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Today ArenaNet releases the next major update of Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure expansion, called Through the Veil. It’s the second of four releases that will make up the full expansion’s launch, and it adds the first part of the expansion’s third and final map—a map that will continue to be expanded in…
Tracking down all seven Gold Balls in Like a Dragon Gaiden is a tricky challenge, even for those seasoned in the ways of strange collectibles. While running around Sotenbori or The Castle, you might find one of these lucky golden spheres and gather from its description that laying your hands on all seven will grant…
Now that Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has a new developer, The Chinese Room, we’re going through the whole rigamarole of teasers and reveals all over again, starting now and carrying on into 2024, and possibly beyond. I hope you’re prepared. This is why, more than four years after I wrote “Vampire: The Masquerade…
Gaming hardware specialist Razer has expanded the portfolio of its mice that can utilise its HyperPolling technology. With a simple firmware update, you’ll be able to set the polling rate to anywhere between 125 and 8,000Hz, and enjoy ultra smooth mouse motion in Windows and games. Peripherals such as keyboards and mice don’t constantly tell…
Co-op survival RPG Enshrouded had a killer run in October when it was the most played and wishlisted demo at Steam Next Fest. I was one of the people playing it, too: Keen Games’ voxel-based open world RPG ticks a lot of boxes with me, like exploration, building, crafting, hunting, farming, and even grappling hooks…
Disco Elysium begins with the mother of all hangovers. The game’s protagonist has drunk himself to oblivion on a three-day bender before sleeping it off, and events begin as he blearily re-joins the world in a small, dishevelled hotel room. If you’re anything like me, chances are the character didn’t even make it out of…
Epic’s quest to see half the tech industry in court has has put its executives in the witness stand again. This time, the case is the Epic vs Google trial and the executive is Steve Allison, the general manager of the Epic Games Store, who testified yesterday (via The Verge) that the PC storefront continues…
During BlizzCon’s opening ceremony, Blizzard celebrated its games with a cinematic that focussed on the here and now, with nods to World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Hearthstone and the developer’s latest game: Warcraft Rumble. With this focus on the present, one of its most important series went ignored, much as it has been for years….
Leaks of Nvidia’s RTX 40-series Super refreshes have been appearing ever more frequently but now we appear to have confirmation that one rumour we’d hoped was nonsense is actually true. Yup, Nvidia is going to grace us all with the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super. The Super moniker was first used for the RTX 20-series…
Why I Love This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 387 in August 2023, as part of our Why I Love series. Every month we talk about our favourite characters, mechanics, moments, and concepts in games—and explain why we adore them so much. There’s an art to good videogame cannon fodder. Your classic…