PC Gaming
We’ve covered Intel’s purported plans to launch a bigger, badder version of its latest Battlemage GPU tech on several occasions. Mostly, those centred on a GPU codenamed G31 being spotted in Intel shipping manifests. Now, the very same G31 has popped up in the official MESA OpenGL drivers for Linux, and there’s even more reason…
Dune: Awakening’s PvP meta has evolved—on the sand-blasted lands of Arrakis, one weapon has been dominating all others. That weapon is ‘let’s repeatedly try and squish someone with our ornithopters like we’re the world’s most inefficient flock of seagulls fighting over a single chip’. As observed by Bombe18 on the game’s subreddit, vehicles in Dune:…
AI summaries are all up in our search engines these days, and I think it’s fair to say the response has been varied to date. The Wikipedia editor community, however, appears to have taken a strong stance on a recently proposed experiment by the Wikimedia Foundation to add AI-generated summaries at the top of Wiki…
Cities: Skylines 2’s latest patch includes a bunch of new fixes, and introduces actual quays and piers, which means players no longer need to play Frankenstein with their shoreline. “We’ve seen how you have used the cut-and-fill roads to create makeshift quays in your cities, but we also know how challenging they can be to…
Without the slightest fanfare, AMD has added a new “X3D” model with 3D V-Cache to its CPU lineup. Give it up, ladies and germs, for the new Ryzen 5 5500X3D (thanks to X user MEGAsizeGPU for spotting it). It’s a six-core, 12-thread chip with 96 MB of L3 cache memory, which makes it a hardware…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my 2020 MacBook Air is the best gaming laptop I’ve ever owned. Not because it can run anything I throw at it (it can’t) or because it’s some ungodly-powerful slab of RGB (it’s not). But it runs everything I want it to run—Infinity Engine RPGs, KOTOR…
Meant to be a direct competitor to the woefully under-staffed life sim genre—specifically, the Sims-like part of it—Inzoi’s a bit of a strange beast. While it landed to some solid sales figures, over a million in a week, and is enjoying a “mostly positive” overall review score on Steam, it’s also experienced a pretty sharp…
One of my favourite films is 1982’s Blade Runner, for more reasons than just its rain-slicked, retrofitted future, but the funky, chunky monitors certainly help. For obvious reasons, it’s a noticeable quirk of sci-fi flicks from this era—the enveloping Mother computer in 1979’s Alien a particularly memorable example. With an understandable hankering for that aged,…
It’s great that so many PlayStation games have come to PC in the last few years, letting me stack a heap of extra big-budget videogame junk food on my pile of shame. Welcome to the backlog, Horizon Zero Dawn. These games haven’t always set the Steam top sellers list on fire, however, sometimes thanks to…
There’s a clue for today’s Wordle waiting below, here to help you win. Take a peek whenever you like—it’s designed to give you great ideas and set you on the right path, not instantly give the game away, so make sure you use it if you feel yourself struggling. And of course the Jun 13…