PC Gaming
Establishing your own Tortuga for an army of pirates sounds like a recipe for a municipal planning nightmare, but Republic of Pirates makes the job look like a sea-breeze. Republic of Pirates was revealed during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted today with a trailer showcasing seafaring city-building, management, and ship combat. While there’s a…
In a move that seems to codify a sort of “Bastards” franchise, Blue Manchu is following up its 2019 roguelike FPS Void Bastards with Wild Bastards, a more open-ended, space western take on the concept. First announced at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted Showcase, Wild Bastards is set to release some time next year….
After making my adventurer in Unforetold: Witchstone (a roguish elf with a penchant for magic) and finishing up a tutorial fight at sea, the first thing that I did—standing on the docks, probably looking a bit damp—was intimidate the first random NPC I encountered, forcing them to join my party. I then proceeded to do…
One of the year’s most breakneck technology stories was OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder Sam Altman being fired by the company’s board, then being reinstated after a few days of will-they-or-won’t-they back-and-forth. Over those days Altman was the subject of considerable professional backingfrom OpenAI investor Microsoft (which straight-up offered him a job) and OpenAI’s own staff,…
Baldur’s Gate 3‘s latest patch has punished me specifically. For context, literally not more than (checks watch) three hours ago, I wrote and published this sentence in a news story about Patch 5: “I’ve learned to stop being surprised at how massive these patch notes are, or how elaborate new cutscenes can be”. Like a…
I think it was on my 17th character creation session that I decided it was time to venture forth into the territory of Baldur’s Gate 3 mods. Larian Studios has done a truly fantastic job with Baldur’s Gate 3’s character creation system, letting you build a whole host of adventurers to tackle the game’s epic…
Sony’s trimmed-down version of its PlayStation 5 has only been on the shelves for a week or so but one seriously talented modder has taken the new PS5 Slim and given it a comprehensive makeover. Half as tall, narrower, and sporting a cute mini PC look, the Tiny PS5 is a pricey but classy project….
In a perplexing performance at yesterday’s New York Times DealBook Summit, Twitter owner Elon Musk told advertisers dropping the platform to “go fuck yourself”. In fact, he did so three times, and took a specific swipe at Disney CEO Bob Iger before going on to say that the departure of major advertisers like Apple, Disney,…
You’ve done it! You made something. Whether it’s a game, a painting, or a 50ft sculpture, you created art. Now what? That was the question posed to Ciaran Short, a multidisciplinary artist living in New York City. Finding a way to put your work in the world is a daunting task. That’s why Short knew…
We’re always searching for the next incredible PC build to showcase to the world, and this one is definitely all it’s cracked up to be. We teamed up with Intel to create an extremely powerful (and okay, silly) custom build featuring parts from one of the top global online retailers for PC hardware and consumer…