PC Gaming
Back in the good old days of Bethesda RPGs (and I’m talking about Oblivion, Skyrim, and the Fallout games) when you killed a fool you could loot them of all their stuff. And I mean everything! Not just weapons and cash, but outfits, pieces of armor, helmets, hats, and dignity. When you looted a dead…
Boy, that sure didn’t take long. Blizzard announced today that Diablo 4, the latest iteration of its demon-clobbering action-RPG, will be coming to Steam on October 17. Diablo 4 on Steam will support cross-platform play with other versions of the game—Battle.net, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5—and will offer unique Steam-specific…
Early on in my Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 playthrough, I had to make a huge decision: should I install the brain implant that lets me trigger bullet time whenever I want if it means my hacking days are over? It’s the give-and-take of Cyberpunk’s revamped cyberware system. While your arms, spine, and legs can hold multiple…
A Liberation report (Google translated) says five former Ubisoft employees, including former chief creative officer Serge Hascoët and vice president of editorial and creative services Tommy François, have been arrested in France for questioning about allegations of sexual harassment and abuse while at the company. The arrests were made following a more than year-long investigation…
El Paso, Elsewhere is a videogame-ass videogame. Its features wouldn’t be out of place scrawled across an OG PlayStation game’s back cover: 50 levels of intense action! Seven powerful weapons!An army of the undead to blast back to hell!More lurid colored lighting than you can shake an LED array at! While it may draw from…
Last year the chess world was engulfed by scandal after world champion Magnus Carlsen accused his opponent, grandmaster Hans Niemann, of cheating in a game which Niemann won. The allegation was explosive and, as allegations about Niemann’s past behaviour came to light, one unverifiable and lurid detail took centre stage: that the player had cheated…
We live in an age of state-sponsored cyber warfare, one where conflicts have a parallel and intangible digital battlefield. The most obvious manifestation of this is propaganda, good old information warfare, with things like photos, videos and records being obtained and then framed and circulated online. The other side of it—concentrated cyber attacks on infrastructure,…
The perfect party game is an ever-transforming entity. It’s a real flavour of the month vibe for me and my pals, constantly hunting for the next great videogame to get drunk and cause chaos in for a few nights. Our current target? Party Animals, a game that’s like Gang Beasts if it had a bigger…
New World’s first expansion arrived yesterday, and along with the addition of flails, the ability to turn into some kind of vengeful nature monster, a transformed zone and another expedition, it also solves one of my big launch bugbears: it’s finally added mounts. Customisable horses, dire wolves and lions can now join you on your…
We’ve gotten another bittersweet taste of Haunted Chocolatier. Sweet because, well, it’s Haunted Chocolatier, and bitter because I still don’t know when this game is coming out. But we do have some new screenshots: in a tweet earlier today, Haunted Chocolatier and Stardew Valley dev Eric ‘ConcernedApe’ Barone shared four tantalising new screenshots of the…