PC Gaming
Remember the days when high-refresh gaming meant taking out a new mortgage? Thankfully, they’re gone as the new AOC Gaming C27G4ZXE proves. This is a fully 280 Hz gaming monitor for well under $200. Hooray. Of course, at this price point something has to give. Actually, with the AOC Gaming C27G4ZXE, plenty has to give….
In surprising news to me, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman has a blog. And in among the ruminations on traditional blog-like topics like “What I Wish Someone Had Told Me” and “The Strength of Being Misunderstood”, he recently posted three observations on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and its potential uses for the human race….
The most commonly used tech phrase in the PC industry last year was ‘AI PC’ and, according to Intel at least, we were promised that such computers would “save people hours weekly through built-in artificial intelligence.” So far the interest in AI PCs has been somewhat muted so AMD has decided that the best way…
Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and a videogame failing to meet Square Enix’s sales targets. Last year saw Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 falling short of whatever number the publisher cooked up in suited-up boardrooms, and before that it said Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy undershot expectations, and called…
Videogames—RPGs in particular—just love to make us go for a wander with an NPC. Whether it’s the tiresome MMO mainstay of an escort quest, following an NPC to a bandit camp where their mate’s being held, or simply sauntering down a road having a chat, we are expected to give up a significant chunk of…
At CES 2025, Nvidia announced so many new things that it was somewhat hard to figure out just what was really worth paying attention to. While the likes of the RTX 5090 and its enormous price tag were grabbing all the headlines, one new piece of tech sat to one side with lots of promise…
Staying on the straight and narrow is a tough task in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2‘s medieval Bohemia. Henry is constantly tempted away from the honest path by violence, banditry, and a seemingly endless number of locked chests with all sorts of loot inside. This can make getting the best ending a real challenge. This isn’t…
It’s been confirmed for a while that the Final Fantasy 14, which reached its 10th year recently, has been a load-bearing game for Square Enix’s balance sheets. That was as per a fiscal report ending in March 2024 (the pre-Dawntrail times) that saw it making up 68.4% of its operating profits. This was then confirmed…
It’s my understanding that, for some reason, people keep making ARPGs. This befogs me. As a people, we really kind of hit the nail on the head with Diablo 1. Do we need more? More enemies? More loot? More graphics? Of course not. We only need more ways to play Diablo 1 on more and…
I’ve seen some wild and wacky PC cooling solutions in my time, but this one might beat them all: An RTX 4090 cooled with a household air conditioner. Chinese techtuber 电解碳酸钠 (which machine translates to “Electrolytic sodium carbonate”) has shown off the extreme cooling system in a video on Bilibili. The channel says that it’s…