PC Gaming
Remember last year when leaked documents from a court case between Valve and indie dev Wolfire Games revealed that—per the calculations of its own data scientist Kristian Miller—Valve makes more money per head than Facebook, Apple, Netflix, and any other tech titan you care to name? That was remarkable, as news days go, but there…
During the pandemic, while most of us were stuck inside, the RocketWerkz dev team, including former DayZ creative director Brian Hicks and head honcho Dean Hall, were roaming around in Eco—an early access sandbox that Hicks describes as a “little educational game for middle-schoolers”. Hicks was there at the birth of the modern survival genre,…
I’ve played Marvel Rivals almost every day since launch, and while I’m far from the best, most consistent player, I’ve hovered around the Grandmaster regions in competitive, peaking at Celestial 2. At times, trying to take Rivals seriously and play competitively has been an act of self-targeted psychic damage, largely because the hero balance has…
Having begun work on it sometime after the domestication of rice, the heroic mad lads over at OpenMW—the open-source engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind that lets you play it with a minimum of fuss on pretty much any modern OS—have finally released its much-anticipated 0.49 update. Okay, work actually began on it…
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus and occasional Bond villain, has taken a break from getting trapped in his own car elevators to lead a collective of tech billionaires in founding a new crypto bank called Erebor. First thing’s first: this is not a bank for the likes of you and I. Erebor is all…
Despite being an intense team game with a ranked mode—typically a breeding ground for toxicity—I’ve had a blessedly chill time in Rematch. It might just be because I’ve been wearing out my d-pad spamming “We got this!” to keep everyone calm, but I can count the amount of actual game-ruining griefers on one hand. I…
Earlier this week, Peak developers Landcrab had to cycle back on a patch that was released to help improve stability. All the fixes worked, the only problem was that it somehow stopped a bunch of players from accessing the game. But now the devs have come back with the same patch with all of the…
Resistance is futile, the change is already upon us. OLED is taking over the gaming monitor market, and for good reason. OLED technology is so much faster than any LCD-based display. It also offers perfect per-pixel lighting that blows away even the best local-dimming systems in LCD monitors. OLED is not, of course, perfect. Apart…
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes—every so often, in times of deep economic equality, someone with a thick paycheck or accumulated wealth will waltz up and say something so mind-bogglingly disconnected from good sense and empathy that it becomes enshrined as an example of what not to say. The latest entrant to the…
The monthly Steam Hardware survey has a somewhat flawed methodology, as it only surveys a limited number of gamers who opt in every single month. This means those surveyed often have a level of dedication to PC gaming above the average PC owner, which is why I’m even more disappointed to see gamers just don’t…