PC Gaming
You might think making one of the most influential games of this century would be a source of unending happiness for its creator. But for Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall, founder of RocketWerkz, the relationship with his most famous creation isn’t that simple. “When DayZ happened, it was like dying,” says Hall of the mod which, alongside…
Retro gaming is just regular gaming to a sick, twisted mind like mine (and that of everyone I know, since we spend all our time playing old crap). But what makes something retro in the first place? Is it bits? Console generation? The size and contents of the box it came in, assuming it came…
The observation that building a PC enjoys a similar appeal to clicking Lego bricks together is far from an original thought; when handed a big ol’ box of PC case faceplates, side panels, and internal brackets, few could resist having a play. So, when I was left unattended with a box o’ bits for the…
One of video gaming’s great strengths is letting players step into worlds that previously only existed in words or on canvas or celluloid. Lush fantasy kingdoms, sprawling sci-fi universes, and of course surrealist dreamscapes where people have music printed on their butts. Admittedly, that last one is a relatively recent addition to gaming’s ever-expanding map…
A massive cache of internal builds from Valve has reportedly leaked online, including beta builds of several classic Valve titles and possible weapons from Half-Life 2‘s cancelled third episode. The leak, which began circulating on Saturday and comes from an unknown source, includes 12 terabytes of data currently being sifted through by data miners. The…
Activision has employed many different tactics in its unending battle against cheating in Call of Duty, from suing cheat makers for millions of dollars to employing complex technical solutions to ban cheaters as quickly as possible. In its latest gambit, Activision served cease-and-desist papers to one especially infamous Call of Duty cheat maker, filmed the…
In his review of Transformers: War for Cybertron, Dan Stapleton referred to “the tingly nerd-joy of hearing original Optimus Prime voice actor Peter Cullen’s authoritative dialogue”. Every time the character appeared on screen, as he did many times in videogames like Transformers: Devastation and Fall of Cybertron or the middling movies, it was thrilling to…
Star Wars Zero Company is enough like XCOM that everyone’s been calling it ZCOM, but there are some ways it isn’t quite XCOM enough for me. For starters, the radial menu you use to select each character’s actions, a controller-friendly system that flings all your abilities out in a circle around the active character like…
A native PC port of Nintendo’s 1999 platformer Donkey Kong 64 is finally here, and the team that pulled it off is proud to say that they used zero generative AI tools in the process. DK64 Rekongpiled, a recompilation or translation of the game’s code for modern hardware (as opposed to emulation), dropped today. All…
Hand Elden Ring players a handful of new armor sets and weapons and they’ll spend the next week or more experimenting and crunching the numbers to find out how they stack up against everything else in the legendary action RPG. That is all that’s been happening in the last few days since FromSoftware dropped the…