Category: PC Games

Game development teams are working across larger worlds, more complex pipelines and more distributed teams than ever. At the same time, many studios still rely on fixed, desk-bound GPU hardware for critical production work. At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week in San Francisco, NVIDIA is showcasing a new approach to bring together disparate workflows using virtualized game development on NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and NVIDIA vGPU software. With the RTX PRO Server, studios can centralize and virtualize core workflows across creative, engineering, AI research and quality assurance (QA)…

In case it wasn’t already clear, Nvidia DLSS 5 has been a bit divisive since Nvidia demoed it last week at GTC. The new AI-based real-time neural renderer that ‘enhances’ the look of your games through generative AI has caught the ire of many gamers, developers, and other industry folk, and the latest to add to the pile-on are David Szymanski and Dave Oshry, developer of Dusk and CEO of its publisher, New Blood Interactive, respectively. Nvidia has been quick to try and temper criticism, with its CEO Jensen Huang saying much of the DLSS 5 criticism is completely wrong…

It’s a double feature on GFN Thursday. This week, GeForce NOW offers smoother sights in virtual reality (VR) and a sprawling new land to conquer. Streaming at 90 frames per second (fps) comes to supported VR headsets. And Crimson Desert, which recently surpassed 3 million wishlist additions on Steam, debuts in the cloud with GeForce RTX 5080‑class power. Catch it as part of four new games on GeForce NOW VR, but Make It 90 FPS Power levels rising … to 90 fps. VR in the cloud is getting a smoothness upgrade. GeForce NOW is boosting support for Apple Vision Pro,…

NEED TO KNOWWhat is it? An immersive RPG with an emphasis on personal note-taking.Release date: Mar 5, 2026Expect to pay: $20/£17Developer: Hannah and Joseph GamesPublisher: Hannah and Joseph GamesReviewed on: Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5090 (laptop), 64GB RAMSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Official siteBanquet for Fools’ opening drops me straight in at the deep end, a blood-soaked fight for survival against festival-goers gone mad while I’m surrounded by piles of corpses, given a gentle kiss by… I’m not even sure what that kindly oversized bird-person was, actually, and then shoved three centuries into the future without apology or explanation. After…

Modder Transquility on the Elden Ring Nexus has restored Merchant Kalé’s NPC quest in our 2022 game of the year. There was originally a lot more to the early game vendor’s character, and I think it could have been a standout part of the game. Spoilers for Elden Ring and the cut quest ahead.Kalé doesn’t have much to do in the release version of Elden Ring: He’s memorable, being the second NPC you run into, and he offers an intro of sorts to wolf knight Blaidd and Ranni’s sprawling questline. But as dataminer Sekiro Dubi revealed shortly after Elden Ring’s…

Death Stranding 2’s PC launch on Thursday may have been overshadowed just a bit by Crimson Desert, but as I wrote in my review, it’s a great game, whether you’re in it for the Hideo Kojima story or the delivery sim sandbox. Folks who especially love the latter, though, like PC Gamer’s Morgan Park, almost universally have the same complaint: it’s too easy. Though Death Stranding 2 lets you challenge yourself by making deliveries on foot, the vehicles, upgrades, and shared infrastructure from other players can trivialize making flawless deliveries.For the PC release Kojima Productions added a new difficult option…

Cheap is rarely the first word that comes to mind when thinking about Secretlab, with its premium gaming chairs and desks being more of an investment than a spontaneous purchase. Fortunately, there’s never been a better time to buy, as Spring Sale discounts across the Titan Evo and Magnus Pro send prices plummeting, saving you up to $129 / £94. Our current pick for the best gaming chair, the Titan Evo is already hard to beat, with its price being our only real reservation. With up to $100 / £100 off during the festivities, it shrugs off all criticisms, becoming…

Ishtar Games’ Dead in series always involves attempting to help a group survive in a perilous situation through smart choices and character management. Over the years, each entry’s tended to feel better than the last. Both Dead in Bermuda and Dead in Vinland had a lot of potential, when random luck didn’t get you down. With Dead in Antares, we’re seeing the next step in the series. It can be entertaining when things are working. However, between losing two save files so far, issues with important Key of Enlil items disappearing (that’s patched now), and the RNG involved, I couldn’t…

GeForce NOW is bringing the game to the Game Developers Conference (GDC), running this week in San Francisco. While developers build the future of gaming, GeForce NOW is delivering it to gamers. The latest updates bring smoother performance, easier game discovery and a fresh lineup of blockbuster titles to the cloud. Game discoverability gets a boost with new in‑app labels for connected accounts for Xbox Game Pass and Ubisoft+. It’ll be easier than ever to see titles already available through linked subscriptions, so members can seamlessly jump into games they already own. Virtual reality gets a smooth upgrade — supported…

Last week I sat down with Studio Wildcard co-founders Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak, mostly to grill them about Vin Diesel but also to talk about what’s happening with Ark: Survival Ascended these days. I was surprised when Stieglitz started talking not about dinosaurs but pirates, bringing up another game Studio Wildcard had developed: Atlas.Remember Atlas? The open world pirate survival game was put to sea in December 2018 but had a rough launch, including performance and stability problems that led to heaps of negative reviews. It’s still out there: you can buy it and play it, but unlike Ark:…