PC Gaming
Even if you don’t know Jennell Jaquays’ name, you’ve probably explored a tabletop RPG dungeon she created or played a Quake level she designed. The legendary designer and developer’s death last week sparked all manner of tributes from across the industry—but none seem so perfectly fitting for her legacy as a new attempt to crowdsource…
Safe to say the DIY Perks YouTube channel has form when it comes to surprisingly high quality homebrew tech lashups. But his latest effort, a Sony PS5 “tablet” conversion, is a bit special, even if calling it a tablet is a bit of a stretch. The core of the system is the PS5 Slim with…
The CEO and founder of Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has weighed in on recent prophecies from Ubisoft’s director: gamers will likely grin and bear a subscription-model future. Swen Vincke added to the discussion on Twitter in a thread this morning: (Image credit: @LarAtLarian on Twitter/X.) “It’s going to be a lot harder to…
OneXPlayer is hardly a novice when it comes to portable PCs, as it has been producing handheld devices and tablets for over six years, originally under the name of One-Notebook. Now it’s bringing Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs to its portfolio with the X1, the latest range-topper for the OneXPlayer OneXPlorer Series of handheld PCs. It’s…
Chris Szewczyk, Hardware Writer (Image credit: Chris Szewczyk) This week I’ve been getting on the new APU and GPU train: With AMD and Nvidia both releasing new silicon that’s where my 2024 has started, elbow deep in chip benchmarking. My happy place. The mid-life refresh of Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace generation graphics cards is here! They…
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Nothing about Wakerunners looks like it came from the same studio as Dave the Diver, but, then again, nothing about Nakwon: Last Paradise did either. Mintrocket has a third game on its way and it’s a sci-fi MOBA where characters move around like they’re permanently wearing skates. In Wakerunners’ dystopian sci-fi future, people broke off…
A comment from Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay caused mild upset this week—”pirate everything from Ubisoft,” one response demanded—but the hostile reaction might have more to do with general anxiety over the future of game ownership than his actual point, which didn’t strike me as surprising or untrue. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Tremblay…
In November, fan translation group Hilltop Works released an English patch for Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 (aka My Summer Vacation 2), a beloved adventure/life sim that fans have been eager to play in English for more than 20 years. After that release Hilltop wasted no time leaping into its next project, which was announced today…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Aquamarine/Chunsoft Released: 2002 Japanese PCs: Windows 98 and newer (Image credit: Chunsoft) I didn’t so much buy this game as I did desperately fight the universe to…