Month: September 2024

If you’re thinking of taking the plunge and buying an ultrawide gaming monitor this Prime Day, well, I don’t blame you. I never used to be a fan of ultrawides, but having used quite a few over the past few years and experiencing the benefits of a stretched out screen, I have to admit I’ve become a convert.

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Being able to stretch out multiple windows over a very wide screen boosts productivity, there’s no doubt, and—while it takes some getting used to for gaming—once you’ve gone wide, it’s difficult to go back.

But if you thought going ultrawide meant spending ultra money, you’d be wrong. I’ve collected five of the best ultrawide gaming …

Las Vegas is a city known for its commitment to the excesses of human consumption. Here, you can gamble away your life savings, drink yourself silly in its many over-priced bars, and generally live out your high-roller fantasies in the middle of the scorchingly hot and dry Nevada desert. 

Now Nvidia has revealed that the displays of the now-iconic Las Vegas Sphere—a gigantic spherical entertainment arena sitting at the heart of Sin City—are powered by 150 of its RTX A6000 desktop workstation GPUs.

For those that like big numbers, well, hold onto your hats. Each of those GPUs feature over 10,752 cores, 48 GB of memory and have a 300 W TDP, for a grand total of 1,612,800 cores, 7,200 GB of GDDR6 memory, and a potential maximum power draw of 45,000 W at full ti…

Dark and Darker’s demo version briefly became one of the biggest things on Steam during last month’s Next Fest event, but the devs at Ironmace still have a lot of things to figure out. Chief among them? How the hell they’re gonna make money off their very popular game. 

In a recent Discord Q&A with a developer called SDF, we learned that Ironmace won’t be able to keep Dark and Darker online with game sales alone, that its run out of space in its office, and that—despite all that—the studio doesn’t really know how it’s going to monetise the game when it finally releases.

When asked what its “plans for monetization features” were, SDF was only willing to commit to “A monetization model that players can understand,” which isn’t exactly rich on detail. Likew…

There’s a Call of Duty climbing the top sellers list on Steam right now, and it’s not Black Ops 6. It’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, the 2016 re-release of 2007’s Call of Duty 4. It’s currently number three on the best-selling games list (by revenue) in the US and hanging out in the top 10 worldwide, beating out the likes of Dota 2, The First Descendent, and Baldur’s Gate 3.

That’s a bit weird at first glance—the remaster going on sale for $20 somewhat explains the sales bump, but it doesn’t account for why this one not particularly active CoD remaster is outselling every other game in the series and most other games on Steam.

The real reason for the renewed interest is way more fun, and very PC gaming: There’s a long-awaited fan mod coming out this week th…

Remnant 2 is one of 2023’s unique experiences, a third person roguelike Soulslike shooter with a heavy focus on procgen environments that is really rather excellent. It’s a game designed for multiple playthroughs, solo and co-op, all of which should turn out differently. And it’s also brutally tough when it starts ramping up with the highest difficulty, Apocalypse, inspiring a bit of moaning even among the die-hards.

Apocalypse is not for the faint-hearted and can fairly be described as the endgame challenge when you already know what Remnant 2 has to offer: bosses and tougher enemies will one-shot you, even grunts are deadly, and your build and execution has to be spot-on for any chance of survival.

Thus it was that, shortly after launch, some players had a bit of a whine a…

Directionally challenged anglers and frightened fishers rejoice, Dredge is getting some nifty new additions over the next few months. Black Salt Games has laid out a roadmap for what’s to come in the eldritch fishing horror, with three free updates and one paid DLC in the works.

The first two updates should be arriving fairly soon, and will mercifully add two of my most-desired things: Map markers and a passive fishing mode. I semi-complained about the lack of map markings in my Dredge review—while it was nice having to try and get my bearings and remember locations, I struggled to keep track of smaller side quests and points of interest without any sort of automatic or manual way to mark them all. 

The update will let you individually mark out things like shipwre…