PC Gaming
At the start of this year, after YouTube inexplicably decided that I was not, in fact, a proud resident of Argentina, it shunted me off my alarmingly cheap YouTube Premium package back into its regular, un-premium offering. It’s terribly disruptive, which I imagine is the point: ads before I start a video, during a video,…
You’ve got to hand it to Ubisoft: despite Star Wars Outlaws’ rocky launch, it’s stuck with it doggedly, releasing a whole series of updates that have hugely improved the game’s performance, stability, and the core play experience. Here we are, nine months on from the original release, and it’s still going, with a new major…
Driver updates—yes, I know they’re not fun, but we’ve all got to do them. At the very least, they’re somewhat less nerve-wracking than a BIOS update; I know I really should do those more often, too, but the thought of something going awry part-way through just makes me queasy. Asus at least has a driver…
This time last summer, AMD’s venerable Ryzen 7 7800X3D was selling for about £320 here in the UK. Fast forward one year of events that—well, let’s not even get into them, we’ll only depress ourselves—but fast forward one year, and the same chip sells for £380. And that’s just here in the UK—over in the…
They call it the one-two punch. Yesterday, GSC popped its head up to say, hey, next week it’s gonna put out those original Stalker remasters it promised last year. Today, it’s popped its head up to say if that doesn’t satisfy you then it’s also got over 700 fixes for Stalker 2. Crucially, it has…
When everything is on fire—or at least distracting you by insisting it’s on fire—it’s hard to focus on any single blaze, but Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah has added to the list of worries for US citizens using the internet. Lee wants to criminalize online pornography, and while that’s alarming enough as is, his…
While all eyes are fixed on the entry-level and mid-range GPU market right now, thanks to impending announcements and launches, some folks in China are busy looking to the future. Namely, towards an RTX 5080 Super or RTX 5080 Ti. A moderator on Chinese site Baidu claims (via X user and prolific tech leaker harukaze5719)…
The creator of NaturalVision, the renowned GTA 5 visual overhaul mod series, reckons the crime sim’s Enhanced iteration on PC marks an “amazing opportunity” to further blur the lines between video games and realism. With NaturalVision Enhanced set to land today, May 15, Razed and his team are pushing GTA 5 further than they’ve ever…
Super Mario 64 is perhaps one of the most well-understood, picked-apart games in existence—a storied speedrun community with years of experience and inquisitions into the game’s code means that, every so often, you stumble across a piece of eldritch knowledge that has no impact on the world whatsoever, but is nonetheless true. For example, did…
The hosts for Future Games Show’s summer showcase have been revealed, and this year we can expect to see Laura Bailey and Matthew Mercer take the stage to guide us through a plethora of video game trailers, interviews, and news. Over 40 games will be featured in this year’s showcase too, so if you’ve been…