PC Gaming
As we know all too well at this point, Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki freaking loves a poison swamp. They’ve become a staple of FromSoftware’s environments, a lovely poisonous debuff enveloping you while scraggly little creatures try to chip away at your health even further. Back in 2022, he said he “rediscovered” his love for…
There was a bit of a buzz when a new class of 27-inch 4K gaming OLED monitors emerged from a flurry of press releases around CES this year. Personally, I struggled to get fired up for reasons we’ll come to shortly. But the new MSI MPG 272URX has landed on my desk, so it’s time…
Some people look at a 3D printer and think “this will make useful parts for my projects.” Some people hear an air raid siren, and assume there must be an historical war re-enactment taking place nearby. I am the third type of person, who hears a 3D-printed air raid siren and experiences a flash forward…
Is Arm planning to make its own chips and not just sell rights to its IP and CPU designs to other companies? So says the FT in what would be a hugely disruptive development, if true. In fact, the FT claims Arm could unveil its first in-house processor as early as this summer with future…
How much do you really, truly care about latency and motion fluidity? The AOC Agon Pro AG276FK is hoping it’s a lot. Because this 520 Hz gaming monitor costs plenty, but it only gives you 1080p resolution. US pricing has yet to emerge. But the AOC Agon Pro AG276FK is about £500 in the UK,…
Being, as I am, a fashionable man with his finger on the pulse, interested in only the latest and greatest that the videogame world has to offer, the game I’m probably most excited about this year is System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition. That’s Nightdive’s remaster (not remake, let’s be clear) of the original 1999 classic,…
This weekend’s Elden Ring Nightreign network test may not include us PC players, but that won’t stop me from watching from the sidelines with a bucket of popcorn while the servers proverbially burn. And also, you know, installing the thing on my own PlayStation 5 to give things a whirl, only to find myself totally…
Sometimes, in this topsy-turvy PC hardware world of ours, a rumour turns up that really makes us scratch our heads. This week, it was rumblings about a 32 GB variant of AMD’s upcoming RDNA 4 graphics card, the RX 9070 XT. You can rest easy in your beds tonight, though, because AMD’s Frank Azor has…
Good news for fans of amassing huge numbers of PDFs they’ll never read on an external hard drive (me): Humble Bundle has a load more to sell you at a relatively negotiable price. The Pathfinder Kingmaker Bundle contains 53—count ’em—separate bits of Pathfinder Kingmaker TTRPG stuff, mostly tabletop corebooks, sourcebooks, maps and knick-knacks, but also…
I’m old enough to remember a pre-YouTube era, where children played happily in the fields and everyone wore fetching hats to church. Now, though, it’s a staple of so many of our lives, mine included. And according to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, it’s not just dominating the arena of our phone and desktop PC video…