The highs and lows of this week’s PC gaming
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Tom Senior: It’s a life of cards
Well, it’s still expensive, but I think upgrading from a GTX 970 to an RTX 2060 will give me a lot of extra performance. Our RTX 2060 review suggests that 60+ fps should be easily achievable in just about every game (except for the troublesome Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey). The card should also be future-proof for a while, as I don’t see myself upgrading to a 4K monitor anytime soon. While I don’t care about ray tracing, if I can get this card before it sells out everywhere, I’ll install Battlefield 5 and stick my face in some puddles. I’m more interested in seeing what it looks like in Remedy’s Control later this year.
This is not an automatic purchase. $350 for the 60-series is still a bit too much for me, especially considering the 6GB of VRAM. The question is, can I wait for other prices to drop? Total War and Anthem are coming, and I would very much like to see both games at their best, rather than spending the grand majority of the time just for the perks. The 1070 Ti with the extra 2GB of VRAM might be a better option, but that’s a bit of extra cash. decide, decide.
Fraser Brown: Paradox jailed
Paradox Interactive acquired Prison Architect this week, and while acquiring a game that’s a few years old isn’t very exciting, the publisher’s potential plans for future Architect games certainly piqued my interest . With Cities: Skylines and Surviving Mars, Paradox already has two of the better management games released recently, so I’m looking forward to seeing it in another series. While Introversion did everything they wanted, Paradox hinted that it has some plans to develop it further, maybe DLC?
In the meantime, I’m having fun speculating about a sequel. Starbase Architect comes to mind and it works well with Stellaris, but what more? Paradox doesn’t do much for the White Wolf license, so maybe a Camarilla prince needs to build a new castle? There you go – two licenses are processed in one game.
Tyler Wilde: My games are gifs
I knew about Gif Your Game from the occasional watermark I saw on my friend’s Rocket League goal clip, but for months I thought it was something I didn’t need. I already have a lot of video capture and gif maker tools. But I was wrong. GYG’s auto-capture feature makes it easier to share my best photos, which are often lost when I forget to save for playback. Never again will a beauty like this be held captive.
Gif Your Game is currently available for Rocket League, PUBG, League of Legends and Fortnite – here’s the official site if you want to try it out.
Samuel Roberts: Catherine the Great
Sega continued its surprise release pattern this week with Catherine Classic, the 2011 puzzle game from the creators of Persona. In the past few months alone, it joins Killer7 and Onimusha in making the leap from console to PC — and there’s reason to believe it’s not the only Atlus game. Will Persona 5 be next? I certainly hope so.
While it’s not a perfect puzzle game, it’s really fun as a life sim about relationships and deception – and for only $20/£15 if you’ve never played it before, You have a good reason to check it out.
Chris Livingston: Feather Armor
I’ve spent a lot of time in my garden meeting cute birds and buying them little hats this past week. Tiny Bird Garden Deluxe is exactly what I need to start the new year: a lovely, kind, stress-free experience. I start it up in the morning, put some species in the feeder, and check regularly during the day to see which cute birds are visiting and try to figure out which little hats they like best. No matter how busy my day in real life is, it’s always calm and peaceful in my virtual garden.
Bomore: Who won CES?
Both Nvidia and AMD had a blast at CES this year, with each company unveiling a new GPU that had us salivating. AMD is targeting the premium segment with the $699 Radeon VII, which aims to trade in with Nvidia’s RTX 2080. Meanwhile, Nvidia’s RTX 2060 is aimed at the new mid-to-high-end offering, offering better performance than the GTX 2070 Ti for just $350. So who is the winner here? we are. Competition is a good thing. As AMD moves into the premium segment, this puts Nvidia under competitive premium pricing pressure. At the same time, the RTX 2060 is very cost-effective. As long as cryptocurrencies don’t screw things up, we’ll see the start of a good year in graphics.
Joanna Nelius: More than just ray tracing
I’m starting to believe more in the power of the RTX 20 series. Granted, there aren’t that many ray traced games available yet, but these graphics cards aren’t just about ray tracing; streamers, video editors, and animators can all really benefit from Turing architecture. I’ve seen firsthand how RTX 20-series graphics cards can take this type of processing load off the CPU, allowing content on the screen to render faster. It’s like day and night. Bottlenecks can be a thing of the past. Will Turing architecture become the new gold standard? Only time will tell, but what I saw at CES looked promising.
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