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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game of almost unparalleled freedom, and we all know what that really means: the freedom to murder any NPC you can get your hands on. Usually, the danger of any RPG murder spree is that you might kill someone who’s vital to a later main quest event, and end up…
NEED TO KNOW What is it? An open world sim-cade racer also featuring bikes, boats, and planes. Release date September 14, 2023 Expect to pay £60 / $70 Developer Ubisoft Ivory Tower Publisher Ubisoft Reviewed on i7 9700K, RTX 2080 TI, 16GB RAM Steam Deck N/A Link Official site I’ve become obsessed with the Grand Races in Ubisoft Ivory Tower’s Crew threequel. 28…
Samsung just announced its monstrous Odyssey Neo G9, which is 57 inches of dual 4K gaming glory that probably won’t fit on your desk. More importantly, it’s the first dual UHD monitor with DisplayPort 2.1. If you’re feeling a bit of deja vu, it’s probably because a while back, I had some time with Samsung’s…
Manchester United and England striker Marcus Rashford was recently doing some press duties with the Premier League, during which the footballer was given a sneak peek at the EA Sports FC 24 version of Marcus Rashford. The player’s form vastly improved in the 2022/23 season, with 30 goals in all competitions, and this is reflected…
Asus has announced it’s going to be shipping the ROG Ally Z1 edition handheld PC starting from October 3 for the painfully high price of $599 (£599). This new device will ship with essentially the same base hardware as the top-spec ROG Ally, which sports the full AMD Z1 Extreme APU, so in a way…
With the growing need for computational power and performance, processors are getting bigger—much bigger. Even some of today’s gaming graphics cards push the boundaries of a small package, but they’re relatively small-fry next to AI accelerators and supercomputer chips. From here on out, it’s all about cramming more and more stuff—chiplets, memory, interconnects—onto a single…
It’s been less than two months since Kickstarter updated and outlined its policy on AI art, and it’s already not going well. The policy states that while Kickstarter is “on the side of creative work and the humans behind that work,” projects will be approved based on “what those tools are, and how you’re planning…
Once thought far too cheesy to bring with us into the modern gaming era, FMV has been enjoying a bit of a renaissance over the last decade, thanks to games like Her Story and Alan Wake. If you’re not familiar, it stands for full-motion video—in other words, it’s when live-action filmed sequences are used in…
This month PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to the brand new mecha game from Piranha Games, MechWarrior 5: Clans. This new entry in the long-running MechWarrior series promises to be the most explosive and narratively engaging yet, and we deliver never-before-seen images as well as authoritative developer insight. In addition, while we’re talking big stompy…
The Starfield community’s ships are giving me some heavy Spore flashbacks. In case that’s a game you missed, 2008’s Spore was a funky little space-sim with several minigames stacked onto its back-end. While it fell short of Maxis’ lofty promises, I still have fond memories of its creature creator—which people used to make anything other…