When was the last time you updated your web browser? Are your palms sweaty? Knees weak, arms heavy, mom’s spaghetti? Well, as the saying goes the best time to plant a tree/update your web browser/begin your illustrious rap career was probably long before today but the next best time is right now—and it’s just as…
Occult Crescent—Final Fantasy 14’s newest field operation mode—is good fun, but it’s an absolute pain to tackle its 48-player dungeon Forked Tower as a static. That’s thanks to the fact the game currently doesn’t let you enter in groups larger than eight, leaving folk playing what’s been dubbed as ‘instance gacha’ to try and land…
There’s a new Persona shitposting mascot in town, and it’s a shoulder-barging menace who serves as a terrible example of a very real problem. The series’ bad guys have always erred more on the side of caricature, and nobody exemplifies that more than Persona 5: The Phantom X’s first villain—former baseball prodigy turned salaryman Takeyuki…
I set out to give iCUE Link a try with my latest PC build. This is a system of PC components that operate using shared connectors and hubs to allow for unified lighting, simple monitoring, and easy expansion. All of which sounds great to me after building many gaming PCs ‘the old-fashioned way’ over the…
An IGN report says Microsoft has begun a new round of mass layoffs across its gaming division, beginning with a 10% reduction—approximately 200 people—at social game developer King. Layoffs are also being announced at other European studios, according to the report, while US-based studios will be informed about job losses later today. Microsoft announced its…
When I said I wanted FBC: Firebreak to be a chaotic and confusing experience I meant in the sense of wacky antics to enjoy with friends, not a progression system which was slow and full of phrases that weren’t very well explained or intuitive. “Our statistics show that slightly less than 5% of our player…
“Ready for business”. The welcome news that Street Fighter 6 was getting its own range of amiibo was countered somewhat by the less welcome news that they would also be getting a price increase, but Nintendo can at least argue for that rise on one front: these figures are bigger than what has come before….
Working for three decades at the same company is perhaps a rare thing these days, but if you’re the one who started it all, you’d want to look after your baby for as long as possible. All things must come to an end, though, and Corsair’s co-founder and CEO, Andrew Paul, is officially retiring, with…
Reports are coming in that right about now it’s time to rock with the biggity Buck Bumble. PC Gamer sources add that “Bum to the bum to the bum to the bass to the bum to the boom to the Bumble,” and that “Bum to the boo to the boo to the boo boo bum…
Deux Ex is the PC classic we all love to bang on about: the FPS that arguably created the immersive sim, releasing players from the shackles of linear corridors and mindless baddies into a world where freedom of approach was the secret sauce. Its plot and stylings were also sophisticated for the time, with the…