PC Gaming
D&D and other tabletop RPGs require someone to lead them—a Dungeon Master, also known as a Games Master. It can be an intimidating role to take on, but as someone who’s been regularly running campaigns for about 20 years now, trust me when I say that learning how to DM is much less difficult than…
Embark Studios’ The Finals is one of the most interesting multiplayers to come along for a while. It’s also a brand new game from a new studio, and it unsurprisingly has some issues at launch. Alongside its underwhelming AI-assisted voiceovers, weird bugs, and questionable balance at the start of Season 1, as Morgan has pointed…
Blizzard have released a sneak peek at some of the Hero Talents from World of Warcraft’s upcoming expansion: The War Within. Hero Talents are meant to be evergreen dashes of spice to the game’s existing talent system—ones which mainly add “class utility [and] defensive bonuses.” The devs maintain that the differences in these trees is…
The rumours of Nvidia’s refresh of its RTX 40-series of GPUs have been steadily building for months and although the final specifications have yet to be set in stone, the dates when you can buy them all have been leaked. The RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and RTX 4080 Super will reportedly be…
I am unreasonably excited for Streets of Rogue 2, the follow-up to 2019’s best immersive sim in which you could play a vampire, hacker, gorilla or bartender, which means I’ve been eagerly devouring information about it ever since it was announced in October last year. Lucky for me, then, that developer Matt Dabrowski is kicking…
Publisher Electronic Arts has rebranded its Frostbite engine, with the aim of better reflecting the tech as a “platform for collaborative innovation”. In an announcement on the publisher’s website, EA introduced a new brand direction for the engine, saying the it “signals not just a visual shift for Frostbite, but a philosophical one, with a…
Sony has applied to patent systems that automatically fiddle with “parameters that change the difficulty of the game” based on your performance, a patent on the World Intellectual Property Organization‘s website reveals. (Actually, the patent reads “difficultly” at the time of writing, so Sony may in fact be referring to the implementation of dynamic cults….
Need to know What is it? A roguelike city builder about making the best of a doomed world. Expect to pay £25/$30 Release date Dec 8, 2023 Developer Eremite Games Publisher Hooded Horse Reviewed on Windows 10, Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 3080, 32GB RAM Steam Deck Verified Link Official site The basic idea baked into…
Forgive me, for I have well and truly let down PC gamers everywhere this year. I’ve come to discover a terrible fact about myself: I thought my favourite PC game of this year was way better on mobile. I know, I know. Why, when I have a great rig, a comfy gaming chair to plonk…
Since the release of Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update KB5033375 for December’s Patch Tuesday, there’s been a deluge of reports from unhappy users with Wi-Fi connectivity issues, according to Bleeping Computer. A quick search of Reddit reveals a large number of users who’ve installed the latest update complaining about dropped connections or an inability to…