PC Gaming
Reports last week that the Steam Deck is sold out in the United States prompted speculation ranging sober through to outlandish, but the actual reason is simple and you’ve likely already guessed it: like the rest of the games industry, Valve has been hit by the memory crisis. “Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently…
“That was a very satisfying half of the year,” begin Artur Ganszyniec’s closing comments as the credits roll on CD Projekt’s original Witcher game from 2007. Five months prior, he took to YouTube to share a full let’s play of the cult classic RPG in a series appropriately called “The Witcher with a designer’s commentary.”…
One thing is immediately noticeable when you create a character in World of Warcraft as one of its newest races: The amount of customization options eclipses that of the older races. Play an undead man and you get to change what hue your rotting skin looks like and what kind of malformed jaw you want….
It’s not exactly Mirror’s Edge, but the robust free-running parkour system has always been a huge draw for Assassin’s Creed enjoyers. It changes a lot from game to game, and everyone has their favorite implementation, but it might be time to reassess: Shadows’s parkour just got a big upgrade with manual jumping. “It’s finally here,”…
NetEase’s tumultuous relationship with its own western studios shows no sign of abating, as action-adventure studio Anchor Point declares it’s parting ways with the corporation and going independent. The shift was announced by Anchor Point CEO (and former lead designer on Remedy’s Control) Paul Ehreth on LinkedIn (via Game Developer). “We will be transitioning to…
Is it just me, or does it feel like everything is just about to spiral out of control with this AI-memory-boom-chatbot-slop-crisis thing? We already know that memory prices have gone bananas and that the crisis is complicating the production of all kinds of computing-adjacent devices. Now the CEO of memory specialist Phison is reported to…
The fight against the gorilla inexplicably piloting a boat was the moment Sea of Remnants got me. I’ve never played a gacha game so bizarre and committed to creating a world so much different than most of the other popular games in the genre. But for as much as it ditches the anime conventions and…
Microsoft Edge: many a PC Gamer knows it as a stepping stone between them and their actual browser of choice—no matter how much the software pleads with you to reconsider. But rather than simply dismissing this as looking a bit desperate, the Browser Choice Alliance argues this is just one instance of ‘deceptive tactics‘ by…
Overwatch‘s story is a bit all over the place; there’s no denying it. Nearly a decade on from the launch of the first game, we’re still more or less where we began—Winston’s recalling old agents—only, finally, there’s an actual villain: Vendetta’s Talon. Sure, we’ve had Talon, Null Sector and whatnot causing trouble in the lore…
Did you know that, for a brief few years, Motorola (or more accurately, Motorola Mobility) was owned by Google? If you didn’t know that, then you likely also don’t know that, in those two cursed years, Motorola showed off a password pill you swallow as a form of password authentication. Yeah, 2013 was weird. As…