Bethesda steps in again to calm down hype around Starfield news next week, saying Todd Howard’s EA College Football 26 skills are his ‘only visionary power’

Starfield didn’t quite land as the next big Bethesda game—I mean, it did about as well as you’d expect from any game from the studio, but critical and community response hasn’t signposted the sort of longevity the developer might’ve come to expect from, say, Skyrim. Last week, its composer Inon Zur said that despite this…

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Nvidia’s very keen on you ‘catching the future of real-time rendering’ at this year’s GTC, though I suggest not waiting with bated breath for anything groundbreaking

Every year, Nvidia hosts a three-day event about all things graphics processor-y, called the GPU Technology Conference or GTC, for short. Originally aimed at rendering and GPGPU, the presentations, talks, and demonstrations are now all firmly in the AI camp. However, for 2026, PC gamers might have something to look forward to, because Nvidia says…

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Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini review

I was a little resistant to picking up the Pulsar X3 CrazyLight Mini because of the last part of its name: ‘Mini.’ My previous experience with a Mini mouse was with the X2H CrazyLight Mini, and that one did not gel well with my grip style at all. Although that was mostly because the ‘H’…

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The remastered collection of the first Tomb Raider games just got a controversial patch with some truly terrible-looking new outfits: ‘Lara deserves better than this’

It’s rare that a game as old as the venerable Tomb Raider gets an update, and you’d think it’d be cause for celebration. Not necessarily so with the newest patch that came to Tomb Raider I-III Remastered last Thursday, which came bearing a new challenge mode and 10 new outfits that, well, just have a…

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Abubakar Salim, Surgent Studios founder and Raised by Wolves star, gives us a guided tour of his PC: ‘My desktop is so bad that even my wife refuses to look at my screen’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “how tidy is your desktop?” and “what game will you never uninstall?” Abubakar Salim, actor and founder of Surgent Studios, first got…

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This indie dev is making a Mirror’s Edge-inspired freerunning game, complete with an in-game PDA that looks a lot like a PlayStation Portable

Mirror’s Edge is known primarily for two things these days: being extremely cool and not getting any new games. It has that in common with plenty of aging series under the EA banner, but indie developer Viridian Matters has said enough is enough and announced a full-on Mirror’s Edge-like of their own. Called Panline, the…

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