PC Gaming
Sloclap has come to players, hat in hand, a grim expression on its face, and stated that—despite trying as hard as it could—it could not keep dolphin-flopping or levitating football players in its game. Alright, maybe I’m being overdramatic here—but I do find it funny that in the latest hotfix for Rematch, the studio’s gone…
Tragic news: despite steering Electronic Arts as CEO since 2013, Andrew Wilson hasn’t had a pay rise in the last three years. He’s scraping by on the same $1.3 million annual salary he’s had since fiscal year (FY) 2023 (when it was bumped up from the $1.29 million he earned as salary in FY2022). Times…
Anyone who is interested in realistic real-time graphics, be it in games or animation, will know that dense vegetation can be very costly on GPU resources. They either eat up lots of VRAM or shader time, or both. A team of university researchers and AMD staff have come up with a solution, though, that procedurally…
Remedy’s latest multiplayer shooter has… uh, not done particularly well for itself, if the Steam numbers are anything to go by. At the time of writing, the game has a 24-hour peak player count of 169 (no, I did not miss a digit) and a ‘mixed’ rating on Steam. Critically speaking, we gave it 60%…
We see the word Ultra fairly frequently on this website, often tied to graphics cards or other exciting pieces of PC hardware and used to denote improved performance. Here, it’s attached to something as prosaic as a USB SSD, and represents a reduction in something: size. The Ultra Compact is small. There are standard USB…
You know, I was pretty happy with the ending I got in Baldur’s Gate 3 in my (so far) only playthrough. Everything seemed to work out pretty well for everyone. But, and spoilers ahead folks, I guess I was wrong. The end I went with saw exiled Gith prince Orpheus freed from his dimensional time-prison,…
We happy few in the PC Gamer hardware team are big fans of Logitech’s MX Master ergonomic mouse, with its fantastic main wheel and secondary thumb one. So, when a handful of images for the next iteration of the long-running series popped up in an official database, we were The database in question is that…
Gosh, controllers are becoming complicated these days, aren’t they? It seems like it wasn’t that long ago that the majority of gaming controllers gave you a small smattering of face buttons, a couple of triggers, and the odd thumbstick to keep track of. Now, however, we’re starting to see premium options become the norm, covered…
The man forever fated to be known as the creator of Deus Ex would like you to know that he did not, in fact, create Deus Ex. Not single-handedly, anyway. In a video marking the 25th (oh my god) anniversary of the first Deus Ex, Warren Spector emerged from his hermitage to wish everyone a…
There’s one thing that budget-sector and massive-capacity SSDs have in common, and it’s the type of memory chips they use. They both commonly sport QLC NAND flash, which is great for price and storage, but not so hot for performance. Micron reckons it has the solution to this in the form of a new flash…