PC Gaming
We’re entering a new era of gaming laptops, folks—and last year, it was Asus leading the charge. The ROG Zephyrus G16 scorched its way to the top of our best gaming laptop guide in 2024, thanks to its ultra-slim design, fabulous OLED screen, and excellent table manners. However, I’ve just spent some time with the…
We’ve got the answer to today’s Wordle ready to go if you need a hand—don’t worry about it, everyone has off days. And if you don’t, then we’ve still got plenty of ways to help you out. Our tips can give your puzzling solving routine a fresh angle, and our clue for the January 7…
If there’s one thing sure to draw the ire of PC enthusiasts, it’s proprietary parts. One of the great joys of our beloved hobby is upgrading an older machine with the newest components, but Alienware gaming PCs have previously featured non-standard sized motherboards, PSUs, and coolers that have made that process more painful than it…
When it comes to gaming performance, the build-up of dust can be a not-so-silent-killer. Enter HP’s Omen Max 16 gaming laptop, which not only promises a number of snazzy performance-enhancing features but also includes an omnidirectional fan purpose-built to shrug off the accumulation of dust. Here’s a short horror story for you: you’re minding your…
Nvidia has announced a slate of next-generation desktop graphics cards at CES 2025, but rather unusually, a whole raft of RTX 50-series mobile GPUs have received an announcement of their own at virtually the same time. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang started with an announcement the next-generation Nvidia desktop GPUs, before moving on to the mobile…
Nvidia has announced the RTX 50-series, codename Blackwell, at CES 2025. The new cards come with massive improvements to AI acceleration, with CEO Jensen Huang claiming “AI is coming home to GeForce”. CEO Huang announced the entire lineup at CES 2025, from the RTX 5090 to the RTX 5070. Let’s get right into prices: $1,999…
A Helldivers 2 film adaptation is in production, Sony announced at CES 2025 today. The collaboration between Sony Productions and Sony Pictures doesn’t have a release window or any other confirmed details, other than the fact that it’s happening. PlayStation Productions head Asad Qizilbash made the announcement during Sony’s CES press conference. And because what…
The idea that games should center “player choice” and react meaningfully to our decisions is repeated so often it’s become a cliche, and BioShock creator Ken Levine has been a leading figure in that department—his games are all about moral decisions and meta-commentary on free will and game design. In a recent interview with GamesIndustry.biz…
The leadup to Marvel Rivals season 1 is well underway. We already know that the entire Fantastic 4 squad is coming in a Dracula-themed season called Eternal Night, but in a video published today, NetEase shared something arguably more significant: the details of its very first balancing patch. How NetEase plans to balance its popular…
For PC gamers, this is going to be CES 2025’s ‘big one’, the keynote that is going to deliver what we’ve all been waiting for: Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series Blackwell graphics card announcement. And I’m here, in-person, braving the queues, and the jet-lag, and the crowds, and the interminable waiting, to bring you our first…