PC Gaming
I’m partial to builds with a retrofuturistic flair, particularly palmtop projects that imagine a portable past that never existed. Taking a leaf from the ‘Windows where it shouldn’t be’ chapter out of the modder’s playbook, one solo tinkerer has built a throwback handheld gaming PC that’s rocking Pentium inside. Built by maker Changliang Li, his…
It wasn’t built in a day, famously. But this latest Anno in a long-running series of accessible and endearingly twee city builders doesn’t take that old adage overly to heart. There’s complexity to its supply chains and economy, but it takes a ruthless writers’ pen (quill?) to the systems-bloat and perplexing menu rabbit holes found…
Last week, a pretty special result showed up in a widely accessible benchmarking website. It seemingly suggested a new AMD Ryzen 7 9700X3D was on the way. If that sounds too good to be true, it’s because it was. Instead, it was a product of some techies “playing around with Linux.” Turns out they “accidentally…
It’s been a whole dang decade since Fallout 4 launched, so long that the world has slipped significantly closer to nuclear Armageddon than was the case when Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic RPG stepped out from Vault 111. The anniversary has got Bethesda creative chief Todd Howard in a reflective mood, and he’s revealed some interesting details about…
I might be a Baldur’s Gate 1 stan, but it’s undeniable that Baldur’s Gate 2 is the more important of BioWare’s original duo of games. Heck, it created a mould for RPG design that studios still embrace today, at least in part. Just look at recent RPGs like Avowed or The Outer Worlds 2, and…
Fraser Brown, Online Editor (Image credit: Future) This week, I’ve been staying up too late playing Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors, the only other extraction-themed game I vibe with. But I’m determined to drag some friends back into The Forever Winter with me again too. It’s rare that I vibe with an extraction shooter, and really…
Bethesda has all sorts of irons in the fire right now. There’s the second season of the Fallout TV show on the horizon, a 10th-anniversary version of Fallout 4, whatever’s happening with Starfield, and Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online MMO stuff bubbling away contentedly in the background. But more likely than not, all you…
Completing the Straight Record quest in Arc Raiders isn’t all that challenging, except that you have to track down three power switch locations to turn off an old EMP trap Celeste left in Dam Battlegrounds. She’s worried this trap might pose a hazard to exploring Raiders, so she requests that you take care of it….
Arc Raiders has plenty of annoying materials to track down for various upgrades, like prickly pears, olives, and mushrooms for Scrappy, but I’d argue none are more annoying than Sentinel Firing Cores. You need to grab four of these pesky Arc items before you can upgrade your Gunsmith to level three, which is quite the…
The Digging Up Dirt mission in Arc Raiders sounds very straightforward at first; you’re told almost exactly where to look, unlike most quests. But it’s not that simple in practice. Santa Maria Houses is a danger zone of both Arc and raiders, plus the courtyard isn’t an obvious area to find. For one, it’s inside…