PC Gaming
It’s an accepted fact by Sims players that no matter how well you think you know the game, sims have a mind of their own. Sometimes you can wrestle them into behaving the way you want with arcane tricks of furniture placement or by installing mods. If you’re one of Maxis’ programmers, though, and you’re…
During the Nvidia GTC keynote, company CEO Jensen Huang reiterated the company’s commitment to gaming, stating that “This is the house that GeForce made.” However, the company is still full steam ahead on AI, leveraging the tech to “revolutionise how graphics are made” in the form of DLSS 5. We got our first look at…
If there’s one thing I’ve always wished for, it’s for Animal Crossing to be available on PC. It’s impossible, I know, but every time I’ve picked up a new cozy game a little voice in the back of my head has reminded me of the hundreds if not thousands of hours I’ve sunk into life…
What with all the controversy surrounding Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 tech, the company’s new Vera CPU has gone somewhat unnoticed among the more meme-worthy announcements at the GTC event. But the Vera chip—or perhaps more specifically the Olympus cores it contains—looks like a beast. So, will it ever come to the PC? We already knew…
The Il Toro is infamous for haunting the halls of Stella Montis in Arc Raiders. It was good anywhere, of course, but Stella Montis’ tight corridors made the shotgun an absolute menace in PvP, where you could rush at someone and one-tap them pretty reliably. Embark promised its time in the spotlight would come to…
Last week I sat down with Studio Wildcard co-founders Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak, mostly to grill them about Vin Diesel but also to talk about what’s happening with Ark: Survival Ascended these days. I was surprised when Stieglitz started talking not about dinosaurs but pirates, bringing up another game Studio Wildcard had developed: Atlas….
Monster Hunter Stories 3 has dozens of Monsties to collect, but the rarest monsters can only be obtained through mutations. They’re by no means necessary to complete the story, but you’ll have a much easier time with them in your party because of their boosted stats and improved genes. Mutations are a part of Monster…
The single most controversial change in Overwatch 2 (now Overwatch) was its shift to having five players on each team instead of six. Dropping one player dramatically changed the way the hero shooter worked, driving off many players who fell in love with the 6v6 format in the original game. “This was one of the…
Much of the current videogame landscape can be traced back to systems and design decisions either first conceived or formalized in World of Warcraft. From the universal RPGification of game mechanics to live service gameplay loops to incremental gearscore advancement, videogames as we know them look like they do in large part because of WoW….
When it comes to matchmaking, Marathon covers the basics: You can go solo and play against only other solos, or fill in a group of three to face other squads. But the community has been vocal about the desire for a duos mode since the sever slam in February, and now Bungie’s ready to give…