PC Gaming
Geometry Dash is a cheap and cheerful rhythm-based platformer that originally launched on Steam in December 2014. It recently celebrated its 10-year-anniversary (the game released on mobile devices the year before), which would normally see fans and developers reflecting fondly on a well-made game. But turns out developer RobTop Games had far more in store,…
You aren’t the only one hopelessly wondering where Hodari is in Palia, don’t worry. Kilima Village’s eligible single dad miner doesn’t hang out in town for very long each day so he’s tough to track down when you need to turn in quests to him. The really short answer is that if you can’t find…
Once upon a time, it was inconceivable that laptops could be used for any kind of meaningful gaming beyond point-and-click adventures and games whose polygon counts are about on par with LEGO. That’s changed over the years, in large part thanks to the efforts of graphics honchos Nvidia who have been endowing laptops with powerful…
When the developers of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora called its unobtanium graphics preset “extremely difficult to run on currently available hardware”, I could only see that as a challenge. But not so much a challenge for me, for my poor test bench’s AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. I have the goods—a test bench with a…
Thanks to its extensive new player support and its innovative story mode, Street Fighter 6 was the best fighting game of the year. For more awards, head to the Game of the Year 2023 hub. Tyler Wilde, Executive Editor: Thanks to the deeper-than-usual tutorials and practice modes, I finally understand Street Fighter basics that have…
So many games get the “horror” label, but I’m not often that scared by them. Take this year’s Alan Wake 2, for example. It’s a great thriller with some genuinely spooky moments, but otherwise the biggest frights were FMV jump scares that felt like those old troll YouTube videos where an exorcist face would pop…
In 2022, Guild Wars 2 celebrated its 10th anniversary with an expansion that closed the book on its first major story arc. With the decade of dragons over, the rest of the year was spent tidying things up. The first season of its living world story was reintroduced, a swathe of quality-of-life updates were made…
Lenovo has almost made a hypocrite of me. Since this latest generation of gaming laptops rocking Nvidia RTX 40-series graphics chips first landed I’ve been saying only a fool would buy a notebook with an RTX 4090 in it. And yet, here I am, coveting the Lenovo Legion 9i with precisely that GPU inside it,…
Final Fantasy 14 had its 10th anniversary back in September—though the official website‘s been stacking up post after post to celebrate, including some very cute anniversary messages from voice actors, prominent figures, and the father of Final Fantasy himself Hironobu Sakaguchi. The latest addition to the celebration is pretty incredible to look at. It’s a…
The Day Before is 2023’s fastest-moving disaster—starting off as a top-wishlisted game on Steam after an alluring trailer, it only took four days after its (eventual) launch before the thing was taken down. Following that, the Discord server, YouTube, and even CEO‘s social media channels disappeared or were scrubbed. The developer’s response? “Shit happens.” (Image…