When No Man’s Sky launched in August, it was already clear that the game would primarily appeal to a niche audience. The title’s lead designer and head of developer Hello Games, Sean Murray, has been blasted for promising the game would include features that didn’t actually ship. Not long after launch, Murray and Hello Games went radio-silent as players began requesting refunds. Now, ...
There’s a new set of rumors cropping up about AMD’s Vega. Last month, we covered an AMD press slide that stated the GPU would only arrive sometime in the first half of 2017. Now, reports indicate that the chip could drop in the first quarter — still quite late compared with Nvidia’s Pascal, which will have been in market for nearly a year at that point, but better than the late June timeframe ...
Well, that didn’t take long. When Sony unveiled the new PS4 Pro, we spent some time talking about 4K, the difference between native and upscaled content, and what Sony can and can’t deliver as far as 4K is concerned with a GPU based on the RX 480. Now, we’ve got Microsoft weighing in on the capabilities of Project Scorpio. more...
The PC market has largely moved to digital sales, thanks in part to aggressive down-sizing from chain stores like GameStop over the last decade, and partly because online PC gaming has been baked in for twenty years. There are, however, still people who like buying a game on physical media and prefer having a CD or disc with the game’s content rather than relying on a digital service. In ...
The original BioShock is considered a classic of modern PC gaming. Hailed as the spiritual successor to 1999’s System Shock 2, BioShock tells the story of Rapture, an underwater city and libertarian paradise gone badly wrong. Ruled by the increasingly unhinged and tyrannical Andrew Ryan, the city you descend to explore is a madhouse utopia gone wrong. Andrew Ryan’s Objectivist paradise, always ...