PC Gaming
Spring has sprung, the grass is riz, and this is when the Future Games Show Spring Showcase is: March 20, at 1 pm PT/4 pm ET/8 pm GMT. Hosted by actors Jennifer English, the voice of Shadowheart in Baldur’s Gate 3, and Nolan North of Nathan Drake fame (yes, among a great many other things,…
To call the Nvidia RTX 50-series launch a disappointment would be a gross understatement, what with low stocks, high prices, and promised performance that’s only kind-of, maybe, if-you-squint-really-hard true. So it’s with a little reluctance that I’m bringing seemingly glad tidings of an RTX 50-series price reduction. Yes, the RTX 50-series cards have had a…
Gaming is often an exclusionary hobby. To begin with, if you’re not putting a hefty chunk of change down on a fresh AAA game, you’re somewhere in the eternal cycle of pondering a pricey PC upgrade. Besides the obvious expense, a lot of that kit is highly specialised too, with standard gamepads often presenting one…
At this point, I’m wondering if we should be asking our world leaders if there’s anything that can be done for our poor Silksong fans. Some kind of support program, maybe the memory-eraser from Men in Black—or a time machine so they can go to the year 9998, which was an (accidentally) projected release date…
Videogame workers throughout North America have launched a new union as part of the Communications Workers of America called “United Videogame Workers—CWA,” a “direct-join organization” that enables “artists, writers, designers, QA testers, programmers, freelancers and beyond to build worker power irrespective of studio and current job status.” UVW-CWA said in its announcement that the union’s…
Non plussed by PCI Express 5.0? Apathetic about its 6.0 successor? Then prepare to be even more underwhelmed by PCIe Express 7.0, which has just achieved ‘final draft’ status (via Overclock3D). In really simple terms, final draft status means that PCIe 7.0 is a done deal unless a member company of the PCI-SIG organisation responsible…
In the latest teaser for American Truck Simulator, SCS Software asks you to simply hear them out. More precisely, hear out the roughly thirty seconds of out-of-context engine revving followed by a mysterious tagline: “The future sounds a little bit different, right?” I’m not exactly a gearhead—I couldn’t tell you a carburetor from an alternator,…
In September last year I reported that Microsoft had started testing a virtual keyboard layout for controllers. This controller-oriented keyboard layout is now out of beta and launching in the latest Insider Release Preview build on Windows 11 24H2 Build 26100.3613. Microsoft says: “We have enabled the Gamepad keyboard layout for the touch keyboard in…
As a horrible person, I was delighted when I found out we were getting another Overboard game. Overboard was a delightfully nasty reverse-murder mystery, a timeloop adventure where each run began with you tossing your screaming husband off a cruise ship. You then had to cover up your crime by framing others, outsmarting a Poirot-wannabe,…
Pocketpair’s survival megahit Palworld received a new update earlier today. Titled the Crossplay Update, its main addition is, unsurprisingly, the ability to farm and shoot the game’s Pokémon-like “Pals” with players from all other platforms. But that’s hardly the only feature the Crossplay Update adds, with this headline addition followed by a flock of smaller…