PC Gaming
Everyone loves a good rivalry, and Tekken fans have been eating good for a while thanks to Korean player (and long-time Tekken veteran) Knee, as well as Pakistani pro Arslan Ash, who bulldozed onto the scene in 2019 and has been dominating a whole host of fighting game tournaments since. Things between the two have…
James Bentley, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week: I’ve been finally testing out an RTX 50 series laptop, and have been thinking a little too much about upgrading my PC case. Okay, I know it’s strange to say that media keys have become an almost essential part of a gaming keyboard I’d use every…
Google DeepMind’s Genie 3 model slipped right by me, as my time away and under my comfy rock last week saw me oblivious to the company’s new AI ‘world model’. So excuse me for the somewhat delayed reaction to this, but hoo boy, have we come far with generative AI. Though as Google DeepMind CEO…
Alright, you’re going to have to bear with me, folks—maths has never been my strong point. Which is probably why I never understood quite why audio fades were so massively CPU-demanding, but thankfully, YouTuber LaurieWired has created an explainer video that I can almost follow. Almost. I mean, I can explain to you the rough…
Forget the game awards, forget our top 100 list, I know what you’re secretly interested in: my own personal trophy for The Most Specific Bug Fix in a MMO 2025, an award I promise you actually exists. It goes to Final Fantasy 14 which, as part of its most recent update, has announced this doozy….
Crimson Desert is one of those games that keeps falling out of the videogame filing cabinet in my brain, and then every so often I’ll remember it exists and say to myself “Hmm, I wonder what’s going on with that?” Turns out the answer to that right now is: another delay. Unfortunate. As reported by…
It feels inevitable that Google will eventually be forced spin off its Chrome web-browser and sell it to the highest bidder. There are just too many concerns over the influence Chrome has regarding Google’s stranglehold on web search. But the company’s hand has not yet been forced to do so, and you might not have…
Folk just want to kill troublesome monsters. Dragons. Dinosaurs. A horrific lava octopus. But in Monster Hunter Wilds, sating one’s bloodlust, in many cases, means putting up with some severe performance issues. Take a gander at the Steam page and you’ll see that, despite Title Update 2’s fixes, recent reviews sit at “Mostly Negative”. And…
“It’s not cheats”, says YouTuber Basically Homeless to his Counter-Strike 2 compatriots. “… It’s my muscles doing it.” This, as the app he has set up with enemy detection code ported from bona fide cheats stimulates the electrodes attached to his body. The shocks contract his muscles to move his crosshair in the direction of…
This year’s tradeshow schedule isn’t over just yet, so throw a little water in your face and make another cup of coffee. Gamescom 2025 is here to continue the videogame announcement gauntlet with its usual schedule of showcases, publisher livestreams, and previews from the show floor. I blinked and it was August, but I swear…