PC Gaming
When it comes to gaming, Intel hasn’t held any kind of crown since it launched its range of Arrow Lake processors. With its 3D V-Cache desktop CPUs and all-conquering APUs, AMD has consistently been the brand to go for. However, a recent comparison of the new Ryzen Z2 Extreme against the Core Ultra 7 258V…
It’s no great shock that AI models scrape information from just about everywhere to train their data sets, but some users have been surprised to find their chats with ChatGPT turning up in Google searches. As Fast Company reports, “Nearly 4,500 conversations come up in results for the Google site search, though many don’t include…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wasn’t quite made by “just 30” people, as is often repeated—both Sandfall and Kepler credit contractors and additional studios for aid—but it is still much, much smaller than any big-budget studio, even with the full cavalry called in. And apparently, its director is keen to keep it that way. Speaking to…
As with most RPG players who grew up around The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, I am positively rabid for loot. Take literally any item, put a big number next to it, and you can bet I’ll stuff an impossible quantity of them into my knapsack before hauling my burden back to the nearest settlement to…
If there’s one gripe that I’ve had with Marvel Rivals since its launch, it’s that everything is overtuned, seemingly intentionally by NetEase. High DPS means you need high, consistent healing to counteract it. If you’re not bursting an enemy down in a nanosecond, chances are they’ll get to cover and be back to full health…
Four years ago, Microsoft launched Windows 11 SE, a version of its latest operating system for “web-first devices” sold exclusively to the education sector. The heavily restricted OS wasn’t especially popular with students and IT technicians, so they might breathe a sigh of relief that Microsoft has set October 2026 as its end-of-life date. They…
You know that Family Guy bit where Peter does a local news segment called “What Really Grinds My Gears?” This is basically that, but for computers and videogames. I’ll give you one example up front: when you go to click a button, but the UI finishes loading just before your input registers and the button…
Whenever I’m about to declare that this or that has gone down the drain, I pause and ask myself whether ‘things these days’ are really worse than they used to be, or if I’m just glazing over the problems of the past to justify the vein popping out of my forehead today. Usually I have…
It’s easy to get lightly obsessed with upgrading PC gaming hardware, but if Linux developer Linus Torvalds is still on an old card, maybe I don’t need that RTX 50-series GPU just yet. As spotted by Phoronix, Linus Torvalds is still rocking an AMD Radeon RX 580 GPU in their rig, alongside an Intel i9…
When Intel re-entered the gaming graphics card market in 2022, there was hope that, at long last, AMD and Nvidia would have some real competition in the world of GPUs. Alas, it was not to be, except in the entry-level sector, but one new company reckons it has the goodies to make RTX 50-series cards…