PC Gaming
Mafia: The Old Country isn’t great, but you know what? Its rendition of 1900s Sicily is sun-drenched, citrus-scented, and very nice to look at. The problem is that the main game just treats it as a series of roads to cart you between dull missions and the game’s exploration mode—squirrelled away in its chapter select—really…
Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: Talking about entropy in MMORPGs, and being a busy bee in World of Warcraft. I’ve noticed a trend—particularly in some recent RPGs—of, well, let’s call it ‘Netflixiness’. Dialogue designed to leave absolutely nothing to interpretation, to exposit information in the most direct way possible,…
A handful of hours with a preview build of Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree taught me a couple important things about myself: Something activates in my brain when I play anything that remotely resembles Hades, and, despite my experience with the genre, I’m really bad at controlling two characters at once. Although…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to assembled reporters at a dinner in San Francisco late last week on the topic of, you guessed it, AI, the applications of AI, and the vast sums of money moving behind the scenes to fund it. Despite being one of the most vocal advocates of the tech, Altman had…
When it comes to Gamescom, there are two kinds of people. The first: the event’s haggard attendees, who arrive in droves to hack through throngs of cosplayers and stand in three-hour queues. The second: people who elect to hang out at home instead and let all the news come to them. Canny. If you’re in…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently attended a dinner with a small group of reporters, and apparently had a lot to say about the company, the future of AI, and some of its potential applications (via The Verge). No great surprises there. However, when it comes to, perhaps less savoury uses of the tech, Altman appears…
There’s an incredibly high chance that the moment you started a run in Peak for the first time, you immediately ran to a strange green plush known as Bing Bong, which survived the plane crash. If you’re anything like me, this then continued to happen each run until you realised that bag space was super…
EA’s Skate series was one of my childhood favourites—I’m not nearly as skateboard-obsessed as I used to be, but I was into the classics. THPS (there was a time when I thought Underground was peak fiction, don’t judge me) and Skate 1 and 2 were a huge part of my childhood rotation. Which is why…
A new developer update uploaded to YouTube has detailed Disney Dreamlight Valley’s upcoming update, Emotional Rescue, which is set to arrive on August 20 with a new realm, two characters to invite to your valley, a fresh Star Path, and a number of new features to make valley life a little bit more streamlined. It’s…
The Hugo Awards: they’re not just for science-fiction novels that make you think “I should read that one day” and never do. Now they’ve got an interactive category, so once a year you can be told how excellent one more videogame is, think “I should play that one day,” and then never get around to…