PC Gaming
Running an actual play is hard—especially one with the weight and heft of Critical Role. Originally a crapshoot by Geek & Sundry to see if folks wanted to watch voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons, Critical Role is now a small media empire. We’re talking multiple animated series, entirely new systems. It is, to put…
Like many folks, I spend a lot of my time plonked on my posterior. Sure, I regularly get up and move around, but with an office-based job and PC gaming as a major hobby, there’s no escaping the fact that much of my daily life revolves around a humble chair. That also means a lot…
The best gaming keyboards provide a genuinely tactile interface with your gaming PC. And, as much as people might like the odd dalliance with a gamepad, it’s the heroic mouse and keyboard combination that makes PC gaming such an involved, fast, and accurate a hobby. And, like us PC gamers, gaming keyboards come in all…
The US and Chinese governments have been battling it out once more over trade policies, and the big point of contention this time round is Beijing’s latest raft of rare earth export restrictions, requiring foreign companies to obtain an export license for products containing the vital materials. According to a Reuters report, the Trump administration…
When I started playing Minecraft in 2012 you didn’t have any sort of help or guidance when it came to crafting. You had to rely exclusively on your own knowledge, or constantly tab out of the game to look up crafting recipes. It wasn’t until the in-game recipe book was introduced in 2018 that I…
There are some game premises that are simply irresistible. “Play a sinister game of poker dice against blood-thirsty demon billionaires who’ve trapped you on their mega yacht” is the kind of pitch I cannot turn down. So it is that I find myself sweatily rolling dice against a leering vampire as I go all-in with…
The course of history has a habit of plucking individuals from its stream and making them, by complex processes, tribunes of a class—figureheads onto which the demands of an era are projected and through whom they find voice. Martin Luther, Maximilien Robespierre, Karl Marx: these are less individuals than they are avatars of their epochs….
It’s been a long time coming, but I finally feel I no longer need to carry a Micro USB cable around with me. My travel bag is one cable lighter for the widespread adoption of USB Type-C. I can thank, in part, the European Union for that one. The bloc used its considerable might to…
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Speaking alongside Double Fine founder Tim Schafer at the Paley International Council Summit on Thursday, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer emphasized the value of creative risk-taking to a small crowd of film, TV, and online media bigwigs. “The creativity of the teams is, in my mind, the most important thing and the thing that we…