Pixel Boost is our weekly series devoted to the artistry of games, and the techniques required to run them at high resolutions. Gallery by screenshot artist Mary K. Remember to click the “expand” icon on the images above to view them at their full size. While everyone else has been playing the Division and the latest...
The Quantum Break system requirements were announced last month, and they’re up there: The minimum spec calls for an Intel Core i5-4460, a GeForce GTX 760, and 8GB of RAM. That means there’s a good likelihood you’ll be fiddling with graphical settings to find the optimal balance between pretty and performance. And so, “by popular...
Slain, the tough as nails action platformer that looks like a Celtic Frost record in motion, is releasing on March 24. To celebrate, Wolf Brew Games has released the above launch trailer, which does a pretty good job of summarising what the game is about: killing ugly supernatural phenomena, jumping between jagged hellscape precipices, and dying regularly...
Dark Souls 3 is out. Well, it’s out in Japan. We’ve had review code for a few days now, but Bandai Namco has asked that we don’t release our review of the international version until April 4th. In the meantime, we have permission to talk about the earlier parts of the game. Within 15 hours of...
Even if Rise of the Tomb Raider came to PC a few months late, at least the extras are in sync with console—despite those extras being served lukewarm. Rise of the Tomb Raider’s season pass has one last chance to fix itself in our memories, with the final instalment, Cold Darkness Awakened, releasing March 29. As is Tomb Raider tradition,...
Hyper Light Drifter, the gorgeous, enigmatic ARPG from Heart Machine, finally has a release date. On March 31, you can see exactly what Heart Machine has achieved with $650,000—from a Kickstarter target of $27,000. We’ve looked in on Hyper Light a few times during its development. It was originally pegged for June 2014, but when you...
Punch Club was quite a success for tinyBuild and Lazy Bear Games: it’s sold over 300,000 copies, which is a great result for a new Steam game in 2015. Still, it could have sold a bunch more. In fact, according to stats collected by Alex Nichiporchik of tinyBuild, at least 1.6 million people have pirated the game....
Scott Lawler and Tomas Neumann had a tough mission when designing the sound for Overwatch. “We were talking with our game director, Jeff Kaplan, and he gave us this lofty goal of, ‘I want to be able to play the game with the monitor practically turned off,” explains Lawlor, senior sound designer on the project. “Of course,...
Fallout 4’s official modding tools won’t be out until next month, but that hasn’t stopped Abbalovesyou experimenting in bizarre new directions. Thanks to the Be The Dog mod, you can now play as Dogmeat or any other dog found in the Wasteland. You even get a dog-size Pip Boy. It is slightly peculiar that instead of a deep bark you...
It’s a good time to have a PC in your living room—maybe the best time, with games like Towerfall and Nidhogg and more ushering in a new era of local multiplayer games in the past two years. At the Indie MIX party at GDC 2016, we ganged up to play a surprising number of great (or, at...
