PC Gaming
When I first went Topside in Arc Raiders, I was convinced that it would go down similarly to Tarkov: no talking, just fighting. But I was pleasantly surprised when I found this to not be the case at all. Arc Raiders has managed to find itself in a sweet spot for PvPvE where a shared…
For those who are just joining us, memory pricing has turned apocalyptic. Case in point, Framework announced it would be raising the price of its DDR5 memory modules for its laptops by 50% to account for the spiking costs the modular laptop brand is seeing from memory distributors and suppliers. That’s not even the wildest…
As hardware reviews go, this one has probably been the most challenging one I’ve ever undertaken in my three decades of testing and rating PC hardware. Not because the product is incredibly complex or difficult to use; far from it, in fact. And not because it was a bug-ridden, early-release mess either. Indeed not, as…
In November a beta build of Fallout: New Vegas that is a whole two gigabytes bigger than the release version was uncovered on an Xbox 360 dev kit. It contained locations, textures, and even whole NPCs that were ultimately cut to get the finished game down to a more workable size. But what was too…
The trailer for Divinity, the new Larian joint, was one of the definite highlights of the announcements from this year’s Game Awards. Yes, I will play a Wicker Man folk-horror RPG from the people who brought us that creepy House of Healing monster hospital in Baldur’s Gate 3. The announcement has sent a bunch of…
The second annual Warhammer Conference took place in September—two whole days of academic talks about Warhammer 40,000 as a model of social power relations in Western societies since the 19th century and the terror of androgyny with particular reference to xenos species at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. I’m still working my way through…
It’s hard to be new at something, and it’s much harder when 5 million sets of eyes are peering over your shoulder ready to judge your every move. Regardless, Konatsu Kato—the voice actor and motion capture performer who played Silent Hill f protagonist Hinako Shimizu—tried the game for the first time live on YouTube on…
It’s hard to be new at something, and it’s much harder when 5 million sets of eyes are peering over your shoulder ready to judge your every move. Regardless, Konatsu Kato—the voice actor and motion capture performer who played Silent Hill f protagonist Hinako Shimizu—tried the game for the first time live on YouTube on…
It may have lost best multiplayer game to Arc Raiders at The Game Awards, but Peak is still peak—and it’s celebrating a landmark year in “friendslop” with an in-game concert, Fortnite style. The concert features three performances from rapper bbno$, singer and VTuber Ironmouse, and vlogger vanillamace, who was featured on bbno$’s recent song “bing…
The ubiquity of generative AI is a hard pill to swallow, but even harder is figuring out what’s AI and isn’t. It’s easier than ever now to reach for that low-hanging fruit of critique in saying that something looks like an AI spat it out, especially now that games are claiming they were, in fact,…