Have you ever thought to yourself, boy, I sure do wish the Starfield HUD displayed interstellar distances in light years instead of astronomical units? If your answer to this question is “yes,” then it might be time to take a break and go outside for a while. Or, instead, you could download this extremely purpose-specific […]
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A new Fallout anthology stuffed inside a mini-nuke is set to drop the day before the Fallout TV series on Amazon
If you’re a big Fallout fan, or a big PC game collector, Bethesda’s new Fallout S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Anthology might be worth a moment of your time. It’s a collection of every mainline Fallout game ever released, stuffed inside an alarmingly lifelike Fat Man mini-nuke. The new package is essentially a repeat of the Fallout Anthology Bethesda […]
Read MoreStarfield’s latest update will end the scourge of vibrating clouds
Clouds. I’ve never trusted them. Floating up there all high and mighty, constantly threatening rain. What makes you think you’re so great, eh? With your posh names like cumulonimbus. You’re just water vapour, you know. You’re not better than me! It’s about time somebody put those fluffy reprobates in their place. Step forward Bethesda Softworks, […]
Read MoreStarfield will get official FSR 3 support in a Steam beta update coming next week
When Bethesda added Nvidia’s DLSS tech to Starfield back in November 2023, it promised that support for AMD’s FSR 3 would be added “in a future update.” Today it announced that update will arrive, in beta form, on Steam next week. “We’re excited to share that AMD FSR 3 is coming to StarfieldGame’s Steam Beta […]
Read MoreDoom is eternal: The immeasurable impact of gaming’s greatest FPS
Features This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023. Every month we run exclusive features exploring the world of PC gaming—from behind-the-scenes previews, to incredible community stories, to fascinating interviews, and more. The history of Doom is more than just the tale of how John Romero and John Carmack […]
Read MoreWhen Quake 2 came out, we gave it a 96% review; now, it’s seen as ‘the worst id game’. Let’s reinstall it and figure out the truth
Reinstall This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023, as part of our Reinstall series. Every month we load up a beloved classic—and find out whether it holds up to our modern gaming sensibilities. Quake 2 has a fascinating legacy. Released only 18 months after Quake in December 1997, it […]
Read MoreIndiana Jones headbutts a Nazi 37 seconds into the reveal trailer for The Great Circle, coming later this year
MachineGames gave us our first real look at its long-awaited Indiana Jones game at today’s Developer Direct showcase, confirming the title—Indiana Jones and the Great Circle—and revealing details on the setting and story, and—this is the important part—a release target of later in 2024. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was first announced in early […]
Read MoreThe ‘biggest Starfield update yet’ is coming to Steam beta next week, but it actually looks pretty small
Bethesda announced on Twitter today that the “biggest Starfield update yet” is headed to beta testing on Steam next week. This isn’t the start of the big gameplay updates Bethesda promised in December, though: Instead it looks to be a pretty standard patch, making “more than 100 fixes and improvements” to graphics, gameplay issues, and […]
Read MoreA Starfield modder is doing something Bethesda should have done: making pilotable mechs
One of the things I really don’t get about Starfield is the whole mech situation. Mechs are everywhere. There’s a bunch of lore about mechs being used in the Colony Wars that took place decades earlier. There are mechs you can look at in factories and junkyards and museums. There was even a shot of […]
Read More2023 showed us the cost of pushing singleplayer developers to make multiplayer games
On the second day of reviewing Redfall, Arkane’s co-op vampire FPS, I logged in and lost all my progress. I made the critical mistake of playing with someone else in a multiplayer game that only remembers what one player does. I wasn’t devastated about losing a few hours of my time, but disappointed that the […]
Read MoreStarfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: ‘Don’t fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is’
Starfield did not land with quite the positive thump that just about everyone expected, and lots of people have thoughts about why—and that has apparently inspired Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo to muse about how confident some of those critics are in their opinions, despite how “disconnected” they are from the process of actually making […]
Read MoreFallout 4’s big 4K ‘next-gen update’ is delayed until 2024
Remember the big 4K update for Fallout 4 that was announced in 2022 as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the original Fallout? The good news is that it’s still happening, but the bad news is that it’s not happening until sometime in 2024. The Fallout 4 “next-gen update” for PC, Xbox Series X-S, […]
Read MoreBethesda teases ‘all new ways of travelling’ coming to Starfield next year
Bethesda says some big changes are coming to Starfield in 2024 including ongoing quest fixes, support for FSR3 and XeSS, and—this is the big one—”all new ways of travelling” on your journey through the stars. A small new update rolled out for Starfield today that fixes a crash issue during saves, clears up a problem […]
Read MoreArkane tempts fate with another vampire game, but this time it’s an adaptation of Marvel’s Blade
After stumbling badly with the co-op shooter Redfall, Arkane Studios is trying its luck with yet another vampire game. This one looks to be quite a bit different, though: It’s a new take on Marvel’s Blade, which was revealed tonight in a surprise announcement at The Game Awards. Marvel’s Blade will be set in a […]
Read MoreSkyrim’s latest patch has pissed off players for two reasons: It broke old mods and added new paid ones
Bethesda has released a big new update for Skyrim Special Edition that has managed the impressive feat of annoying players for two entirely separate reasons. Some are irritated by what they see as a renewed focus on paid mods for Skyrim, while others are chapped that the update has apparently broken a large number of […]
Read MoreThe Fallout TV series will include a Vault Boy origin story for some reason
We got our first look at the Fallout TV series last week with a trailer on Saturday preceded by a behind-the-scenes report from Vanity Fair, which included looks at the show’s main characters and surprisingly bright and colorful post-nuclear world, and of course some words from Bethesda executive producer Todd Howard. The report also included […]
Read MoreThe first trailer for Amazon’s Fallout TV series is full of mayhem, monsters, and madmen
Just days after we got our first look at Amazon’s Fallout TV series, we’ve been spoiled with another first look. Above you can check out the first official teaser trailer for the Fallout series. And it’s not the typical quick and unsatisfying teaser we’ve come to expect from upcoming projects these days—it’s two-and-a-half minutes long, […]
Read More12 moments from the Fallout TV show trailer that make us think it could actually be good
The first trailer for Amazon’s Fallout TV show just dropped, and wow! This isn’t some 20 second teaser with a voiceover and a quick fade to black, it’s a big and boisterous two-and-a-half minute long trailer that gives us a good long look at the world, the Vault, and the characters. There are robots, turrets, […]
Read MoreThe new Fallout TV series looks like a bright and colorful post-apocalypse—and thank god for that
At last we’ve gotten some official images of Amazon’s Fallout TV series, thanks to a behind the scenes look by Vanity Fair. Along with more information about the show and story and some quotes from Todd Howard and director Johnathan Nolan, we got to feast our eager eyes on pictures of the characters, some power […]
Read MoreSkyrim player amasses 267,000 gold lifetime bounty after killing ‘everything that was killable,’ and all you can really do is tearfully salute it
“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants,” said the greatest philosopher who ever lived: Mass Effect 2’s Thane Krios, “then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.” And friends, I’m excited to announce that war has officially provideth-ed for every man, goat, chicken and guard […]
Read MoreStarfield player completes the main story by whacking every enemy to death with his gun, an ability some players didn’t know was in the game at all
Starfield lets spacefarers battles enemies with both guns and melee weapons, but it also allows players to bash their foes with their gun. And it appears not everyone knows about this, as inadvertently revealed by the YouTuber Causal Loop, who completed the game’s main using only the butt of his weapon. “Guns are designed for […]
Read MoreStarfield’s DLSS update goes fully live on Steam to a ‘mixed’ reaction from players
It was always a bit weird that Starfield launched without DLSS support, given the way Nvidia GPUs dominate the Steam Hardware and Software survey. Better late than never, though, and after some early help from modders and a beta test that launched on November 8, DLSS support is now fully live, meaning owners of compatible […]
Read MoreStarfield’s big DLSS update is now available in Steam beta
As promised, Starfield’s big DLSS update is now live in beta testing on Steam, which means Nvidia owners can finally take advantage of the higher frame rates their GPUs are capable of. It seemed weird that Starfield did not support DLSS at launch, given that more than 80% of PC gamers have Nvidia graphics cards […]
Read MoreNvidia owners rejoice: Starfield’s DLSS update will start beta testing on Steam next week
When Bethesda announced back in June that it was partnering with AMD on Starfield, eager fans were not happy. There was almost immediate speculation that the deal meant Starfield would launch without support for Nvidia’s DLSS tech—and for once, the internet was right. Modders brought DLSS and frame generation to Starfield in relatively short order, […]
Read MoreAfter 3 years of ‘hands-off’ management, Microsoft is making Bethesda and Zenimax report directly to an Xbox bigwig
Just a couple of weeks after finishing its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is making some changes to its Xbox studio structure. In an internal memo acquired by The Verge, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is being promoted to president of game content and studios, a role that […]
Read MoreSkyrim lead designer says Todd Howard only revealed The Elder Scrolls 6 because the fans had ‘pitchforks and torches’ out
It’s been five years since Todd Howard revealed the startling news that yes, Bethesda is going to make The Elder Scrolls 6, and it will be years yet before it actually arrives. It’s a virtually unprecedented gap between a game’s “announcement” (such as it was) and tangible evidence that something’s being done to make it […]
Read MoreAmazon’s Fallout TV series begins streaming in April 2024
Get ready to tune your Radiation King brand television sets to Amazon Prime Video: The Fallout TV series will begin streaming on April 12, 2024. The announcement comes to us on Fallout Day—the Great War began on October 23, 2077, making today the day to celebrate all things Fallout—as Amazon tweeted an animation of Vault […]
Read MorePete Hines, Bethesda’s number-one PR guy for nearly 25 years, is leaving the company
After nearly a quarter century of helping lead Bethesda Softworks, Pete Hines, the company’s head of publishing and one of its most recognizable faces, has announced that he is leaving the company and retiring from the videogame industry. “After 24 years, I have decided my time at Bethesda Softworks has come to an end,” Hines […]
Read MoreStarfield NPCs have the fear of space god put into them by player picking up a mop
Starfield has now been in the wild for a month and, yep, turns out it’s a Bethesda game. I don’t know why anyone’s surprised really, and surely that’s what we were all secretly hoping for: where’s the joy in a vast, polished galaxy where everything works as intended? Far better to have a cosmos where […]
Read MoreGhostwire: Tokyo is free for Amazon Prime subscribers
Ghostwire: Tokyo came as a real surprise to me. When I first saw it I thought, “I’m not going to like this,” but when I finally got around to playing it I realized, “Whoa, I like this a lot.” Which is my way of saying that now that it’s free for Prime Gaming subscribers on […]
Read MoreCyberpunk 2077 developer defends Bethesda’s work on Starfield: ‘They are just doing something different with their time and that’s cool’
Starfield is a good game, but it’s also been the subject of a perhaps-unexpected level of criticism from players, exacerbated by the triumphant Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 comeback. But in response to a player’s complaints about Starfield’s use of Creation Engine 2—an updated version of the aging Creation Engine that was first used in 2011 for […]
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