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From the archives: This feature was originally published in PC Gamer #305 (UK, June 2017). It appears below as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and presentation.No gaming genre can generate stories quite like the colony sim. Almost entirely unique to PC gaming, colony sims task players with building and sustaining a habitat for a group of AI characters, which could be anything from dwarfs to demons. Although...
At this point being into the digital versions of Blood Bowl is basically masochism. In the 1990s MicroLeague published a version that was so cheap and nasty I said, "to call it barebones would be an insult to skeletons." Cyanide picked up the licence after that, releasing two decent adaptations whose DLC model was controversial at the time but seems blessedly sensible compared to Blood Bowl 3, a live-service seasonal...
Famed British political figure Count Binface has issued a public demand to Sega to quit horsing around and finish Shenmue 4, and suggested the company may be nationalized by the UK government if it doesn't move with sufficient haste.For those not in the know, Count Binface is not an entirely serious political figure: He's really more akin to Darth Vader with a giant trash can for a helmet, whose policies...
One of the highest courts in Europe has described VPNs as "lawful technical tools which users may legitimately use" in a landmark case. The Court of Justice of the European Union made this remark as part of a larger judgement regarding the online publication of The Diary of Anne Frank.The case in question is a complex legal dispute over copyright. As the July judgement explains, the Anne Frank Fund will...
Nvidia's Arm-based processor for laptops was unveiled after much waiting at Computex back in June. RTX Spark is Nvidia's first proper go at a consumer chip, combining CPU and GPU, and while it is of course targeted at AI workloads, it's also targeted at gaming. Now, Nvidia has confirmed which will be the first brands of RTX Spark laptop to come to market this fall and which will follow those....
Cybersecurity provider Sophos has released a report entitled "The State of Ransomware 2026," pulling together responses from 2,158 survey participants, ranging from IT directors to company executives, in regards to ransomware incidents. Comparing the results to previous reports indicates that ransom demands themselves are actually decreasing—although 48% of organisations whose data was encrypted paid their attackers.The median ransom payment is now said to be $769,000, down from a neat $1...
The Halo: Campaign Evolved release date is imminent, at least if you're one of those players who's shelled out some extra cash to get access to the five day long early access period. Having played the whole thing, and seen the somewhat gaudy skins you get for the premium edition, I can't say I necessarily recommend it for the cost.Especially when the game is also coming to game pass day...
As much as deals excite me (I promise you), I'm pretty relieved that Amazon Prime Day is over for the year. Nevertheless, I couldn't help but notice that one of the most appealing deals of the event, which was a hefty discount on the already very affordable KTC H27T22C-3 1440p gaming monitor, has dropped even further today.The short version: that KTC panel is currently going for AU$177.64on Amazon, down from...
Most players eventually lose the drive to keep grinding a new league, or season, in Path of Exile 2 and simply log off until the next one. Others gather up all their in-game money and spend it on something ridiculous, like an army of 2,000 skeletons.PoE 2 streamer Empyriangaming decided it was time to test the action RPG's limits by creating the most expensive minion builds I've ever seen. We're...
Just two months after he was appointed the new vice president of engineering at Xbox and technical advisor to CEO Asha Sharma, Jared Palmer is now the former vice president of engineering at Xbox and technical advisor to CEO Asha Sharma. In an update to his LinkedIn profile, Palmer said he's joined AI company Cognition to serve as its vice president of engineering instead."I’m grateful to Asha and everyone at...