When the developers of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora called its unobtanium graphics preset “extremely difficult to run on currently available hardware”, I could only see that as a challenge. But not so much a challenge for me, for my poor test bench’s AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. I have the goods—a test bench with a…
The Battlefield 6 beta is over, and now all that’s left to do is speculate about it endlessly for the next two months. The feedback on its small maps is still in full swing, with beta players pining for signs of full-scale Battlefield action in BF6, and DICE assuring us that “large maps exist,” with…
NEED TO KNOW What is it? A grand historical strategy game in the classic Total War style, set in Ancient Egypt. Release date October 11, 2023 Expect to pay £50 / $60 Developer Creative Assembly Publisher SEGA Reviewed on AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia 2080 Super, 32 GB RAM Steam Deck Unsupported Link Official site Total War: Pharaoh isn’t the best Total War…
You need deep pockets in more ways than one. While Steam Deck’s humble sales have illustrated that the handheld gaming PC market is smaller than many believed, that doesn’t mean there’s not an appetite for these monstrously powerful portable beasts. Before Valve entered the market with its aforementioned device, we’d already seen several examples from…
Soundtrack Sunday Welcome to Soundtrack Sunday, where a member of the PC Gamer team takes a look at a soundtrack from one of their favourite games—or a broader look at videogame music as a whole—offering their thoughts or asking for yours! You’ve collected every coin. Done every side quest. Spoken to every single NPC. S-ranked…
PC Gamer senior editor Rich Stanton called Metal Gear Solid Delta a “safe, but excellent” remake in his review, but the extent to which Konami faithfully recreated even the most minute aspects of 2004’s Snake Eater has been tickling our lizard brain nostalgia centers. You can still wait until sniper boss The End dies of…
Hey all. I’m Csilla, the Community Manager at Lucky Mountain Games. Some of you might be familiar with our aesthetic and know of us from our previous game, Hotshot Racing. Since then, we’ve been working on a top-secret project that we’ve only teased tidbits of. So, we’re overjoyed to finally announce our upcoming PS VR2…
Quite possibly the biggest surprise announcement of The Game Awards, Elden Ring: Nightreign is a multiplayer-focused spin-off of FromSoftware’s giant open world RPG. Its debut trailer includes glimpses of a number of mechanics that look like they’re plucked from popular free-to-play live service games, including a battle royale-style circle enclosing the map and “hero” characters…
“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant,” former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said in 1969, describing the relationship between the US and Canada. “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” This is…
3D classics. In many ways, it’s hard to believe the 3DS is a ‘dead’ system, because the gimmick of glasses-free 3D is still amazing, even a decade later. Following in the footsteps of the Nintendo DS – the company’s most successful hardware ever, with 154.02 million units sold – was never going to be easy,…