PC Gaming
What would you say is the definitive soundtrack to your youth? Is it a favourite album? Or perhaps the ambient sounds of summer, like bicycle wheels rolling over or a chorus of cicadas? For me, it is undoubtedly the nostalgic scream of a dial-up modem. Strap 12 of those bad boys together, and you’ve really…
The “announcement of an announcement” has become an aggravating marketing trend in recent years, but this is the first one to actually get me excited: Summer Eternal, the embattled RPG studio and worker collective co-founded by former ZA/UM writers Argo Tuulik and Dora Klindžić, will offer the first details of its first game not through…
Perhaps the most surprising part of Yakuza Kiwami 3’s announcement had nothing to do with Yakuza Kiwami 3. It was when Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio announced that, in addition to an up-rezzed redo of the third Yakuza, it was going to release an entire bonus Gaiden game as well: Dark Ties, starring Y3 bad guy…
Borderlands 4 has a ton of possible builds to choose from—it’s one of the strengths I highlighted in my Borderlands 4 review—but I do have one teensy-tiny complaint, and it’s that I would like some of the tooltips to be a smidge more straightforward about what is what. This feeling has returned full-force after seeing…
Just last week, we saw the announcement of Snapdragon’s next range of chips, and this came with lofty claims. Qualcomm called it “Snapdragon’s biggest advance in PC gaming”, promising significantly more power per watt than Strix Point and Arrow Lake, as well as better GPU efficiency than Lunar Lake. Tom’s Hardware was invited out to…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is true of many long-running franchises, but nowhere is it more obvious than in EA FC. EA Sports FC 26, though, feels like a game finally willing to back up its yearly price tag. It doesn’t rip everything up, but a series of smart…
We’ve been getting drip-fed Resident Evil Requiem information for a few months now, culminating in numerous Leon-centric fan theories, some absolutely terrifying hands-on sessions, and a better look into our new protagonist, Grace Ashcroft. The latest crumb being a new story trailer shown at TGS over the weekend. Like most of the content that’s come…
Borderlands 4 has some pretty shabby UI, from its clunky inventory to lots of visual clutter, but the Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode unlock challenges take the cake. UVHM is an endgame feature that cranks up the difficulty, and despite it being the main goal once you beat the campaign, there’s no clear path to progress…
Think fast, hotshot: after spending three years lovingly crafting July’s 0.49 update, which dramatically buffed up its capacity to handle all-powerful lua modding, the crew at OpenMW have already turned around and put out their first candidate for its 0.50 release. In mod project timelines, this is basically a nanosecond turnaround. If you’re not familiar,…
Bath is a beautiful city in the UK. Unfortunately, as a hardware writer renting creaky, drafty, listed buildings dating from the Georgian period, that beauty does not really translate into decent internet speeds. At the very least, the latest Windows 11 preview build offers one small feature that might make my life slightly easier. Rolling…