PC Gaming
Roughly two months ago we got our first look at the system requirements for Borderlands 4, a process that involved many of us on the hardware team scrunching up our noses. Listed on the Steam page was the insistence that the game would require eight CPU cores as a minimum, which seemed highly unlikely given…
MMOs tend to function, more or less, as enormous mechanisms for competition. PvP, being the first to a particular raid, pulling off troubling works of deception in EVE Online—this is what I associate with the phrase ‘massively multiplayer’. But sometimes, the stars align and players come together to do something truly nice for each other….
Xbox is really getting around these days. Microsoft seems to be shoving the gaming platform onto all manner of things… handhelds, the cloud, Windows PCs… and now even cars, of all things. Not any and every car, though, just “select internet-connected vehicles” with some LG smart TVs in them. Xbox says: “With the Xbox built…
If it exists, you best know Epic Games is probably going to get its hands on it and churn out a 1,200 V-bucks skin for the pleasure of feral Fortnite fans. Something it seemingly won’t be snagging anytime soon, however, is a Helldivers 2 collaboration despite Fortnite’s newest season leaning very heavily into that game’s…
Dead Space, along with so much sci-fi horror, probably wouldn’t exist without Alien. Ridley Scott set the bar high, and for close to 50 years the xenomorph’s first outing has informed what people want and expect from their cosmic nightmares. So it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Dead Space creator and…
I check for SteamOS update announcements almost every day, and I can’t remember the last time there’s been one as expansive as this. The September 9 Steam Deck client update—the most recent SteamOS update to release via the stable channel—lists 31 general changes, the majority of these being fixes. That’s not even including the bunch…
I’ve been getting back into detective games recently, and musing about potentially reinstalling Return of the Obra Dinn, a game with a dithered art style that would look fantastic on an e-paper panel. Trouble is, those e-reader-style displays are notoriously slow to refresh, right? Wrong, according to the makers of the Modos Paper Monitor and…
Braving The Mist for the first time in Hollow Knight: Silksong is a confusing experience. Where all other areas have clear routes and maps, The Mist is ever-shifting and changes structure each time you venture in. You’ll have to contend with silk-stealing ghosts, traps galore, and tricky platforming to make it to the other side—that’s…
Game codes are a big deal these days. From Roblox experiences to the latest gacha hits, all kinds of games now accept limited-time codes that unlock free stuff, if you know what they are. You could spend hours each week hunting down the newest game codes for premium currency and other rewards—or you can just…
Red Dead Redemption 2 put an absurd amount of work into making its horses as realistic as possible—thousands of animations, tons of research, testicle physics—and I’m about to undo all of that by turning them into Umamusume: Pretty Derby anime horse girls. That’s thanks to the (frankly heroic) work of JohnTanner1899, who’s been slowly trickling…