PC Gaming
After a long fallow period, Konami’s back on the Metal Gear bandwagon in a big way. The Japanese publisher dipped its toes back in with Metal Gear Solid: The Master Collection Vol. 1 in 2023, which after a year of patches turned out pretty good, before this year brought the excellent remake Metal Gear Solid…
Baldur’s Gate 3 cut content sleuth SlimX has uncovered the most important missing piece of Larian’s RPG yet: A couple lines of dialogue where Tiefling refugee and budding YA novel protagonist Arabella makes fun of immortal camp moocher Withers. Not only that, but SlimX has also made a mod restoring the scene available for free…
The superhero workplace comedy Dispatch is something of a surprise hit: A relic of the Telltale era (and made by a studio founded by Telltale veterans), it sold one million copies in just 10 days. And even though the first ‘season’ of Dispatch isn’t fully released yet, that success has significantly boosted the possibility of…
Often at the centre of a wholesome life-sim is a small business, where life slows down and you can enjoy the simple life while integrating yourself with a charming, tight knit community. Cafés and coffee shops symbolise the pinnacle of cosiness, and Tailside: Cozy Cafe Sim looks to be a warm hug against the bitter…
Following yet another delay to Grand Theft Auto 6, CEO of Take Two Strauss Zelnick has casually mentioned one reason why his company’s shareholders shouldn’t be too worried: Grand Theft Auto 5, which obviously includes the massively successful GTA Online, has now sold over 220 million copies since its release in 2013. The corporate mega-flex…
I’m beginning to grow concerned for Straftat creators the Lemaitre brothers. The rate at which they put out new levels for their brilliant small-scale FPS is simply not human. Have they been locked away against their will, forced to design levels by some crazed kidnapper with an unhealthy attachment to late nineties deathmatch? Or are…
In June this year, Intel laid off over 100 of its employees in California. Just a month later, 4000 more were announced, with people across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona all losing jobs. Now, one of those employees, a staff member for 11 years, has been accused of stealing almost 18,000 files on their way….
I’m partial to builds with a retrofuturistic flair, particularly palmtop projects that imagine a portable past that never existed. Taking a leaf from the ‘Windows where it shouldn’t be’ chapter out of the modder’s playbook, one solo tinkerer has built a throwback handheld gaming PC that’s rocking Pentium inside. Built by maker Changliang Li, his…
It wasn’t built in a day, famously. But this latest Anno in a long-running series of accessible and endearingly twee city builders doesn’t take that old adage overly to heart. There’s complexity to its supply chains and economy, but it takes a ruthless writers’ pen (quill?) to the systems-bloat and perplexing menu rabbit holes found…
Last week, a pretty special result showed up in a widely accessible benchmarking website. It seemingly suggested a new AMD Ryzen 7 9700X3D was on the way. If that sounds too good to be true, it’s because it was. Instead, it was a product of some techies “playing around with Linux.” Turns out they “accidentally…