The PlayStation network has been completely borked for 16 hours and counting at the time of writing, first going offline at 1 AM CET / 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT on February 8. Sony has yet to provide an explanation for the outage, which affects PSN logins and services across all platforms, including…
Cherry may be a name synonymous with mechanical keyboards and ubiquitous mechanical switches but it’s been known to bang out the odd rodent now and then. A few years back it released the M8 wireless gaming mouse, an unassuming little fellow that garnered a fair bit of respect among fans. Next out of the burrow…
There’s a hint for today’s Wordle waiting just below if you’d like to give your guesses a little push in the right direction without completely giving the game away. You’ll also find the answer to the February 3 (959) Wordle if you’d love to have today’s solution served up in an instant. My first row…
Disney Dreamlight Valley released its second DLC last year, The Storybook Vale. Unlike the first, A Rift in Time, the second DLC is being released in two parts, the first having rolled out in November, with the second due later this year. More specifically, this summer, with plans to round off the story alongside a…
I’ve been getting back into detective games recently, and musing about potentially reinstalling Return of the Obra Dinn, a game with a dithered art style that would look fantastic on an e-paper panel. Trouble is, those e-reader-style displays are notoriously slow to refresh, right? Wrong, according to the makers of the Modos Paper Monitor and…
No one likes the ‘um, actually’ guy. Whatever momentary high an um-actually-arsehole gets from jumping on a technicality in an off-the-cuff remark is either completely drowned out, or worse, strengthened by the resulting collective groan. Unfortunately, today, I’m going to be the ‘um, actually’ guy. My target? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—this can only end well…
As gaming keyboards get more advanced, we have to learn new words just to understand them. We’ve had to learn what polling rates really mean and how much is too much for the average gamer (8k, btw), what the advantage of rapid trigger is, and why someone would want TMR. And not only has MSI…
For the professional artist, sacrifice is a constant companion. Their work—however beautiful—has to fit a client’s needs or a project’s scope. Concept art of an octopus boss might not make it in-game if it’s too expensive to animate. The sickest knight design you’ve ever seen might get tossed because the creative director decided to move…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, but I’m gonna be real with you for a moment and admit I…
Hi, this is Emeric Thoa, creative director at The Game Bakers, and I’m joined by Art Director and Writer Mathieu Bablet. Today, we’d like to tell you a bit about the story of Cairn and its main character, Aava. Play Video So far, we’ve been highlighting the ultra-realistic climbing simulation in Cairn — a completely…