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
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…
Read moreBaldur’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…
Read moreIn 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…
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Read moreDespite 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…
Read moreI’ve always got my eyes peeled for interesting upcoming city builders, and the more ambitious the better. But sometimes a game comes along that feels maybe… a little too ambitious?
I’m talking about The Bustling World, a game set in ancient China that wants to be a whole lot of different kinds of game all at once, including an open world RPG, a city builder, a crafting and explorat…
Read moreGiven World of Warcraft: The War Within is coming out August 26, the marketing machine is spinning its wheels into a hype frenzy—there’s this very gorgeous 2D cinematic that has me genuinely excited to see Xal’atath chew some scenery, Khadgar firing a very big laser, and the promise of “a new experience in Dalaran” arriving for testing on the beta today.
New Dalaran shenanigans aren…
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Read moreFor this week’s instalment of ‘did you know you can play a game on that’, I present to you the humble oscilloscope. The voltage graphing instrument used to chart electrical signals over time may sound like the worst way to spend a Friday night but 1) it’s pretty neat, actually, you could learn something, and 2) some older models have Tetris built-in.
I recently stumbled across a TikTok ac…
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