In news only nerds like me will care about (which is pretty much my raison d’être at this point), the world record for the highest 3DMark Port Royal score has been smashed. Shattered. Thrown into the mud. Soundly beaten. Okay, so it’s not by a huge amount over the previous record. But the new top…
PC gaming has a problem: high prices for a key component, due to an unforeseen surge of interest. We’re in the thick of it, with no light at the end of the tunnel just yet, as supply will take a very long time to catch up to the outsized demand. Wait, haven’t we been here…
It’s nearly here… Nintendo of America has uploaded a new Gameplay Showcase trailer for Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition on Switch 2, giving us a great look at what’s in store for next week’s launch on 28th August. It’s not a particularly lengthy trailer, but it does break down some of the basics. You can choose…
I love a good Arc Raiders map condition. Whether it be hunting for rubber ducks in Bird City, or trying to survive frozen temperatures in Cold Snap, each one offers up a much-needed revamp on what can sometimes be a stale selection of maps. The only problem is that some conditions can be pretty inaccessible….
Remember CD-ROMs? Those were the days, ey? You had to put a spinning disc in the front of your PC to install the games you physically bought and paid for. Actually, in the case of the Quake shareware CD-ROM, it was stuffed full of games you didn’t buy, too. That’s according to Fabien Sanglard, who’s…
Several of OpenAI’s models breached a cyber security testing environment last month, found their way onto the internet, and attacked Hugging Face servers in what is now apparently called the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident. And now OpenAI has revealed what it’s doing to help defend, err, itself. Defend itself from the kinds of attacks its own…
Plus, there’s new character DLC. There’s just no stopping Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, is there? Super Evil Megacorp has consistently released updates and DLC for this one since launch a couple of years ago, and today, the dev is finally bringing the main story to a close with a huge content drop. ‘The…
Summary The Sinking City 2 is available now on XBOX Series X|S. Sequel to 2019’s The Sinking City developed by Frogwares, it is a Lovecraftian survival horror game set in an otherworldly 1920s Arkham. Read how the developers expanded the open-world investigative foundation of the first game to encompass more exploration, combat and horror. Arkham…
Powerful enough for PS2 emulation, authentic enough for SNES. Over the past few years, retro handhelds have felt less and less retro. Powerful new chipsets and drivers have pushed Android handheld performance into PC handheld territory, with widescreen panels to match. The Retroid Pocket Nova ($244) is different. It combines the original vision for the…
It might not be as flashy as a new game or a GPU upgrade, but assuming you’ve not already migrated to Linux, improvements to Windows can mean improvements to our day-to-day quality of life. On that front, Microsoft has actually been making headway over the past few months, and has now set to improving a…