Top-level overclocking pushes PC hardware into scenarios that it’s never expected to experience on a day-to-day basis. One exception is MSI’s new $5000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z graphics card, sporting two 600 W 12V-2×6 connectors, 40-phase VRMs, and even an option to use a special BIOS that pushes the card’s limit to a dizzy 2,500…

I’ve always stuck to cloth mouse pads, and given the few plastic hard pads I’ve tried have never gelled with me, I didn’t think I’d ever switch. But the QPAD Obsidian Glass has made me realise there’s a whole class of mouse pads out there that I was overlooking, and that’s glass ones. Of course,…

If videogames are about anything, it’s solving deep-rooted and overdetermined social problems by hitting them really hard and also sometimes magic. And few games have ever videogamed harder in that regard than Metaphor: ReFantazio, Atlus’ polychromatic RPG from 2024 that puts you in the shoes of a young man on a quest to defeat racism…

We’ve recently had a bonanza of Bethesda interviews to mark… well, it feels like they were all done to mark the end of Fallout season two, which is a bit odd. But nevertheless, among them is Game Informer’s excellent oral history of Fallout, in which the great and good from the studio reminisce about bringing…

Crimson Desert, the upcoming open-world action-adventure game made by the devs of the MMO Black Desert (don’t worry, it miraculously avoids non-preorder microtransactions at launch), isn’t an RPG. Despite having oodles of systems, gear, and a large map to explore that might make you think otherwise, the developers are steadfast in avoiding the loaded term….

While change is inevitable in the world of tech and the Internet, there’s usually a good reason behind the moves. However, when X explained why it reduced the number of themes users could choose, the reactions appear to suggest that not only is it not a good idea, but one that doesn’t make any sense…