2026

Sometimes, a game needs time to age before we come to appreciate it—as is the case, Josh Sawyer, studio design director at Obsidian, claims of Fallout: New Vegas. Considered a cult classic, and potentially the best “modern” Fallout game (I put “modern” in air quotes there because it did come out 16 years ago. Sorry),…

I can think of nothing I would hate more than for someone to go rummaging through my PC once I’ve popped my clogs. Not that there’s anything particularly incriminating lurking within years of accumulated files, but there’s something that feels weirdly private about this hulking setup that takes up half of my tiny apartment, you…

Hardware Canucks has posted a performance preview of Qualcomm’s new second-gen Snapdragon X2 PC chip. And with the very heavy proviso that it’s a video sponsored by none other than Qualcomm, we can say that, well, it looks decent but not hugely exciting. The comparison here is a bit tricky given all the different possible…

Ask any long-term PC tech enthusiast or hardware journalist what they think about AMD, and you’ll probably be met with endless praise for its products and engineering know-how. Prod them for the negative aspects, and they’ll probably grumble about its marketing decisions, but perhaps that’s all set to change, as there’s a new bod in…

Just three weeks after its grand 1.0 launch and console release, Riot has slashed the 2XKO team in half. Around 80 employees are out of a job, some of whom have been around since the game’s beginning. Why? According to the developer’s own words, “As we expanded from PC to console, we saw consistent trends…

A hacking group reportedly based out of North Korea has come up with a “new tooling and AI-enabled social engineering” scam, according to Google, and it’s pretty complicated. Effectively, it uses a hacked account to send a Zoom link via a calendar invite to an uncompromised account. That version of Zoom is, in fact, a…

By the time I came to post my Mewgenics review, I had over 100 hours logged in the game—and I knew I still wasn’t completely done. Now, at about 115, I can at least see the light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to finishing off the main questline, but apparently I’ve…