PC Gaming
When Diablo 4 players aren’t smashing bosses into the ground in one swing or becoming invulnerable with an amulet, most of their time is spent squinting at loot. Now that items pour out of every chest and monster since season 2, your inventory gets stuffed real quick, and the process of sorting through all that…
It’s only on screen for a couple seconds, and only partially, but there’s no mistaking it: The Quake logo is drawn on a whiteboard that appears in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle reveal video from this week’s Xbox Developer Direct. Above it is a cut-off word: “-AKE 6.” I’m guessing that MachineGames did…
America’s Army was at one time the world’s most (in)famous videogame military recruitment tool, but now that it’s out of the picture the British are taking their shot. The British Army has revealed a new “Fortnite experience” called Operation: Belong, and it plans to livestream an influencer-led competition on it next week. Yung Filly and…
The single most expensive hat trade in Team Fortress 2’s history went down this week, with one player exchanging goods worth over 10,000 of the game’s crate keys (around $1.80 each) for an unusual Arcana Crone’s Dome, the characteristics of which make it the only one in existence. It’s a witch’s hat with some Halloween…
The Mythic raid boss blocking a mountain of World of Warcraft guilds from progressing has finally been nuked from orbit. Tindral Sageswift is the penultimate boss in WoW’s Amirdrassil, the Dream’s Hope raid. It’s a long fight: Tindral is a druid, and he shapeshifts into several forms over the course of the encounter, each with…
Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry and science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke’s ashes were on board a pirate US lunar lander that, after a failed moonshot, re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Friday and burned-up on the way down. The intention had been to leave the ashes, among those from around 70 individuals including actors James Doohan…
You have to wonder whether the creators of Lonestar were cursing their luck last November, when turn-based, space duel roguelike Cobalt Core was released. Lonestar, you see, is a turn-based, space duel roguelike, and if the two games don’t exactly look like twins, they could certainly be first cousins. Both centre on nose-to-nose spaceship battles…
Oblivion isn’t many people’s favourite Elder Scrolls game—that title usually goes to either its predecessor or successor—but it’s unquestionably the funniest. Yes, Morrowind had The Lusty Argonian Maid and Skyrim sent you to the Moon every time a giant took a swing at you, but Oblivion’s technology and acting combined in perfect alchemy to produce…
Look, I’m not even the worlds biggest fan of the series. I can quote it, sure, but to me the Lord of the Rings was, at school, an extremely dense series of books I felt I needed to get through, and after that a series of films that were quite entertaining when watched leaning back…
Sometimes, it’s nice to hear the things you know in your heart said out loud. Such is the case with the Game Developers’ Conference State of the Games Industry 2024 report, the latest edition of GDC’s annual look at just what devs are doing. One of the many, many questions GDC has put to devs…