PC Gaming
The more I look at the word ‘gripes’, the less it looks right. Nevertheless, we’re running through our PC gaming gripes all week. Since I’ve been building gaming PCs pretty much non-stop this year, I feel like I’ve got at least a few bones to pick with components and how they slot together. Before I…
Everdark Augur’s reign is about to be over (thank god for that), but as one falls, another must rise, and the next Nightlord getting the Everdark treatment in Elden Ring Nightreign is none other than the aura dragon herself, Caligo, Miasma of Night. “From a frozen haze, the winged terror emerges,” an official FromSoftware social…
Razer, the ‘lifestyle brand for gamers’ (don’t ask), has announced it is further committing to AI with the first of three AI hubs opening up around the world. First it’s Singapore, then Europe and the US. Announced on August 4, Razer’s Singapore-based AI hub is live, with the green-tinted tech company set to hire 150…
Desktop PCs have only been supporting the PCIe 5.0 interface for a couple of years, and the first PCIe 6.0 SSD appeared just last month, but progress waits for nobody. To that end, electronics consortium PCI-SIG has announced the specification goals for PCIe 8.0, proving that the relentless drive for doubling the data rate with…
I’ll be right up front about this, so strap in: the Audeze MM-100 is not for everyone. Nor, it must be said, is it designed to be. Audeze describes the planar magnetic drivers used here as “tuned for production-grade accuracy”, and it really isn’t kidding. But if pin-point audio precision is your goal, the Audeze…
Hey, do you play Steam? No, I don’t mean do you play games on Steam. I mean do you play Steam, the platform itself? Do you care about your profile level, your badges, the optimal allocation of your Steam Points? Probably not, unless your brain is broken in all the right places (I empathise), but…
Personally, I’d rather not feed all of my anxieties into a black box of AI modelling like ChatGPT—that’s what my therapist, private Discord server, and locked social media accounts are for. Joking aside, an alarming amount of folks are turning to LLMs rather than fellow humans when it comes to puzzling out personal problems. For…
Every time some new development in AI happens, I’m reminded of Psychonauts creator TIm Schafer’s words on the technology from a couple of years ago. Speaking on the potential for AI to replicate something that sounded like Mozart, he said: “I was like—wow, that’s a really impressive technical challenge, and it does sound like music,…
“The world of mousing around and keyboarding around and typing will feel as alien as it does to Gen Z to use DOS.” So says David Weston, Corporate Vice President of Enterprise and OS Security at Microsoft about the future of Windows. How so, exactly? AI, of course! Oh and FYI, unlimited compute thanks to…
I’ve been told that I play PowerWash Simulator like someone who hates themself. An entirely fair observation, as I have quite a meticulous approach to cleaning every map, working from the ground up and rotating around the objective until it’s entirely clean. “But Elie,” I hear you say, “that’s not efficient and it doesn’t make…