PC Gaming
Since we first started hearing about the game that would become Battlefield 6, EA has talked up its mission to recapture the “golden years” of Battlefields 3 and 4. While it’s definitely on track to do that after my four hours of playtime last week, what revved me up was how much BF6 reminds me…
In the latest episode of Nightdive Studios’ Deep Dive podcast, System Shock 2 artist and industry veteran Nate Wells shared stories of his time working on the PC gaming classic—including how he sourced an unlikely art asset for the structures built by nasty worm aliens, The Many. “This is a funny moment, I don’t know…
In 2022, quality assurance testers at Call of Duty studio Raven Software became the first union to organize at a major American games company as the Game Workers Alliance-CWA. Today, after three years of negotiation, GWA-CWA members voted to ratify their first contract between the union and Microsoft. According to a press release from the…
The Battlefield 6 open beta is imminent, and for the most part, it really is an open beta. EA is running the playtest for two weekends, but there are a handful of ways to get two days of early access. If you signed up for Battlefield Labs before July 31, you’ll automatically be granted access…
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but one fateful day in the recent past videogames collectively decided that instead of compiling shaders while we were playing a game, it’d compile them before we started playing the game. Gripes Week (Image credit: Future) We’re spending the week airing all our grievances with gaming and computing…
I join three standup meetings per week. On paper, these video calls are where we check in, discuss what we’re working on, and assign stories for the immediate future. In practice, it’s a thrice-weekly Sisyphean gauntlet for my audio configuration, during which I’ll frequently discover that Windows has lost track of what input and output…
McFarlane Toys’ upcoming addition to its line of Fallout action figures is an absolute whopper, a doozy, “The Big One:” A premium, $50 take on the elite NCR Ranger from New Vegas, complete with an arsenal of weapons out of the game. The figure is up for preorder now, and set to ship in Q4…
The slick fishtank system before you is the supremely effective sweet spot for a modern, high-end gaming PC. This Corsair Vengeance gaming PC isn’t packing in the absolute best hardware available right now, but it is rocking a CPU/GPU pairing that absolutely delivers on a bang-for-buck level. After all, not everyone can afford to spend…
Technologically speaking, America has been quite afraid of Chinese development for, well, ever, but there’s been a significant resurgence of this thought since the boom of AI in the last few years. After much deliberation and argumentation, Nvidia was finally cleared from US scrutiny to import its H20 chips into China recently, and this came…
I’m a big fan of little, cheap processors for gaming, so when Intel stealthily announced the specifications for its six-core, 12-thread Core Ultra 120/120F processors, I was really looking forward to seeing them on retailers’ shelves. Unfortunately, the first prices for them have just dropped, and Raptor Lake Regurgitated is anything but cheap, weighing in…