PC Gaming
What’s the best Alien game after Alien: Isolation? No, it isn’t Aliens: Dark Descent, though that is an excellent real-time tactics take on James Cameron’s sequel. Neither is it Alien: Rogue Incursion, Survios’ recent VR spin on Isolation. The answer is, of course, Duskers, the 2016 indie game about scavenging derelict spacecraft using drones controlled…
Take a look at our Wordle tips if you’d like to refresh your daily puzzle solving, then use everything you learn there to help you make the most of the hint for today’s Wordle. Don’t worry about spoilers—our clue is supposed to give you a boost, not give the game away. Although if that sounds…
If I were presented with the opportunity to purchase and place into my disk drive a very obviously cursed CD from 1995 I would simply not do so. This is, of course, what sets me apart from the protagonist of Forbidden Solitaire, a person who would put a cursed disk into their computer and pay…
Naoki Hamaguchi, director of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, has said, “As someone who plays games on PC, I sometimes use mods myself,” and added that “I see it as a positive thing myself.” Which is why I expect there to be absolutely no complaints about the coming influx of mods that make the more boring…
If every single day you wake up, log on, and think “the internet sure is stupid,” then have I got a game for you. Stimulation Clicker is another absolute banger from creator Neal Agarwal, whose weird little browser games are always a delight. In Stimulation Clicker you click a button to gain stimulation, allowing you…
Marvel Rivals has reached that tier of popularity where it has multiple dedicated leakers on social media, working together to datamine and share new information found in the game’s files. In the case of Marvel Rivals that information is mostly about the increasingly horny skins being released for all the women characters, but occasionally there’s…
As reported by Boing Boing, a 2023 study out of UC Irvine, “Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2” concluded that not only are CAPTCHAs ineffective at actually preventing bot traffic, they introduce privacy concerns through tracking cookies, have wasted billions of hours of our collective time, and generated nearly a trillion…
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead Game Studios has got a lot of attention over the past year for their game master-driven plot. To commemorate the first anniversary of Helldivers 2‘s release, extremely private game master J.O.E.L. is doing his first real public appearance in a video talking about the game master’s favorite moment of the first…
They say detective work is primarily about sitting in front of a computer, and if so, have I got the desktop for you. Armed with Nut OS 1.1, the Cashew PC offers speedy net surfing and thorough database searching – all without the bloat of a modern Windows machine, or the sluggishness of a genuine…
I consider it high praise to say Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has good fast travel, because I don’t know anyone who hates fast travel as much as me. For years I’ve railed against the ways sandbox games lean on fast travel to paper over boring maps or uninspiring traversal tools and celebrated games that bake…