Starfield player tricks AI with 'unbeatable ship' made only of corners (www.pcgamer.com)
The silver bullet to Starfield's enemy AI? Empty space....
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
You heard him 4090 users, upgrade to a more powerful GPU.
The Talos Principle didn't need a sequel, but now that I've seen it in action I'm glad that it's getting one (www.pcgamer.com)
My hands-off demo starts with a short boot-up sequence that mimics the style, architecture and puzzles of the original game. It's after this that The Talos Principle 2 reveals the ace up its sleeve. You are born into the world—the 1,000th citizen of the city of New Jerusalem, and, according to the rules of their society, also...
Starfield NPCs keep getting bodied mid-sentence and it never isn't funny to me (www.pcgamer.com)
You probably already know what I'm talking about here: that thing where you're in the middle of dialogue with an NPC, but the rest of the scene has chosen not to cooperate. It's a common feature of RPGs, but it shows up extra often in Bethesda games, and of course has returned in Starfield. I can't get enough of it....
Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC' (www.pcgamer.com)
And we just the official bullshit of “Well it runs on my PC just fine.” from a developer.
Hammerwatch 2 is just the right micro-RPG for the moment (www.pcgamer.com)
There are some great 30 minute dungeon runs in your future if you've got tolerance for—or enjoy—old school tropes....
[Rumor] Nintendo Switch 2 reportedly uses Nvidia's DLSS to boost frame rates (www.pcgamer.com)
Interestingly, the demo was apparently running ray traced visuals, and was utilising Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) in order to offer playable frame rates that will make enabling such fancy effects actually worthwhile.
Baldur's Gate 3 has ruined Starfield for me (www.pcgamer.com)
Bethesda's latest can't help but feel shallow by comparison.
AITA: My Starfield wife wants a divorce and all I did was chuck one grenade into a crowd of bystanders (www.pcgamer.com)
Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose (www.pcgamer.com)
Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose because 'when the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there' but 'they certainly weren't bored' (www.pcgamer.com)
Sure Todd, lol
'Personality-driven' influencer esports league revealed, immediately implodes over NFT controversy (www.pcgamer.com)
I've played the Star Trek game of my dreams, and it's a grand strategy game (www.pcgamer.com)
Star Trek: Infinite mashes Stellaris and Star Trek together into something more delicious than anything you can get out of a replicator....
Rust adds attack helicopters, homing missiles to blow up attack helicopters, parachutes to escape exploding attack helicopters (www.pcgamer.com)
The new Rust update makes life in the sky a lot more interesting....
Hammerwatch 2 is just the right micro-RPG for the moment (www.pcgamer.com)
There are some great 30 minute dungeon runs in your future if you've got tolerance for—or enjoy—old school tropes....
Stardew Valley creator ignites new fan theories with five simple words: 'Here's a Haunted Chocolatier screen' (www.pcgamer.com)
Hopefully Haunted Chocolatier content is also welcome here!
Stardew Valley creator ignites new fan theories with five simple words: 'Here's a Haunted Chocolatier screen' (www.pcgamer.com)
Eric Barone says he has lots more images from his new game to share, but right now he's focused on Stardew Valley 1.6....
Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Legend has spent years making Portal for the N64 and by Gaben he's done it (www.pcgamer.com)
Several years ago PCG reported on the early stages of a project by programmer James Lambert, who really loves the N64 and decided for the hell of it to make a version of Portal that runs on hardware first released in 1996....
60 hours in as Baldur's Gate 3's nasty Dark Urge and I'm kicking myself for missing a load-bearing early cutscene with unique dialogue for every race and class (www.pcgamer.com)
It only triggers if you rest on the starting beach before recruiting too many companions.
Stardew Valley creator ignites new fan theories with five simple words: 'Here's a Haunted Chocolatier screen' (www.pcgamer.com)
Eric Barone says he has lots more images from his new game to share, but right now he's focused on Stardew Valley 1.6....
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor continues its long road to redemption with a patch that brings DLSS support and good old 'Various bug fixes' (www.pcgamer.com)
What fixes are they? Never you mind.
Overcrowded October forces another big-name game delay all the way into 2024 (www.pcgamer.com)
THQ Nordic wants a little more space for its Alone in the Dark reboot to breathe.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been quietly rebuilt by Dear Esther developer The Chinese Room with 'different gameplay mechanics and RPG systems' (www.pcgamer.com)
This certainly isn’t what I expected. The troubled Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, which I’d just about given up on, is now set to release next fall, over four years after its initial intended launch. Paradox Interactive has tapped The Chinese Room, developer of Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, as...
Japanese PC gaming saw another year of explosive growth (www.pcgamer.com)
Japanese gamers have continued to embrace the PC as a platform at staggering rates, jumping up 43% from 131.3 billion yen to 189.2 billion yen in 2022. That's a total size of about $1.3 billion US. The data comes from the latest report by Kadokawa ASCII Research Laboratories, an industry think tank which compiles yearly material...
