PC Gaming
No matter how smart you are, there’s always room for a little childish fun. Or an ominous threat to your rivals, one of the two. Ex-Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer interviewed the chief architect and designer of Windows NT, Dave Cutler, on his YouTube channel back in 2023, and I’ve just got around to the highlights…
For this week’s photo challenge in Forza Horizon 6, you need to take a photo of a Ferrari in Shikisai-no-Oka, a large flower field. The thing is, there’s not exactly a shortage of fields in Japan. To save you from having to scour the map like I did, here’s exactly where you need to go….
It’s the season of exotic Italian cars in Forza Horizon 6 Series 3, and this week, we’re being sent to find a treasure chest near a rocket in Nangan. While tracking down this iconic rocket isn’t hard, pinpointing the exact position of the Nangan region Treasure Hunt is a much harder task. Forza Horizon 6…
This month, PC Gamer delivers a kick-ass Duke Nukem special issue. On the landmark 30th anniversary of the now legendary Duke Nukem 3D, and the 15th anniversary of its more infamous follow-up, Duke Nukem Forever, PC Gamer speaks directly to many of the key people who made both games happen. Seriously, this is a must-read…
When shopping for extra devices for your rig, it can be tempting to go cheap. Especially for something as simple as, say, a USB hub. However, Dr Gough Lui of Dr Gough’s Techzone has torn a $5 AliExpress-sourced model apart to take a peek at the internals, and the results are pretty shocking. As the…
Software development, much like making a stew that’s a perfect umami bomb in every bite, is a tricky business. Every major commercial product is touched by many hands, and sometimes the chefs leave cardamom and bay leaves in the mix. Okay, perhaps I’ve overstretched the metaphor—what you need to know is that apparently Microsoft’s Secure…
Xbox’s 1,600 layoffs last week were brutal on the developers impacted, and will have uncertain ripples on the industry for years to come—however, a recent report from Game Developer states that the “reset” itself was chaotically implemented. Speaking with multiple sources, the report shares that employees across Xbox were “informed their jobs were being eliminated…
The life of a pirate is short and dangerous, full of adventures on the high seas, plundering galleons and sticking it to The Man. When you fire up a pirate-themed game, then, you might expect to do a lot of swashbuckling and looting (which should help take your mind off the fact that you’re riddled…
Every year, Call of Duty either tries to reinvent the wheel, or undo the reinvention it tried last time. With the upcoming Modern Warfare 4, it’s attempting the latter—Morgan has played MW4 multiplayer at Infinity Ward recently, and he’s not convinced it’s a leap forward, despite being confident it’ll be the best-playing Call of Duty…
ASML, the company that makes the semiconductor machines that every big Western chipmaker uses to make their chips, has “raised its guidance“—i.e., increased its predictions over how well it’s going to do—for the year. It says this is thanks to being able to keep up with customer demand coming from both memory and processor/accelerator chipmakers….