A top-tier wired headset to satisfy your aural fixation We’ve had the G633 on hand here at Maximum PC for quite some time, but we’ve wanted to hold off on reviewing the unit for a few reasons. Now that we’ve had it and used it to its full potential, we can confidently say that this…
Sony-owned developer Haven Studios had planned to release its live service shooter Fairgames this year, but the departure of its founder, Jade Raymond, and poorly-received external playtests has resulted in a delay to 2025, according to a Bloomberg report. Raymond started Haven in 2021 just two months after leaving Stadia Games, Google’s relatively short-lived internal…
“The donation represents nearly 30 years of the company’s history”. The Strong National Museum of Play, in Rochester, New York, announced earlier this week that it had acquired a sizeable collection of development materials from the Saint’s Row studio Volition. This collection was reportedly donated to the museum by former “Volitionites” and is said to…
After finishing Avowed, I started digging into the different ending slide possibilities and was shocked at just how many permutations there are. Its most challenging and hidden ending not only demands a game-long commitment, it also leaves the Living Lands in its roughest possible state while all your companions hate your guts. Spoilers ahead for…
Crimson Desert’s hit the public and, as I suspected, has buckled a bit under its own weight. It’s a charming but messy complex of systems in dire need of some quality-of-life brushups—and while some of Pearl Abyss’ design choices going into launch are a little baffling, it’s at least fixing some of them. The full…
Nintendo is planning to launch a new Nintendo Switch bundle in the land of the rising sun on Friday, 20th November. The bundle contains a Nintendo Switch system, a pre-installed version of Ring Fit Adventure, and the required Ringcon and leg band. The bundle will be priced at ¥37,960 and pre-orders for the system open…
Blizzard surprised us the other day when it added a new Warlock class to Diablo 2 and brought the 2021 remaster of the classic ARPG to Steam. For some of Diablo 2’s original developers, the revitalization of their 26-year-old game is a happy testament to its longevity, but also means that, to some degree, they’re…
Tackling a Titan X Nvidia finally made official a new flagship graphics card today, the mighty GeForce Titan X, and right on cue are the barrage of announcements from system builders flaunting the availability of the successor to Titan Z. That includes boutique builder Digital Storm, which is now (or soon) offering the Titan X…
Aw, shoot. Leave it up to Kazutaka Kodaka to come up with one of the weirdest stories in gaming, huh? Following on from the outrageously ambitious The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy, the creator has now joined forces with developer Neilo on the new visual novel Shuten Order. I say ‘visual novel’, and that’s…
Getting dark. Hot off the back of yesterday’s Switch and Switch 2 system update, Nintendo has today released a patch for its Parental Controls app, bumping things up to ver. 2.3.0. The big addition this time around is a new Dark Mode, which will turn on automatically according to your phone’s settings — so no…