PC Gaming
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…
As you make your way around Peak, you’ll come across a variety of items that give you no guidance toward what they actually do. Occasionally, you can make an educated guess, but a lot of the time these items leave you questioning how much use they will really be. Should you take up precious bag…
FromSoftware’s Dark Souls games have a unifying theme of great power leading to great corruption and decay—fallen kingdoms, ruined kings, and whatever the hell is going on with the Gaping Dragon. It’s fitting, then, that an Elden Ring Nightreign player obtained similar godhood before their own hubristic fall. As spotted (and translated) by Automaton, a…
Ever since Resident Evil 9 Requiem was teased at Summer Game Fest players, myself included, have been huffing copium in hopes that, despite everything we’ve seen, Capcom will bring Leon Kennedy back for this iconic return to Raccoon City. Koshi Nakanishi, director of Requiem, has stated multiple times that Grace Ashcroft will be the protagonist,…
Endless Legend 2‘s early access launch is fast approaching, but Amplitude still has some reveals hiding up its sleeve. Today we’ve got the news that the first game’s Broken Lords faction will be showing up in the sequel, playable once more, but now known as the Last Lords. These aristos fled their homeworld of Auriga…