PC Gaming
Wardogs, a 100-player milsim FPS that launched today in early access, is an immediate hit. It’s currently Steam’s global top seller and has so far peaked at over 300,000 players. Unfortunately, you might not be able to play it right now. Servers are getting slammed, players are stuck in the login queue, and as of…
With Electronic Arts now almost fully owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, a Bloomberg report says the wealth fund is now giving thought to merging it with the PIF’s other gaming crown jewel, Savvy Games Group. No decisions have been made at this point, according to the report, which also says that any potential…
Early access on Steam is a simple concept. You buy a game before it’s finished, provide bug reports and feedback to developers, and help shape a project’s direction and ambitions. Everybody wins: You get to play the game early, and developers earn money that helps them continue and finish their work. It’s been a boon…
Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen, whose credits also include System Shock 2 and Dark Messiah: Might and Magic, thinks we need to chill out a bit when it comes to the graphics arms race. Specifically, he reckons the race should have stopped 16 years ago with Remedy’s original Alan Wake, which was quite a looker…
The Independent Workers of Great Britain union held a rally today in Glasgow, Scotland to mark the beginning of the final workplace tribunal hearing that will resolve the case of 31 former Rockstar employees who were fired by the company in October 2025. The dispute turns on the cause of the terminations, or lack thereof:…
Dual-mode is still not perfect in gaming monitors, but we are consistently getting the option for nearly no extra cost, and that is making it a mighty viable choice, especially if you are running a rig that can only sometimes run the native resolution. The option to flit from 1080p at double the refresh rate…
The new British Automotive Festival Series has begun in Forza Horizon 6, and that means some new regular challenges. This week’s Ito Treasure Hunt has you searching for a chest in a pretty hard-to-locate field, with few landmarks to gauge its location except a house in the background and a mountain. However, if you want…
For those who’ve been sleeping under a cool, mossy rock for the last while, TSMC is the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world. You can imagine how well they’ve been doing as the AI industry races to build more and more data centres—but you also don’t need to imagine because the official numbers are in,…
According to niche mouse maker Finalmouse, its new hybrid mechanical-optical Starlight X mouse has faster clicks than any other it’s tested, including the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike. “At the centre of SLX is an entirely new TMR DS analogue click architecture…. The result is not simply the fastest click latency we’ve ever produced, SLX…
DLSS 5 has been a contentious ol’ bit of tech, but with it launching in NBA 2K27, it’s finally in actual games and not just in a ton of ReShade modded games. If, for some reason, you just really love the look, it turns out you can apply it to your entire desktop too, with…