How to choose the best Black Friday SSD deal for you

Black Friday officially starts on November 24, though many online retailers have already kicked off their holiday sales, and you’ll be sure to see lots of great PCs and components with big discounts. When it comes to solid state drives (SSDs), the good news is that you can get some fantastic ones for very little…

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Nightdive says Dark Forces has been ‘difficult to change’ because LucasArts created its own version of multi-threading years before it became popular

Star Wars: Dark Forces is the latest nineties’ PC gaming classic to receive an overhaul from remastering maestros Nightdive Studios. But as this month’s PC Gamer magazine reveals, LucasArts’ shooter has proved unusually challenging from a technical perspective. Speaking to PCG’s print editor Robert Jones, Nightdive’s project lead on Dark Forces explains the game features…

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EA might not care about Dungeon Keeper anymore, but this open-source 4K remake spent 15 years in the making to reach version 1.0

Dungeon Keeper is one of my all-time favourite games, tied with Theme Hospital as Bullfrog’s most fondly remembered management sim. Yet whereas Bullfrog’s isometric cure ’em up is still fairly playable today, returning to Dungeon Keeper in 2023 is hard going. Its visuals are incredibly bleary on a modern machine, while it’s also finicky to…

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