2025

The leadup to Marvel Rivals season 1 is well underway. We already know that the entire Fantastic 4 squad is coming in a Dracula-themed season called Eternal Night, but in a video published today, NetEase shared something arguably more significant: the details of its very first balancing patch. How NetEase plans to balance its popular…

For PC gamers, this is going to be CES 2025’s ‘big one’, the keynote that is going to deliver what we’ve all been waiting for: Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series Blackwell graphics card announcement. And I’m here, in-person, braving the queues, and the jet-lag, and the crowds, and the interminable waiting, to bring you our first…

AMD’s David McAfee and Frank Azor have explained RDNA 4’s absence from its CES press conference this year, and also spent a bit more time with us talking about its new “gamer-first” graphics card architecture. And that means making sure the cards are designed efficiently from both a performance-per-watt and manufacturing point of view. “We’ve…

In a cosy backstage chat, post-AMD CES keynote, David McAfee told us that everything you’ve heard about RDNA 4 performance is “completely inaccurate”. McAfee and fellow AMD exec, Frank Azor were explaining the absence of either new RX 9070 or RX 9070 XT graphics cards from the keynote, fielding our questions about the new GPUs,…

While others at PC Gamer have been extolling the virtues of their Steam Decks, I’ve held off on shelling out for a PC gaming handheld for one main reason: None of the gaming handhelds on the market are big enough to double as an impromptu charcuterie board. Luckily, at CES 2025, Acer just unveiled the…

Less than two years after its release, WWE 2K23 has been chokeslammed into oblivion: The game’s servers have been closed, meaning all online functionality, including online matches and Community Creations, will no longer work. 2K Games telegraphed the move back in September 2024, announcing that WWE 2K23 “is getting its final takedown” on January 26….

In a recent video on his YouTube channel, veteran RPG developer and project lead on the original Fallout, Tim Cain, offered a look at his collection of photos from the game’s development between 1994 and 1997. The photos are not only a fun time capsule of mid to late ’90s game development, but also show…

Intel recently launched the first discrete graphics card in the Battlemage generation, the Arc B580, late last year. It was generally well received, even though we had our qualms with its performance in a handful of titles in testing. Well, the good news is Intel is now feeling pretty good about its next GPU generation,…