PC Gaming
Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and a videogame failing to meet Square Enix’s sales targets. Last year saw Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 falling short of whatever number the publisher cooked up in suited-up boardrooms, and before that it said Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy undershot expectations, and called…
Videogames—RPGs in particular—just love to make us go for a wander with an NPC. Whether it’s the tiresome MMO mainstay of an escort quest, following an NPC to a bandit camp where their mate’s being held, or simply sauntering down a road having a chat, we are expected to give up a significant chunk of…
At CES 2025, Nvidia announced so many new things that it was somewhat hard to figure out just what was really worth paying attention to. While the likes of the RTX 5090 and its enormous price tag were grabbing all the headlines, one new piece of tech sat to one side with lots of promise…
Staying on the straight and narrow is a tough task in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2‘s medieval Bohemia. Henry is constantly tempted away from the honest path by violence, banditry, and a seemingly endless number of locked chests with all sorts of loot inside. This can make getting the best ending a real challenge. This isn’t…
It’s been confirmed for a while that the Final Fantasy 14, which reached its 10th year recently, has been a load-bearing game for Square Enix’s balance sheets. That was as per a fiscal report ending in March 2024 (the pre-Dawntrail times) that saw it making up 68.4% of its operating profits. This was then confirmed…
It’s my understanding that, for some reason, people keep making ARPGs. This befogs me. As a people, we really kind of hit the nail on the head with Diablo 1. Do we need more? More enemies? More loot? More graphics? Of course not. We only need more ways to play Diablo 1 on more and…
I’ve seen some wild and wacky PC cooling solutions in my time, but this one might beat them all: An RTX 4090 cooled with a household air conditioner. Chinese techtuber 电解碳酸钠 (which machine translates to “Electrolytic sodium carbonate”) has shown off the extreme cooling system in a video on Bilibili. The channel says that it’s…
Last year we had a murder mystery expansion for Magic: The Gathering, followed by a Wild West one. As the cynics put it, they were “Magic in detective hats” and “Magic in cowboy hats”. Now, with the Aetherdrift set basically being themed around Speed Racer and Twisted Metal, the cynics say this is “Magic in…
Relax, you’re about to solve your daily Wordle game without any fuss, near-losses, or headaches. Keep it light with a quick look at our general tips and tricks, use the February 10 (1332) hint if you need a nudge, or go straight to today’s answer if you’re just here to win. You’ve got this. I…
First reported by Gaming on Linux, Valve has added a new advertising page to its Steamworks developer documentation. The page outlines what kinds of advertising and promotion it will allow on Steam, while explicitly banning in-game ads as a revenue model on the ubiquitous PC gaming platform. Product placement is still in, so long as…