2025

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a game obsessed with medieval history—specifically the history of Bohemia, a kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire that’s now part of modern Czechia. It’s an RPG that is fascinated by the social structures, clothing, architecture, weapons and culture of the time. Developer Warhorse has a full-time historian on the team…

Have you ever seen a water-cooled copper gaming PC before? If not, you’re in for a treat as an absolute beauty named “the boiler” has just been shown off by builder and retailer Billet Labs. And it’s for a good cause as its auction proceeds will be going to charity once it is sold. In…

Before and after upscaling. Arguably, that’s the most critical dividing line in gaming graphics hardware of the past 20 years. And it was, of course, Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling that created that inflection point on release in 2019. But now it turns out DLSS went from an idea to a new feature announced to the public…

The Noctua NH-L12S is an impressive thing. Four heatpipes, a heatsink and a slender fan are all that is required to keep a modern processor running cool. Sure, it’s a little sticky with high-end 14th Gen processors—few air coolers are capable enough for those—but it’s ample cooling for a modern small form factor PC. And…

Testing new games to assess their performance across a range of gaming PCs is an interesting affair. Sometimes you get the highs of seeing some lovely graphics, all running quickly and smoothly, other times it’s day after day of frustration, dealing with crashes, stutters, and iffy coding. Every now and then, though, something comes my…