Intel’s Core i5 12600KF is one of the company’s best value gaming CPUs, and today it’s down to $155 at Walmart versus its standard price of $220. This… Continue reading
Day: November 8, 2023
Why Diablo 4’s loot filter isn’t ready yet: ‘Every perceivably simple decision has some kind of crazy cause and effect’
Diablo 4 has a big, small problem: inventory space. There’s just not enough of it. Among all the other cool things coming next year in Vessel of Hatred,… Continue reading
As regular readers of this column will know, I’m a big fan of OLED TVs and monitors. One of my favourites is Dell’s Alienware AW3423DWF, a 34-inch ultrawide… Continue reading
Grammy-winning British singer-songwriter Adele is currently in the middle of a multi-year Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace. “Weekends with Adele” runs until 2024, and the idea came… Continue reading
Almost five years since it launched – and two years after Epic revealed they hoped to gobble up half of all PC gaming revenue – the Epic… Continue reading
Risk of Rain 2 keeps on trucking. After last year’s Survivors of the Void expansion added two new survivors and a smattering of new items and stages, Gearbox… Continue reading
Beyond Sunset is a gloriously cyberpunk mix of classic Doom and Deux Ex soaked in blood and neon
Deus Ex and Doom have two of the most iconic aesthetics in video games. Chuck the satanic hellspawn shooter and cyberpunk immersive sim together in a pot, season… Continue reading
Valve is working on a new Steam feature that will let you hide all those weird sex games from your friends
Valve appears to be working on a new feature for Steam that will let you mark individual games as “private,” which will let you keep your profile public… Continue reading
Assassin’s Creed makers Ubisoft continue 2023’s gutting of the games industry as they lay off over 100 staff
Ubisoft has laid off more than 100 staff, continuing what feels like an unending wave of layoffs across the video games industry. The latest job losses spanning… Continue reading
‘If you want to think of it as Hunt 2 you’re welcome to, but I’m not going to charge you’: Hunt: Showdown manager on the extraction shooter’s impending engine upgrade, and the pitfalls of declaring a sequel
Live service games are evolving. The major multiplayer shooters of the 2010s are starting to show their age in the 2020s, leaving their stewards to answer an interesting… Continue reading