DLSS 5 is a controversial technology for all sorts of reasons—you might have heard about this little thing called AI slop—but perhaps the most infamous is its uncanny look. Real concerns have been raised about the potential for something so aesthetically transformative to preserve a game developer’s artistic intent, with Nvidia trying to run interference…
Play This Right Now Welcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a new game, update, or DLC that we think is well worth checking out. You can subscribe to the newsletter at the link if you want to get our thoughts about a new videogame…
These boots are made for big walkin’. People are usually surprised when they hear I’ve managed to stay close with my childhood friends after living overseas for the better part of two decades. I don’t think it’s particularly surprising. But perhaps for most people, great distances and long periods of time without meeting up almost…
Terminally Online (Image credit: Future) This is Terminally Online: PC Gamer’s very own MMO column. Every other week, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the genre, interviewing fellow MMO-heads like me, taking a deep-dive into mechanics we’ve all taken for granted, and, occasionally, bringing in guest writers to talk about their MMO of choice. Ah,…
Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh, Ted, and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it’s the canon height of Thief’s Garrett or that time someone in…
I love lockpicking minigames, especially when representatively they’re as far away from the act of lockpicking as possible. While I admire the elegance of Bethesda’s bobby-pin/screwdriver system seen in Fallout 4, I’m much more interested in the weirder solutions like Splinter Cell‘s baffling pin-flicking system, or Gothic Remake‘s absurdly elaborate sliding puzzle system. I love…
The memory crisis may be in full swing, taking numerous PC components with it, but the value of gaming monitors is one of a few hardware things that has actually improved over the last few years. In fact, their price-to-quality ratio is kind of outrageous right now, with even relatively recent QD-OLED screens going for…
From 1991 to 2000, the Nintendo UK hotline answered millions of calls from players. Before the internet became widespread, if you were stuck on a video game and needed help, you had a few different options available to you. But arguably, one of the quickest was to call up a video game hotline. As you…
Every new Rockstar game is more simulation-heavy than the last, and Grand Theft Auto 6 aims to bring players closer to real-life in a variety of ways. One of these is the addition of vehicle refuelling, which will require players to stop off at gas stations (or petrol stations if you’re a Brit like me)…
It’s strange to think about in hindsight, but Left 4 Dead 2 was a controversial game in the run-up to its release in November 2009—just one year after the original Left 4 Dead laid the foundations for today’s enormous cooperative gaming scene. Indeed, it was that rapid turnaround, combined with the fact that the first…