PC Gaming
Take it from me, a gamer rocking the last-gen Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super and still loving life: your rig doesn’t need the most bleeding edge graphics card. That’s especially true when the 50-series cards can easily set you back many more smackers than Nvidia’s MSRP. The RTX 5090 is especially bad for this right…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is known for being, well, smutty—so much so that when the game first came out, we were in fierce, rigorous, masterful debates over it (stop giggling). The game has a lot of sensual scenes, but it also comes with a streamer-friendly mode to cover up all the jiblets and tatas. A streamer-friendly…
After years of speculation, after reams of fan theories and screenshot analysis, we’ll be finally getting a full look at Grand Theft Auto 6 on… hold on, Netflix? Really? Right, okay, sure. This news comes courtesy of the site itself, which has a preview page that reads: “Coming August 27: See an extended look at…
What if a faceplate wasn’t just for looks? I am working on a new kind of faceplate from r/steammachine The Steam Machine may be hard to get a hold of and prohibitively expensive, but as is ever the case with Valve, its community is very creative. It’s not even been two months since its launch,…
The Steam Controller has a pretty niche feature called Grip Sense, which is a pair of capacitive touch sensors inside the handles that can sense when you are touching them. Though you may not use it, Valve thinks you should “Because it’s, like, cool” and even recommends a couple of sweet shortcuts to use with…
During my world-exclusive hands-on preview of Onimusha: Way of the Sword in Capcom’s headquarters in Osaka, Japan, I interviewed the animation director, Hiroshi Yugen, about creating the incredible sword-fighting animations for the game. When the star of the game is the legendary sword master, Miyamoto Musashi, a warrior who won over 60 duels during his…
Earlier this year, Microsoft posted a support document titled “How to optimize your gaming PC setup” where it said that 16 GB of memory is “plenty for most gamers” but “32 GB is ideal for serious players who run the most demanding titles or use heavy mods”. That document has since been deleted. That’s as…
Moonlighter is a hybrid of management sim and roguelite dungeon crawl in the vein of Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale. I was more intrigued by its shopkeeping side—where you put your loot on display and hope the locals in your hamlet are in the mood for a magic sword or some banged-up armor—than I was…
Big Walk is a new co-op-only adventure from the creators of Untitled Goose Game. Chris Livingston has been playing it and he’s having an absolute gas. It’s a loosely structured open world affair starring quaint pointy-nosed folk that you simply have to play with friends. And I mean that literally: it’s impossible to get very…
During his time at Bethesda Nate Purkeypile was an artist on Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Starfield, as well as lead artist on Fallout 76. Now independent, he’s responsible for stealth-archer bowhunting FPS The Axis Unseen, but when he spent some time talking to YouTube channel The Examined Game recently, his tenure at Bethesda…