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One of the most frustrating things about Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting to the end of a conversation, only to realise later that having a specific companion in your party would have completely changed the course of the game. Worse yet, the idea that you might be missing important plot points for your companions due…
What is it? A cyberpunk action game with more spills than thrills. Expect to pay $40/£35 Developer One More Level Publisher 505 Games Reviewed on GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, AMD Ryzen 7 3750H, 16GB RAM Multiplayer No Link Official site The heart of the first game is still here, beating fast and loud. You still…
The UK government is using deep learning algorithms, under the catch-all umbrella of AI, to help its various sections make decisions in welfare benefit claims, ascertaining cases of fraud, and even the scanning of passports. That’s all probably of no surprise whatsoever but as one investigation suggests, it’s opening a massive can of worms for…
A perfect storm of long transatlantic flights and being laid up in bed thanks to a bug has given me lots of time to spend with my Steam Deck recently. I have countless games that are perfect for Valve’s handheld, but the cosy familiarity of Skyrim won out, and I’m once again gleefully skipping across…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Peter Molyneux, the mind behind the original Fable and Theme Park games, whose experiments with blockchain games and other shortcomings around promises made have seen his reputation take a few hits over the years. Perhaps worst of all, this is the man that promised us acorns that…
The Golden Joystick Awards has opened shortlists in three of its most major categories: Ultimate Game of the Year (UGOTY), Best Supporting Performer, and Best Lead Performer—and you can vote on them right now. If you’re wondering why I’m telling you this, it’s because the Golden Joystick awards are run by PC Gamer’s parent company,…
Today I witnessed someone’s Skyrim character die in one of the most Monty Pythonesque ways possible: by eating all the food in all the land and bursting like a stuck pig. User amelix34 took to the Skyrim subreddit just the other day to reveal a little experiment they’d been saving up for in the form…
Lords of the Fallen’s been getting patched at an absurd rate. Since its release October 13, Hexworks has pumped eight whole updates into the game, fiddling with the dials on performance, the game’s parry system, enemy projectiles—the whole nine yards. The studio has started as it means to carry on, it seems—Patch v.1.1.224 (and more…
When Alan Wake 2’s PC requirements were announced last Friday they caused quite the stir amongst the PC gaming community, with some decrying a perceived lack of optimisation and unrealistic hardware expectations as a sign of a troubled release to come. However, those of you running an Nvidia RTX 10-series GPU or even a more…
The Beast in Ice boss is definitely one of the most elaborate to summon in Diablo 4‘s Season of Blood. While it isn’t quite as complex as Duriel—where you have to fight both Varshan and Grigoire to gather the necessary materials to summon him—this icy demon is tied to the Nightmare Dungeon activity, which brings…