handle the graphics. As reported…
If you’ve been playing Alan Wake 2 you may have noticed just how pretty that game is. I’d go as far to say it’s the best looking videogame of 2023. Developer Remedy has done incredibly well to make what could’ve been a very dull and dark world look vibrant and detailed, and has since divulged…
World of Warcraft: The War Within is the newly announced expansion heading to Blizzard’s long-running MMO once Dragonflight draws to a close. In fact, it’s the first of three new expansions revealed for the WoW: Worldsoul Saga trilogy, with subsequent entries named Midnight and The Last Titan. As the name suggests, The War Within will…
Tactical squad shooter Zero Hour has always prided itself in realism, reviving the intense fine-margins teamplay that was required in genre classics like SWAT and Rainbow Six. Of course it faces some fierce competition in the genre today, but over the three years since its release, Zero Hour maintains a committed player base and a…
Candela Obscura, a new system by Darrington Press (Critical Role’s publishing arm), is a game about being a group of paranormal investigators who pry into their city’s arcane and occult underbelly. “Candela Obscura stands on the shoulders of giants,” reads the core rulebook’s fifth page. Borrowing ideas in the TTRPG space isn’t new—if anything, it’s…