PC Gaming
One of 2023’s big disappointments was The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, a stealth-action adventure from the established German studio Daedelic. Daedelic is a publisher but also built its name on beautiful point-and-click adventures. Gollum was something of a departure for the studio, and its nature as a big licensed title in a popular genre…
The demo for The Talos Principle 2 is out now, building steam in the hype engine for what will probably be the premier first-person puzzler of 2023. Developers Croteam have made it special for you, standalone and set apart from the final game’s flow and puzzles. “You can jump in to get a taste of…
The New York-based indie studio Dang is closing after releasing only one game, but what a game. The hyper-fast and movement-focused Boomerang X released in 2021 and was notable among other things for supporting an experimental type of gyro controller, the Flick Stick, as well as mouse-and-keyboard, so that players could whizz its deadly shuriken-boomerang…
A player has achieved the fastest-ever death in Portal thanks to some questionable physics and a cup. “I surprisingly got this pretty quickly,” says Pr0tal, “I am now the king of dying in Portal!” The previous record for the Death% speedrun had stood at 1.3 seconds but Pr0tal smashed this, managing to kill themselves in…
AMD’s software division is working overtime at the moment. Along with expanding its Fluid Motion Frames technology to RX 6000-series graphics cards, a neat feature has been added to the game overlay in the latest preview drivers for RX 7000-series cards. In games that support and use AMD’s Anti-Lag+ feature, you can now show off…
AMD’s new Frame Generation technology baked into FSR 3 requires developers to implement it in their games, but there is a simplified version of it that, when activated in drivers, theoretically works in any DirectX 11 or 12 game. However, the first release was a tech preview (aka beta version) and only worked on Radeon…
Virtual reality has certainly experienced a rollercoaster of expectations in recent years. While the lofty dreams of an all-encompassing digital universe have yet to materialize fully, the Meta Quest 3 represents a recalibration of the metaverse vision proposed by Mark Zuckerberg. Instead of a dystopian portrayal akin to “Ready Player One,” it refers to the…
Even as a huge fan of Deep Rock Galactic, I didn’t quite get it when a Vampire Survivors-like spin-off was announced. How do you translate the feel of a four player co-op FPS into a singleplayer top-down bullet heaven game? But after just a couple of hours with Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor’s new demo, I’m…
Let’s cut right to the chase: you want to win in Forza Motorsport, because crossing the line in anything other than P1 feels like a vial of acid being poured over your ego. Online racing is particularly competitive in this game, and any possible advantage you can glean from the best car choice in each…
There’s going to be a beefier GeForce RTX 4080 on its way in the first few months of 2024, so is the latest graphics card rumour on the social grapevine. The name, Super or Ti, has yet to be decided but it’s supposed to be using a cut-down version of the AD102 GPU, that’s the…