The celebrity voiceover in a bigass RPG is no longer the quaint novelty of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion’s sleepy Patrick Stewart performance or Liam Neeson showing up for a cheeky ten minutes in Fallout 3. Cyberpunk 2077 broke new ground by having Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Silverhand be your constant companion throughout the game, and…
My pet demon is far stronger than I intended and sometimes I’m not sure he needs me. Poor guy doesn’t even have a proper name—he’s just the demon that shows up when I press the Rampage button. He smashes everything apart while I run along behind him cleaning up stragglers. Need to Know What is…
Ever since Overwatch’s massive refresh in February, which added five new heroes in one batch and set the pace going forward, Blizzard’s hero shooter has been in its renaissance era. Everyone’s playing it: lapsed Overwatch fans, Marvel Rivals (ex-)enjoyers, and even Doja Cat—yes, that Doja Cat. The musician took to Twitch yesterday to livestream her…
We also introduce Maximum PC’s new Associate Editor Alex Campbell There has been a lot of PC news since the No BS podcast last convened and on episode 237, the crew gets busy tackling it. Topics on this week’s show include Nvidia’s new $999 Titan X GPU, Valve’s revolutionary Vive VR system, GTC, GDC and…
Fans of shooters, brawlers, and multiplayer mayhem should circle Tuesday, March 1st on their calendars: that’s when you can finally download Square Heroes on PS4! It’s been a long journey and the Gnomic Studios team can’t wait to see it in the hands of PS4 gamers. Everyone Loves Multiplayer! There’s nothing more satisfying than mowing…
Sometimes the calls routed to my desk at the Superhero Dispatch Network are pretty low-key. Cats stuck up trees, that kind of thing. Sometimes they’re more high-stress, like hostage negotiations. And sometimes they can go either way, like when someone hears strange noises in the basement and thinks they’re being haunted. This is a world…
Browser-based online games are enjoying a remarkable resurgence; once sidelined due to their technical limitations and overshadowed by mobile and console gaming, these games are making a strong comeback. We can see that emerging technologies and shifting market dynamics place browser games in the spotlight — offering developers and players fresh opportunities in the gaming…
Super C, Contra Force, and TMNT ports are next on the menu. The Nintendo ROM hacker and serial NES to SNES porter Infidelity is planning to bring three Konami NES games to the SNES later this year, he announced recently on social media. These include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989), Super C (1990), Contra Force…
It’s an exciting time of year for us PC hardware folk. We have Computex fast approaching and with it surely a bazillion different product announcements. Probably most exciting of all, though, are upcoming entry-level GPUs. So it’s a cruel, cruel joke (or misunderstanding) that Intel is making here if an Arc B770 graphics card doesn’t…