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It might be strange to recall after Hitman 3’s stonking success, but series developer IO Interactive was in a very precarious situation not so long ago. When 2016’s Hitman failed to please IOI’s owners at Square Enix, the corporation began scrabbling around looking for someone to take the studio of its hands. We know how…
Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best MMOs: Massive worlds Best RPGs: Grand adventures It can be hard to find the best MMOs when there are so many of them, and so many different…
AMD owns about 20% of the desktop CPU market and nearly a quarter of servers according to new figures for the third quarter of 2023 from Mercury Research. That’s up by about 5% in both cases compared to AMD’s share this time last year. Mercury also says that for the market as a whole, both…
Let’s begin with the sordid matter of money. The cheapest you can currently acquire the new LG UltraGear 27GR93U for is $630. Youch. That’s quite a lot for a 27-inch gaming monitor, even if this new LG is the full 4K and knocks out 144Hz. It’s notable that the 32-inch version of this panel, the…
Valve has been adamant to talk up the new Steam Deck OLED as “the definitive first-generation Steam Deck” and definitely not anything like a sequel to its immensely popular inaugural handheld PC. But if you were under any illusions that it wasn’t coming Valve has confirmed “it’s definitely something we’re working on and planning for.”…
Modern Warfare 3 hasn’t had the smoothest of entries. This latest entry has caught some major flak for being a ‘glorified expansion‘ in the eyes of some fans, thanks to some confused initial messaging, carrying your guns over, and its speedy—some suggest rushed—development cycle. Now that it’s out, the campaign‘s been panned for both its…
Larian has followed up Baldur’s Gate 3’s hefty fourth patch with a wee hotfix that squashes a variety of bugs, one of which I wish I’d experienced before it was fixed. I knew I should have rolled a dwarf. If you’ve been playing as a dwarven Barbarian since the arrival of the last update, you…
The Tactical Stance—or Tac Stance for short—is a new feature in Modern Warfare 3 and there’s more to it than simply holding your gun on its side and trying to look cool. Tactical Stance is a middle ground between aiming down sights and hip-firing, though it seems to be more effective for increased hip-fire accuracy…
Where the hell is SteamOS? That was one of the key questions I wanted answered when I sat down with Valve’s Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, two of the longest serving members of the Steam Deck team. As always, the answer is “soon” but interestingly Valve is looking to make it available to other handhelds…
Ever fantasise about a great global reset? Throw away all the smartphones and glossy technologies and content management systems that allow us to deliver these very words to you right now, and rewind back to simpler (if infinitely tougher) times, from which to rebuild anew? Sure, it’s not something you may actually want to transpire,…