The new subclasses coming in Baldur’s Gate 3 are a powergamer’s paradise, and I know because I’ve seen them do terrible work in D&D

As one of our resident TTRPG enjoyers here at PC Gamer, I am cursed with the terrible and unfathomable eldritch knowledge of ‘knowing a little bit too much about Dungeons & Dragons’, the 5th edition ruleset of which forms the building blocks for one of our favourite RPGs, Baldur’s Gate 3. Larian, as you might’ve…

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How to get Plastic Scrap in Disney Dreamlight Valley

Plastic scrap may not seem like much initially, but it’s an essential crafting material in Disney Dreamlight Valley. You’ll need plastic scrap if you want to complete certain quests, such as “Give me a Sign” for Goofy, or if you want to craft trolley tracks and shelves. But compared to hardwood, stone, and even iron,…

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The Rewinder is a bit like that time-travelling Dishonored level turned into a point-and-click puzzler, and I’ll never finish it because I can’t do maths

The hidden gems of Game Pass (Image credit: Microsoft) We’re checking out the hidden gems of Game Pass over the next few weeks, digging up all the obscure and esoteric games secreted away in our subscription and seeing how they play. I’m a sucker for any story about the bureaucracy of death. Show me a…

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Intel’s Arc graphics cards have made their first appearance in the Steam hardware survey just as I’m getting genuinely excited about the new Battlemage B580 card

Could it be that Intel’s beleaguered CEO Pat Gelsinger fell on his sword too soon? For there is news just in that Intel’s Arc gaming graphics cards have made their first appearance in the Steam hardware survey. Meanwhile, Intel’s new Arc B580 graphics card looks like it could be genuinely exciting for gamers on a…

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Hold on to your potatoes because Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’s system requirements demand ray tracing you can’t disable and an RTX 4090 for highest settings

The system requirements for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle have just dropped, and in the words of ever-prescient Short Round: “Okey dokey, Dr Jones, hold on to your potatoes!” The requirements follow the recent trend of requiring a metric heap-load of storage space, this time meaning 120 of your finest gigabytes—and do you see…

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If the rumour that AMD’s RDNA 4 GPU is 45% faster in ray tracing than a 7900 XTX and on par with an RTX 4080 Super in raster is true I’m buying six of ’em

If there’s one area where AMD’s graphics cards need to improve, it’s ray tracing. Now the latest rumour suggests a big boost in ray tracing performance is exactly what AMD’s next gen RDNA 4 GPUs are going to get. More specifically, it’s claimed by well-established Chiphell forum user zhangzhonghao (via Sweclockers) that the upcoming Radeon…

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