The best characters in Fallout

The person you spend the most time thinking about in a Fallout game is the build-a-bear murderer you assemble in character creation—an amalgam of traits, facial blemishes and inventory items glued together by a haphazard personality you’ll develop on the fly. Eventually, though, the other voices start to seep in. Preston stops speaking for a…

Read More

Arc Raiders’ Cold Snap event will turn ‘every raid into a high-stakes survival run’ as frostbite drives players into what little shelter remains

The next big event on Arc Raiders’ calendar is a snow day. Dubbed the Cold Snap, this limited-time event introduces the new Snowfall map condition for Topside locations, turning once lush regions like Dam Battlegrounds, Spaceport, Buried City and Blue Gate into a frozen hell. “The update continues the game’s strong momentum with a limited-time…

Read More

Arc Raiders’ Cold Snap event will turn ‘every raid into a high-stakes survival run’ as frostbite drives players into what little shelter remains

The next big event on Arc Raiders’ calendar is a snow day. Dubbed the Cold Snap, this limited-time event introduces the new Snowfall map condition for Topside locations, turning once lush regions like Dam Battlegrounds, Spaceport, Buried City and Blue Gate into a frozen hell. “The update continues the game’s strong momentum with a limited-time…

Read More

Hades 2 lead says they didn’t nerf the game’s most popular boons, but rather found ‘new homes’ for them during early access development

Hades 2, as is Supergiant’s wont with these sorts of roguelikes, had a long and extended early access period—which also means that it had a lot of patches, updates, and fiddling in its guts that might’ve soured players who were falling into comfy rhythms. After all, if you’re getting cosy with certain boons in one…

Read More

Arc Raiders devs are uplifted by how kind players have been to one another, but admit ‘we’re way worse people than the community’ when it comes to engaging in PvP

When I first went Topside in Arc Raiders, I was convinced that it would go down similarly to Tarkov: no talking, just fighting. But I was pleasantly surprised when I found this to not be the case at all. Arc Raiders has managed to find itself in a sweet spot for PvPvE where a shared…

Read More

Framework raises its memory prices by 50%, but says ‘it is highly likely that we will need to make further price updates…whether DDR5, LPDDR5X, or GDDR’

For those who are just joining us, memory pricing has turned apocalyptic. Case in point, Framework announced it would be raising the price of its DDR5 memory modules for its laptops by 50% to account for the spiking costs the modular laptop brand is seeing from memory distributors and suppliers. That’s not even the wildest…

Read More

MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition review

As hardware reviews go, this one has probably been the most challenging one I’ve ever undertaken in my three decades of testing and rating PC hardware. Not because the product is incredibly complex or difficult to use; far from it, in fact. And not because it was a bug-ridden, early-release mess either. Indeed not, as…

Read More

Off the back of Divinity’s new trailer Divinity: Original Sin 2 just shot back up the Steam charts, have fun in Fort Joy everybody

The trailer for Divinity, the new Larian joint, was one of the definite highlights of the announcements from this year’s Game Awards. Yes, I will play a Wicker Man folk-horror RPG from the people who brought us that creepy House of Healing monster hospital in Baldur’s Gate 3. The announcement has sent a bunch of…

Read More