PC Gaming

Dredge was one of 2023’s out-of-left field indie greats—we gave it an 89 in our Dredge review, then later bestowed it with Best Setting award for our Game of the Year shoutouts. It wears that mantle well from what I’ve seen as a genuinely brilliant bit of bathophobia–inducing atmospheric horror, in which you man a…

One of the unfortunate bummers about Avowed—which is set in the Pillars of Eternity universe—is that you’ll be limited to playing either a human or an elf for story reasons, as your adventurer will be an envoy from the largely elf-slash-human dominated Aedyr Empire. That’s kinda disappointing, seeing as Aumaua, Dwarves, and the fuzzy li’l…

Wi-Fi signal strength has always been a temperamental beast. One minute it’s a full five bars, yet merely taking a short walk into a different room can cause it to fall to a miserable one bar of stuttering frustration. However, devices using the new “HaLow” 802.11ah standard have just been demonstrated working at an astonishing…

Encumbrance always sucks and I won’t hear any different. I don’t care about realism, I want my little loincloth man to be able to carry 99 washing machines in an invisible back pocket while sprinting up a mountain. I hate having to stop and sift through my inventory to junk all the things I don’t…

Ray tracing has been around a surprisingly long time in computer graphics. It was used to generate images in the 1960s, and by the ’80s new algorithms had been created including path tracing. Yet the “holy grail of rendering” remained a distant dream for early home machines like the ZX Spectrum. You need only look…

Palworld deserves kudos for actually following up on its success with bug fixes—Pocketpair now has the unenviable task of matching the sudden, unanticipated expectations that come with an indie breakout success with further support. The team’s stated mission goal on its roadmap—primarily a focus on squashing game-breaking bugs—is getting done. Patch v.0.1.4.0 aims to fix…

Since the series’ earliest days on the humble MSX, one of the big inspirations behind Metal Gear has been John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. Protagonist Solid Snake gets his callsign from Kurt Russell’s character Snake Plissken (a link that would later be solidified when Snake uses the codename Plisken in MGS2), as well as…

Game genres are a bit of an ossified thing. You’ve got strategy, FPS, RPG, and something called action-adventure for when you don’t actually know where else to categorise a game. It’s always been that way and feels like it’ll always be that way. But it doesn’t have to be. Spotted by GamesRadar, Kitfox Games and…

First, a confession: I like my mice chonky. A heavier mouse makes me feel like I’m in control, and my trusty MX Master 3S, while not exactly Thor’s hammer, is a pleasing object to use on the day-to-day. One YouTuber, however, has created a mouse so small and light that I’d be prepared to give…

Dungeons & Dragons is in a bizarre place right now—it’s on the verge of the totally-not-a-new-edition ruleset revamp and an in-development virtual tabletop project, riding high off the back of Baldur’s Gate 3. But Wizards of the Coast (WotC) has also suffered from a massive round of layoffs, and the bruises of the catastrophic OGL…