PC Gaming
Thief designer Randy Smith Evergreen, whose credits also include System Shock 2 and Dark Messiah: Might and Magic, thinks we need to chill out a bit when it comes to the graphics arms race. Specifically, he reckons the race should have stopped 16 years ago with Remedy’s original Alan Wake, which was quite a looker…
The Independent Workers of Great Britain union held a rally today in Glasgow, Scotland to mark the beginning of the final workplace tribunal hearing that will resolve the case of 31 former Rockstar employees who were fired by the company in October 2025. The dispute turns on the cause of the terminations, or lack thereof:…
Dual-mode is still not perfect in gaming monitors, but we are consistently getting the option for nearly no extra cost, and that is making it a mighty viable choice, especially if you are running a rig that can only sometimes run the native resolution. The option to flit from 1080p at double the refresh rate…
The new British Automotive Festival Series has begun in Forza Horizon 6, and that means some new regular challenges. This week’s Ito Treasure Hunt has you searching for a chest in a pretty hard-to-locate field, with few landmarks to gauge its location except a house in the background and a mountain. However, if you want…
For those who’ve been sleeping under a cool, mossy rock for the last while, TSMC is the biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world. You can imagine how well they’ve been doing as the AI industry races to build more and more data centres—but you also don’t need to imagine because the official numbers are in,…
According to niche mouse maker Finalmouse, its new hybrid mechanical-optical Starlight X mouse has faster clicks than any other it’s tested, including the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike. “At the centre of SLX is an entirely new TMR DS analogue click architecture…. The result is not simply the fastest click latency we’ve ever produced, SLX…
DLSS 5 has been a contentious ol’ bit of tech, but with it launching in NBA 2K27, it’s finally in actual games and not just in a ton of ReShade modded games. If, for some reason, you just really love the look, it turns out you can apply it to your entire desktop too, with…
I came to Onimusha: Way of the Sword for the sick samurai action, but I stayed for the surprisingly engaging, funny, and heartfelt storytelling. Musashi Miyamoto has made it into my top five all-time favourite protagonists, but the great character development doesn’t just stop with him: Shizuka Gozen, Dokyo, and Sasaki Ganryu all deserve their…
Blizzard Entertainment’s union—in conjunction with the Communications Workers of America (CWA)—has just signed a landmark contract with the studio to, among other things, force it to “discuss, evaluate, and bargain” any time it wants to introduce generative AI in the workplace. As explained on the CWA website, this contract has been in the works for…
At the back end of 2025, Nvidia secured its biggest ever deal, a $20 billion non-exclusive agreement with AI chip company Groq. Now, as reported by the New York Times, per “two people with knowledge of the inquiry”, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is probing to discover whether the deal was organised in a way…