While playing Far Cry 5 at a preview event in Livermore, California, the Ubisoft team stormed an enemy-held radar station at the crest of a hill. This coordinated attack between two members of the studio involved sticks of dynamite, powerful firearms, and a complete lack of stealth. As the resistance fighters surged against the dangerous…
Item restoration is a service you can use in World of Warcraft if you accidentally sell, disenchant, or otherwise destroy something from your inventory. It’s easily done: you want to clean out your bags before you head to the raid, and you mistakenly sell that piece of gear you’ve been trying to decide is an…
This article was published in the August 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Dual Graphics? Greetings Doc. My rig consists of an ASRock FM2A88X-ITX+, an AMD A10-7850K APU, two Crucial 240GB SSDs in RAID 1, and 8GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3 at 2400 MT/s. My question is…
Recruiting capable Rogue Trader companions is a big part of the 40k CRPG, as you bolster your retinue with chainsword-wielding weirdos and mutant psykers from across the wild frontier of the Koronus Expanse. You’ll gather a fair few allies during the initial prologue, but there are more to find as you venture out into realspace. …
As part of the Konami 50th Anniversary series, Konami’s Castlevania Collection assembles for the first time many of the early ground-breaking titles into a single, cohesive themed collection. When the developers created Castlevania in 1986/1987, little did they know that the franchise would span three decades and inspire generations of game designers! The vampires versus…
It would seem as though the classic games in the iconic Bioshock franchise are heading to the Nintendo Switch platform. The news was discovered via the Taiwanese games rating board. The games originally appeared on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 and then the collection of all three games came to Xbox One and PlayStation…
Zoophoria. From the moment we got a glimpse of Animal Well during an Indie World Showcase last April, it sent tongues wagging with its unique premise and visual identity, becoming an easy add to plenty of ‘Most Anticipated’ lists. Its association with indie publishing label Bigmode, run by popular YouTuber Jason ‘Dunkey’ Gastrow, added to…
2K & Take-Two make cuts. The video game industry continues to suffer from layoffs, with Visual Concepts Austin becoming the latest studio hit with cuts, Game Developer reports (via Eurogamer). The 2K Games and Take-Two division based in Austin, Texas already reportedly laid off a number of staff back in September 2023, and Game Developer…
At the E3 2017 Media Showcase we premiered a new gameplay demo for Days Gone that focused on open-world dynamic events. Behind closed doors, we showed an alternate-path of the demo, changing up the weather, time-of-day, and play style. Our goal for this second demo was to show that changing something like the weather was…
Do you have any of those games it feels like only you remember? For me, it’s Prisoner of War, a third-person stealth/adventure thing on the original Xbox that saw you play a captured WW2 pilot trying to break out of prisons like Stalag Luft and Colditz. It had some neat ideas for 2002: the prison…