PC Gaming
Audio gear, including some of the best microphones, can be bulky pieces of equipment to accommodate on your desk. As someone that’s become intimately familiar with the downsides of working within a limited amount of space, it can become tempting to think that it’s easier to use a (usually lesser) headset mic over a standalone…
Ergonomic keyboards are designed to minimise the stress on your shoulders, wrists, and fingers by helping to ensure that they’re all naturally positioned. If you spend all day working and all night gaming on the same PC, they can be mana from heaven. But they’re often quite expensive or come across as being somewhat on…
Microtransactions in fully-priced games are (unfortunately) here to stay for as long as they keep working—that’s a bitter pill I’ve swallowed at this point, though every now and then something comes along to make it sting all over again. As is the case with Diablo 4’s recent “Dark Pathways” pack, which wants you to shell…
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Rumor has it that Microsoft plans to release at least some of its Xbox console exclusives on PlayStation 5. This Thursday, we’ll find out if it’s true. Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer acknowledged the rumors last week and announced that he’d reveal Microsoft’s “vision for the future of Xbox” this week. We’ve now learned that…
Helldivers 2 wears the over-the-top brutality of Starship Troopers on its fascistic sleeves. Soldiers bark propaganda slogans dynamically, missions are labeled “Restore Liberty” with no further elaboration on the alien genocide you’re committing, and the opening cinematic is pure Verhoeven. But I didn’t expect that same brutality to make friendly fire a source of fun….
The Steam Next Fest just wrapped up, the Steam Lunar New Year Sale is still going, and the big Steam Spring Sale is just a month away. And you know what that means, right? It’s time for more! The Steam Remote Play Together Fest is now live, with a host of discounts on games that…
Larian founder Swen Vincke is reading our Baldur’s Gate 3 Steam reviews, but if he hasn’t read all of them, it’s nothing personal: Even at a pace of five seconds per review, it would take the armor-clad CEO a month without breaks to get through every one of them. There are now over 500,000 reviews…
The Thaumaturge, an isometric RPG about occultists summoning spirit beings in 1905 Warsaw, has been delayed into March—not because it needs more development time, but because February is just too damn crowded already. Fool’s Theory, the studio making The Thaumaturge, has some fairly deep RPG roots. It’s headed up by former Witcher 2 and 3…
This article contains mild spoilers for Spirit Hunter: Death Mark 2 and descriptions of sexual violence. The slight bulge of a schoolboy’s groin can be clearly seen where his trousers have been torn away as Death Mark 2 lingers on an image of him being eaten alive, head first. Elsewhere, a teenager presses his exposed…