PC Gaming
Old-timey extraction shooter Hunt: Showdown (or Hunt: Showdown 1896, to use its more formal name as of the 2.0 update) is not something we’d reasonably describe as a ‘normie’ shooter. Creepy hoarder bosses who throw balls of barbed wire at you, giant beetles that you can use as exploding drones, and a commitment to slow,…
Path of Exile 2 hit early access last Friday, and although I’m sure it will be weeks or even months before the community hammers out the finely tuned killing machines that will form the top meta, we’ve got some early contenders. I spent most of my weekend tinkering around with a fire Chronomancer and learning…
Yep, it’s true. Zuckerberg might call him “Taylor Swift, but for tech,” but back in 1978 someone was calling now-Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang “perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest” in a letter to Sports Illustrated. Lou Bochenski wrote in to the mag (archived here), explaining: “In mentioning promising…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a top-to-bottom triumph, but Larian’s moving onto other things. Which, personally-speaking, I’m fine with—but it does present a bit of a tricky moment for Hasbro, which suddenly has a world-famous franchise on its hands. What the heck do you do without Larian, and with your cadre of famous characters? Well, turn…
Well, that was quick! Bioware’s long-awaited (and moderately successful) return to the Dragon Age universe has been out for a little over a month, and already EA is treating us to a steep discount on the game. Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now available to buy on Steam for $39 (£32), marking a hefty 35%…
Steam has begun testing new settings for game updates in the Steam Client Beta, which anyone can opt into, meaning they’ll soon be added to Steam for everyone. The improvements essentially give you more granular control over when and what Steam downloads in terms of updates, and it seems to be a response to the…
As someone who was once upon a time enthralled with TV poker in its heyday, it saddens me to see some of the ruin technology’s wrought upon the game. Despite joining the online crowd some years ago (and considering myself the best UK-based, 5-foot-11, under-bankrolled, hazel-eyed, bearded, break-even micro-stakes player to ever grace the virtual…
For the past handful of years, Black Ops has been increasingly—as our own Ted Litchfield put it—suffering from a case of ‘Fortnitification’. That is, whatever core aesthetic identity it had is due to vanish into the hole of crossovers and garish skins. While there’s been a quiet murmuring of fury from the community over these…
It may surprise you to learn that I’m deeply sceptical of the whole ‘tech that looks retro but boasts modern capabilities’ trend. With a classic console collection steadily gathering dust, I’m clearly not immune to nostalgic hardware. So, could I be swayed by JapanNext’s JN-V236G180F-RETRO monitor? The name does little to endear me so far….
If Path of Exile 2‘s best early game Witch build had a motto it’d be ‘work smarter, not harder.’ Well, either that or ‘burn them all and let god sort them out.’ The Witch is PoE 2’s answer to Diablo’s Necromancer, and a lot of your play will revolve around configuring your retinue of skeletal…