PC Gaming
Alone in the Dark was the first 3D survival horror game, beating Resident Evil to the punch by four years. Its polygonal character models in dingy pre-rendered interiors looked genuinely frightening in 1992 and, to be honest, still looks kinda creepy in 2026, albeit less for its realism and more for its antiquated art style….
What do you do if you suddenly have a hit TV show based on a videogame? Well, making a new videogame for fans to buy and play would be a good start—but what if the TV show is Fallout and you’re Bethesda? Since Fallout 5 could still be as much as a decade away, there’s…
In a new interview with PressBoxPR, Bethesda veteran and Skyrim’s lead designer Bruce Nesmith has gone over his time at the studio, addressing topics like why it wouldn’t make sense to switch to Unreal Engine. One of the questions he’s asked is about studio head Todd Howard, and how the public perception of him differs…
Bruce Nesmith has an enviable list of design and writing credits earned over a long history on some of Bethesda’s greatest games: Daggerfall, Oblivion, Skyrim (on which he served as lead designer), Fallout 3 and 4, and others. None of which prevented him from being extremely wrong in his recent assessment that “the reality of…
Valve made a brave move with the launch of its Steam Controller in 2015. It’s a pad designed for PC gaming on the sofa, and it removed the right thumbstick of a traditional controller and replaced it with a mouse-aping trackpad. With another trackpad on the left-hand side in place of the d-pad, you’re dual-wielding……
Cairn released late last week to glowing reviews, with Shaun Prescott calling it “prickly but approachable” in PC Gamer’s review. And clearly it’s been a big hit with the players as the devs celebrate passing a huge milestone less than a week after launch. “Is this the revival of Kami’s golden age of tourism?” The…
I sometimes forget about the existence of Nvidia’s Shield devices, in all their various iterations. Shield TV, however, has been with us now for over a decade in some form or another—and according to Nvidia, the Android-powered set-top box is far from done yet. In an interview with Ars Technica, Nvidia’s senior VP of hardware…
The only thing I really know about manga is that there’s lots of it. But now there’s a fair bit less of it online, at least that’s available for, erm, ‘free’, in less than legal terms, on bato.to. But this and many related sites, such as xbato.com, are now dead, thanks to a Chinese criminal…
Through the years of Bethesda games suffering from rocky launches, spectacular bugs, and erratic physics, there’s been a common refrain from the fans: ditch the engine. Originally Gamebryo, nowadays the Creation Engine, Bethesda’s in-house platform, has been seen as the root of all evils in The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, the supposed cause of everything…
Just a few days ago I reported that a bunch of different Linux gaming distros have teamed up to ‘improve the open source gaming ecosystem’. One distro that is noticeably absent from the Open Gaming Collective (OCG) collaboration, though, is CachyOS, and Peter Jung, founder and developer of CachyOS, has explained why (via GamingOnLinux). Replying…