Suddenly, it really, really matters if an orc is immune to ranged attacks, because now you have to put yourself in harm’s way to kill him. Suddenly, the question of whether you should brand or kill an orc becomes drastically more difficult: The deadlier an orc is, the more you’ll w...
Andy Chalk: Pentiment starts at a slow burn, but that's what set the hook: Out of nowhere, I was suddenly immersed in a world filled with living, breathing people whose names I knew and lives I cared about. I tried so hard to do the right thing. And in the end, that's all I...
so instead they created a new and imaginary vision of what games like OutRun were. Neon Drive achieves a heightened sense of 'eightiesness' by making the music an essential part of the drive. Rather than pulsing away at the periphery of the experience, the beats in Neon Drive propel...
One final PC exclusive complaint that I should mention is that the PC port runs really poorly, at least in some areas. Even running Deathloop on a high end PC, I frequently encountered severe frame drops and screen tearing while exploring the Complex and Bay areas. Given that PS5s are stil...
I did get Saboteur running without the disc needed. You may need to jump through some hoops to get physical copies to work on more modern machines. Usually these things are easy enough to figure out with a bit of searching. The system I'm using for these games is in my System Specs....
While simple tasks like opening Chrome seem fine, running games or programs causes severe slowdowns, with the cursor becoming jumpy and showing the spinning blue ring. Even browser games run poorly at only 20 FPS.Here’s what I’ve noticed:The "Activate Windows" watermark disappeared after the...
typical of games running on Unreal Engine 5, regularly occur at random moments and are much more irritating here than in other games. It looks like this: during a sprint straight ahead for 9.8 seconds everything is great and smooth, but in those fractions of a second the game ...
Recettear is the reason there are so many whimsical games about running a shop that sells swords, potions, and rations to adventurers, about imagining life on the other side of the videogame buy-and-sell menu. What's it like to be the person who has to keep a Thirsting Blade in stock...
DLSS uses AI to upscale your games, which Nvidia calls "Super Resolution." It basically takes a lower-resolution frame that's natively rendered on your PC and outputs a higher-resolution frame. Let's say you're playingCyberpunk 2077on a 4K monitor with the DLSS Quality setting enabled. Her...
Games will also suddenly crash to desktop with no warning. Windows Vista and Windows 7 have a built-in memory testing tool which you can access by typing "Memory Diagnostic" (without quotes) in the Start>Search box; on Windows XP use the free Memtest86+. These tests run outside the ...