PC Gaming
General comfort, physical disabilities, health problems, airconditioner proximity, chance of dog love, potential snuggles, and ability to snack. This is the list of excuses that comes to mind whenever I realise I am once again gaming on the couch. For controller based games, this isn’t such an issue, but for keyboard and mouse based action…
It’s fair to say that Windows Recall has been one of Microsoft’s more controversial ideas in recent times. The AI-powered system routinely captures screenshots of your monitor’s output and stores them in an encrypted local database, allowing you to then search for apps, websites, or even document text and images. With its latest Windows 11…
If you’re dead-set on owning an Intel system and have a Core Ultra 200-series Arrow Lake processor in your sights, as well as a Mini-ITX case, then ASRock has not one, but three motherboards vying for your attention. The Phantom Gaming B860I Lightning Wi-Fi we’re looking at here is the middle of the three in…
Expensive motherboards are all very well, but if you just want a solid base for a decent PC, but still want a few cutting-edge features, then dipping below $200 can be risky. Features are cut from certain areas to lower the price tag, but with Intel and AMD’s mid-range chipset motherboards now a few months…
If you remember the days that you could pick up a relatively high-end motherboard for less than $250, you’re not alone, but even today there are one or two apparent good deals around that offer plenty of premium features and leave you with change from $200. The ASRock B860 Steel Legend Wi-Fi might lack overclocking…
Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, as the RPG sickos on the PC Gamer staff are to be believed, is an RPG that never quite got its time in the sun. While we rated it pretty highly, giving it a solid 88 in our review back in the day, low sales caused Obsidian no shortage of…
The sexiest game out there broke a new concurrent player record over the weekend. That’s right—Dune: Awakening broached the top 100 most-played games of all time on Steam, netting a peak concurrent player count of 189,333 players online on Sunday. That puts it at a happy 85 on SteamDB’s chart of most-played games, sandwiched between…
Disney Dreamlight Valley released its second DLC last year, The Storybook Vale. Unlike the first, A Rift in Time, the second DLC is being released in two parts, the first having rolled out in November, with the second due later this year. More specifically, this summer, with plans to round off the story alongside a…
When Larian Studios’ CEO Swen Vincke took the stage at The Game Awards to present Game of the Year he also relayed a bit of advice to other studios: Make a game that you want to play yourself, and your game will do well. Something that Daniel Knight, CEO of Kinetic Games and lead developer,…
An engineer toying around with ChatGPT found OpenAI’s apparently world-leading LLM getting a little bolshy about how it would do at chess. In fact, ChatGPT itself asked Citrix engineer Robert Caruso to set it up against a basic chess program to see “how quickly” it would win: and then proceeded to get battered by an…