The 6v6 vs 5v5 debate has been going on in Overwatch 2’s community ever since the FPS changed format a couple of years ago. The loud minority of the fanbase has been calling for Overwatch 2 to return to its 6v6 roots, a cry that was ignored for over a year until the game director…
Chances are that, like me, you’ve been unable to escape the chorus of ‘This is an Xbox.’ This insistent marketing campaign touts the cloud-based future Microsoft is striving for with Xbox, moving away from the console-based core of yore towards a platform that can play with almost any stage. Well, it’s time to add one…
The leash you could do. Cast your mind back to when you first opened your shiny new Nintendo Switch. After removing the individually wrapped controllers and clipping them onto the console itself, you delved into the box’s second layer of goodies to find the dock, the power cable… and a couple of plastic stick things….
One Elden Ring player who goes by chickensandwich420 decided to start the monumental task of taking on Messmer from Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree every single day with a new weapon and without getting hit until Elden Ring: Nightreign releases (via TheGamer). “Originally, I was gonna do different FromSoft bosses from all games (since,…
As epistemological endeavours go, the philosophical consideration of what, precisely, constitutes an actual PC monitor as opposed to a mere status screen is indeed a noble calling. Which presumably is why Corsair has cooked up this slightly silly new 14.5-inch display, the new Xeneon Edge—for the sheer intellectual giddiness of it all. Anyway, clocking in…
Tencent claims there’s been a “misunderstanding”. The US Department of Defense has officially added Chinese megacorp Tencent to the federal register of companies deemed to have ties to the Chinese military (thanks, Bloomberg). The addition to the list does not come with any specific sanctions for Tencent, though it may affect the company’s ability to…
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is releasing at the end of the month, January 31—and as someone with a vested interest in the first game, I’m downright excited. The series’ creator, Gareth Damian Martin, has found a way to bring the vibes of a smaller-scale indie TTRPG to a videogame not once, but twice now….
Goodbye rasterization, hello neural rendering. To complement the launch of the GeForce RTX 50-series at CES 2025, Nvidia has announced an updated RTX software kit for developers, with APIs for neural rendering—shaders, materials, and texture compression, and more performance in ray traced games. The tech won’t be in games just yet but at least we…
Well, when it comes to next-gen GPUs, AMD’s CES 2025 presentation let us know that the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT exist… and that’s about it. Unfortunately, we didn’t hear any mention of specs or pricing—no CU counts and no info about VRAM or bus widths. However, Asus was the first to announce graphics…
Has your PC been slowing down recently and you don’t know why? Well, if you have an Nvidia RTX card, you will be able to use its own AI tuneup tool next month. Announced in a press release, the software is called G-Assist and it will be coming to the Nvidia App at some point…