PC Gaming
Fighting Everdark Augur in Elden Ring Nightreign will be a big surprise to anyone who fought the much easier original version of the boss. Just like the previous Everdark Sovereigns, Maris is significantly harder now and hits like an absolute truck, not to mention that the boss has a whole new suite of enhanced attacks…
Gabe Newell, the co-founder of Valve Corporation and billionaire yacht-fancier, recently gave an interview to YouTuber Zalkar Saliev (TikTok, IG). The full interview covers things like Newell’s daily routine (“get up, work, go scuba diving“), as well as some amusing drive-bys on conventional Silicon Valley wisdom, such as why startups chasing VC money makes no…
It’s about time Razer launched a properly new version of its flagship esports-focused BlackShark gaming headset. After all, the BlackShark V2 launched five years ago and was one of my early PC Gamer reviews on my return to the fold back in 2020. As a card-carrying member of the HyperX Cloud Alpha fan club, I…
Artificial superintelligence, which is arguably a synonym for AGI or artificial general intelligence, is “now in sight.” So says no lesser an authority than his Royal Zuckness, Meta CEO and self-appointed soothsayer on the subject of synthetic thought, Mark Zuckerberg. El Zuck made his comment in an open letter posted on the Meta website and…
From powering watches to phones, handheld consoles to desktop PCs, office servers to data centers, processors can be found everywhere and in every size possible. That last aspect is set to take a gargantuan leap forward thanks to the world’s top chip manufacturer and its next generation of system-on-wafer packing. As reported by PC Watch,…
Hideo Kojima’s two great loves are scanning celebrities and just, like, saying things, man. He indulged the first of those to great effect in the making of Death Stranding 2, and now he’s hit the interview circuit to indulge the latter. Do you know he could kill you? Like literally murder you stone-dead? He’s a…
If there’s anything my sordid past spent reporting on console games has taught me, it’s that haptic feedback is pretty neat. Sharp Corporation appears to agree with me, announcing a glove-shaped solution for bringing similar tactile feedback to PC gaming and virtual reality. Though not every PlayStation 5 game leverages the DualSense’s haptic capabilities, the…
We called it a few weeks ago. And now it’s official. Nvidia will unleash one final major driver release for its Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta graphics architectures. And that’ll be it. In somewhat better news, Nvidia has also announced plans to keep releasing Windows 10 Game Ready Drivers for all RTX GPUs until October 2026,…
If you haven’t yet been sold on the idea of AI glasses, the short-sighted Mark Zuckerberg thinks you will be left behind if you don’t get yourself a pair. In Meta’s Q2 earnings call (via TechCrunch), CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg presented the figures for this quarter, alongside announcing where the profit will be going…
Budget or bust? (Image credit: Future) Andy Edser is a man with a mission. It’s a mission he didn’t sign up for, or even want, but I’m his boss so he has to do what I say. And I’m making him test a ton of different cheap tech I might find on Amazon, AliExpress, TikTok…