NEC and Hudson’s last roll of the dice. The stories of the NEC’s PC-FX’s failure are legion. Following the successful PC Engine, the PC-FX was an entrant in the fifth-generation console race in the mid-’90s, and its failure led to NEC’s departure from the game console market as a direct participant. As a Japan-only console,…
The Drop store, purveyor of reasonably priced hardware collaborations and funky keycaps, will be closing down at the end of March. You’ll still be able to review your order history via the Drop site after the end of March, but it will be parent company Corsair taking on the retail reins. According to a recent…
Intel is making some eye-popping claims for its latest graphics driver release for Arc graphics. According to the official release notes, the Intel Core Ultra series 3—otherwise known as Panther Lake—benefits from a fully 35% uplift in Witcher 3 performance. Specifically, that’s 35% when running at 1080p High, which should be a pretty relevant setting…
Nvidia has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year, and they make for some pretty astounding figures. Total revenue for the quarter was reported as $68 billion, up 73% year-over-year, but the real headline news is the annual data center revenue: $193.7 billion. That’s a 68% increase year-over-year, and the sort…
The birds are shining, the trees are singing, the sun is swaying in the breeze: it’s the year 1999, and Baldur’s Gate has just got another patch. Everything is perfect, and nothing hurts. Wait, no, my mistake. It’s 2026, and everything is bad. Good news, though: the Baldur’s Gate patch thing is actually true. 14…
The Resident Evil Requiem release times are almost here, letting you play as Leon once again and utilise his arsenal of zombie-slaying weaponry (a roundhouse kick) to dismantle the living dead. This time you’ll also be playing as Grace, an FBI agent who gets roped into some mysterious occurrences in the surrounding area of Raccoon…
If you’ve previously slept on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and have a PC Game Pass subscription, then now is the time to play ‘Ubisoft’s best open world game in years’, as it is not just a highly polished and content-rich FPS that delivers buckets of intense action, but it is also the absolute best way…
Make sure you’ve redeemed those points. Tomorrow (27th February) is Pokémon Day, and this year, that means a lot of different things are happening. We’ve got the annual Pokémon Presents to look forward to. Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen will go live on the Switch eShop. And it’s launch day for LEGO’s first wave of Pokémon…
It’s been 10 years since Stardew Valley was released, which is hard to believe, but when you look back at the update log for the game as a whole. It certainly feels like we’ve been through a lot in that time. Going back to the original version makes you realise just how much has been…
If you’re wondering what happens when you cross a love of cars with a gaming PC, you get a full-on air duct inside a gaming PC. And it looks way better than I was expecting it to. Over on Reddit, user Esra-Zander shared their project to the Nvidia subreddit. In it, they attached a large…