My weird disc-shaped spacecraft is hurtling through the blood-red skies of an alien world. Countless fiery meteors are falling from the upper atmosphere and crashing into the angry seas below with massive explosive force. Amidst all the chaos, my lit

MSI $100 A healthy dose of ports and PCIe SSD support has this B450 at the heart of our budget build. AMD $120 AMD has packed its latest Zen 2 architecture into a speedy four-core package, and that’s great for gaming. Gigabyte $160 The GTX 1650 Super

This is one of those games that feels like it shouldn’t work, but does. How can I play as two characters at once? The answer, it seems, is by making sure that they always remain on the corresponding side of the screen to the thumbstick controlling th

We like phat pipes, and we cannot lie. And over the past 20 years we’ve seen internet connections change from dial-up to ADSL over copper wire, to today’s fiber-optics. So what’s next for how we transfer data? Imagine a network that, instead of using

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

MSI $115 A reliable platform for your build, the Tomahawk Max also comes in black to complement any style. AMD $210 This CPU is one of the greats, and uses the Zen 2 architecture to dominate in gaming and productivity. Nvidia $399 The RTX 3060 Ti is

The history of mazes and labyrinths is a maze itself. The first recorded labyrinth was commissioned by the Egyptian king Amenemhet III thousands of years ago: Unlike the Minotaur labyrinth of Greek myth, this was built to be lived in, with banqueting

A wild investment campaign on reddit saw the stock of US retailer Gamestop go through the roof. Folks went wild over the upcoming Resident Evil Village’s very tall Lady Dimitrescu—the devs have officially announced she’s nine foot six. Rare’s unrelea

Last year there was Monster Train, before that Slay the Spire, before that Dream Quest. The digital deckbuilder is in the ‘Doom-clone’ stage. All these games about constructing the perfect set of cards to survive randomized battles, victory based on

Above the noise of voice chat, I hear the tell-tale buzzing sound a moment before I see what it’s coming from. Despite that momentary warning, I barely have time to react before I’m skewered through the back by a roided-up mosquito. It’s the latest i

Herobrine is a legend in Minecraft, the star of a creepypasta not dissimilar to Slender Man. The character appears in singleplayer games, so the story went, where he does weird things like carving 2 x 2 tunnels in the rocks or cutting all the leaves

The grappling hook, which everyone knows is gaming’s best mechanic, has a new star. Olija features an eldritch harpoon that grapples on to enemies and orange-eyed black tentacles, and you can teleport to it with a slash. It’s a simple design which si

With the exception of Spelunky 2’s moles, it’s been a long time since a game has wrung quite as many swears out of me as Gods Will Fall. I’ve turned the air blue with eulogies to fallen comrades, cursed its pantheon, and sworn my way across its god-i

And it was all going so well, too. I didn’t expect my first foray into the stealthy, outfit-swapping world of Hitman to be so composed as a beginner assassin, but while I’m surprised at the decent start I made to life as Agent 47, I was devastated to

This spin-off has all the style and confidence of Persona 5, plastered with bold colors and glittery character animations that give each scene the liveliness of a manga panel, down to the menus. A smooth, jazzy soundtrack establishes a psychedelic ’7

We’re nearly at the end so let’s look into something that breaks the trend of dads that are dead or death-adjacent, and instead look at some that are alive and awkward and slightly thirsty. There are an almost overwhelming number of dads here—it’s li

It’s telling of Left 4 Dead’s quality that there still isn’t a co-op shooter that has quite outdone it. Unlike many popular multiplayer games of 2021, Left 4 Dead doesn’t ask you to theorycraft a build or study a meta. There’s nothing to understand b

If you want speedy storage performance on the go or between devices, your best option is an external SSD with plenty of bandwidth. That’ll net you the enticing possibility of actually running your games from a portable drive, which is not only great

Over its first couple of hours, I was quite charmed by The Medium — I liked its throwback fixed camera angles, its grim post-Soviet atmosphere, and its endearingly worn-out protagonist. I was intrigued to see where its horror mystery would take me. I

Here are just a few of the objects you can seriously harm someone with in the recent Hitman games: a blueberry muffin, a cannonball, a cheeseburger, a feather duster, a frying pan, a bone (the meat still on), a snow globe, driftwood, a cowboy bust, a

Resist the urge to shift the blame off yourself straight away once your victim’s corpse has been found. The only thing more sus than not speaking up at all is someone either claiming innocence, or blaming someone else, too quickly. Pick your moment t