PC Gaming
Many readers will remember the furore over Spectre and Meltdown, security exploits that targeted CPUs from AMD and Intel, but they appear so frequently now that few announcements generally hit the headlines. When it comes to the same deal with GPUs, however, most people barely notice. But if you knew that your Intel GPU could…
Peak, the breakout hit climbing game whose wobbly scout characters you’ve probably seen tumbling down mountainsides on social media over the last few days, was a product of indie dev collaboration. It was created as a partnership between Another Crab’s Treasure developer Aggro Crab and Content Warning creators from Landfall, and according to the studio…
Ross Scott—also known as Accursed Farms on YouTube—has been fighting tooth and nail for almost a full year to help spearhead game preservation. Starting after it was announced that Ubisoft’s The Crew would be shutting down, permanently ending support for the game, Scott launched the “Stop Killing Games” initiative. As per a YouTube video (shared…
Contrary to numerous pessimistic prognostications over recent years, including by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Moore’s Law is very much alive and kicking. That’s the take-home according to a new roadmap from chip production research and engineering outfit IMEC. In fact, if IMEC’s roadmap is accurate, we already have a good idea how chip manufacturing is…
Your chosen Fortnite landing spot can make or break your game. If you drop in an isolated part of the map, your loot will lag behind other players in mid and late-round fights. But land in a busy zone and you’ll be forced to fight multiple enemies at once, meaning an early trip back to…
Here are the two things I enjoyed most about visiting Istanbul a few years ago. One: the comingling of millennia of history and a patchwork of cultures at the meeting point between Asia and Europe, a city that has more compacted history in a square metre than most places do in a square mile, an…
In a move that caught us somewhat off guard, Nvidia has just announced its series of GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs for laptops and desktop graphics cards. The former was certainly expected, and while the latter has been rumoured for a while, we had expected more of a heads-up about it. Anyway, so what have we…
Asus had a clean sweep of the most important categories in our best gaming laptop lineup of the last generation. The ROG Zephyrus G16 was the outright best machine we’d used, and the 2024 forerunner to this ROG Zephyrus G14 was the absolute best compact gaming laptop you could buy. With this new generation of…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, life moves pretty… no, wait, that was someone else… ah yeah, that was it: 14-inch laptops are my jam. They are the best form factor for a gaming laptop, being an actually portable scale for a normal human, yet still able to deliver a large enough…
Bad news: after over six years in development, Nightdive’s remaster of System Shock 2 has been hit by one last delay, for old times’ sake. Good news: since you’re reading about it on this website, it almost certainly doesn’t matter to you. System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster has been pushed back from June 26…