PC Gaming
It was way back in 2014 when ambitious multiplayer dinosaur survival game Ark: Survival Evolved entered early access on Steam. It was a complete smash. Despite issues like glitches, bugs, dismal optimization, and no small amount of behind the scenes drama, Ark became one of the most played games on Steam and would remain that…
In the days before constant PC ports, the divide between PC and console gaming used to be cavernous. Seemingly insurmountable. Times have changed, thankfully, but history has left many games trapped stubbornly on the consoles of yesteryear—even some that feel like they actually belonged on PC in the first place. Whether it was technical ambition…
I absolutely love Amnesia: The Bunker—it’s gotten lost in the tangle of one of the best years for gaming in a long time, but The Bunker is quietly one of the best horror games I’ve ever played. Now Frictional Games is augmenting that already mondo-stressful experience with a surprise Halloween update and harder-than-hard “Shell Shock”…
Manor Lords is a strategy city builder so highly anticipated that it appeared on more Steam wishlists than even the daddy of all city builders, Cities: Skylines 2. And for as long as I can remember, Manor Lords’ release date on Steam has been listed as “2023,” a year that is rapidly approaching its end….
For Return to Moria, a new Lord of the Rings survival game all about dwarves, a strong beard selection was a must. Indeed, the deep-mountain mining adventure includes 16 beard options in its character creator. Some are commonplace, others are fantastical. Over a decade in games media has given me an insatiable urge to rank…
Bethesda’s games are complicated beasts, filled with all sorts of cheese wheels and sweetrolls and duct tape for you to pick up and do physics crimes with. It’s not a surprise, then, that the games have their fair share of bugs that evade the notice of Bethesda’s official patches. That’s why we have community patches—Morrowind’s…
A few days before the launch of Cities: Skylines 2, Paradox Interactive issued a warning about the game’s performance—specifically, that it might be a little less than ideal, especially on lower-end hardware. Sure enough, this was our experience: “random fps dips, slowdowns and hitches, and sometimes complete freezes that lasted a few seconds,” along with…
In Starfield, there’s a quest where you get to betray a major player. I’m going to keep the details vague to avoid spoilers, but in a lot of other RPGs this would be a massive story moment. If you walk down this path, you’ll never be able to interact with that faction again. You’re signing…
You really have to feel for AMD’s graphics engineers. Every time it looks like they’re catching up with Nvidia—boom!—Team Green rolls out some new technowizardry and it’s back to playing catch up. And if market analysis and Steam survey data is anything to go by, what effort AMD does put in is for nought. Nvidia…
Creative Assembly’s latest strategy deep-dive into a raucous period of history takes us to Ancient Egypt in the 12th Century BC. As this part of the world hurtles towards the collapse of the Bronze Age, the Egyptians, Hittites, and Canaanites already have much of their histories behind them, with rich pantheons of gods and historical…