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Starfield’s space travel isn’t exactly satisfying: no matter how much the music swells and the engines roar, travel itself is just a series of short cinematic sequences and loading screens. No one was expecting Starfield to be a sim like Elite Dangerous or a seamless experience like No Man’s Sky, but I think a lot…
A whole lot of interesting (and occasionally awkward) secrets were revealed by the big Microsoft document leak that occurred last week. One of the most notable bits was a brutally frank analysis by Xbox boss Phil Spencer on the current state of major videogame publishers like Activision and Electronic Arts, who Spencer said are struggling…
When V started coughing up blood during a conversation with Johnny Silverhand, I thought Cyberpunk 2077 was really trying to drive home the urgency of my ticking time bomb of a brain. Throughout the next quest, and the one after that, my entire field of vision kept pulsing with the glitchy blue effect that highlighted…
An update for Starfield has been released today, but temper your expectations: the patch is a small one aimed at closing some exploits and fixing a few bugs. The other stuff players have been waiting for, like the missing FOV slider and brightness controls, DLSS and ultrawide monitor support, and city maps, still haven’t arrived….
The launch of heist-shooter Payday 3 last week has not gone well. Persistent server problems have frustrated players, and the game’s always-online requirement means that even people who want to play solo are having trouble getting into the game. The net result: A disastrous “mostly negative” user rating on Steam, where 68% of the nearly…
I was a fool for worrying that Separate Ways, the Resident Evil 4 remake’s remake of the old Ada Wong-focused expansion of the same name, might get too caught up in its own tangled lore-web to remember to have a little fun. That concern was immediately blown away by this side story’s frivolously entertaining opening:…
Like many of you, I suspect, each year sees me juggling more and more games in an effort to play all of the good stuff and avoid the dreaded FOMO, and when 2023 dawned I was well and truly in burnout mode. But it turns out that the solution to this was a summer fully…
Reinstall This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 386 in July 2023, as part of our Reinstall series. Every month we load up a beloved classic—and find out whether it holds up to our modern gaming sensibilities. What exactly is a god game? It’s a question that I’m quite sure if you asked…
NEED TO KNOW What is it? A free market cat-pitalism simulator set in an alternate-reality Japanese island. Release date September 26, 2023 Expect to pay £TBC / $29 Developer Meowza Games Publisher Humble Games Reviewed on AMD Ryzen 5 3500U, Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz, 12 GB RAM Steam Deck Tested Link Official site I don’t dream of labor. My thoughts…
If you’ve met Adelina in Lies of P, you must have already made your way through Rosa Isabelle Street and its myriad hazards to the Estella Opera House. Krat’s most beloved singer became trapped on the upper floors after the puppet frenzy began, and to make matters worse, she’s got a nasty case of Petrification…