PC Gaming
There’s a lot going on in games that we’re not supposed to see, such as the invisible bunnies that make World of Warcraft work. In the case of hit RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, it turns out that some of those dramatic cutscenes are happening in the midst of unseen limb chaos, as evidenced by…
Mewgenics, the cat-breeding brawler from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel, is a big game. Senior editor Robin Valentine wrote in his review (92%, by the way) that “after three weeks and over 100 hours of Mewgenics taking over my personal life, it’s still surprising me every run.” In case that’s not sufficiently convincing, McMillen himself…
The many wonders of Dwarf Fortress are products of its complexity. The intricate interplay of fantasy simulation systems generate uniquely rich moments: Fortress mayhem can provoke a rash of traumatic baby hauntings, goblin highwaymen can be grabbed and thrashed about by their individual teeth, and—as one Dwarf Fortress player recently discovered—sometimes your soldiers might just…
Alas, poor Cube World. Your future felt so bright twice (thrice?) upon a time, when you popped out of the blue with so many brazen promises and then fizzled out in mere weeks. The reality of playing Cube World in 2019 was pretty dismal, but the underlying concept has always crackled with promise—a voxel-based, procedurally…
Konami has been slowly reviving the Metal Gear series in recent years, after the departure of series creator Hideo Kojima saw it go on a five year hiatus (eight years, if you discount the much-maligned Metal Gear Survive). 2023 brought the Master Collection Vol. 1, which launched with a few issues but is now an…
Notorious sandwich lover Ron Perlman made a surprise appearance in the second season of the Fallout TV series on Prime, and if you don’t want any spoilers you should probably stop reading now—and yes, I know, that in itself is something of a spoiler, but there’s only so much I can do here. If you’re…
The Intel Nova Lake leaks are coming thick and fast today. Earlier, Nick reported on the apparently outsized power requirements of the dual-CPU-die variant of Nova Lake with 52 cores. Now come claimed details about the equally outsized proportions of the widely rumoured “bLLC” version of the Nova Lake CPU die with added cache memory….
Gaming’s equivalent of classic sci-fi satire film Starship Troopers is about to become Hollywood’s take on the gaming equivalent of classic sci-fi satire film Starship Troopers. Which sounds like it should just be Starship Troopers, as we noted when the news of a film adaptation first broke a year ago. But when has a trifling…
Overwatch’s latest season, the Reign of Talon, has brought an absolutely huge update with it. With a great UI overhaul, a competitive reset, and five new heroes for players to get to grips with. I’ve managed to try each one out, and while I love the wackiness of Jetpack Cat, Emre is currently in the…
Tim Cain is back with another YouTube video and that means two things. The first: my career, such as it is, can continue for at least another day. The second: it’s time for some delicious original Fallout reflections. Today’s video was a discussion on tone in games, and the responsibility that game directors have to…