Destiny 2's new expansion, Edge of Fate, is not having an easy time winning over players, with fewer returning to check it out and controversial balance changes souring the mood. You can also add making players physically ill to the list, with the game's new Matterspark prompting widespread complaints of motion sickness.Thankfully, Bungie is already on the case with this issue. "We will be making changes to Matterspark soon to...
In Donkey Kong Bananza, you’ll need to find fossils on the Lagoon Layer if you want to buy any swanky clothes or fur dye for Donkey Kong and Pauline. While fossils like ammonite are just about everywhere (and using DK’s sonar clap will help you find tons of them), there are some harder-to-find fossils that may evade you if you’re not keeping your eye out. The Lagoon Layer is home...
Destiny 2's latest expansion The Edge of Fate is already facing an uphill battle, launching with the lowest concurrent player counts for a Destiny 2 expansion ever, while the community rail against a raft of controversial mechanical changes detailed in some of the longest patch notes Bungie has ever produced. Now, it turns out that the aforementioned changelog was still not long enough, with Bungie apologising for missing out numerous...
The Kong Bananza: City Smash challenge in Donkey Kong Bananza is a little confusing initially, courtesy of the fractone running the challenge telling you absolutely nothing about what to do. Smashing concrete is only part of the job. If you want all three Banandium Gems from this challenge, you’ll have to power through it with some well-timed punches. Below, we explain how to get all the Donkey Kong Bananza Kong...
I recently got in touch with former Obsidian writer Eric Fenstermaker to learn everything I could about one of my favorite bits of dialogue in RPG history from Pillars of Eternity's first expansion, The White March Part 1. But this also entailed learning a lot more about Zahua, the character who delivered the line, and it struck me once again how rare he is: A CRPG monk who's actually really...
You might be reading this on a gaming PC you built yourself, but you probably can't say you built the processor from scratch with your own hands and a soldering iron. One DIY enthusiast did just that in a project that's an impressive look at how computers work, and how far they've come.First reported by Tom's Hardware, Polish computing YouTuber Majsterkowanie i nie tylko (MINT for short) posted a video...
In Donkey Kong Bananza, The Divide is the fourth layer that’ll you descend into, and its full of pink and blue goo — and a few Banandium Gems (golden bananas). The Divide is a fairly short level, so it’s extremely easy to blitz through and miss all of the bananas hidden inside. Make sure to look up and down as you traverse the area or else you’ll miss out on...
South Park, on the cusp of its 27th season, is caught in behind-the-scenes turmoil that now threatens the show’s future. At the center of the conflict is the $8 billion acquisition of Paramount by David Ellison’s Skydance Media, a deal that has become a major flashpoint for creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The troubles really started in 2019, when Stone and Parker’s 50/50 ad-sharing deal with the Viacom-owned Comedy...
The baby boom is over. EA has neutered a bizarre bug recently introduced to The Sims 4 that erroneously marked Sims as being pregnant, irrespective of whether they were male or had previously engaged in 'woo-hoo'.The bug initially appeared last week, slipping undetected into the game in a base game patch that coincided with the launch of the new Enchanted by Nature DLC. The bug indiscriminately identified random Sims as...
More quizzes!(Image credit: Larian Studios)Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia We've got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes.Despite a certain amount of screeching to the contrary in online spaces, one thing videogames have not lacked for over the years is ruggedly samey white male protagonists. Their jaws? Chiseled. Their hair? Brown, usually short cropped. Their names? Probably...