PC Gaming
Encumbrance always sucks and I won’t hear any different. I don’t care about realism, I want my little loincloth man to be able to carry 99 washing machines in an invisible back pocket while sprinting up a mountain. I hate having to stop and sift through my inventory to junk all the things I don’t…
Ray tracing has been around a surprisingly long time in computer graphics. It was used to generate images in the 1960s, and by the ’80s new algorithms had been created including path tracing. Yet the “holy grail of rendering” remained a distant dream for early home machines like the ZX Spectrum. You need only look…
Palworld deserves kudos for actually following up on its success with bug fixes—Pocketpair now has the unenviable task of matching the sudden, unanticipated expectations that come with an indie breakout success with further support. The team’s stated mission goal on its roadmap—primarily a focus on squashing game-breaking bugs—is getting done. Patch v.0.1.4.0 aims to fix…
Since the series’ earliest days on the humble MSX, one of the big inspirations behind Metal Gear has been John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. Protagonist Solid Snake gets his callsign from Kurt Russell’s character Snake Plissken (a link that would later be solidified when Snake uses the codename Plisken in MGS2), as well as…
Game genres are a bit of an ossified thing. You’ve got strategy, FPS, RPG, and something called action-adventure for when you don’t actually know where else to categorise a game. It’s always been that way and feels like it’ll always be that way. But it doesn’t have to be. Spotted by GamesRadar, Kitfox Games and…
First, a confession: I like my mice chonky. A heavier mouse makes me feel like I’m in control, and my trusty MX Master 3S, while not exactly Thor’s hammer, is a pleasing object to use on the day-to-day. One YouTuber, however, has created a mouse so small and light that I’d be prepared to give…
Dungeons & Dragons is in a bizarre place right now—it’s on the verge of the totally-not-a-new-edition ruleset revamp and an in-development virtual tabletop project, riding high off the back of Baldur’s Gate 3. But Wizards of the Coast (WotC) has also suffered from a massive round of layoffs, and the bruises of the catastrophic OGL…
It’s pretty obvious what you should expect from a subreddit called r/malelivingspace, and oh man does it deliver. Reddit’s internet ubiquity is such that we sometimes forget at just what an awesome scale this site operates, and how that can transform a hobbyist or humorist niche into a huge connected community. So to the topic…
Mods are the lifeblood of PC gaming. Consoles can keep their pomp and highfalutin talk of “convenience,” whatever that is, I’m busy turning The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion into a six-way gang war, vaporising myself in the prologue of Fallout 4, and turning Skyrim into a boundless playground of fetishes so hyper-specific they’d give the…
This month PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to the greatest MOBA of all time, League of Legends, with its maker Riot Games revealing just why the game’s epic new update is its most dramatic yet. LoL is one of PC gaming’s most played games, with over 150 million players enjoying the game at its peak last year,…