PC Gaming
We knew Barrow-Dyad was coming, but even so, this is a surprise. Bungie revealed the new exotic Strand SMG in a preview stream before last week’s launch of Destiny 2’s new episode, Heresy. What nobody expected was just how it would arrive in the game—as part of an elaborate secret quest culminating in a new…
It’s easy to slate AI in all its manifestations—trust me, I should know, I do so often enough—but some recent research from Epoch AI (via TechCrunch) suggests that we might be a little hasty if we’re trashing its energy use (yes, that’s the same Epoch AI that recently dropped a new, difficult math benchmark for…
Depending on what areas of the internet you frequent, perhaps you were under the illusion that thoughts-to-text technology already existed; we all have that one mutual or online friend that we gently hope will perhaps one day post slightly less. Well, recently Meta has announced that a number of their research projects are coming together…
Many aspects of game development are variable and subjective, but there is one universal truth: games take ages to make. The average turnaround for a big-budget video game used to be four years, but lately that has grown to five, maybe even six years as games have ballooned in size, budget and visual complexity. Even…
I loved Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. You can tell because I wrote like 1,500 words about loving it and then put a big 90% above them in our Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review, but do you know what would make it even better? If I had some means to mod Henry’s hands into feet. I’m…
Easily the biggest impediment to trying a new tabletop RPG is learning the rules. Reading them all can be a marathon in itself, but then actually digesting and internalising them can be an even bigger ask. As a GM who loves to flit from game to game, I’m always looking for ways to make that…
A Civ 6 YouTuber who goes by Ursa Ryan has managed to keep up the impressive task of drawing badly (his words, not mine) every single day until Civilization 7 releases, and after 638 days, it’s finally over. It all started just under two years ago when Ryan decided to post the first “drawing badly…
It came as little surprise a full week before the release of the new Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs that scalpers were already attempting to gouge on RTX 50 graphics cards, cards they didn’t even have. But what, exactly, can be done? AIB GPU maker Zotac may have a solution, selling cards directly to…
Crysis 4 has been put ‘on hold’ as developer Crytek lays off 15% of its workforce, stating it “cannot continue as before and remain financially sustainable. In a statement posted on X, Crytek cited “complex, unfavourable market dynamics” as the reason behind the reductions, which will affect roughly 60 of the around 400 employees within…
I’m in. I intone the words with a sense of victory as I navigate the file directory using only shell commands—a feat that might have impressed the occasional adolescent maybe two decades ago. But then, the camera pans out to reveal a PDF document… inside a Chrome browser… running on Windows. Yes, this is Linux…