Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This month I have been: endlessly testing stuff. It’s been a busy ol’ time either testing the performance of new games, the performance of new motherboards, or the performance of new CPUs. I’ve done so many benchmarks that I’m genuinely dreaming about them in my sleep. Help. Let…
After over 22 years of being in service, Skype will be finally closing down on May 5, this year. Its replacement? That’ll be Microsoft Teams, a much more business-oriented social app. As spotted by XDA, the latest Skype preview has a single line of code saying “Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available”….
Back in November we reported that Nvidia was planning to put an ARM CPU for the PC into production in 2025. Now it seems the chip, or at least some version of it, may have been spotted crunching very slowly through Geekbench. The chip on Geekbench is registered as the N1X, which aligns with rumours…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has taken to X to voice a common complaint in TYOL 2025: His company is “out of GPUs.” As someone who regularly trawls the listings looking for the best graphics card deals, I sympathise. They’re goshdarn hard to get hold of these days, aren’t they? Of course, Altman is referring to…
Last week, we asked you to set sail and share swashbuckling moments as a pirate in the game of your choice using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: call_me_xavii shares leaping into the action in Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii MrioMoreno5 shares a council of pirates in Return to Monkey Island. JLunarTraveler…
Collector’s edition also on the way. Limited Run Games has announced that WayForward’s 2005 GBA cult classic Sigma Star Saga is getting a re-release for Nintendo’s handheld. Sigma Star Story DX will feature an improved map, decreased random encounter rate, rebalanced EXP system, updated script, various bug fixes and other enhancements, according to the publisher….
Monster Hunter Wilds hasn’t been out for even a day yet, and already the character customisation is being manipulated in ways I didn’t expect so soon. It was only a matter of time before we saw recreations of characters from TV shows, other games, or even memes and pop culture icons like Ronald McDonald. As…
Inzoi director Hyungjun ‘Kjun’ Kim is gearing up for his game to be the first one to actually stand toe-to-toe with The Sims—not that he views his life sim as competition to EA’s own, mind you. Considering this is the first time in over two decades that we’re seeing something release that’s seemingly close to…
GTA 6 is somewhere, dimly, on the horizon, but Rockstar must be a bit worried it’s forgotten how to release a Grand Theft Auto game in the last 12 years (maybe with good reason). To get some practice in, the studio is finally releasing GTA 5’s next-gen update on PC next week on Tuesday, March…
As someone who writes for a living, having someone jumping into my Google Docs to make sure I haven’t written something too abhorrent. It’s admittedly one of my least favourite parts of the process—what do you mean someone else has to read and perceive the things I’ve written, what the hell—and the thought of even…