Yipee Ki-Ay. This year marks the anniversaries of several classic Namco games, including Galaga (45th), The Adventures of Valkyrie (40th), Genpei Touma Den (40th), Family Stadium (40th), and Time Crisis (30th), so to celebrate, Namco has just revealed a new initiative which it is calling NAMCO LEGENDARY 2026. NAMCO LEGENDARY 2026, according to the announcement,…
While AMD didn’t have much in the way of brand-new PC gaming hardware for Computex 2026—just a cut-down GPU, plus a last-gen X3D CPU and a last-last-gen one—it has at least reminded us of something important for many rig builders. Its current desktop processor socket will still be supported by new chip releases for at…
Noctua has announced a long-term partnership with Carbice, “a U.S.-based expert in vertically-aligned carbon nanotube thermal interface materials.” Noctua revealed during this year’s Computex that it will become the exclusive retail distributor of Carbice’s carbon nanotube thermal pads. A dedicated cooling pad for AMD Ryzen processors, the NT-CP1 AM5/4, will be the first Carbice product…
After being rumoured to do so for a few weeks now, AMD has confirmed it is indeed bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with AM4 10-year anniversary packaging, as well as a mid-range AM5 Ryzen 7 7700X3D chip. From the top, the 5800X3D originally launched in 2022, but the updated model (celebrating 10 years of…
Wizards of the Coast is returning to the Sword Coast, PC Gamer has learned. While Baldur’s Gate 4 is inevitable, ahead of that it looks like we’ll see the resurrection of BioWare’s original games—specifically Baldur’s Gate 2, though from what we’ve heard it’s likely both games are getting the ol’ remake treatment. Former BioWare developer…
Children of June. We’re on the cusp of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, although it looks like Nintendo and co. are giving Switch 2 owners plenty of excuses to stay inside and avoid the heatwaves. Square Enix is serving up a double helping with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and The Adventures of Elliot before Nintendo…
“I want fans who remember Utopia to feel like we’ve done it justice”. 33 Games is a new boutique publisher which aims to create physical collector’s editions of classic games – and it has already announced its first project, a re-release of Zool on the Mega Drive / Genesis. We can now exclusively reveal the…
I’m not exactly jazzed about our current AI moment, where machine learning major players seem to want to inject LLMs into everything. Well, during this year’s Computex, MSI unveiled the MEG Vision X2 AI⁺, a gaming desktop that features “a first-of-its-kind AI Holostage” built in. Excuse me while I attempt to contain my excitement. In…
The saga of TurtleWoW was perhaps inevitable—operating pretty brazenly under the nose of Blizzard, the World of Warcraft private server featured bespoke content for its own vision of the game, and advertised itself as an actual game might. It also featured in-game microtransactions, and while some private servers for other MMOs (like City of Heroes)…
With Computex 2026 in full swing, we’ve already been hit by many stark reminders that the memory crisis is upon us. None more so than AMD announcing the RX 9070 GRE, a less powerful (previously China-exclusive) version of the RX 9070 for the 9070’s original MSRP (the 9070 moves up to $619 after launch) The…