Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2020 i PC Gamer

In many ways, Dungeons & Dragons is the most significant ancestor of modern gaming. Levelling up, fighting monsters, exploring vast open worlds – Gary Gygax was doing it all in the 1970s with paper and pencils. Particularly for PC gamers, D&D will always evoke a sense of reverence. How could it not, with so many iconic adaptations? From Neverwinter Nights, to Icewind Dale, to Planescape: Torment. And, yes, Baldur’s Gate, now triumphantly returning with the RPG masters at Larian taking the reins. We’ve been out to see it, and it’s looking as magical as a 10d6 fireball. ROBIN VALENTINE Specialist in Attacks of opportunity Twitter @robinlvalentine This month Had nightmares about Mr Tentacle-Skull.…

HIGHS Epic Games Store Epic has announced that its free game giveaways will continue all through 2020. Counter-Strike CS: GO has seen record numbers of players flocking to it, breaking its record twice in as many weeks. Horizon: Zero Dawn PS4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn might be making the leap to PC, according to rumours. LOWS Overwatch League matches and other competitions have been postponed due to the coronavirus. System Shock 3 Layoffs at developer OtherSide Entertainment leave the future of the sequel in doubt. Delays Cyberpunk2077and Marvel’s Avengershave both been delayed until September.…

In the summer of 2019 a group of Olympians assembled in Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss development of the god-themed MOBA, Smite. The Olympians were players halfway through their year-long terms as council members, each there to represent player interests across Smite’s multiple modes, platforms, and community niches. The idea for using player councils originated with Smite’s sibling game Paladins in the run-up to the 2018 Hi-Rez Expo event. The Paladins team were focusing on quality and community, explains brand director Alex Cantatore. Their thinking was, “It would be great to actually just get [the community] involved in the decision-making process and give them early looks at the things that we’re doing and find out if this is something we should be doing.” There had also been a slight shift in…

The breakout star of the Resi 2remake was undoubtedly Mr X, the massive fedora-wearing mutant who relentlessly hunted Leon and Claire. But imagine if Mr X could jump, use weapons and choke you with slimy tentacles. You’ve just imagined Resident Evil 3’s Nemesis, whose meme-spawning predecessor seems a minor inconvenience in comparison. While the previous game was largely confined to the shadowy corridors of the Raccoon City Police Department, this remake takes the action to the streets. It’s a compelling change of scenery, with dark, claustrophobic alleyways opening up into big, open areas lit by neon signs. Set 24 hours before the events of Resident Evil 2, Jill Valentine is trapped in the city with the aforementioned Nemesis, a bio-weapon created to hunt down survivors of RPD special forces team…

There are many ways to swing a sword in Chivalry 2: a basic left mouse button swipe, alternate swings bound to side buttons, jabs and overhead strikes thrown with the mouse wheel, and a special attack bound to Q. There’s also a ‘yell’ key. For those moments when you need to yell. I didn’t want my time with Chivalry 2 to end. It was fun even as a sloppy newcomer to the medieval combat genre, but what got me excited was the sense that a person could get really, really good at swinging one of these swords around – that it’s grounded in physical techniques. Like its 2012 predecessor, and popular newcomer Mordhau, Chivalry 2 aims at delivering the full medieval battle experience. It’s about moshing with steel, swinging and…

This reborn RTS spins a yarn about a host of factions fighting over the course of several campaigns, and then again in multiplayer battles and skirmishes. But there’s also another conflict: the one between 2002 and 2020. There’s the classic original game with its elaborate faction design and clever RPG flourishes, and then there’s the ‘Reforged’ part. It’s an attempt to bring the game into the modern age, but one that feels half-hearted. This is not the remaster that Warcraft III deserves. It’s still the Warcraft III you remember, but it looks a bit nicer Blizzard hasn’t done a great job of communicating what Warcraft III: Reforged actually is. Initially, it sat somewhere between remaster and full-on remake. Not only was Blizzard going to add heaps of new art and…

On the face of things, this feels like the kind of game that should never have been made, an amalgamation of ideas and franchises that should barely occupy the same publishing house, let alone be drawn together in the same studio. But for all the ways in which Might & Magic: Chess Royale seems from afar like an affront to everything that lead to its eventual creation, it’s actually a refreshingly pared-down take on an emerging genre. The result is an autobattler that’s much faster than its competitors For the most part, Chess Royale lives pretty straightforwardly up to its title. Leaning heavily on the Might & Magic franchise to provide a little extra validity, it places a relatively unambitious autobattler (the genre birthed by the likes of Dota AutoChess…

No matter how intelligent or empathetic you are, it’s incredibly difficult – arguably impossible – to truly comprehend the enormity of the atrocities of Nazi Germany. Videogames usually seek to loosen your grip on the concept further, by saying little more than “go shoot every Nazi soldier you find in the face”. But this pigeonhole-defying game, while still fully failing to communicate the scale of events, opens your eyes somewhat wider in a very impressive way. The result is an incredibly affecting emotional journey through history. You and your small band of resistance members are German citizens; names, attributes and appearances randomly generated. The story begins with Hindenburg appointing Hitler chancellor in 1933, and runs right through until the aftermath of the war in 1946. Each turn represents a week…

If you’ve ever made small talk with a bee, you’ll know that they take their work awful seriously. Inquire about their leader, Jerry Seinfeld, or try to convert them to salted caramel, and they’ll just sit there, sticking their beaks in your flower bed. Well, if the bees get wind of Hive Time, I’m not sure how they’ll react. It’s a moderately involved simulation game that puts you in charge of a friendly bee hive. But it’s very tongue-in-cheek, and probably not entirely accurate to the hive experience. The early game is painfully slow, but the later game is a stress-fest You’re in control of a small hive that’s only just about ticking over. There are few workers buzzing about in search of nectar, while the queen sits on her…

Much like how you can tell a lot about a person from their shoes, it’s possible to glean information from the way a game handles its ladders. Stay with me. A game that lets you recklessly slide down suggests an underlying sense of mischievous fun. Conversely, if it could, I get the sense Hellbladewould explain to me in great detail how each rung of every ladder reminds Senua of some half-repressed trauma. It’s the action-adventure equivalent of being left with a religious aunt That’s an empty way of saying Hellblade, understandably, takes itself very seriously. It demands I listen when it talks. In some ways it’s the action-adventure equivalent of being left with a deeply religious aunt, albeit a rather exciting one daubed in woad. The opening does a thoughtful…

This “micro-adventure game” presents you with six bite-sized bits of paranormal investigation, each lasting around 40 minutes. That sounds short, but that’s the point – I love being able to dip in, complete a case, then come back another day. It’s a simple, dialogue-led adventure: the characters don’t even move, but I’m too busy enjoying the buffoonery of Officer Dooley to notice. And it’s a game that nods to so many other mediums that it looks like it has a nervous twitch. Thanks to its humour and episodic presentation, it’s like the video game adaptation of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace we never knew we needed. 78…

If you’ve ever had a nightmare about your hometown turning into something macabre and barely recognisable, that’s Gylt. The town is devoid of life. Abandoned cars litter the cracked and crumbling streets. Humanoid monsters with boils on their black skin wait for you around every corner. And you play as a little girl named Sally in this Stranger Things-esque world trying to save your cousin, Emily, from the creatures hell-bent on destroying her and you. Gyltis a Google Stadia exclusive that I’ve been chipping away at ever since I completed my review for the platform back in November. Google hasn’t said when it will offer free subscriptions to its service, so if you want to play it, you’ll have to pay the Stadia Pro monthly subscription fee plus the cost…

Liking Star Wars is like being the coveted child in a custody battle. My Last Jedi dad insists the things I love are bad for me and has replaced my Coke with kombucha. My Rise of Skywalker mum is responding by feeding me energy drinks until I resemble a taurinefattened mallard. I loathe them both. Can Fallen Order fix me? Not initially. It won’t launch on Steam, so I have to download it twice and try again with Origin open – the sort of frustrating false start that feels like trying to tear a new sheet on cheap toilet roll. It works eventually – I have no idea how – and Fallen Orderfinally gets off to the start I longed for. Stirring music, twisted metal structures, and soaring flybys all…

When I installed the Stardew Valley Expanded mod, I hadn’t played Stardew in several months. I’d yet to try the enormous ‘everything’ update that added a plethora of new items, crops, clothes and bug fixes. If I were to succinctly explain SVE’s level of quality: I didn’t know the difference between what had been added in the official update, and what was part of the mod. Stardew Valley Expanded, true to its name, does what a proper expansion can for any other game. It adds new characters, new locations, events, and feels like it could have been a part of Stardew Valley from the start. I start a new farm and, having apparently evaporated every ounce of creativity in my body, name it the Expanded farm. I’ll remember which is…

FOCAL POINT Each player has a maximum of 20 health points. Your Nexus is blue, your opponent’s is red. If either one depletes to zero – yeah, you guessed it – that competitor loses. ATTACKS VS DEFENCE During each round, one player attacks and the other defends, but both have the opportunity to play cards. The orange sword indicates the attacking phase. MANA TIME This number in blue shows your mana. A unit’s mana cost is indicated at the top-left, and any mana unspent can be saved and put towards spells.…

EVE ONLINE The players who form the Council of Stellar Management assist and advise CCP on the game’s development. DOTA 2 Icefrog, the lead developer of Dota 2, is believed to contact pro players to get their opinions on game balance. NIER: AUTOMATA Players can also take development into their own hands – here a fan-made patch fixed issues with the PC port. SUBNAUTICA Unknown Worlds’ Early Access success involved player access to the developer task board and more.…

If it were easy to make games about being a shark, I’d be able to name more than just Jaws Unleashed – a 2006 game Tripwire played as it figured out how to build its shark-based RPG. With the caveat that there isn’t much competition, Maneater may be the best shark action yet. Fish don’t talk, which makes storytelling difficult. To solve that, Maneateris framed as a reality show akin to Deadliest Catch, with actor Chris Parnell narrating your movements in the water, explaining your shark nature as you swim around devouring hapless beach-goers. You have a human nemesis, a shark hunter who’s the star of this reality show, as well as underwater enemies, apex predators who’ve muscled into your gulf territory. It’s time to restore some natural balance. Gobbling…

“OUR PILLAR HERE IS TO ALIGN TO THE LEGACY GAMES AS BEST WE CAN” Slayer!” Is there a voice clip I’ve heard more in my life than Halo’s gravelly announcer preparing me for combat? Maybe one of his other callouts: “Double kill.” “Triple kill.” “Overkill!” (OK, now I’m just bragging). If there’s anything truly and utterly timeless about Halo, it’s that voice playing over the warm blue sky and dusty fields of Blood Gulch. Halo: Combat Evolved, now released for TheMaster Chief Collection on PC, looks today exactly as it always has in my mind’s eye: the same as it was on chunky CRT TVs at splitscreen  LAN parties, the same as it was on the PCs in my high school 3D modelling class. My memory, of course, is wrong.…

Every fortnight, a visit to Sokpop’s Itch page – and, more recently, its Steam page – guarantees a new treat. Maybe you’ll drive through the rain to hunt down bounties in Blue Drifter, explore a pink sky castle in Labyrinth or spend an hour solving puzzles on Pear Quest’s little island. In two years, Sokpop has released more than 50 games, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Aran Koning, Ruben Naus, Tom van den Boogaart and Tijmen Tio met around five years ago when they started doing game jams together, including the popular Ludum Dare. When there wasn’t a formal one to go to, they’d just jam at home. Those events always came to an abrupt end, but they wanted to keep it going. The collective grew from…

Bernband An explore-’em-up set in a moody alien city, Bernband is a joy to get lost in. It’s a pure walking sim, in that it’s all you do. You can wander under flying cars, hit up a space nightclub, and experience a snapshot of alien life. The 2014 original is free, and a new one has been in development for a while. Simmiland Nurture a civilisation with your divine powers, represented as a deck of godly cards you build before each round. Your influence is indirect – you change the landscape and add objects to the environment, and your worshippers react accordingly. You can get through the whole of human history in an afternoon. Doler You’re a mouse trapped in a spooky, swampy maze, and your goal is to find…

I love strategy games. I love The Dark Crystal. But heading into this adaptation of the Netflix TV series, I was pretty sceptical of the idea of squishing the two together. It’s a pleasure to report that while Age of Resistance: Tactics never fully justifies the combo, it’s a far richer and more substantial game than you might expect. For those unfamiliar, the show (itself spun out from a 1982 cult movie) takes place in a strange fantasy world, represented primarily through puppetry and animatronics, where the peaceful Gelflings are oppressed by the parasitic Skeksis. The game loosely retells this story, with a few new diversions, though in a way jumbled and fleeting enough that anyone who hasn’t watched the series will be utterly lost. A JRPG-esque ‘jobs’ system allows…

When the Dragon Ball Z anime aired, the first arc lasted 39 episodes. Assuming every episode is around 22 minutes, that’s about 14 and a half hours until Vegeta is defeated. Dragon Ball Z: Kai cuts this down to 26 episodes, totalling nine and a half hours’ viewing time. In Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, you’re able to get through this first arc, including all the sub-stories, in about six hours. As a game, it understands what you’re here for – larger than life, planet-destroying battles – and doles them out in spades, with added RPG-style mechanics for a sense of growth and progress. Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot covers the four main arcs of the story The game’s story covers the four main arcs of the show – Saiyan, Frieza, Cell,…

Before the Web, there was Hypercard, a system for the Mac that used innovative hyperlinks to shunt users between content cards. These cards could have contained facts, contact details, or monochrome pictures – or they might have comprised a point and click adventure game. Without Hypercard there would be no Myst, and, probably, no Madness of the Coastal Structure, the latest from acclaimed interactive fiction author Porpentine. Built using the Hypercard Framework, Madnessis a text adventure that feels extremely early ’90s. It isn’t just the Hypercard stylings – which are crammed with beautiful pixel iconography – but also the setting, which brings to mind the classic Infocom adventures. The realm of Madnessisn’t a cohesive one. Centaurs rub shoulders with enchanted pop bands, strange machines and other oddities. It’s a game…

I feel like Ghostbusters: The Video Game is what seven-year-old me would have asked for from the Make A Wish foundation. The attention to detail is almost overwhelming. Proton packs jangle as you run. PKE meters bloop in exactly the right way. And somehow, a soundtrack from a 35-year-old movie is expertly retrofitted to a modern(ish) action game. I get misty eyed just hearing the menu music. But the most striking thing is still the characters. Murray oozes back into Venkman’s sleazy charm. Ray is relentlessly chipper. And Winston is inexplicably missing from the first hour, just as he was in the movie. It’s amusing, well written, and implemented in a way that rarely feels forced, although the new recruit could hardly be more generic if a team of CIA…

In The Sims, it’s usually an accident when your inhabitants end up being terrorised by a vengeful spirit. (That, or you’ve entombed the deceased’s ashes in a secret compartment so they can never find peace.) But in 2003’s Ghost Master, it’s precisely the point. It’s essentially a haunted puzzle game in which you have to scare people by tethering ghosts and ghouls to specific items or areas. The result feels like if James Wan produced a movie about the disappearance of Mortimer Goth. 70…

For many decades now we’ve been melting sand and making it think. The current photolithography process for making microchips, such as the CPU and GPU inside your PC, dates back to around 1977, and involves painting light-sensitive chemicals onto a wafer of silicon, then shining UV lasers through a mask so that they mark the chip’s pathways into the chemical, then a bath in something nasty that dissolves the top layer of silicon not protected by photoresist. The process has been evolving, but now it’s starting to reach the end of its useful life. Why? Because chip pathways are, if you believe the PR exhalations of chip manufacturers, now as small as 7nm across. They’re not, of course, as the nanometre measurements are more like marketing terms these days and…

From the very first moments, this largely text-based game puts me on the back foot. Superficially, it’s a game about managing a settlement in a fantasy land, making sure all of your citizens are safe, warm and well-fed. But almost immediately, it reveals itself to be much stranger than that implies. Before you even begin, you have to choose an origin story for your clan, picking from multiple options at different points in their history. These choices are largely baffling, steeped heavily in the game’s unique setting. I scrape together crumbs of lore as I go – gods are very real, their power can be invoked by physically reenacting old myths, but most of them are asleep I think? And my clan’s patron deity is the god of a specific…

This collected trilogy has had quite the journey to PC. The three included games were originally released in 2001, 2002 and 2004 as Japan-exclusive GBA titles. After success over there, they made their English debut in North America and Europe, launching on the Nintendo DS. From there the trilogy was once again ported to the Nintendo Wii and iOS in 2013 and then again onto the 3DS in 2014. The three games finally made their debut onto PC last year, bundled as the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy. The PC port lets new players experience the visual novel series for the first time, and allows fans to revisit the thrills of being back in the courtroom. Bouncing from console to console, you would think the trilogy would have been through…

SLAY THE SPIRE  megacrit.com A deck-building roguelike that starts tricky and somehow gets much harder. A single decision can unravel a run quickly, yet here I am steaming into my fifth attempt this session in hopes of ascending once more. Its four classes each feel unique, and I’ve experienced waves of favouritism with each. SPELUNKY  spelunkyworld.com This roguelike platformer is adorable yet deceptively difficult. Every run is different, and you can even go to Hell. The pug is easily the GOAT videogame dog depiction and that isn’t up for discussion! There are plenty of tricks to master: try looting the shop without using bombs or ropes. It’s… pretty hard. THE SIMS 4  ea.com/the-sims-4 Every play session of The Sims 4 ends with, “It can’t be that time already!”. This game…

The launch of Warcraft III: Reforged seemed like it was going to be an easy win for Blizzard – it had already remastered one beloved RTS, and people were ravenous for another strategy game set in Azeroth. Instead, it’s been hammered by negative user reviews and Blizzard is now offering no-questions-asked refunds. Poor communication, delayed and missing features, and changes to the end-user licence agreement (EULA) have overshadowed the launch – and that was pretty shaky in its own right too. THE ACTUAL CHANGES ENDED UP BEING QUITE A BIT MORE CONSERVATIVE Back in 2018, Warcraft III: Reforged was pitched as something between a remaster and remake, with new art, graphics, cutscenes, UI and even changes to the campaign. Blizzard showed off one of the new cutscenes at the time,…

Earlier versions of Amazon’s MMO nagged players with thirst and hunger, but now a sip of water just replenishes a little health. Not much is precious to this team: if it isn’t working it gets cut, or revised. The survival systems didn’t make it, but you can still camp and cook up buffs. New World’s action combat system is one of the few exceptions. Amazon is committed to making you physically connect swords and arrows with your targets – no clicking once and watching ‘X hits Y’ scroll by in the chat window. It’s impressive that hit-detection works as well as it seems to in 100-player battles. A few times an arrow or bullet whizzed by me because the shot threaded a gap in whatever animation I was in the…

In games, I’ve fought wars, escaped certain death and saved universes – but I don’t think I’ve ever been as stressed out as I am assembling a burger in Cook Serve Delicious 3. This cooking sim sequel puts the focus squarely on high-speed food preparation under pressure. A lot of pressure. In a near-future America torn apart by war, your goal is to… run a successful food truck. As you travel across the country, you have to set your menu and then (rapidly) get everything ready for your customers, tapping letters on your keyboard to correctly cook each dish. Different levels have different restrictions, forcing you to change up your offering by only allowing certain types of food, or requiring a minimum number of points (each dish being scored according…

Huddled alone in a corner near bomb site A, I knew I didn’t have a chance of sneaking in and planting the package strapped to my back. The defence had just wiped out the other four members of my team, and they knew the bomb was close. They’d be waiting to dome me as soon as I stepped around a corner. So instead I activated my ult, an ability I’d been charging up for half a dozen rounds. After a tense, vulnerable few seconds, I teleported clear across the map to bomb site B and armed the bomb, adrenaline pumping at the thought of pulling off a 1v4 upset. “Unloseable!” says League of Legends shoutcaster David ‘Phreak’ Turley, who was helping my team of journalists learn the basics of Valorant,…

WARTORN COVE Two valleys open out into a cove where a tank sits, waiting to dominate the map. CTF matches were full of heroic and foolish warthog runs, trickery with the teleporters, and hopeless assaults on that tank. NEW MOMBASA CLASSIC An at-the-time awe-inspiring recreation of Bungie’s 2003 E3 demo for Halo 2, turned into a multiplayer map. Vehicles could dominate the wide city streets, but the sewers made sneak attacks a thrill.…

Idon’t think I can stomach buying another booster pack after playing Legends of Runeterra. It’s a necessary part of physical card games where cards often have real-world value, but their prevalence in digital card games is just an excuse to sell the worst kind of lootboxes. It’s enough to make anyone cynical. But thanks to a generous reward system that avoids booster packs altogether, Legends of Runeterra is one card game that’s easy to love. You’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes at the thought of a free-to-play card game based on League of Legends. The card genre is full of these spin-offs. But Riot Games’ take is full of clever innovations and tense duels dictated by your skill rather than how much you spend. It keeps Runeterra feeling unpredictable…

1 RETRACE YOUR STEPS The highways morph, so go back the way you came and you might find yourself somewhere else. 2 LISTEN TO RADIO STATIC If you listen closely, you’ll be able to hear a ghostly voice in the static with helpful directions. 3 FEEL WHERE YOU WANT TO GO If you put your complete trust into the road, the road will certainly reward your loyalty. 4 LOOK OUT FOR GIANT  BIRDS They might not take you where you want to go but they will take you somewhere. That’s good!…

If reading sounds like too much hard work to you, then a book that also has the cheek to ask you to expend valuable snack-fetching energy on rolling dice would be positively insulting. But fear not! This adaptation of one of the most successful Fighting Fantasy books, a series co-created by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, is perfect for the lazy. It does almost everything for you, including proving that books and games are most definitely not interchangeable. Every word is read to you by Marsan as he sits in a comfy-looking chair This is not, strictly speaking, a videogame adaptation of the book Deathtrap Dungeon. With a few tiny tweaks, it isthe book Deathtrap Dungeon, albeit a version that allows you to pretend that you’re friends with the actor…

In those moments when your mind drifts away from whatever mundane reality you’ve put in front of it, do you ever imagine the stickmen in road signs coming to life, and having adventures? No, me either. But it’s to everyone’s benefit that somebody at Skookum has, because it provides a fine foundation for the studio’s debut. It might just have easily been adapted into a Pixar short: given sentience and agency over the other objects within the signs it occupies, a stick person breaks free from the confines of their painted prison and hops from sign to sign, from subway to street, from mild peril to slightly more pressing peril. Skookum’s clever about this unique way of presenting its puzzles That might not sound a deep enough well of creativity…

I’m sure every musician could do with an infinite practice room: a place to store, and of course play, every intriguing-looking instrument that comes along. Haunted Garage, as you’ve probably guessed, does just that, by giving you an endless white void in which you can stash a collection of fictional instruments. The absolute best part of this peculiar adventure game is playing with those devices, clicking on each to connect wires and flip switches and twist dials, to see what noises you can produce. They all play at the same tempo, and can be left alone once cajoled into life, creating an automated orchestra. You’re a scientist, a tinkerer. A kid in a toy shop, pushing all the buttons to see what happens. But that’s only half the story. Click…

Another ghostly title set in New York, The Blackwell Legacy was the second game from Unavowed’s Dave Gilbert, released back in 2006. Luckily, point-and-click games don’t age. The story holds up and most of the scenes have conflict and purpose. The stakes are clear for hero Rosa, who has to work with spectral guide Joey or risk being institutionalised. It’s a knowing adventure game: there’s even an animal puzzle that nods to Broken Sword’s wretched goat. Couple this with characters that feel relatable if not always likeable, and it’s a good alternative to the Ghostbusters approach to undead relations. 84…

Taking the plunge and investing in a mechanical keyboard can alter the whole feel of your PC. There’s nothing wrong with using a stock keyboard, but opting to upgrade one of the main ways you interact with your computer gives you a more personalised experience. Their signature feel is down to the mechanical switches, giving each one a little bit of tactile personality. There are some cool benefits to switching to mechanical too, even if you’re not primarily using your keyboard for gaming. First of all, they’re really strong on customisation, meaning you can choose the look and feel that suits your needs and works best for you. RBG lighting seems to be a given on PC hardware these days but there’s also the option to choose the type of…

1 CARBON NANOTUBE A single-walled carbon nanotube measures just one nanometre across. They are ten times as strong as regular carbon and also have great tensile strengthand thermal conductivity. 2 DNA MOLECULE A molecule of DNA is 2.5 nanometres across and about 5 centimetres long. If harnessed for data storage, a single gram could hold 1 zettabyte (9.7 billion terabytes) of data. 3 CPU TRANSISTOR On Intel’s 14nm process, the gap between transistor fins, and therefore between gates, is around 70nm. These have been used in Apple’s MacBooks and MacBook Pros. 4 HUMAN HAIR Ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 nanometres across, the human hair has no computing or data storage capabilities we know of. If it did, barbers would be raking it in.…

I am not a brave man. Where Escape From Tarkov’s battle-hardened veterans will actively look for a fight, I flinch at even the most distant sounding gunshots, scurrying from bush to bush and outright avoiding the most well-trafficked areas unless I absolutely have no choice. In the grand food chain of Escape From Tarkov, a hardcore mil-sim survival shooter about looting gear in a post-apocalyptic Russian city, I am not a bear or a tiger. I am a rat, feasting on the remains left behind by more skilled players. And I kind of like it that way. Though Escape From Tarkov has much in common with both survival games like DayZ and battle royales such as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, it manages to feel like some kind of mutant hybrid between the…

REGION LOCKED 1 All Legends of Runeterra cards come from one of six different regions: Noxus, Freljord, Demacia, Piltover & Zaun, the Shadow Isles, and Ionia. Each bestows certain characteristics, but you can only choose two region types in each deck. OLE, OLE, OLE 2 Your Champion cards are the most effective units in the game and you can have a maximum of six per deck. It helps to ensure that they’re synergised with the rest of your perks and that you can construct your deck around them. LEVEL, LEVEL 3 The Champions will be the some of the most potent cards in your deck, but even more so when you level them up. Read each one carefully to make sure you understand its upgrade requirements, and plan your match…