Just yesterday, Epic Games announced that it had laid off more than 1,000 employees from across the company, as well as cutting over $500 million in contracting, marketing, and closing job posts. According to CEO Tim Sweeney, Epic is still “spending significantly more than [it’s] making,” despite the company running one of the most popular…
I can’t have been the only one intrigued by the prospect of Ayaneo’s Next 2 handheld, a Strix Halo-powered machine with a whopping 115 Wh battery, twin NVMe drives, a whole host of high-capacity memory configurations, and the sort of specs sheet that would make many gaming laptops tremble in their boots. Well, the company…
Category: Games March 25, 2026 Project Motor Racing Update 2.0 Resets the Grid with Major Improvements Steve Lloyd-Jones, Scrum Master at Straight4 Studios Summary Project Motor Racing Patch 2.0 is available now on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC, bringing a major overhaul to the racing simulation experience. The update introduces a redesigned UI,…
“We are only temporarily suspending pre-orders”. AYANEO has become one of the world’s leading creators of Windows and Android-based gaming handhelds, and its products are firm favourites among people who want to remain at the cutting edge of vintage emulation – so the announcement of the NEXT 2 was met with plenty of anticipation. The…
Working out how to dispatch the Howling Hill expansion in Crimson Desert is rather tricky. For the longest time, I didn’t even realise you could inspect areas on the map, revealing mission lists that you can undertake with your Greymane Freeswords—it’s especially unclear on mouse and keyboard. You’ll finally have to come to grips with…
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 hit the gaming public to much controversy—including from us here at PC Gamer. In one corner, you’ve got folks who are just seeing it as a very fancy filter analogous to AI upscaling, in the other, you’ve got Instagram filter Grace Ashcroft trotted out as a proud advancement of technology rather than…
Primate Labs, the company behind Geekbench, has announced that it will be attaching a warning to benchmark results produced by Intel’s new Arrow Lake Plus CPUs. The benchmark specialist says that Intel’s new BOT tool, which only runs on the freshly-launched chips, as well as Panther Lake parts, “can boost Geekbench 6 scores by up…
Living the demo. A demo version of the upcoming Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has dropped on the eShop this morning, following previews going live yesterday. The free demo is dubbed ‘Tomodachi: Living the Dream – Welcome Version’ and is downloadable right now if you’re after a taster of the quirky sim game that’s coming…
“What the f**k are you talking about, Linda”. The handheld gaming industry has been a thing since the 1970s, when companies like Mattel and Waco experimented with crude electronic devices to create on-the-go entertainment. Later, Nintendo would evolve the concept with its Game & Watch series before revolutionising things with the incredibly popular Game Boy…
Now with added Pikmin. After almost 20 years of ‘New’ games, 2D Mario was in desperate need of a shakeup, and in 2023, Super Mario Bros. Wonder did just that. Equal parts throwback to the glory days of the SNES and something entirely fresh, the platformer was a delight from start to finish, and while…