PC Gaming
If the reams of art and lovelorn fanfiction are anything to go by, Baldur’s Gate 3’s romance system was one of its most successful parts. Keep, Larian, your remarkably complex imsim-y RPG gameplay; we just want to kiss vampires. But did you know that, in the fantasies of BG3’s writers, it would have been possible…
Completing the Contradiction quest in Crimson Desert is a little tricky. Unlike any previous investigations you may have done, such as Close Threat where you have to give evidence to Shakatu, this one is just a series of two-choice answers. There are no items involved at all, so which one you pick simply depends on…
The UK’s controversial Online Safety Act (OSA) passed over a year ago, and ostensibly, it “puts a range of new duties on social media companies and search services, making them more responsible for their users’ safety on their platforms.” But the ramifications of the bill are still being figured out, as are how to implement…
Tekken 8 didn’t have a very good year in 2025, and it’s with a heavy heart that I must report that it certainly doesn’t look like matters have improved any. Back in February, our resident fighting game expert Mollie Taylor wrote: “I’m genuinely excited to see what direction Tekken 8 is going to take with…
The Precipice of Truth is one of the most cumbersome parkour courses in Crimson Desert—it’s arguably just as frustrating as Root’s End. Thankfully though, it won’t take you too long to complete it, at least once you wrap your head around what you need to do. To reach the Precipice of Truth, just leap off…
Warning: Narrative spoilers below for the first act of Death Stranding 2. Death Stranding 2 is as bizarre as any of Hideo Kojima’s games. Maybe even weirder? It trades Metal Gear’s cloning and nanomachines for aging rainfall, interdimensional beaches, magical tar, and all sorts of other stuff you might kinda understand by the time you…
Hey, remember Meltgate, in which 12VHPWR (and latterly, 12V-2×6) GPU power connectors were blamed for melting graphics cards in a horrifying fashion? MSI remembers, and as a result, two of its newest PSUs have been equipped with an upgraded version of its GPU Safeguard tech to keep an eye on the current levels being delivered…
As an unrepentant lover of weird, obtuse RPGs, I’ve been pleased to see the critical consensus on Steam turning in Crimson Desert‘s favour—and it is an RPG, despite Pearl Abyss’s baffling insistence that it is not. When Crimson Desert launched last week, it was quickly inundated with reviews both positive and negative on Steam. Players…
The Sanctum of Benediction puzzle isn’t the hardest I’ve come across in Crimson Desert, but it certainly isn’t the easiest either. It’s plain to see how someone could find this sanctum confusing, especially when one of the parts you recover doesn’t seem to fit onto the central device you’re trying to repair. Thankfully, though, it’s…
A week ago or so, I flagged a report claiming that CPUs about to become the next chip class walloped by an AI-instigated shortage and spiralling prices. Now another source is making essentially the same claim but this time via at least two gaming PC maker. Nikkei Asia reports that a supply crunch is hitting…