James Archer
Hardware Editor at Rock Paper Shotgun
Rock Paper Shotgun hardware editor, catposter. Work email: [email protected]
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3 days ago |
rockpapershotgun.com | James Archer
Published on May 12, 2025 Steam Deck Academy brings together all our guides and explainers on getting the most out of your Steam Deck, no student loans or sweaty dormitories required. I couldn’t offer many Steam Deck-specific insights in my look at Doom: The Dark Ages’ PC performance last week, because a crashing issue was inconsiderately – dare I say, rudely – blocking me from even reaching the main menu.
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6 days ago |
rockpapershotgun.com | James Archer
I’m liking Doom: The Dark Ages more than local reviewist Nic does, possibly because spending most of 2024 remoulding my brain to learn Elden Ring has unduly engorged the part that appreciates a good parry-and-riposte. C'est la vie demons, and colleague. There is one issue that bothers me, though: why, of all the games on Bethesda’s production lines, was this chosen to be the next game that follows Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in making ray tracing effects compulsory?
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2 weeks ago |
rockpapershotgun.com | James Archer
Back in the decidedly less macabre context of a week ago, I played a few matches of Apex Legends' Season 25, which centres around new legend Sparrow. His debut is scheduled for May 6th, barely enough time for EA’s ink to dry on their mass laying-off of the people that made him (fifth most played game on Steam, y’know, maybe tells you something). He’s Space-Italian, has a folding bow on his arm, and - fittingly for how I feel about this game right now - is a massive bastard.
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2 weeks ago |
rockpapershotgun.com | James Archer
Proton, the compatibility software co-developed by Valve and CodeWeavers for helping Windows games run on Linux – and, thus, the foundation for the Steam Deck – is getting its first full version update in nearly a year. Proton 10.0 is now available in beta form, heralding compatibility fixes and improvements in enough games that I gave up bothering to do an accurate count. Loads, basically.
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2 weeks ago |
rockpapershotgun.com | James Archer
Nvidia have released the latest in an unusually frequent series of GeForce driver hotfixes, with the vast majority of identified issues affecting the newest RTX 50 graphics cards specifically. GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 576.26 targets various crashing and flickering problems with, among others, Black Myth: Wukong, Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2 – though it’s the growing regularity of these patch jobs that’s more disquieting than any particular instance of game breakage.
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True love is my Ukrainian-understanding wife agreeing to translate the mad scrawlings I find on walls on Stalker 2, and not telling me I'm an irredeemable loser nerd
Time for my biennial game review
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart Of Chornobyl is a captivating survival shooter, even with bits falling off. Our review - https://t.co/sXJJZnmiXr https://t.co/OtsbUI8vu6
