PC Gaming
Before and after upscaling. Arguably, that’s the most critical dividing line in gaming graphics hardware of the past 20 years. And it was, of course, Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling that created that inflection point on release in 2019. But now it turns out DLSS went from an idea to a new feature announced to the public…
The Noctua NH-L12S is an impressive thing. Four heatpipes, a heatsink and a slender fan are all that is required to keep a modern processor running cool. Sure, it’s a little sticky with high-end 14th Gen processors—few air coolers are capable enough for those—but it’s ample cooling for a modern small form factor PC. And…
Testing new games to assess their performance across a range of gaming PCs is an interesting affair. Sometimes you get the highs of seeing some lovely graphics, all running quickly and smoothly, other times it’s day after day of frustration, dealing with crashes, stutters, and iffy coding. Every now and then, though, something comes my…
We’ve got a brand new hint for today’s Wordle ready to go, able to point your puzzle solving towards Tuesday’s winning word without spoiling all of your fun. Go wild with it; after all, the answer to the February 4 (1326) game’s here to save you if you need it. However you want to play,…
First reported by Eurogamer, a photo reportedly taken from production on the Fallout show’s second season reveals the return of a dear old friend from Fallout: New Vegas: The town of Novac’s Dinky the T-Rex, the giant dinosaur statue central to one of the game’s best companions and his first quest. Spoilers for Fallout season…
The US government is set to launch a massive, sweeping trade war against Canada, Mexico, and China tomorrow (although Mexico earlier today was given a one-month reprieve), which has the potential to throw international economies into chaos, destabilize world security, and make videogames more expensive. In response, the Entertainment Software Association, the trade group representing…
The website for PlatinumGames has undergone an unexpected change: A page that previously listed the studio’s game releases has been unceremoniously deleted, and with it some of the last remaining evidence of the Ultraman-inspired Project GG (via Eurogamer). As archived versions of the Platinum site show, it used to have a page titled “Games,” listing…
I can feel it poised to happen: Kingdom Come 2: Deliverance is gonna hit big on Steam tomorrow when it launches. It’s the perfect storm of largely great reviews (including ours), the appeal of a sprawling singleplayer RPG in an age of live-service games, and maybe even the rush to play and finish it before…
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord debuted in 1981 for the Apple II and very quickly became a hit, launching an acclaimed and influential series of RPGs that would persist throughout the 1980s and ’90s. A remake of that game dropped in 2024, and to our great surprise it was nominated for a Grammy…
Spirit Swap‘s candy-colored blocks might call Tetris to mind. Like Tetris blocks, they remain behind my eyelids when I close my eyes, bouncing up and down to a lo-fi beat. More than once I wished I could step through the screen to be immersed in those beats, with no responsibilities other than clearing the board….