Items tagged with PC gaming
Those with a particular interest in the topic may recall that among Cyberpunk 2077's many issues at launch was a major performance problem on AMD Ryzen CPUs where the game wouldn't make use of the extra logical cores afforded by those processors' simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) feature. The game's developer issued...
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Diablo III, originally released in 2012, was a huge departure from the previous two games in terms of visual style. Despite the dark and gothic tone of the first two games, Diablo III had a simpler, less-detailed, and almost cartoonish aesthetic not entirely unlike World of Warcraft or even Overwatch. The Reaper of...
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It's summertime, readers, and you know what that means: it's too darn hot. That's why you should stay inside and try out some demos of new and upcoming indie games. There's no shortage—the Steam Next Fest is on once again, and Valve is hosting hundreds of game demos and livestreams from game developers hoping to...
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The PlayStation 5 released in November of 2020. That's two and a half years ago at this point, and yet the number of games exclusive to the system can nearly be counted on your hands. Indeed, this phenomenon has become a meme among certain segments of the internet, and there's no shortage of comical send-ups of the...
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The world of PC gaming handhelds, long the domain of obscure hardware from small vendors out of Hong Kong and Shenzen, has been rocked in recent years. First, Valve walked in and slapped its fat wallet down on the table with the Steam Deck, and in June, ASUS plans to upend the whole thing with its ROG Ally handheld...
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If you haven't heard, Naughty Dog's deeply-adored The Last of Us Part 1 is available on PC now. It had a rocky launch—what AAA PC game hasn't, this year—but the developer has been earnestly patching it up and the majority of the issues should be resolved now.
That includes crash bugs affecting Intel Arc GPUs, which...
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Every now and again, an indie game developer comes out of nowhere with a concept trailer or demo that looks too good to be true, prompting skeptics to investigate and shoot down the promising project with harsh reality. We sure hope that doesn't happen with the just-revealed Unrecord, because it's one of the first...
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The Steam Deck doesn't run Windows. That's right: a gaming handheld based on PC-equivalent hardware, much closer to a full PC than the Xbox or PlayStation, runs Windows PC games on a non-Windows operating system. This is achieved through the herculean efforts of the developers behind myriad open-source software, most...
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The relatively-recent re-makes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 were updated recently, and the patched version appearing on Steam seemed to remove the ray-tracing and 3D audio options for most, if not all, users. It was a big enough bungle that we even reported on it, commenting that it could be just as easily...
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When a big console game finally comes to PCs, three things happen in roughly this order: PC gamers complain about the port, hackers tear it to pieces, and then modders go to town, creating unique experiences you won't find on the console versions. Case in point: a new mod for The Last of Us Part 1 that turns the...
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When NVIDIA unveiled its grand plans to bring real-time ray-tracing to computer games, those of us in the audience who understood what that really meant were cautiously optimistic. It's probably fair to say that most of the uses of ray-tracing in PC games thus far have been a little underwhelming in comparison to...
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Polish developer CD Projekt Red seems to be among the few game publishers of decent size that understand the PC market: once you release a game, it doesn't vanish from the market after a few weeks, months, or even years. It stays in shops, and people will continue to buy it if there's a reason to do so, like the major...
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We surely don't need to tell you that it's April Fool's Day, given the preponderance of gags around the internet. SEGA decided to get in on the action, announcing on Twitter a new Steam game called The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. Only it's not actually a joke at all, and you can download and play it right now.
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Real-time ray-traced graphics were big buzz around the time that Elden Ring was first announced. Close to the release, Bandai-Namco, the game's publisher, also announced that the developer FromSoftware would be releasing a patch for its magnum opus that adds ray-traced effects. Well, that patch is here now.
The release of the update was
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There's two paths that live service games tend to take. Sometimes, they are overloaded with microtransactions, burdened with bugs, or just plain bad, and in that case, they tend to die out rather quickly. Other times, a company hits an underserved market, navigates the troubled free-to-play waters, or just makes a...
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Counter-Strike is one of the oldest and most-respected names in online FPS gaming. You may think of it as a thing of the past, yet Counter-Strike is anything but that. With hundreds of thousands of players on at any given time, it remains one of the most popular competitive online games, and one of the biggest eSports...
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That's right friends, fanboys, and fiends—it's time for another quarterly Steam sale, with more slashed prices on PC games than you can shake a stick at. This year's Spring Sale brings deep discounts on some seriously solid games, as well as the first-ever price cut on the coveted Steam Deck.
Certainly the most...
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The Nintendo Switch is a handheld game console that uses hardware already a year old when it released back in 2017. Considering all that, it should be trivial to emulate on modern PCs, right? Well... no, actually. Not only is emulation surprisingly difficult in general, but even high-level emulation of the Switch is...
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Hogwarts Legacy launched in a reasonably decent state—ray-tracing performance problems aside. The game was fully completable and had no common crash or progression-stop bugs, which is sadly above the bar for a new AAA title these days. That's not to say the game was flawless, though; like any big game release...
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Cheating in online games is an epidemic, and it's a big business, too. You've gotta be a pretty smart feller to make game cheats, but you don't have to be that clever to use them. Nothing lately has evinced that as well as this week's ban of some 40,000 Dota 2 cheaters that were caught using third-party software to...
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A modder is enjoying casting spells by gesturing with a physical wireless wand peripheral in the new Hogwart’s Legacy game on PC. The ingenious project is described by its originator, Redditor / YouTuber / GitHubber That’s So Mo (who we will just call Mo from now on) via his social media channels. If you are...
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Remember those days as a kid, when getting a game rental was the highlight of the weekend? As a long-time PC gamer, it's almost impossible to imagine running out of unfinished games in my library now, but if you still want new titles to try, Ubisoft, Xbox Game Studios, and 2K Games are all offering free rentals this...
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