New Intel driver gives Starfield its eyebrows back-
This has to be one of the weirdest bugs I’ve seen squashed in recent driver release notes: some players with Intel Arc graphics may have noticed that characters in Starfield had their eyebrows blown off their face when using previous driver versions. The latest driver, version 31.0.101.4676, brings them back.
Intel has been rushing to get Starfield running smoothly on Arc graphics cards this past week, including a hotfix earlier in the week just before the game’s official release date and now this most recent package.
This new driver version offers a few key fixes:
- Starfield (DX12) improved stability in different areas of the game.
- Starfield (DX12) may incorrectly render glass surfaces and objects.
- Starfield (DX12) may exhibit missing eyebrows on c…
The Alone in the Dark reboot is delayed until March so developers can ‘avoid any potential crunch over the Christmas holidays’-
THQ Nordic’s Alone in the Dark reboot has been delayed, and is now set to come out on March 20, 2024. The decision to push the game back was made, the publisher said, because if it had gone ahead with the planned release in January, “the Christmas season would have been filled with stress and anything but a jolly time” for developer Pieces Interactive.
“The well-being of the teams is a top priority, and both companies want to avoid any potential crunch over the Christmas holidays,” THQ Nordic said. “Furthermore, THQ Nordic and Pieces Interactive want to ensure that the game not only meets but exceeds the expectations of the community, especially with the outstanding performances of Hollywood stars David and Jodie as the main protagonists.”
This is actually the second delay f…
NYT Connections hint and answers today- September 16 (#97)-
The shuffle feature in NYT’s Connections can be a real game saver—or a complete failure, depending on the day and the words in question. That’s where we come in. There’s a set of helpful hints for the September 16 (#97) puzzle ready if you need them, as well as every answer for today’s game if you’d like to skip to the best bit in a few clicks. Hey, whatever works for you is fine by us.
I had a pretty good start to my Connections weekend, clearing half of today’s board without too much trouble. The other half though? I’d rather not talk about it. Wow, that was far too close for comfort.
NYT Connections hint today: Saturday, September 16
A few hints to help you join the dots if you need them.
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One month after its release, one of our favorite games of 2022 is already $20 off-
In December we did something that PC Gamer hadn’t done in its three-decade history. We handed out a runner-up Game of the Year award.
The silver medal went to Marvel’s Midnight Suns (on sale at Steam for $40), the strategy-card-RPG-campaign game from Firaxis, otherwise known as the folks that made XCOM. Why’d we hand out this first-ever second-place GOTY? Midnight Suns came out just as we were wrapping up our awards process, and the fact that it was a 65+ hour game made it harder for editors to finish in a holiday period where we were already unnaturally busy.
So we had a bit of a dilemma: the four of us who had finished Midnight Suns loved it, but we’d already had the knock-down, drag-out argument to determine PC Gamer’s GOTY, as well as the Best RPG, Be…
The devs of the underplayed Marvel’s Midnight Suns once more blame the game’s commercial woes on the cards (I really don’t think it was the cards)-
Marvel’s Midnight Suns is an odd bug—pretty much everyone I’ve talked to that’s played it has liked it, including PC Gamer’s Jeremy Peel in his glowing review. Despite everything, though, it didn’t sell nearly as well as it needed to, leading to layoffs at developer Firaxis and the departure of its creative lead.
There’s a few reasons this might be the case. First off, the venn diagram circles of tactical strategy combat/deck builder enjoyers and RPG likers don’t overlap much. There’s some—I mean, I enjoyed it—but I don’t think the people who really got into XCOM or Slay the Spire were, by and large, up for doing bookclubs with Steve Rogers.
Then the messy post-launch support seemed to miss what was good about the game—an ill-advised seasonal pa…