PC Gaming
The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol 1 got its final big patch earlier this year, bringing 61 GB of textures to MGS3 and finally letting you switch the accept and cancel buttons on gamepad in MGS1. It was the end of a long arc for the first Master Collection, which released in a lamentable…
Modular laptop company Framework has some good news and some bad news. The good news is that memory costs from suppliers have reportedly remained steady over the past few months. The bad news is that it’s all outta storage and has to buy new stuff at inflated prices. “We’ve seen memory costs on DDR5 suppliers…
Back in February some amazing footage emerged of path tracing implementation in Dark Souls 2. At the time I was pretty impressed, but I didn’t have my fingers crossed that the ambitious mod—which is an update to the beloved DS2Lighting Engine Mod—would be available to the public anytime soon. I was wrong: the DS2LightingEngine mod…
The sequel to Pinocchio soulslike Lies of P that was announced in 2023 is now in “full production,” as revealed by the latest earnings results posted by developer Neowiz. That’s great news if you’re a fan of the game, but behind-the-scenes moves at the studio have some of those fans a little less than happy…
In 2021, Sega published an annual report touting the strength of its business and a new “priority strategy” for the coming five years: the creation of a “Super Game,” which would “stand head and shoulders above normal games.” The plan, at the time, was for that game with global appeal to launch by March 2026….
Katsuhiro Harada spent 20 years as the figurehead of Tekken before his sudden “retirement” in December. He’s long been synonymous with Bandai Namco’s fighting series and it was honestly a shock—even to me, a non-fighting game guy—when he left. But it turns out Harada hasn’t left development nor fighting games: less than half-a-year since his…
Valve, you cheeky bunch. It wasn’t enough to stand out by doubling down on touchpads, going all in on gyro, and sporting TMR joysticks: the new Steam Controller also has an Easter egg. As discovered by user RF3D19 on Reddit this week, the $99 gamepad is capable of expressing panic. When suddenly dropped, the device…
I’ve been keeping an eye on the various documents released as part of the ongoing Musk vs Altman legal fight, which centres around OpenAI changing to a for-profit structure and Elon Musk’s belief he was deceived by Sam Altman. The documents, which consist mainly of emails and text exchanges between the various figures involved, turn…
Remember in April, when the Nagoshi Studio YouTube channel disappeared without explanation? Panic ensued—or, at least, mild concern was felt by Yakuza aficionados—because just a month prior to that, NetEase pulled its funding for the studio, leading to the immediate assumption that Gang of Dragon was cooked just a few months after it was revealed….
Talk to a Path of Exile player and they’ll tell you they’re still a new player after 3,000 hours. By all accounts, PoE is the most action RPG you can find. It has over a decade of systems layered on top of each other, a web of complexity that you’d probably only understand if you…