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Surviving Mars: Relaunched is an unusual remaster, though this is not particularly clear at a glance. Remasters tend to fall into two categories: gussied up classics that take advantage of technological improvements, new consoles and a new audience, or cynical attempts at double dipping. Surviving Mars comfortably slots into the first group, but given the…

I didn’t love Mafia: The Old Country. Where previous games in the series had compensated for their lows with some truly high highs, I felt like Hangar 13’s more linear world and more traditional mob story reduced its Sicilian series entry to a uniform level of predictability and blandness, and said as much in our…

I’ve said it before and, unless PC Gamer fires me for all that embezzling I’ve been doing, I’m bound to say it again: OpenMW is one of the coolest mod projects out there. Much like DevilutionX does for Diablo or Daggerfall Unity does for Daggerfall, OpenMW is an open-source engine reimplementation for The Elder Scrolls…

“Windows Sucks” is the cold open to former Microsoft Engineer turned tech YouTuber, Dave Plummer’s latest video. As tongue-in-cheek as Plummer usually is, this video has him go over how he would fix it if “Heaven help us, I was suddenly put in charge.” “I worked on Windows, and most of my code is likely…

I don’t think I’m alone in saying Arc Raiders is a horror game, at least at times. I’m not normally afraid to go toe to toe with Arcs or other players, but with a backpack full of loot on the line, I’m always making a beeline for the exit. There’s nothing that makes said escape…

I’ve been using the Logitech MX Master 3S as my exclusive productivity mouse for the past two years. It’s become something of an old friend at this point, so I was anxious to test out its successor, the Logitech MX Master 4. This new model promises many improvements over its older sibling, but sitting the…

Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week: I’ve been trying out different lightweight mice, trying to decide whether I can tell the difference between 41 g and 36 g under my fingertips. The memory price crisis has come at my least favourite time: a time when it inconveniences me. You can have your…