Avowed's inert cities remind me just how good we had it in Skyrim and Oblivion

‘We were literally held hostage’: Overwatch 2 players are finding the matchmaking in Stadium tough, but the devs say they’re working on a couple of solutions

It’s been a couple of weeks since Blizzard launched Stadium in Overwatch 2, and since then, it’s been an enjoyable, albeit bumpy ride. Apparently, the new mode only uses internal MMR for matchmaking, but even still, players are encountering a bit of mismatch. “We were literally held hostage in Stadium,” one player says. “Got trapped…

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‘The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable’: Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Doom runs on just about everything. From 100 pounds of mouldy potatoes to a pregnancy test, creators have endeavoured to run everyone’s favourite demon-blasting fest on all sorts of hardware—but cramming its code inside DNS text records is a new one on me. That’s what Doom Over DNS does, and it’s a remarkable bit of…

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Some gamers are going full conspiracy theory over Pragmata’s path tracing vs ray tracing debate, so I’ve donned my tin foil hat and taken a look

Capcom’s new sci-fi hit, Pragmata, was released to glowing reviews late last week, and much praise has been heaped on its relatively excellent performance. That’s with ray tracing enabled instead of the game’s path tracing option, of course. Path tracing is known to be a resource hog, particularly in a game world covered in shadows…

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Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes’ new trailer reminds us that resource management only gets you so far—we have to fight with giant lasers to save humanity

Sci-fi fans rejoice. Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes just saw a new teaser trailer drop during the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted and my engines are powering up in the cold expanse. Time to get back into my space-age resource management phase. Add it to your wishlist Wishlist Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes on Steam Revealed back…

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Dev says CD Projekt morale ‘took a significant hit’ after Cyberpunk’s launch, but it won’t repeat mistakes with the next Witcher

This is the year of Cyberpunk 2077’s about-face. Between the game’s wide-ranging 2.0 update and its slick Phantom Liberty expansion pack, most onlookers now agree that the game is—if not the awe-inspiring masterwork it was hyped up to be prior to release—pretty good. But over at CD Projekt, the game’s disastrous launch still looms large…

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When PC RPGs were at their crunchiest and most hardcore in the 1990s, Farland Story set itself apart by… being cute?

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: TGL Released: 1993 PCs: PC-98 (Image credit: TGL) Old RPGs, especially grid-based ones created for dusty computers equipped with dual floppy drives, are often stubborn, complex…

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