These don’t have names yet, and I won’t attempt to invent one. It’s very lush and tropical though, with caves and rivers ripe for exploration. Much colder compared to #1, with giant purple crystals and a strange aura. It looks like there’s a fortress

As a poker fan I’m always on the lookout for a new poker game. I’m especially keen to find games that use poker in interesting new ways, like RPG We Slay Monsters or roguelike Poker Quest, both of which use poker hands as their combat system. So, whe

While avoiding doing any actual work one day, I stumbled upon something magnificently fiddly and nerdy that can work to improve the way older games look—as long as you have the right hardware. Nvidia has released a beta version of its RTX Remix tech,

I feel the rage rise within my body, my sensations heightened, my palms sweaty. These mangy curs are not going to take me down and, even if they do, I’m taking them into the darkness of the Void with me. I unleash a bolt from my crossbow into the bel

With sincere apologies to the Magnum Opus from Mad Max, the Saud Kruger Orca passenger liner from Elite Dangerous and Arthur Morgan’s horse, I have a new favorite ride: the station wagon in Pacific Drive. It’s amazing. It didn’t look like much at fir

Like all FromSoftware games, Elden Ring has a fantastic array of boss fights. But its much broader scope also facilitates some battles of truly epic scale. Some of the key boss fights are properly massive affairs. Most notable is your duel with Stars

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It’s been around for long enough now that we take it for granted. A new game comes out, dripping in graphics, and occasionally when we run it at 4K it dips to an unplayable 58fps. So we go into the video options, turn the ‘DLSS’ option on, and get ba

The upcoming Age of Mythology: Retold has just shown off its signature mythological monsters in detail, including the terrible Medusas, the flying Pegasus scout, and the titan Cerberus, and I’ve got to say the monsters are dang good looking. These vi

Imagine the rush of winning at a high-stakes poker table. Now imagine you’re winning because you’re cheating so blatantly that you might as well be drawing your own numbers on the cards. You put down a 2, then another 2, then three more 2s, to make e

Three new graphics cards in the same month—what a super way to kick off spring. These three new ‘Super’ graphics cards are a chance for the green team to tinker with core counts, buses and budgets to appeal to our PC gaming sensibilities, and I’m ple

Persona 3 Reload isn’t just a re-release or hi-res tune-up of the 2006 turn-based classic Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3. It’s a true remake, with nearly every aspect of the game other than the story changing in subtle or major ways. What feels like t

PC gaming is for everyone. Pick the parts you want to build a new, well-rounded PC for a good price. You want to run every new game at 1080p 60fps. This recommended build will see you through. You’re looking for the best PC on the market and superior

SpellRogue is a roguelike that makes you feel like a genius. As you pick up spells you’ll start to create combinations that just feel too powerful and would surely have been nerfed if the developer had noticed. Then, after a while, you’ll realize thi

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One of the longest-running types of station wagon available in the USA, the Buick Estate was first introduced in 1940, with a model then brought to market in almost every year up until 1996. Multiple members of Pacific Drive’s development team experi

Helldivers 2’s galactic war is much more than a mission selector. In a short time, players have become invested in the status of their favorite planets and reacted to gains and losses in a sector’s liberation. The simulated conflict has become an une

The Last Nova. A dark, dingy bar where lowlifes, mercenaries and those pledged to The Crimson Fleet come to drink away their miseries. Scarlet red engulfs the entire room, suggesting that the pirate faction doesn’t dare use any other color for fear o

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1 Pirates should keep their piece, pistols, and cutlass clean and fit for service. 2 Pirates should not game at cards or dice for money. 3 Pirates can only continue to drink after 8pm if on the open deck of their ship. 4 Pirates who desert their ship

Before WASD and mouse-aiming became the norm, there were all sorts of crazy control schemes for first-person games, and in that light Neural Parasite’s isn’t too bizarre. You move with your feet—by which I mean you click on a pair of on-screen feet,