One of the worst things you could do is play Black Desert Online as if it was any other MMORPG—it’s not. While the temptation to rush to level 50 might be strong, I really suggest taking your time to talk to NPCs and soak in the ambiance. Black Desert Online is incredibly dense, and if...
Well I guess we know why Ubisoft’s servers had a little stumble as The Division came online in the US: it’s broken company records for the most copies of any game sold in 24 hours, in total, on PC and on those strange living room game boxes. Exact figures are not forthcoming, but we know that it’s nicked...
If there’s one thing I know about lab guinea pigs, it’s that they’re well compensated. Unless they’re actual guinea pigs, in which case they’re dissected. But you can contribute to science for cold, hard profit in Eve Online. Project Discovery, in association with the Human Protein Atlas, is crowdsourcing to identify patterns of protein localisation in human cells...
We’re in the process of reviewing The Division, Ubisoft’s new multiplayer-focused shooter. You can read our verdict soon, but in the meantime I’ve been exploring its detailed recreation of New York City. It’s an atmospheric setting with some impressive world-building, so I decided to ignore the missions vying for my attention and take some tourist snaps. Here’s what I saw. Click...
The Division’s servers went live at Australian midnight, with the client unlocking as March 8 rolled round in various time zones. When America got involved, they collapsed, and in other news, the tide is coming in. A horde of angry players who found themselves awake at midnight without cause took to the forums to report errors ‘Romeo’...
I experienced a sinking feeling a few times while playing Naval Action this week. Mostly it was entirely literal: my ship was actually, physically sinking after a long battle, my hull splintered, my sails tattered, and waves slowly but surely washing over my deck. I had a figurative sinking feeling as well, when I first started...
The PC Gamer Weekender has fallen to the might of Warhammer. In addition to getting your claws on Total War: Warhammer almost two months early, you can hear about the future of Warhammer 40,000 MMO shooter Eternal Crusade direct from the developers. Senior producer Nathan Richardsson and lead designer Brent Ellison will be on-stage to present the game in its current...
WHY I LOVE In Why I Love, PC Gamer writers pick an aspect of PC gaming that they love and write about why it’s brilliant. Today, Jody gets hammered on alien ale and sings hobbit songs. “Drinking beer makes you tougher” according to the screen prompt when you down a can in Duke Nukem Forever....
The Black Death is a medieval survival MMO, and as you might expect it’s quite a grim one at that. Case in point: one of the classes is named ‘Peasant’. Peasants are good at agriculture and foraging, not so much at the old killing, and like the other classes they’ll try to survive against the pox-ridden bubonic...
World of Warcraft has come a long way, baby. From its debut in late 2004—almost 12 years ago!—to the pending release of Legion, the latest expansion, much has changed in the still dominant MMO, and also in the hardware you need to play it. To that end, Blizzard has posted the system requirements for Legion, and...
