PC Gaming

For years now, security researchers have been preparing to fight against cryptanalytic attacks from future quantum computers. But Microsoft has had to push up its timeline, as those attacks seem much closer than otherwise anticipated. As reported by Bleepingcomputer, Microsoft recently published a blog post informing users of its new deadline. Microsoft plans to accelerate…

The time has finally come for Xbox’s massive reset—in a statement on the official Xbox site today, recently-minted CEO Asha Sharma revealed the fate of several studios. I won’t be focusing on them in this article (although you can read the words of my fellow PCG writer Andy Chalk first, if you’d like). Instead I…

Today, Xbox announced what it calls “the most significant restructure in Xbox history”: Part of a larger downsizing at Microsoft that’s putting 4,800 employees out of work, the reorganization will eliminate 1,600 Xbox roles today, with the division aiming to reduce its headcount by 3,200 throughout the 2027 financial year. Alongside the layoffs, four game…

England, a country built on brick designed to retain heat, experienced a historic heatwave last month. Having experienced the blistering 37°C/98.6°F peak myself, there’s little I would not have done to escape that heat—even donning a silly-looking personal cooling wearable didn’t seem beyond the pail. Hardware channel Making Stuff with Mike is based in Denmark,…

Buying a good laptop is an intimidating affair, as you need to check the TGP of the discrete GPU (if it has one), the speeds of the SSD, and the generation and performance of the memory. The memory crisis (and the associated NAND shortage) means laptop makers are making even more compromises in their builds,…

The axe has fallen on Xbox, which announced another major round of layoffs that will see approximately 3,200 people put out of work, with 1,600 losing their jobs today and another 1,600 to follow over the course of the company’s fiscal year. Four studios—Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs—will also “leave Xbox…

The extent to which some will try to feign skill, whether it be cheating in games or in other activities, has always baffled me. Why can’t people just be ok with sucking at things? In this case I’m talking about Meccha Chameleon—you know, the casual fun game you’re meant to play with friends. It turns…

I think we can all agree, Warhammer 40k’s Inquisitors are cool customers. Once you put aside their whole shtick of being able to commit genocide on a whim, exterminatus-ing planets that have fallen to the predations of Chaos, they’re basically Witch Hunters hanging out in a moody and noir-ish sci-fi future. There’s a reason folks…

World of Warcraft‘s had another brush with a digital plague—on the Moon Guard US server, capital cities were overcome with waves of toxic activity that saw vitriol line the streets. But enough about trade chat—there was also a debuff spreading around and killing people. The incident occurred late last week, when Stormwind was suddenly assailed…

As a manufacturing hub, China sees plenty of unique hardware projects—like this gaming Megazord. But there’s plenty of innovation to be found beyond one-and-done projects like this. For instance, back when the US Department of Commerce restricted the export of Nvidia’s RTX 4090 cards, Chinese manufacturers got creative. The so-called RTX 4080M card was one…