PC Gaming
For Embark Studios, it was a classic ‘good news, bad news’ weekend. Arc Raiders hit a new high in concurrent Steam players on Sunday, falling just shy of 355,000 people playing all at the same time. That’s very good indeed—what’s less good is that 355,000 people playing all at the same time put a little…
Memory has been in a weird spot as of late. The increased demands presented by the rise of AI, plus the expansion of data centres, stock shortages, and the winding down of DDR4 have all left the typical gamer caught out in the rain. Adding to this, Samsung was reportedly supposed to have finalised memory…
US President Donald Trump has said Nvidia’s Blackwell AI chips shall continue to be kept out of China. When Norah O’Donnell of CBS’ 60 Minutes specifically asked the US president about allowing Nvidia to sell their most advanced chips in China, Trump said “No, we won’t do that. We will let them [China], uh, deal…
The Content Overseas Distribution Association, a Japanese industry group whose members include Square Enix, Bandai Namco, FromSoftware parent Kadokawa Corporation, and Cygames, has issued a formal notice to OpenAI demanding that it stop using its members content to train its Sora 2 video generation tool without permission. In a way, it feels like this was…
It’s been seven years since Avalanche Studios last released a Just Cause game. The series that put the Swedish studio on the map has been missing in action since 2018, and if the words of its creator are anything to go by, we won’t be seeing another one any time soon, if ever. In a…
I spent most of my weekend playing Arc Raiders, navigating the weird social relationships that come with trying to convince someone not to kill you, running away from that goddamn Leaper, and finding my arch-nemesis in the form of a random ladder in Dam Battlegrounds. If you’ve spent any time in Embark Studio’s latest extraction…
I’ll be honest, I’ve never really understood the ‘RPG to action game’ pipeline that many popular series—and studios—have gone through. Consider Dragon Age; born as a CRPG, forced to live through little chips and nicks that turned it into a third-person action game with RPG elements. I mean, I get it on paper. Action games…
Completing the Marked for Death mission in Arc Raiders is relatively simple in comparison to multi-region quests like What We Left Behind and Eyes in the Sky, but it does have a couple of confusing steps that might catch you out. In this mission, you’re tasked by Tian Wen with investigating whether one of her…
The future of EA has looked, well, uncertain since it got picked up in the biggest leveraged buyout in private equity history. For one thing, it’s now on the hook for $20 billion in debt. For another, the buyout came from a group of investors that included Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Affinity Partners—founded…
Arc Raiders has a boatload of materials for you to loot topside, and while most of them say what they’re used for, Rusted Tools certainly do not. They’re considered a rare recyclable material, and that’s likely what you’ve done if you’ve found some already, and now you’re frantically searching for more upon the grave realisation…