HomeFeatures The 10 best songs in PC gamesThey’re all someone’s jam They’re all someone’s jam Good Riddance -Hades Watch on YouTube You stumble across Eurydice, musician and collateral damage of Greek tragedy, as you wander through the underworld. She’ll be singing this sorrowful number alone in her chamber. It’s a song about death, rest and letting go, all tinged with a sense of bitterness. Because anyone who knows their myths knows that Eurydice was left behind in the underworld after her lover and fellow poet Orpheus fluffed the chance to free her from the dead realm....

HomeFeatures The 13 best Steam Next Fest demos you should play this OctoberMake time for these excellent indies Make time for these excellent indies Indie extravaganzaSteam Next Festis back for another edition today, showering us with hundreds of upcoming game demos to try over the next week. Running from today, October 1st, until Thursday October 7th, the latest Steam Next Fest is positively packed to the rafters with things to play, and we’ve picked out some personal highlights to help you get started....

HomeHardwareNewsForza Horizon 5 The Forza Horizon 5 PC specs are pretty steep, huhA GeForce RTX 3080 for “Ideal” quality! A GeForce RTX 3080 for “Ideal” quality! TheForza Horizon 5PC system requirements are out in full, and hoo boy, are you gonna need thebest graphics cardsto max it out. Revealed in ablog post, the new specs both update the previously listed Minimum requirements on Steam, and include an “Ideal” tier on top of the Recommended requirements....

HomeNews The Game Awards will be back in person this year on December 9thGeoff jokes return to the main stage Geoff jokes return to the main stage Summer’s in the bin, which means it’s time to stop looking back at those E3 showcases and start thinking about the end of year shows.The Game Awards, the December-ly bonanza of world premieres interspersed with the occasional trophy, is back on again. After going online in December 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, show host Geoff Keighley is getting the band back together on stage this year for an in person show that’s been scheduled for December 9th....

HomeNewsCrusader Kings III A lot of you are petting the pets in Crusader Kings 3Paradox released some stats for the game’s first birthday Paradox released some stats for the game’s first birthday 1240 Pepsi Max cans quaffed. 30 Toffee Crisps swallowed. 600 sneezes sneezed. These are the stats of my past year.Crusader Kings 3’s past year offers bigger numbers. To celebrate the kingdom sim’s first year of release, Paradox have put out a set of in-game stats, which includes: 18 million marriages, 334 million children, and “4 million pets petted....

HomeNewseFootball 2022 eFootball 2022 is now the worst rated game on SteamPES dispensed with PES dispensed with Image credit:u/alex91s Image credit:u/alex91s eFootball 2022is now the worst rated game on Steam, less than a day after release. Konami’s free-to-play ‘football platform’ wasannounced earlier this yearas the successor to PES, with a barebones launch planned to be expanded in perpetuity with optional DLC. Yet even accepting its relatively thin amount of content, players are sharing screenshots of terrible faces, broken animations, and plenty of bugs....

HomeHardwareGuides How to install a CPUGive Intel and AMD chips a new home Give Intel and AMD chips a new home Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun How To Install A CPUWatch on YouTube How To Install A CPU Installing the CPU is also one of several PC building steps that I recommend completing on the motherboard before you go about installing the latter in the case. This mainly just makes things generally easier – you have more space and light to work with outside of the case, and when the time comes, you can simply fit the mobo with components like the CPU and RAM already attached to it....

HomeDeals Humble’s Square Enix sale offers up to 85% off Nier, Final Fantasy and morePlus Octopath Traveler, Outriders and Secret of Mana Plus Octopath Traveler, Outriders and Secret of Mana Image credit:Square Enix Image credit:Square Enix Square Enix, or Sqix to its close friends, is having a bloody great sale over at the Humble store. The discounts are up to 85% off, and include the likes ofNier,Final Fantasy,Dragon Questand more.Check out Humble’s Square Enix publisher sale for up to 85% offNier Automata andNier Replicant ver....

HomeNews Impostor Factory (aka To The Moon 3) is out nowaka To The Moon 3(?) aka To The Moon 3(?) Here’s a trailer from back in August, which captures the spirit of the thing: Impostor Factory (To the Moon 3) - TrailerWatch on YouTube Impostor Factory (To the Moon 3) - Trailer Freebird describe the game as a “bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller involving multiple casualties and a suspicious cat,” which sounds like a riot, but the original To The Moon was renowned mainly for heart-wrenching story....

HomeNewsNew World New World opens more servers, planning to enlarge servers too"Our main priority is resolving long queues," they say “Our main priority is resolving long queues,” they say Amazon’s sandbox MMONew Worldinstantly become one of the most-played games on Steam when it launched this week (brieflythemost), and some of those 700,000 ‘players’ even made it through the server queues to actually play. The devs have been scrambling to meet demand ever since and continue to open new servers, in the past 24 hours opening over 100 new New World worlds....

HomePodcasts The Electronic Wireless Show Podcast episode 158: the best spaceships in games specialDon’t worry, one of us mentions FTL Don’t worry, one of us mentions FTL In honour of the new DLC forOuter Wilds, this week on The Electronic Wireless Show Podcast we’re discussing our favourite spaceships in games. In the process, while we do discuss some games, there is quite a lot of chat about the origin of the spaceship as ‘space-house’ - the hub area where all your pals hang out - both in games and in wider space media....

HomeReviewsThe Eternal Cylinder The Eternal Cylinder review: an outlandish, delightful, and surprisingly approachable survival adventureEntirely platonic Darwinism Entirely platonic Darwinism But is itreallyabout a giant cylinder? And what do such esoteric choices add up to in this latest Ace Team venture into the unfamiliar? Let’s find out. The truth is that The Eternal Cylinder is less about its primary and titular antagonist, the giant cylinder which is crushing a colourful alien world beneath its red hot immensity, than it is about its protagonists, the trunk-snouted trebhum: a bipedal not-people who are the emotional and gameplay heart of this lovely, remarkably approachable game....

HomeNews Twitch fights ‘hate raids’ with options to require phone verification for chatShould help keep out harassment bots Should help keep out harassment bots The PC Gaming Weekspot: Outer Wilds Echoes Of The Eye Review! Sable Gameplay! Other Stuff!Watch on YouTube The PC Gaming Weekspot: Outer Wilds Echoes Of The Eye Review! Sable Gameplay! Other Stuff! “Hate and harassment of any kind is unacceptable and prohibited on Twitch, whether it’s an offensive message, malicious follows, or the egregious ‘hate raid’ attacks that have targeted marginalized creators over the past months,“Twitch saidwhen launching the new features last night....