Month: September 2024

If you were looking at the Platinum payouts on Diablo 4’s battle pass and getting excited about buying a cosmetic from the shop with your haul, you’re in for some disappointment. Instead of offering a practical amount of premium currency, Blizzard has gone for a joke amount: 666 Platinum. Oh you cheeky devils. The real joke, though, is that 666 Platinum is useless—not even enough to buy t…

The first post-launch DLC for Cities: Skylines 2, Beach Properties, arrived in March, and it did not go well. Players already irritated by the state of the game felt the DLC—an asset pack, with no new features—wasn’t worth its $10/£8.49 price, and predictably a new wave of negative reviews flowed into Steam. The Beach Properties DLC itself is rated as “overwhelmingly negative,…

The Simpsons Hit & Run—a GTA-style send-up that somehow managed to be actually pretty dang good—came out in 2003 to some stirring commercial success. I have some fond memories of romping around Springfield as an accident-prone Homer, and while I’m certainly not alone, the game never had a sequel. Turns out, it very nearly had four.

According to an interview clip from the M…

Razer has just announced its newest gaming keyboard with the BlackWidow V4 Pro. From the looks of it, this board is set to carry forward many features we’ve loved in previous Razer keyboards, but also one we’ve never been too fond of: the price. Retailing at $US230 or $AU400, this beast isn’t cheap.

To be fair, it does look to be a very feature-complete piece of kit, especially for fans o…

After August, we probably wouldn’t have minded a quiet September of continued journeying in Baldur’s Gate 3, a new all-time great RPG, or of mech engineering in Armored Core 6, FromSoftware’s triumphant return to its classic action series. Instead, September is PC gaming’s busiest month of the year.

The month has already started with all rockets firing: Open world Bethesda space RPG Read more

Taskmaster VR, the official virtual reality-ification of the phenomenally popular comedy TV show, has finally gotten its release date. It’ll hit on June 13 this year and, more than anything, show host and creator (Little) Alex Horne is just worried about what players are going to do to him.

“They will definitely do things to me,” Horne told PCG in a recent interview, “I w…

Baldur’s Gate 3 is bafflingly reactive. You can’t drop-kick an owlbear without the ripples spreading out and causing some kind of reaction later on down the line. But it goes even deeper than I knew: In a recent interview, Larian CEO Swen Vincke shed some light on the studio’s “n+1” design philosophy, and revealed just how far it goes to create solutions for times when “the player fucked up eve…

In a plot twist I’m not convinced isn’t one of Yoko Taro’s pranks, the Nier: Automata anime has been delayed, despite the fact that three episodes of it have already been released. The show’s fourth episode, originally planned to air on January 29, will now air at an unannounced later date. A-1 Pictures—which produces the anime—blamed disruption caused by the ongoing Covid-19 pandem…

Whether you need a little help with today’s Wordle or the answer dished out as quickly as possible, you’ll find everything you need waiting for you below. The solution to the May 12 (692) game’s only a click away, and before that, you’ll find helpful tips and tricks, as well as a fresh Wordle hint designed to nudge you in the right direction.

I was feeling confident very early on today, a…

Despite having launched a whole new generation of Zen 5 processors, AMD is reportedly releasing some fratricidal new Zen 4 CPUs in the shape of an as-yet unannounced Ryzen 5 7600X3D chip.

Upcoming chips seem to be stacking up, with Intel’s Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200-series just around the corner and AMD Ryzen 9000X3D chips appearing to approach launch, too. After Intel 13th/14th Gen CPU cr…