PC Gaming
Yes, the RTX 50-series is almost upon us. The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 will be available to purchase around the globe on January 30, 2025. On that date, the Founders Edition and MSRP-priced cards will be available for purchase, followed by all the other cards on January 31. No doubt a portion of you…
I dream of a cable-free gaming PC—no more tangles, zip-ties, velcro, or fiddly connectors. Alas, a life without cable management is a long way away. In the meantime, we do now have the means to at least hide some of those cables out of sight (and out of mind), and that’s exactly what I’ve gone…
Second-time leader of the free world Donald J. Trump is reportedly open to the idea of Elon Musk or Oracle head honcho Larry Ellison, among others, buying TikTok. But there’s a catch. In return for oiling the wheels of the deal, Trump thinks the US government should get half of TikTok. Bloomberg reports that President…
I’m not going to suggest you watch all seven hours of the livestream of the Excel World Championship Finals but, if you start watching, you’ll be treated to an exceptional creation: The Excel World Championship theme song. A kind of soft rock ballad that is AI-created but seems to be sung by an actual human,…
When Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was Steam Deck verified, I confess that I was immediately suspicious. Steam is now full of demanding games that are technically verified, despite the fact that the Deck simply can’t handle them without significant performance issues. We’re talking blurry messes that dip below 20 fps even…
Almost immediately after the launch of its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs in October 2024, Intel said it would work on producing firmware and software updates to improve its lacklustre performance. The likes of the Core Ultra 9 285K not only ran games slower than Raptor Lake chips, the previous generation of processors, but also worse…
The Nvidia RTX 5090 is the graphics card company’s big shiny new toy and, packed with 21,760 CUDA cores and taking up to 575 watts worth of power, it’s a bit of a beast. However, it’s also an expensive beast at $1,999, and that’s if you can even get your hands on one when it…
2023 was one hell of a tough year for game developers, with over 16,000 layoffs happening across the industry—but hey, at least things are improving, right? You are now permitted to imagine me laughing nervously and looking very, very tired. 2024 was no stranger to shutdowns and layoffs like, say, the Microsoft carnage at Activision…
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Sonic the Hedgehog 3 since I saw it in the cinema last month. The first two movies were good, sure, but the third movie’s treasure trove of Sonic Adventure 2 references—and the introduction of Keanu Reeves as Shadow, my favourite character—has cemented it as my favourite of…
The Brutalist, the Adrien Brody-led historical fiction epic currently in theatres, has cinema sickos like me frothing at the mouth. For a start, it’s already won three Golden Globes, and for another, The Brutalist is one of vanishingly few pictures to be shot entirely in VistaVision since the 1960s. Besides that though, this period piece…