PC Gaming

Baldur’s Gate 3 walked away from the DICE Awards with another handful of trophies: Outstanding Achievement in Story, RPG of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in Game Design, Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction, and Game of the Year—adding to an already massive list of well-deserved accolades. Its developers, however, devoted much of their speech time to…

Good news: Palworld players have found yet another way to get one over on the system by violating the laws of god and man alike. Not content with killing the game’s bosses using physics-defying staircases, they’ve got a new trick: butchering their pals without killing them thanks to a well-timed mounting. Obviously, that sentence is…

Alan Wake 2 was beloved by critics when it launched in October last year, with our own Robin Valentine awarding it a score of 89 in his Alan Wake 2 review calling it “a glorious sprawl of surreal horror” that “will stay with you long after you’ve seen every terrifying encounter, cheesy manuscript page, and…

You know all those Xbox rumours? The hot new hardware including a handheld, the idea that Microsoft is giving up on consoles altogether and releasing its exclusive Xbox games on third party platforms. Turns out it’s true. Well, most of it. Microsoft made a fairly comprehensive Xbox data dump yesterday including an official podcast on…

After a long week of teasing from the weirdly Pingu-centric Larian Studios Twitter account, the sixth patch of Baldur’s Gate 3 is now live, adding a bunch of shiny new touches to the Sword Coast’s cast and crew. Those promised smooch improvements are now in the game, and while they’re suitably steamy, Astarion won’t be…

Looking for a quick way to level up your Helldivers 2 character and farm some Medals for your Warbond? Though we’ve vanquished the bugs and the construction of a containment area is underway, there’s now a new problem for Super Earth—murderous armies of Automatons are invading the fringe colonies, looking to kill all humans. Just…

There’s a clue for today’s Wordle waiting just below if you need a hand with the February 16 (972) puzzle. Not the solution—just a little something to point you in the right direction. Need something stronger? You’ve got it. The answer to today’s game is only one quick click away. I was doing great until…

Anyone that owns a PC has to contend with dust buildup. It’s the bane of PC cooling. Even if you keep your area clean, some buildup will occur over time. It’s made much worse of you have a carpeted room and especially if you have pets. You can configure your fans however you like, use…

The generative AI company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E has a new toy: Sora, a text-to-video model that can generate pretty convincing 60-second clips from prompts like “a stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street…” and “a movie trailer featuring the adventures of the 30 year old space man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet…”…

Elden Ring’s optional megaboss Malenia is one of those memetic videogame tests of skill now. Like the Emerald Weapon in Final Fantasy 7 or the White Palace in Hollow Knight she represents the ultimate challenge in her game, and might just be the boss design high-water mark in FromSoftware’s notoriously boss-centric body of work. So…