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Personally I quite like Age of Empires, Warcraft, and Stronghold games. I also like dinosaurs. So, naturally, I like the concept behind Dinolords, a recently announced fusion of medieval city-builder and action RPG with RTS combat and also, you know, dinosaurs. Set to release into Early Access in the first few months of 2025, Dinolords is developed by new studio Northplay and published by the publishing arm of Ghost Ship Games, the developer behind Deep Rock Galactic.

You’ll control a single hero character whose job is to establish a settlement, attract villagers, and have them take over gathering resources. You’ll then train specialists, establish infrastructure, and expand your town with an army to defend against the enemy’s conventional and dinosaur-using troops. You’ll also, o…

We reported on AMD’s latest graphics driver dump yesterday. AMD detailed a pretty exhaustive list of benefits and performance improvements with Adrenalin Edition Driver 23.2.1. Conspicuously missing were any claims of huge ray-tracing performance boosts of up to 40%.

Reportedly, however, that’s exactly what some owners of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs are experiencing. But there’s a catch. Thus far, it seems the really big boosts in performance relate to synthetic tests of ray-tracing performance.

By way of example, one Twitter user claimed a performance uplift from 27.84 fps to 38.17 fps in 3DMark’s DirectX Ray tracing feature set benchmark running on an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT. Another poster saw performance in the same benchmark increase from 31.51 fps to 42.58 fps on an R…

Honestly, it’s one of the best jobs in the world. I know I’m probably biased, but the chance to spend your days testing the latest PC gaming hardware and then getting to write about it for a dedicated audience of millions of like-minded enthusiasts… well, it was always a dream of mine.

And if that sounds like a career you’d want to pursue, then we want to hear from you. We’re recruiting for a new member of the dedicated PC Gamer Hardware team as a remote role within the US. That’s right, you get to stay at home. Or the coffee shop. Or, y’know, anywhere you can setup a test rig and benchmark hardware all day long.

You’ll be able to work to deadlines, and will be tackling news, attend events, write reviews, features, opinion pieces, buying guides, and cover deals. So I’m loo…

There’s a hint for today’s Wordle waiting just below if you’d like a helping hand with your daily game, as well as a selection of general tips designed to improve every guess you make, too. Need something a little more direct? I’ve got it covered. The answer to the October 2 (835) Wordle is never more than a quick click away.

I do love it when I get to kick off my Wordle week with a quick game, everything falling into the right places before I’ve even had a chance to rush off down all the wrong rabbit holes with far too many wasted guesses. With a bit of luck I’ll be able to say the same tomorrow—fingers crossed.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, October 2

Thinking of cheerful celebrations and happy feelings will help yo…

A Skyrim modder with the handle Jonx0r recently uploaded a proof-of concept mockup of Dark Souls 3’s starting area in the cutting edge Unreal Engine 5, presenting FromSoftware’s 2016 classic in a literal new light. The modder explained that they pursued this project as a way of learning the ins and outs of Epic’s new engine.

Epic’s Unreal Engine 5 middleware has some beefy graphical might backing it up, and like Unreal Engines 3 and 4 before it, looks poised to take over the games industry with developers like CD Projekt and Bioware jumping ship from in-house tech to adopt the new engine for future projects. We got a tantalizing first glimpse of its potential with the Matrix Awakens demo released alongside the 2021 Game Awards and finally brought to PC last April.

Unreal Eng…

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to PC Gamer that Halo’s franchise director, Frank O’Connor, has left Microsoft, telling us, “We thank Frank for his numerous contributions to the Halo franchise and wish him well going forward.” O’Connor’s departure was first reported over the weekend by Windows Central, who noticed that his LinkedIn had been updated to show him leaving Microsoft for a new role at an unspecified company.

O’Connor began working on Halo at Bungie in 2004, where he wrote the “Bungie Weekly Update,” a predecessor to the still-running Destiny bulletin “This Week at Bungie.” O’Connor left the company for Microsoft proper in 2008, after the release of Halo 3, where he held the senior role of franchise creative director, overseeing 343 Industries as well as other studios…