And the award for the saddest patch notes ever goes to Babylon's Fall

And the award for the saddest patch notes ever goes to Babylon’s Fall The unloved Platinum action RPG was buried this week. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Babylon’s Fall was not a good game by most accounts: we gave the co-op action RPG a 45% in ourreview, and the best it could muster on Steam was 482 “Mostly Negative” user reviews....

March 2, 2023 · 3 min · 604 words · Andre Osborne

Audio-Technica AT2020+

Our Verdict One of the best budget mics you can buy right now that’s easy to use, provides crisp audio, and is built to last. PC Gamer’s got your backOur experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.Find out more about how we evaluate games and hardware. As budget microphones go, we’ve seen a lot of the “less is more” design approach....

March 2, 2023 · 5 min · 854 words · Christina Morales

Casting spells with my voice in Hogwarts Legacy is very silly, kinda cool

Casting spells with my voice in Hogwarts Legacy is very silly, kinda cool British accent optional, but encouraged. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Today I learned that I’d probably be a terrible wizard in the Harry Potter world. As appealing as flying brooms and getting wasted on butterbeer sounds, I’d unfortunately fail step one: say the spell correctly. I’ve been trying out a new Hogwarts Legacy mod that lets you cast spells with your voice, and it’s a real stickler for pronunciation....

March 2, 2023 · 4 min · 644 words · Susan Hunt

Co-op fantasy tavern sim Innchanted is coming out this month

Co-op fantasy tavern sim Innchanted is coming out this month It’ll be on Steam from March 28. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Every fantasy inn seems to be run by a retired adventurer, and more than one tabletop RPG I’ve played involved the players deciding they wanted to spend their accumulated loot on buying a pub. Innchanted lets you live out that dream with up to four players in local or online co-op, or solo with an AI companion you can delegate tasks to....

March 2, 2023 · 3 min · 613 words · George Wright

Destiny 2: Lightfall's campaign is a big disappointment after The Witch Queen

Destiny 2: Lightfall’s campaign is a big disappointment after The Witch Queen After making its best campaign in years, Bungie stumbles with its latest expansion. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. When The Witch Queen launched last year, it wasn’t just a great Destiny 2 campaign, buta great FPS campaign full-stop. After years of lightweight expansion campaigns that served as little more than funnels into Destiny 2’s live-service pipeline, The Witch Queen offered a number of lengthy, challenging missions....

March 2, 2023 · 11 min · 2182 words · John Wells

Engineers teach their 1-milliwatt neural chip to play Doom, say this is serious work yo, everyone nods

Engineers teach their 1-milliwatt neural chip to play Doom, say this is serious work yo, everyone nods “It unloads the clip, but then it figures out that’s not a good strategy.” When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. The NDP200 is an ultralow power chip that was not designed for your gaming rig. This thing is designed to essentially monitor video via neural networks while using barely any power and, when it spots something of interest like a person walking past, wake up beefier systems to do the ‘real’ monitoring....

March 2, 2023 · 3 min · 559 words · Tiffany Frye

First-person shooters have been getting perspective wrong all along

First-person shooters have been getting perspective wrong all along A new piece of ‘natural rendering’ software could fix what ails them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Linear perspective is the overarching method of representing 3D objects on a 2D plane, just like how games show up on yourgaming monitor. It encompasses the one, two, and three point perspectives you probably learned about in school, and has been the major leading perspectival schema in art since it’s conception, way back in the fifteenth century....

March 2, 2023 · 5 min · 863 words · Zachary Montgomery
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