Extreme behaviour calls for an extreme response. The Pokémon Company has issued a statement (thanks, Automaton) confirming that it is considering using government-issued ID to tackle scalping in the Trading Card Game community. Though it doesn’t outright refer to scalpers, The Pokémon Company says that it wishes to “provide all customers with fair and safe…
“A regional brand licensing agreement meant for the China market only”. A short while ago, eyebrows were raised when an $63 emulation handheld pre-loaded with ROMs appeared on AliExpress bearing Lenovo branding. The Hong Kong-based Lenovo is best known today as one of the world’s largest personal computer vendors, so it came as something of…
A security researcher going by the GitHub handle Nightmare-Eclipse disclosed a potentially nasty BitLocker bypass in Windows 11 earlier this month. Dubbed YellowKey, the exploit allows an attacker to read the contents of a BitLocker-encrypted drive by abusing standard behavior of the Windows Recovery Environment. Nightmare-Eclipse adds that, as far as their testing is concerned,…
Nvidia has just announced its financial results for the previous quarter, and as expected, things are going very well for the GPU behemoth. The company is almost entirely AI-focused these days—I know, tiny violins for us PC gamers—and in its earnings call, Nvidia EVP and CFO Colette Kress said that there’s still an awful lot…
World of Warcraft: Midnight seems inclined, like its past couple of expansions, to be less demanding of entry-level requirements for Mythic+ and high-end raiding—there’s more ways to gear up a character solo than ever via activities like Prey, and there’s no mandatory Torghast-esque chores to tick off or borrowed power item to grind out points…
The third thunder. One could be forgiven for thinking they missed an entry in this storied R-Type series of re-releases, but in fact the preceding R-Type Dimensions released in 2009 (and again as R-Type Dimensions EX in 2018) contained both the first two games in one package. R-Type III: The Third Lightning was first released…
‘Air Man ga Taosenai’ was originally released in 2007. McDonald’s Japan is teasing a new video game-related collaboration coming to its stores, and this time it seems to be based on Capcom’s Mega Man series (h/t: Rockman Corner). Last year, as you may remember, Capcom teamed up with McDonald’s Japan on a collaboration that saw…
In a move seemingly designed to make your erstwhile correspondent feel old, it seems AMD is rolling out a special edition of the trusty Ryzen 7 5800X3D gaming CPU to celebrate 10 years of the AM4 socket. Yup, 10 years. Spotted by X user momomo_us (via Tom’s Hardware), the chip has been listed at Indian…
This month, PC Gamer gets world-exclusive access to Witchfire, the killer dark fantasy RPG shooter from The Astronauts. After 10 years in development and multiple years in Early Access, Witchfire is now ready to begin its ministry, with version 1.0 of the game about to launch. And, with stellar user reviews on Steam already propelling…
Are you ok? I’ll never forget the first time I saw the original Fatal Fury in the flesh. My dad used to own a chain of video rental stores, and one of them had a bunch of arcade cabinets installed, presumably to keep kids busy while their parents picked out a movie. These were a…