PC Gaming
Even among Hideo Kojima’s most diehard fans (not to be confused with Die-Hardman), I think it’s a damn near universal opinion that Kojima made the wrong call when he replaced longtime voice actor David Hayter with Kiefer Sutherland in Metal Gear Solid 5. It didn’t help that compared to Hayter’s gravelly-but-slightly-goofy performance, Sutherland seemed a…
Thanks to Steam, in just a few clicks I can buy heartrending Chinese RPGs, intense Japanese shmups that would otherwise only be sold at specialist doujin events, and even official English translations of spooky Korean-born horror games. It is glorious. Steam has been a wonderful one-stop-shop for PC games for a long time now, growing…
Destiny studio Bungie has reportedly laid off an unknown number of staff today, according to a Bloomberg report, which also says that The Final Shape expansion for Destiny 2 has been delayed. Reports of the layoffs first surfaced earlier today on social media, after multiple employees said that they had been let go. “I’ve been…
We said in our long-ago review of Dead Space 3 that it suffered from an “identity crisis.” Series star Isaac Clarke very suddenly went from being an engineer in a tight spot (and with a precarious grip on reality) in the first two games to a full-blown action hero in the third: “Isaac fights wave…
Foxhole is a sandbox-style war MMO and, while it officially released last year, it’s been available in early access since 2017. Its schtick is one persistent and gigantic war game where thousands of players simultaneously battle for one of two factions, both seeking domination over a gigantic map, but with the twist that, as in…
A podcast by Embark Studios—creators of the upcoming FPS The Finals—has hinted that the game will be using AI voice lines for the foreseeable future. The explanation, however, has left some voice actors feeling confused, at best. Andreas Glad and Carl Tamleht, audio designers for The Finals, were asked: “who did the voiceovers? They sound…
Last Thursday, UL Solutions celebrated the 25th birthday of 3DMark, the evergreen game graphics benchmarking tool. Since the early days of DirectX 6, there’s been a version of the tool, showing off the latest graphics features and technology, and although it’s not quite as ubiquitous as it was, you can’t deny that two-and-a-half decades is…
We are deep in the heart of the spooky season. I’m scared. Luckily the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit has provided me with some much needed relief amongst the jump scares and spooks, with a collection of BG3-related pumpkin carvings. In an attempt to distract myself from all of the terror and horror, I’ve gone through…
According to the official requirements, Microsoft says you should have 64GB of storage space on hand as a minimum before you install Windows 11, with the average install size ranging around the 20-27 GB mark. However, this hasn’t stopped developer NTDEV from pushing the OS to its limits with the release of the first beta…
A few minutes into my Frontiers of Pandora demo session, a viperwolf interrupts my exploration of the overgrown ruins of an RDA colonial outpost. I kill it with an arrow as it snarls at me. I approach and press the harvest button, watching with confusion as my na’vi character kneels, offering a prolonged prayer of…