PC Gaming
As is always the case (pun intended) with Computex, we’ve seen a whole pile of PC cases this year. We’ve seen flashy custom builds and interesting mass-produced ones, but it doesn’t need to do anything super wild to catch the eye. Sometimes, it just needs to be big enough to fit absolutely everything in it….
Almost exactly a year ago, Persona 4’s seemingly inevitable remake broke cover for the first time at an Xbox Games Showcase. Well, sort of. There wasn’t much of it, you see. The trailer consisted mostly of the game’s protagonist running around a barren Inaba Shopping District, with the odd panning shot of other—equally depopulated—locations from…
With all-in-one liquid CPU coolers now so commonplace in gaming PCs, you might think there’s nothing left for manufacturers to innovate with. But if the concept device that Cooler Master showcased at Computex is anything to go by, then we’ll almost certainly see a raft of copy-cat designs on the market very soon, especially when…
Thermal Grizzly has some products in the works that will make any custom loop aficionado salivate. Though there’s one that stood out to me while visiting its Computex 2026 booth: an experimental direct-die block with diamonds under the cover. “So this block includes a diamond, industrial diamond, which is like exactly like what you see…
It’s not lost on me that Nvidia isn’t a primarily gaming-focused company anymore. On the off-chance you’ve been living under a cool mossy rock for the last few years, Nvidia were once primarily known for their powerful graphics cards, but are now very much all-in on AI. Why? Well, let me put it this way:…
Custom PCs aren’t often the most efficient or the most cost-effective, but they sure do look neat, and this gachapon-inspired build on the Computex show floor is no different. It has a big pink and white floating heart spinning on the top, and that’s not even the silliest (positive) thing about it. For the unaware,…
After a couple months in beta, an update to the Steam store has rolled out for all users. It adds new sections like a personalized release calendar, tweaks existing features like the “popular upcoming” list, and displays higher-resolution game art, among other things. In my experience, the default reaction when a piece of software or…
We might be years removed from the old “clicking on a placard for hours until an invisible timer decides to run out” method of Final Fantasy 14 housing yore, but that doesn’t mean securing your own abode in the critically-acclaimed MMORPG is a total walk in the park these days. The good news is that…
In a year marked by severe component price hikes and shortages, Valve is still determined to release Steam Machine and Steam Frame by the end of summer. The company confirmed as much as it announced the expansion of its Verified program, which goes into effect today despite neither Steam Machine or Steam Frame having a…
In Junes 20 years apart, PC Gamer was writing about monitors, and what you could get for $600-700. In 1996, that was a CRT with something in the 800×600 pixel range at 17 inches. “That’s not bad, but it isn’t exactly cheap, either,” we said at the time. In 2016, standards had changed a wee…