PC Gaming
The number one wishlisted game on Steam is almost here, and as you dive deep into the murky and mysterious waters of Subnautica 2 this week, let me give you one important piece of advice. No, I’m not telling you to monitor your oxygen supply or watch out for sea monsters. I’m saying this: remember…
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that the Bioshock games have some of the best openers in the business—descending down into Rapture for the first time while Andrew Ryan’s hypercapitalist croon asks you if a man is not entitled to the sweat of his brow? Chef’s kiss. Molto bello. Even Infinite, which I have…
In a nice bit of news for True Linux Patriots everywhere, Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency has dedicated €1.3 million of its Sovereign Tech Fund (about $1.5 million / £1.1 million) to the KDE free and open-source (FOSS) software community (via Phoronix). If you know KDE for anything, you likely know it for its Plasma desktop…
Hackers aren’t known for punching above the belt, but one recent scam feels so devious it’s made me even more wary of the next time IT tries to reach out to me. The scam uses hijacked Microsoft Teams account to pose as an IT helpdesk, which then convinces users to download malicious files. As noted…
There are few things more cathartic in this life than a videogame that just lets you smash a load of stuff up. In that regard, You Are the Monster is about as pure as it gets: pick a giant monster, get dropped into a city, and rampage across it. It’s a profoundly uncomplicated experience. Starting…
The war in Iran is causing supply issues globally, with constrained gas and oil supplies due to the closure of the strait of Hormuz being the ones that hits home for most people. But we’re also starting to see impacts on the supply of different materials which, on top of a memory shortage, aren’t looking…
World of Warcraft: Midnight has had some trouble with its class balancing—some of this is fair enough, given Blizzard completely redesigned the game’s specialisations (there’s close to 40 of them) to better suit a world without UI mods. This had, uh, some consequences. Consequences like, for instance, five bears rocking up to your dungeon and…
Education technology company Instructure has “reached an agreement” with the hacker group that breached its systems for a second time earlier this month. Most recently, hacker group ShinyHunters had exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes of data from the company’s cloud-based learning management system Canvas. This breach potentially exposed the names, email addresses, and private messages of…
These days, I’m firmly on the System Shock side of the System Shock/BioShock division that exists almost exclusively in my head, but I’ll give Rapture this: it was goddamn stunning when I first took that bathysphere jaunt back in 2007. The barnacled art deco was a heck of a look, and it still is today….
I am absolutely in love with Outbound as a concept. Driving around in a cosy little camper van, decking it out with all kinds of decor and doo-dads as I scrounge around for resources, blueprints, and collectibles in order to build my own sustainable, portable empire. In execution, though? Eh. It’s a real bummer, because…