PC Gaming
Acer has announced a slew of new gaming monitors for CES, including a 57-inch dual-4K monster. Other models include 34-inch and 39-inch OLEDs, plus a 34-inch mini-LED panel. But let’s kick off with the beast, the Acer Predator Z57. Acer isn’t saying it, but we very much suspect this is based on the very same…
Ray tracing is coming to Diablo 4 this March. Announced during Nvidia’s CES 2024 Special Address, the update will offer ray-traced reflections and shadows to better show off the carnage you leave in your wake. You can check out a brief teaser trailer for the ray tracing update in the clip embedded above. I’m just…
Valve’s omnipresent games platform Steam has started off 2024 with a bang, registering both its highest-ever number of concurrent users and also its highest-ever number of users actively playing a game. Over the last weekend 33,675,229 concurrent users were logged-in to Steam, which beats the previous record of 33,598,520 set in March 2023. During roughly…
As power requirements grow ever higher for powerful gaming components, so too does the wattage of the PSUs built to feed them. However, more power often means more heat, more fans, and potentially more distracting fan noise. Cooler Master seems keen to buck that trend with the announcement of its X Silent family of PSUs,…
They’ve been announced, we’ve got a couple of them in-hand and humming away in the test rig as I type, and the new RTX 40-series Super cards will all be available for us to buy by the end of the month. But as much as the Ada refresh is welcome, it’s hard not to see…
Over at CES 2024 I was handed a couple hours to do with as I pleased with an MSI Prestige 16 laptop. On the surface, that might not sound too exciting for a PC gamer, as the Prestige line isn’t explicitly built for gaming, but this laptop had inside it Intel’s latest Core Ultra 165H…
Handheld gaming PCs have quite specific needs, when it comes to storage. It needs to be very compact, with low power consumption, but offer fast transfers at the same time. SSD controller wizards Phison has launched three new chips at this year’s CES event and one of them is the perfect match for SSDs designed…
Game developer veterans from RPG companies like Obsidian and Bioware say that the temporary death of the CRPG in the early 2000s was down to retailer meddling, as outlined in a series of tweets made just before the holidays. As spotted by GamesRadar, a conversation between Nathaniel Chapman and Josh Sawyer began to discuss the…
We originally reported on Nvidia’s RTX Remix modding platform back in September 2022 and, at last, Nvidia says the full creator toolkit is being released on January 22 in open beta form. This raises the prospect of a whole slew of legacy games being updated with ray-traced visuals, AI enhanced textures, and more. In April…
CES 2024 is finally here and the hardware announcements are beginning to roll in thick and fast. However, even if you’re not in the market for some new tech, those of you of a streaming persuasion and an Nvidia GPU may have some reason to celebrate today, as the company announced a raft of streaming…