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หลังจากการมาถึงของ The Division 2 ต้องบอกเลยว่าเป็นการพลิกโฉมเกมครั้งใหญ่จนทำให้เกิดฐานผู้เล่นที่เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างเห็นได้ชัด นอกจากนี้ยังได้รับการสนับสนุนคอนเทนต์กันต่อเนื่องเลยด้วย และในความสำเร็จก็ทำให้ Ubisoft เล็งเห็นโอกาสที่จะบอกเล่าเรื่องราวของแฟรนไชส์นี้ในรูปแบบสปินออฟผ่านภาค Heartland …

ชี้เป้า! รวมข้อมูลที่ควรรู้ก่อนสั่งจอง PlayStation 5 Pro_1

เผยรายละเอียดอย่างเป็นทางการเรียบร้อยแล้วครับสำหรับเครื่องเล่น PlayStation 5 Pro หรือรุ่นอัปเกรดของ PS5 ที่มีกำหนดวางจำหน่ายกันแบบรวดเร็วทันใจในเดือนหน้านี้แล้ว แต่แน่นอนว่ามือใหม่หลายคน คนที่กำลังวางแผนเปลี่ยนเครื่อง รวมไปถึงใครที่อยากจะย้ายค่ายจากรุ่นอื่น ก็คงจะเริ่มต้นกันไม่ถูกใช่�…

ผู้สร้าง Palworld เผย ‘เคล็บลับความสำเร็จของเกม’

Palworld เป็นเกมที่สร้างกระแสบูมได้สุด ๆ ตั้งแต่เปิดตัวจนทำให้เกมนี้กลายเป็นที่พูดถึงบนโลกโซเชียลจนกลายเป็นเกมอินดี้สุดฮิตประจำปีนี้ ซึ่งแน่นอนว่าหลาย ๆ คนคงสงสัยว่า “ผู้พัฒนาเกมทำอย่างไรเกมถึงออกมาปังเช่นนี้” ล่าสุดทาง Takuro Mizobe ผู้สร้างเกม ได้ออกมาเปิดเผยเคล็ดลับความสำเร็จของเกมให…

ผู้พัน Sanders แห่ง KFC ปรากฎตัวในเกม Final Fantasy XIV_1

KFC Japan ประกาศความร่วมมือกับ Final Fantasy XIV เกม MMORPG ยอดนิยม ที่ในครั้งนี้ผู้เล่นจะได้พบกับ Colonel Sanders ปรากฏตัวในเกมและร่วมผจญภัยครั้งใหม่ร่วมกับเขาคำพูดจาก ปั่นสล็อตแตกทุกเกม

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อดีตผู้บริหาร Square Enix เผยสาเหตุที่ยอดขาย Final Fantasy ไม่เป็นไปตามคาด

Jacob Navok อดีตผู้บริหารของ Square Enix ได้ออกมาแชร์ความคิดเห็นเกี่ยวกับยอดขายเกม Final Fantasy สองภาคล่าสุดที่ต่ำกว่าที่คาดการณ์ไว้ พร้อมทั้งพยายามอธิบายว่าทำไมหลายคนถึงเข้าใจผิดว่าทางค่ายเกมญี่ปุ่นตั้งเป้ายอดขายที่ไม่สมจริงสำหรับผลิตภัณฑ์ของต

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ไม่ใช่เรื่องง่าย! ผู้สร้างเกม Yakuza เผย เคยถูกปฏิเสธพัฒนาหลายครั้ง

พูดถึงเกม Yakuza แล้วก็ต้องบอกเลยว่าเกมนี้ถือเป็นแฟรนไชส์ระดับแถวหน้าของ SEGA เรียบร้อยแล้วเพราะไม่ว่าจะวางจำหน่ายภาคหลักหรือภาคเสริมก็มีการตอบรับจากผู้เล่นที่ดีตลอด อย่างไรก็ตามมีการเปิดเผยถึงเส้นทางในอดีตของเกมกว่าจะมาถึงจุดนี้ด้วยเหมือนกัน โดยมีรายงานจาก VGC ถึงบทสัมภาษณ…

Disney awkwardly shuffles around the term ‘NFT’ with its ‘digital pins’ which are, you guessed it, still NFTs-

The internet’s honeymoon phase with NFTs has long since passed—we probably won’t see them widespread in games any time soon—owing to a decline in anyone really caring about them. 

The most notable thing about ‘Bored Apes’ these days is that a concert blasted its poor attendants with enough UV lighting to actually injure them. Oh, and the creator of a knock-off “Mutant Ape Planet” is facing up to five years in prison. But don’t worry, Disney’s new “digital pins,” as announced on the Disney Pinnacle Twitter account, totally aren’t NFTs. Right? Right?

Turns out, yes, they are (thanks, Verge). The pins are being produced in partnership with Dapper Labs, which still believes the blockchain “will reshape how we use and interact with digital worlds”, a sen…

All the Warframe news out of TennoCon 2023, like about that guy that lives in your wall-

Warframe’s big TennoCon event for the year has come, and the announcement of new expansions, skins, frames, and more are rolling in hot and fresh. That includes a new story arc, Whispers in the Walls, a new frame in the Abyss of Dagath update, and some kind of wild prequel event in Warframe: 1999. 

Coming this Winter, the Whispers in the Walls story-driven cinematic quest will put players in the deadly battle between brilliant Origin System scientist Albrecht Entrati and the hinted at, but never quite shown in its true form, Man in the Wall. The release will include an all-new secondary weapon class, the Grimoire, as well as an entirely new faction called the Murmur created by the Man in the Wall. The Necramech enemy faction will also get reworked and expanded for this releas…

Gorgeous Sony samurai sim Ghost of Tsushima is the latest game to break PlayStation containment for PC-

Sucker Punch’s haiku-writing sim with a samurai game attached, Ghost of Tsushima, is PC-bound. It’s arriving at a fair clip, too, you can expect it to release on Steam and the Epic Games Store two months from now, on May 16.

The port is being carried out by Nixxes—which Sony bought back in 2021—and was announced in a surprise post on the PlayStation blog earlier today. It’s the Director’s Cut version, and comes with “the full game, the Iki Island expansion, and the cooperative online multiplayer Legends mode.” 

Nixxes says it’s spent the last year “working hard to bring the Sucker Punch in-house engine technology to PC,” and promises all sorts of PC goodies like “unlocked frame rates, a variety of graphics settings and presets, and customiza…

Here are the Forspoken release times for each region-

The Forspoken release time is almost here, so your wait is nearly over if you’re keen to jump in and start exploring Athia. Forspoken was delayed twice last year—the second time, in July, was apparently for strategic reasons rather than because the game wasn’t ready. Whatever the reason, though, the wait is finally over.

Forspoken unlocks globally on PC, whether you’re playing on Steam or the Epic Games Store. So if you’re ready to start your journey to Athia alongside Frey but are unsure when the game unlocks in your time zone, here are the Forspoken release times, broken down by region.

What time does Forspoken release? 

Forspoken releases globally on January 24, so the release times will vary, depending on your time zone. The lis…

Cyberpunk’s new patch means the game will no longer strike you down like a fickle god right before the ending-

Cyberpunk’s 2.02 patch has hit, bringing with it a surfeit of tweaks, fixes, and improvements to Night City in the wake of the game’s sweeping 2.0 update and accompanying redemption arc. As usual there’s a whole lot of bullet points here, and I’ll put the full patch notes below, but there are a couple of entries worth highlighting in particular.

First up is an issue that was striking players pursuing a specific ending. I won’t spoil anything, but suffice it to say that there are numerous reports from players of their V clambering into a car as part of the endgame Path Of Glory quest and immediately, inexplicably dying. Although that would be admirably outré if it had been CD Projekt’s intended ending for V on that path, it turns out it was just a bug, and “V will no longer …

Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s hero is looking a little OP… what with all the teleporting he does-

We got a look at Assassin’s Creed Mirage at Ubisoft Forward today, finally seeing our stabby hero, Basim, in action. And while Basim shows off a few familair tricks of the assassin trade, we also get to see some of his new skills. And there’s one that looks pretty OP, at least to me.

The gameplay trailer above starts off with a quick kill and then a neat evasion move, where Basim grabs a wooden structure and collapses it to form an obstacle between him and his pursuers (at 0:35). Immediately after this we see his ability to swing himself around the corners of buildings, which is also very cool.

After taking a mission from a notice board, Basim heads to the palace to kill a captain who abducted a rebel spy. He attempts to use his bird, Enkidu, to scout out the palace but a ma…

Jack Black journeys through Fallout 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog in Tenacious D’s new music video-

Two conclusions can be drawn from Tenacious D’s new animated music video, Video Games. One is that Jack Black clearly has a great love for the hobby, and two is that unfortunately he’s never read the PC Gamer style guide—it’s ‘videogames’, dude.

Word crimes aside, the video is a short but brilliantly entertaining trip through Black’s favourite digital worlds, including God of War, Fallout 4, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Check it out below—but, er, be warned, it’s very NSFW. 

The wonderfully bouncy animation was created by Chris O’Neill of the gaming YouTube channel OneyPlays (you may know him for his contributions to the TV show Smiling Friends) in collaboration with animation studio Pinreel Inc. Jack Black’s 3D alter-ego perfectly captures…

It took the first Remnant months to sell a million copies, but Remnant 2 did it in 4 days-

We’re one week out from the release of Remnant 2 and friends, the game is a bonafide hit. It’s sold over a million copies across PC and console, causing much rejoicing from dev and publisher alike, and prompting the latter to assemble a trailer showcasing all the lovely things people are saying about it.

Although the game’s been out for a week, it actually managed to sell a full million copies in just four days, according to a post on the Remnant website. For reference, the first Remnant took two months after its August 2019 release to reach the same number of sales. Remnant 2 has also managed to double the first game’s number of concurrent players at launch too, according to a press release.

Remnant 2 nearly summited Steam’s most-played charts barely two days after it relea…

NASCAR bans real-life wall-riding- ‘We will penalize for that act going forward’-

NASCAR driver Ross Chastain caused quite a stir last year when he used real-life wall-riding—a trick he apparently learned on his GameCube in 2005—to move up five spots and set a lap record in the final turn of the Xfinity 500. It was a bold, foolhardy, and absolutely spectacular maneuver, and today NASCAR (via Kotaku) announced that nobody ever better try something like that again.

“Chastain’s dash around Turns 3 and 4 at Martinsville Speedway last October made for an enthralling finish as the No. 1 Chevrolet gained five positions in one set of corners, earning enough points to advance to the Championship 4,” NASCAR said in a statement. “While the move was thrilling and largely lauded for its creativity, it also came with an increased safety risk.”

That’s a fair…

Mortal Kombat 1 players discover that crash logs are eating up massive amounts of drive space- More than 1GB per crash in some cases-

Are you playing Mortal Kombat 1 on Steam? Have you noticed that your free drive space has been disappearing without obvious cause and at a potentially alarming pace? If so, there’s good news, or at least an explanation that will help you deal with it: It turns out that Mortal Kombat 1’s crash logs are really big.

A crash log is a file generated when a game craps out that provides a record of data like when it happened, what you were doing, and what else your PC was running when it happened. Developers use crash logs to figure out why a game isn’t working like it’s supposed to, so they can track down and fix whatever problem ails it. These files are typically very small, because in most cases they’re just a dump of raw text, largely indecipherable to non-programmers.

In the c…

Blizzard refuses to say what Diablo 4’s new class will be, but its own leak gives us some clues-

Blizzard refuses to say what new class is coming to Diablo 4 when its first expansion, Vessel of Hatred, launches late next year. But datamined text from a leaked build of the game makes it pretty clear what it will be.

Officially, Vessel of Hatred will continue the story in Diablo 4’s campaign, and will have you chasing down demons in Nahantu, a region last seen in Diablo 2 under a different name: Torajan. There you’ll find the new class, which, as Blizzard says, has never been seen before in the series.

The new class won’t be a Witch Doctor or a Paladin, Diablo 4 associate game director Brent Gibson told GamesRadar at BlizzCon. The team wanted to go with a class that nobody has played before in a Diablo game.

That class has to be the Spiritborn. Blizzard hasn’t ackno…

Not only is Rainbow Six Siege free to play for the next week, it’s also just $4 to keep if you like it-

We are already two days into a free week for Rainbow Six Siege, Ubisoft’s long-running multiplayer take on its even longer-running tactical shooter series. The free week runs until Thursday, March 21, while you can get the game for keeps for just $4 (85% off) until Wednesday.

We are on year nine of this shooter⁠—a methuselah in live service terms⁠—but to hear PCG’s multiplayer FPS expert, Morgan Park, tell it, Siege has never been better. Changes to favor disadvantaged attackers, tastefully nerf environmental destruction to limit defenders peeking through bullet holes, and streamline a still quite complicated weapon attachment system all contribute to a version of the game that’s still lean, exciting, and surprisingly unique all these years after launch.

Our 2022 game of the year runner-up, the criminally underrated Marvel’s Midnight Suns, is free to keep on the Epic Game Store-

It is once again time to slam that “forgot password” button and log into your Epic Game Store account, because the new free game of the week is a heater: Our runner-up game of the year from 2022, the tactical RPG Marvel’s Midnight Suns, is free to keep until June 13.

It’s a game that didn’t quite get the sales love it deserved⁠—some of Midnight Suns’ developers argue its card-based systems might have put people off, but that also doesn’t seem to be the whole story. Regardless, the PC Gamer team loved it. Midnight Suns takes the essence of modern XCOM, soups you up to superhero power levels, and adds on that aforementioned deckbuilding mechanic, as well as a BioWare-style “hang out with and befriend your companions” system. Instead of listening to Tali’Zorah bang on abo…

Samsung’s 3nm process is shaping up very nicely, and that’s good news for gamers-

When it comes to advanced semiconductor technology, there’s one name that sits above all: TSMC. But there are others seeking to challenge the Taiwanese behemoth. Intel is spending billions in order to claim a larger slice of the chip making pie. GlobalFoundries and UMC are often cited as competitors too. Then there’s Samsung, a name everyone knows. 

Though it hasn’t been able to compete with TSMC at the bleeding edge of semiconductor manufacturing in recent years, Samsung has made no secret of the fact that it wants to challenge and surpass TSMC. Though Samsung and TSMC’s 3nm nodes are not equal, the differences don’t matter much if yields aren’t up to par, and Samsung is reportedly doing well on that front.

According to Korean-based newspaper Kukmin Ilbo (via @harukaze…

Critical update expected this month to fix Samsung 990 Pro’s unusually rapid decline-

Last week we noted Samsung has rolled out a firmware update for its 980 Pro SSDs that must be installed to ensure the longevity of that drive. In it, we also noted that it can’t be long until Samsung patches its 990 Pro SSDs too, as multiple anecdotal reports suggested these are suffering from an unusual and rapid decline in drive health.

Lo and behold, Samsung says a patch for the 990 Pro is loosely set to arrive sometime this month, and one that should reportedly put an end to the issue.

In a response to a customer support query, a company representative confirms that Samsung is aware of the issue.

“Samsung is currently reviewing customer inquiries about anomalies related to the SMART Percentage Used (on Samsung Magician) and/or Health Status (on Crystal Disk Info) o…

Star Wars- Bounty Hunter remaster is coming in August, and fans are more than a little nervous after the disastrous Battlefront Classic Collection-

Watch On

Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, originally released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube, is finally coming to PC. Aspyr Media announced today that an updated version of the game is set to arrive on August 1.

2002 was the year of Attack of the Clones, the film that made an instant Star Wars star of Jango Fett, father to Boba and “Prime Clone of the Grand Army of the Republic.” (Star Wars fans just can’t get enough of the Fett fam.) Appropriately, Star Wars: Bounty Hunter follows his adventures in the time before Attack of the Clones, and actually sets up the events that lead to his genetic template being used to create a clone army.

I never played Star Wars: Bounty Hunter myself, but reviews from back in the day cited on Mobygames seem middling. It sounds like a per…

Google spits out results for Book of Genesis and the band Genesis when searching for Sega’s Mega Drive because it’s trying to be clever-

A very specific quirk, but an entertaining one: Google spits out results related to the Book of Genesis from Wikipedia and the website of The Holy See and the band Genesis when you search for some terms related to Sega’s Mega Drive console. 

It looks like Google’s picked up on the fact that Sega’s Mega Drive videogame console from the late ’80s was named the Sega Genesis in North America, and uses the terms Mega Drive and Genesis interchangeably for results. However, as Twitter user CaptainBalkon found out, it gets its Genesises (Genesus?) confused.

If you search for the specific term, “Book of Megadrive” (Megadrive needs to be all one word, weirdly), you end up with the Wikipedia page for the Book of Genesis on the first page, and The Holy See’s webpage for the holy te…

The Last of Us star Nick Offerman swore off videogames forever after becoming obsessed with this Nintendo 64 game-

Nick Offerman made a huge splash as Bill in the third episode of HBO’s The Last of Us, but it turns out that he doesn’t actually play videogames himself. In a recent appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, Offerman said he tried his hand at it once, long ago, but decided to give up after just a couple of weeks.

“About 25 years ago, I played my last videogame,” Offerman said. “And I’m very indulgent. I lost a couple weeks to a videogame called Banjo Kazooie. Two weeks went by, and I mean, I was like, oh my God, the slow dopamine is so delicious, then it’s over, and you’re like, yes, I won! And immediately I’m like, what have I done with my life?

“So I decided I’m never going to do that again. And so thankfully, because games have gotten so good, like The Last of Us, that I think…