PC Gaming
September 27 saw the full release of Counter-Strike 2, the latest iteration of and the first direct sequel to the greatest competitive FPS ever made. Despite the number, it is the fifth game in the main Counter-Strike series, which began in 1999 with a mod for Half-Life. Valve quickly hired the mod’s creators after its…
With Halloween soon to be upon us, GOG is holding a Halloween sale, with discounts on more than 3,000 games. And as it often does, it’s also giving one away. This time around it’s Blacksad: Under the Skin, the tale of a private detective named John Blacksad who’s investigating a dark corruption scandal at the…
The much-anticipated Cities: Skylines 2 released this month, and unfortunately not in the best of conditions. PCG’s Chris Livingston said in our review it’s “a sequel packed with big improvements, but a fair share of disappointments” and among the latter are some serious performance issues. These are affecting so many players that developer Colossal Order…
Between the exclusive RTX 40-series features required to run path tracing, and the mesh shaders snub for older graphics cards, you might be thinking that Alan Wake 2 isn’t a very well-optimised game. That’s not true, actually. This rather stunning videogame runs rather well on entry-level graphics cards. It’s true that Alan Wake 2 is…
Tim Cain is a storied man. Fallout co-creator, Arcanum maker, owner and proprietor of the best channel on YouTube, Cain’s accolades stretch beyond counting, and there are more game design secrets locked up in his head than we’ll probably ever know. But hey, we can know some of them, and thanks to Cain’s recent appearance…
Less than two months ahead of Disney Dreamight Valley’s full release, developer Gameloft has announced that it won’t be a free-to-play game after all. Instead, the studio said that based on its “learnings” from a year in early access, “we’ve made the decision to remain a paid game for the foreseeable future.” Players eager to…
Alan Wake 2 is a beautiful videogame, but that comes with some hang-ups for anything but the very latest graphics cards. One big one is that this game demands a graphics card capable of running mesh shaders. If your card doesn’t support them, you’re out of luck. Mesh shaders were first introduced with Nvidia’s Turing…
Well, it’s been quite a journey in our trek through the features of Total War: Pharaoh. In previous videos we’ve shown you how to scheme and backstab your way through the Egyptian Royal Court, how you can draw on the Ancient Legacies of Egypt’s great rulers of the past, and introduced you to the great…
While Lord Zir may be the big boss at the end of Diablo 4‘s Season of Blood, you can actually choose to fight him again on Torment world tier if you’re looking for rare loot. Just like Grigoire, he’s one of the few new bosses you can target farm to get specific Unique items, including…
As reported a few days ago, storage giant Western Digital had been working on a merger plan with Kioxia Holdings, a competitor in the same NAND flash and RAM markets. The result would give the combined group the largest share of sales than Samsung, the current holder of that honour. However, it looks like SK…