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As the AI boom gobbles up graphics cards, SSDs, memory sticks and more, building a gaming PC is currently eye-wateringly expensive (and it's never exactly been cheap). If, like me, you've been holding out in the hope that those prices will drop to more sensible levels soon, I'm sorry to say that's looking unlikely.Earlier this month, research showed that memory prices are predicted to rise sharply between now and 2027,...
If there's one thing we know about Todd Howard, it's that he doesn't hate Obsidian. We know this because he keeps telling us. He keeps telling us because Fallout fans won't stop speculating that secretly, deep down in his heart of hearts, Todd Howard hates Obsidian. How often has he denied hating Obsidian? A quick and non-comprehensive list:2024: Todd Howard says Fallout: New Vegas "is a very, very important game...
How much RAM do you need for an 'ultimate gaming machine?' July in PC Gamer 10, 20, and 30 years ago
What's the name for that phenomenon when you learn about something for the first time and then start seeing it everywhere? Ah, the frequency illusion! I was frequently illused while scanning through these July 1996, 2006 and 2016 issues of PC Gamer magazine, because they just keep talking about RAM. And given our current RAMpocalypse, well, it all just seems very timely.I guess the other explanation is that PC gamers...
Remember that photo which stirred all sorts of talk about Amazon's upcoming God of War TV series? Well, the show won't look like that anymore—the role of Kratos is set to be recast since actor Ryan Hurst tore a bicep on set, according to Deadline. Anonymous sources in that story claim Hurst has had surgery and is recovering.As Deadline points out, this comes after Hurst "underwent a physical transformation" and...
Survival games are obsessed with the grind. Need a better axe? You've got to spend an hour collecting stone. Want to build a bigger base? Time to manually ferry hundreds of logs from one storage chest to another. Somewhere along the line, the genre started confusing friction with depth. Play This Right NowWelcome to Play This Right Now, the site version of our weekly newsletter in which we celebrate a...
I'd completely forgotten Valve is working on an update for Team Fortress 2's cooperative Mann vs. Machine mode, though in my defence, it's been a long time since we last heard about it. The prospective patch was announced in June last year, via a blog post on TF2's official website that requested map and mission submissions from the community in time for this update—with a "fictional deadline" of August 27.After...
LawBreakers was, by many accounts, a great game. But the 2017 shooter was a commercial failure, and developer Boss Key shut it down just a year after release. There's been much speculation about why it stumbled, including from Boss Key co-founder and Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski himself. In a new interview with 80.lv, he offered his latest theories.For one, a desire for Boss Key to be 'his' studio...
In a depressingly predictable turn of events, the reveal God of War Laufey came under fire from certain corners of the Internet, as it centres around a female protagonist rather than mad lad turned sad dad Kratos.Much of this negative reaction has centred around Laufey's actor Deborah Ann Woll, who also played Laufey in the 2018 reboot. But Woll, who also plays Karen Page in Marvel's Daredevil and its reboot...
Eight years after leaving the games industry, Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski is considering a full-time return to game development.Bleszinski left the games industry in 2018 after the closure of his studio Boss Key Productions, caused by the commercial failure of its two games—the multiplayer arena shooter LawBreakers, and the '80s-themed Battle Royale game Radical Heights. At the time, Bleszinski swore off making games forever.Yet now, in a wide-ranging...
I still remember cursing aloud when I was first sent to prison in GTA 5 roleplay. You see, unlike in regular Grand Theft Auto—story mode or Online—getting arrested in RP has consequences. Sure, you face the same trigger-happy cops when you fall foul of the law, where you're pursued until either dead or in cuffs, and are then hit with the same 'Wasted' or 'Busted' mandates depending on the outcome...