PC Gaming
AI, specifically that driven by large language models, is a worrying bit of technology right now. Not purely because of what it is, but also because of the lack of government guidance and regulation around it. However, not all is gloomy, as senator Bernie Sanders points out there are ways it can benefit the average…
“The decision to step down from Intel was an extremely difficult one. I wanted to finish what I started, but as you know, I was not given the opportunity,” says ex Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in a new interview with Japanese outlet PC Watch. This is the first hint from Gelsinger we’ve seen of what…
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Grab my hand! Don’t look down, don’t lunge for the ledge that’s too far from your grasp, that won’t help you here. Just grab my hand and let me tell you all the reasons why Peak is more than just a goofy co-op fad: It’s a wonderful intersection of chaos energy and cutesy pastel colours….
The year 2000. An odd time to look back on, in which everyone wore silver clothes and the air was thick with 5/10 Eric Cartman impressions. And an especially hilarious time to look back on in the world of PC gaming, firstly because of how much things have changed, and secondly because of how little…
The god game is a strange, beloved, and deeply PC niche. It’s torn between the tensions of being a strategy game and a world simulator. Demiurgos, the next game from the developers of Martian terraforming sim Per Aspera, is revisiting playing god with a mix of old and new ideas that—after a few hours with…
RuneScape hasn’t had the best month—but Jagex seems keen to start walking some of that bad PR back in a bombshell video, one that promises to completely overhaul RuneScape 3’s microtransactions (MTX). “Our MTX approach is harming RuneScape, and it’s time we took action,” announces Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy, who you might remember squirming after…
I’ve mentioned more than once how the thought of mounting e-waste keeps me up at night. Adding to the anxious no-slumber party is the fact that, to extract the gold necessary for the manufacture of a whole bunch of PC hardware, typical mining practices often use environmentally damaging amounts of cyanide and mercury. However, a…
When Diablo Immortal was released in 2022, it was hard to look past its egregious monetization. I even wrote at the time that it was “a game designed to exploit your love of Diablo,” and in many ways it still is. Half of the game is still a gaping chasm of menus and daily bonuses…
There’s a hubris to reviewing a unanimous classic decades after the fact—this mostly applies to guys on YouTube not named Mandalore. Yeah buddy, sure, you’ve got something to say about Earthbound that nobody cottoned on to before. You really couldn’t have said it in less than five hours? Thank god, then, that I’m not charged…