PC Gaming
It seems like the number of live service games that fall flat is eclipsing the number of games that retain a large enough player base to stay online for more than a year. MultiVersus, Babylon’s Fall, Spellbreak, Rumbleverse, Concord, and others have all launched and shut down within the last two years. It’s hard to…
aughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann has revealed some more details about the studio’s next game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet (which, incidentally, is a dreadful name and one I’m surprised the creators of The Last of Us are satisfied with) and if you were hoping its sci-fi setting might mean a lighter, more frivolous adventure than the…
The genre that has spiraled out from the surprise success of Vampire Survivors is one of my favourites to cover—whether I’m mining for gold, hitting people with swordfish, or building weapons out of brains and chimpanzee spines. The genre keeps growing and mutating, becoming ever more diverse and bursting with creative new ideas. It’s been…
A 55 year-old man from Texas has been convicted by a jury of “causing intentional damage to protected computers” owned by his former employer, Eaton Corp, after creating malicious code that sabotaged elements of the company’s network alongside a “kill switch” designed to shut down everything if he were laid off. The US Department of…
Upscaling technologies like Nvidia’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR have rapidly become almost essential for playing modern games at decent frame rates with the eye candy turned on. Problem is, support for the various upscalers varies from game to game. But now there’s a new tool that makes it easier than every to inject your upscaler…
Asus found itself in a bit of hot water at the very start of the year, as some users accused its Q-Release PCIe slot of grinding GPU contact pins. Since then, Asus offered to cover any damage, but Gigabyte has seemingly taken the opportunity to brag about the fact that its release system doesn’t do…
At literally the exact same time that Disco Elysium-like RPG Hopetown—which has its own issues, believe me—released a new trailer, embattled Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM came in with the steel chair: A first teaser for its own follow-up game, codenamed project C4. The teaser itself is pretty thin, but undeniably stylish and intriguing: It’s all…
I’m about to poke a bit of fun at Hero Forge here, so in the interest of fairness I’d like to say that I’ve been downright impressed by the amount of customisation it’s offered recent years. In case you’re unfamiliar, Hero Forge is a custom mini site where you get to design your own figure…
Inzoi director Hyungjun ‘Kjun’ Kim has not been quiet about how difficult developing a life sim has been. He’s repeatedly lavished praise on The Sims for seemingly achieving the impossible for the last 20 years, and called developing Inzoi “an entirely new frontier and a significant challenge” despite having over two decades of game development…
Manor Lords was the best city builder of 2024, even if the game remains in early access, and studio Slavic Magic, aka developer Greg Styczeń, has revealed what it’s been working on for the game’s next major update: a new map, castle planner changes, and a progression system rework. The new map is called Devil’s…