September sure was chock full o’ city builders, but wait, there’s more! October has a treat in store for all you aspiring mayors, too: survival city builder Farthest Frontier is busting out of early access and going full version 1.0 later this month. This is excellent news for two reasons. First, even from its earliest…
Recruitment into game development is a many-tentacled thing in 2024. You might decide to study a degree in one of its specific disciplines, or enroll in the university of YouTube and have a crack at some amateur projects with a view to building up your portfolio. There are masterclasses with legendary industry figures. There are…
If you’re putting together a new gaming system on a tight budget, but don’t want to spend the money on a current generation graphics card to go with it, AMD’s Ryzen 5 8600G may well be the solution for you. Every PC gamer can appreciate a machine that offers smooth 4K ray traced performance with…
Minecraft rolled out its Mounts of Mayhem update in December, adding new mountable mobs to the game alongside a new weapon: the spear. But, if you’re just going about Minecraft as normal, you might feel as if you haven’t been making the most of all these shiny new features. Fortunately, the Dungeon Descent Add-On may…
When I was a young warthog, trying and failing to touch type with my wee hoofs at the family computer, I had a choice of two audio output devices—some relatively decent speakers or a headset that wouldn’t look out of place in a call centre. As a teen growing up during the advent of both…
Many players still feel unsure about doing a PUBG Mobile top-up outside the game. There’s always that concern about account safety, fake services, or whether the platform is actually reliable. At the same time, in-game prices can feel quite high, especially if you top up PUBG Mobile regularly. This is why more players start looking…
One of the year’s most breakneck technology stories was OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder Sam Altman being fired by the company’s board, then being reinstated after a few days of will-they-or-won’t-they back-and-forth. Over those days Altman was the subject of considerable professional backingfrom OpenAI investor Microsoft (which straight-up offered him a job) and OpenAI’s own staff,…
When Valve launched Steam Direct in June 2017 it marked a huge shift in the storefront’s identity. Before Direct, Valve manually decided what did and did not release on Steam, or else it used initiatives like Steam Greenlight to have users decide what games would or would not enjoy placement. Before June 2017, the amount…
Simon says spells. If you’re an adventure game fan of a certain age, you’ll have a place in your heart for Simon the Sorcerer. Part of the first major wave of point-and-click adventures back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Simon offered a goofy British counterpart to Monkey Island’s swashbuckling comedy. The series now…