PC Gaming
There’s no way… Amazon sent another 9600X without the processor AGAIN 🤨 from r/PcBuild One exceedingly unlucky Redditor ordered a Ryzen 5 9600X on Amazon only to have an empty box show up instead. After getting a refund and purchasing a second AMD Ryzen 5 9600X, that too seemed to be an empty box. Third time’s the…
The official end of the summer isn’t back-to-school day. It’s not Labor Day. Nope, it’s Gamescom Opening Night Live day, the second Geoff Keighley-hosted world premieres showcase of each year that kicks off the gaming trade event in Cologne, Germany which signals the end of the Gregorian Calendar’s videogame ‘announcements season’ and the beginning of…
You’ve boiled the Spider Crab and turned the Giant Piranha into fish sticks, but How to Fish amps up the difficulty with the Pufferfish boss battle. The bloated, buoy-like fish took me quite a few tries in both solo and co-op saves, but I finally skewered it with a few SMG upgrades and plenty of…
How to Fish is the name of the game, but defeating its first crabby encounter is less about your rod-and-reel technique and more about your skills with a pair of brass knuckles. I’ll spare you the play-by-play, but I ran at the Spider Crab boss multiple times with my bare fists, and it didn’t end…
1998 was a vintage year for PC gaming: Half-Life, Unreal, StarCraft, Thief and Baldur’s Gate all released in lavish oversize retail boxes, and it was just as busy in console land: Ocarina of Time and Banjo-Kazooie released on Nintendo 64, while the original PlayStation enjoyed Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil 2. Into this crowd…
You ever get the feeling that a game is about to make a big splash, but nobody you know is talking about it yet? That’s where I’ve been with Wardogs, the 100-player milsim FPS that I haven’t stopped thinking about for weeks. Wardogs has steadily built buzz over the past year, recently eclipsing a million…
I’ve always wondered how I’d fare in a survival situation. Lost in the woods, with no food or water, how long would I last? Would I make good choices? Could I find my way back to safety? The answers to those questions are almost certainly “Not long, no, and definitely not,” and hopefully I’ll never…
As a big Elden Ring person with an additional 600 hours in Nightreign, the FOMO of FromSoftware’s next multiplayer experiment, The Duskbloods, being a Switch 2 exclusive was hitting me hard. That is, until I actually played it: I spent the majority of the closed network test held over the weekend confused about what the…
I’ll be the first to admit that I have my reservations about enigmatic cryptopeddler / self-appointed anticorporate folk hero / world’s most humdrum most wanted suspect Cyberleek. But I can’t say their repeated leaks haven’t done us all the service of answering our most burning GTA 6 questions—questions like, “If I play GTA 6, how…
I’ll be the first to admit that I have my reservations about enigmatic cryptopeddler / self-appointed anticorporate folk hero / world’s most humdrum most wanted suspect Cyberleek. But I can’t say their repeated leaks haven’t done us all the service of answering our most burning GTA 6 questions—questions like, “If I play GTA 6, how…