PC Gaming
For reasons unbeknownst to mankind, there are a surprising number of applications designed to arbitrarily select and destroy processes on a PC until it crashes. This morning, I was made aware of an application made by user IceSolst on X with AI coding platform Cursor AI that randomly selects a process on your computer via…
Once the forgotten child of Windows’ armoury of native applications, Notepad has enjoyed a revival in the past few years. Since 2022, it’s gained spell checking, a dark mode, tabbed windows, state preservation, and even basic formatting. With the latest update, tables have joined the feature set, which feels useful, along with AI text streaming,…
Asus has rushed to clarify reports from Hardware Unboxed that it had listed its line of Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPUs as end-of-life, with a statement released today which states the outlet “may have received incomplete information from an Asus PR representative regarding these products.” In short, someone HUB spoke to in the post-CES…
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio is, by this point, the undisputed master of recycling. By reusing characters and environments and minigames across the Like a Dragon series (and then remaking the games to do it all over again), it’s able to pack each new game with a luxurious volume of stuff while simultaneously piling cutscenes to…
In the glory days of the video arcade, no idea was too weird for a multi-thousand-dollar machine built around a CRT. Take, for example, two of Sega’s more obscure late ’90s arcade cabinets: Magical Truck Adventure (which does not feature a truck) and Emergency Call Ambulance (which does feature an ambulance). Released in 1998 and…
Capcom published a lengthy Resident Evil Requiem showcase today, showing off some typically savage new footage and gameplay features. Series mainstay Leon S. Kennedy will co-star with newcomer Grace, and their sequences will be roughly even in length, with game director Koshi Nakanishi describing Requiem as essentially two games in one. Grace’s parts will resemble…
It looks like a fairly orthodox 8-bit platformer on the surface, but Astalon: Tears of the Earth is among my favourite modern metroidvanias. Its class-based combat and exploration is thoroughly engrossing, the depth of its secrets astonishing, and most importantly, it’s a sumptuous feast for pixel art enthusiasts. If you like metroidvanias I’m begging you…
Embark has yet to reveal the roadmap for Arc Raiders’ next year of updates, but it has done the next best thing: vaguely allude to what’s to come in an interview. That’d be a recent interview with GamesRadar+, in which design lead Virgil Watkins dished about a variety of topics, including maps. “There are going…
One of the reasons Dawn of War is still the best RTS is its sync-kill system. You’ll be panning across the battlefield watching a disco storm of lasers go off, and in the middle of that inferno see two individual soldiers in a co-ordinated fight to the death right out of a movie. They’ll finish…
Kouji Okada helped co-found Atlus and is one of the co-creators of its two biggest JRPG series in Shin Megami Tensei and Persona. He left the company in 2003 to form now-shuttered studio Gaia, and hasn’t been active in game development for 16 years. Until now: JRPG studio Compile Hearts, best known for the Neptunia…