PC Gaming

Laura Bailey is one of those prolific videogame actors whose voice you’ve probably heard whether or not you’ve heard her name. A few of Bailey’s recent credits include Marvel Rivals, World of Warcraft: The War Within, and Spider-Man 2. For that reason, Naughty Dog studio head Neil Druckmann says the developer almost didn’t cast Bailey…

At least one of Avowed’s companions can be romanced by the player character, flying in the face of multiple pre-launch warnings by Obsidian that we shouldn’t expect that from them. We’re not talking a full-on Baldur’s Gate 3 or Mass Effect multipart courting with premium cable nudity at the end of the rainbow, but the…

Here’s a simple question for you: What do Black Myth: Wukong, Frostpunk 2, Palworld, Stalker 2, Tekken 8, Silent Hill 2, and Avowed all have in common? Yes, that’s right, they were all made using the game development package Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). Something that they also have in common is variable and somewhat confusing…

Hazelight founder Josef Fares, known for his work on games including Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, It Takes Two, and the upcoming Split Fiction (plus that whole Oscars moment at The Game Awards a few years back) doesn’t care what Electronic Arts thinks: He’s not a fan of live service games,…

Obsidian’s latest RPG, Avowed, is a real gem, just don’t expect to take it with you on the go. In addition to crashing on startup on the ASUS ROG Ally in hardware writer Nick Evanson’s Avowed performance analysis, I’ve found that the game runs booboo at best on the more ubiquitous Steam Deck. Avowed remains…

One of the challenges of a live-action adaptation is that there are certain things that look cool in a game or a comic strip or a cartoon that look utterly ridiculous when done on screen with real people. Elastigirl’s stretchy limbs in The Incredibles? Great. Reed Richards’ stretchy limbs in any of the Fantastic Four…

It’s a dark day for Super Earth. In a completely unexpected, unpredictable turn of events, the black hole that’s occupied Helldivers 2’s galaxy for the better part of a year has collided with Angel’s Venture, a planet in Terminid territory, tearing the planet apart and claiming the lives of over 480,000 super citizens. A final…

I’ve been spending a good chunk of my time recently testing the performance of new game releases on various PCs. Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth, Civilization 7, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and now Avowed. Hour after hour, day after day, constantly running benchmarks over and over. All to get a raft of performance numbers to give…

The way Avowed’s third person camera option was presented in previews and in the new Obsidian RPG’s first time launch options had us all thinking it was a semi-permanent choice, one you’d have to go digging around in a settings menu to adjust. I’m happy to say that’s just not the case though: Avowed lets…

I’ve been kind of jazzed for Hell Is Us since it was announced in 2022, in large part because the project is being headed up by Jonathan Jacques-Belletête—I loved his work as art director on Deus Ex: Human Revolution. (Yes, I am an unrepentant fan of the piss filter.) But then it fell off the…