PC Gaming
Just one more heave, and I reckon Sisyphus will finally get that rock to the top of the mountain. Beyond Good and Evil 2—a videogame that I first got excited for when I was 14 years old (I am now 32)—inexplicably continues development. Not only that, but its team is hiring (via Eurogamer). If you…
Long defunct game developer Troika is best known today for the dark roleplaying masterpiece/dropped bag of spanners Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. But the year before Bloodlines simultaneously spelled doom and immortality for the studio, Troika released The Temple of Elemental Evil, a similarly ambitious and similarly buggy adaptation of the Dungeon & Dragons scenario…
Open AI has the first prototype of its mysterious AI device being developed in collaboration with former Apple design guru Jony Ive. And according to CEO Sam Altman, it’s “jaw droppingly good.” To quote Altman in full on the the device, “finally we have the first prototypes and I can’t believe how jaw droppingly good…
This is the best CPU you can buy for gaming, though it’s also a very good all-round processor. If you need any other reason to buy one, you should know that this is as cheap as it’s ever been right now. Key specs: 8 cores | 16 threads | 5.2 GHz boost | 96 MB…
I got too greedy. My clone marines had purged the xeno hive, taking minimal damage, and were ready to extract. But as a faceless desk jockey working for a corporation in a grim capitalist retro-future, I wouldn’t let them. No, not when there was more loot to be found. On the bulbous screen of my…
Resident Evil Requiem’s director, Koshi Nakanishi, has made it abundantly clear that the two games which most closely relate to his latest work are Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 7, both of which you can buy right now at a sizeable discount via the Fanatical Capcom All-Stars Bundle. Requiem is a new continuation of…
Sound the Reedus alarm—it seems all-but-certain that Death Stranding 2 is headed for PC in the surprisingly near future. As spotted by Gematsu—part-time videogame age-rating board and full-time surprise spoiler (I ain’t complaining), the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) recently surfaced a rating for a “Windows PC” version of Hideo Kojima’s latest postman simulator. It’s…
Activision’s camo-clad cash cow Call of Duty has ruled the shooter roost for almost 20 years in the US, consistently topping the charts for games involving guns since 2006. But according to games industry analyst Mat Piscatella, that might just change in 2025. Sharing some insights on Bluesky, (via GameSpot) Piscatella pointed out “the last…
Trials in Arc Raiders is effectively a ranking system where you compete against other players for high scores on five challenges each week. When you complete a task for this week’s challenges, you’ll earn points towards that objective and earn a place on the leaderboard. The competition can get intense, to say the least. But…
Intel’s long awaited Panther Lake CPU has made an appearance in the Geekbench results browser (via Videocardz). And the early numbers look, well, kind of okay. According to the Geekbench entry, we’re talking 2,849 single-core points and 15,434 multi-core points. Arguably, it’s the single-core result that’s most interesting as it theoretically allows for a direct…