PC Gaming
Need to know What is it? A PC port of Team Ninja’s Edo-era action RPG that landed on PS5 last year. Expect to pay: £40 / $50 Release date: Out now Developer: Team Ninja Publisher: Koei Tecmo Reviewed on: NVIDIA RTX 3060, Intel Core i7-10875H, 16 GB RAM Steam Deck: Unknown Link: Official site Rise…
Yesterday, Valve published its yearly “Steam Year In Review” blog post, a retrospective highlighting Steam feature additions and customer data trends from 2024. Calling 2024 “a year of growth,” Valve said Steam’s number of peak concurrent users is nearly twice what it was in March 2020—and last year, all those users were playing more new…
Valve has released the Steam year in review for 2024, in which the platform holder drowns us all in lovely stats and gives a snapshot of how we behave on the de facto PC gaming standard. Turns out people really love their Steam Decks! One of the most interesting deep-dives comes near the end, when…
If you’ve heard of The Bazaar, it’s probably not for a good reason. Any excitement around its recent launch into open beta seems to have been almost entirely overshadowed by community outrage about its newly introduced microtransactions. The pot has only been stirred further by creator (and former professional Hearthstone player, esports team owner, and…
After buying a fancy new $2,000 RTX 5090 card, some VR users are discovering their Varjo Aero headsets are not working with their rig. The answer, for now, seems to be plugging the headset in via a Thunderbolt cable, setting the Varjo Base (Varjo’s software) to ‘Very Low’, or waiting for drivers—but none of these…
If you think that workers heavily reliant on generative AI may be less prepared to tackle questions that can’t be succinctly answered by the machine, you may just be right. A recent paper from Microsoft and Carnegie researchers attempted to study generative AI’s effects on “cognitive effort” from workers in a recent self-reported study. In…
Final Fantasy 14’s next big patch, 7.2, had both its release date trailer reveal and live letter broadcast today—and it’s looking like the most jam-packed update we’ve had in a while. Here’s a quick shortlist of what’ll be bundled into the patch, and when: March 25 (7.2): New main story quests, including a new dungeon…
If you thought the Raspberry Pi’s chip was dinky, well, get a load of the nattily named Texas Instruments MSPM0C1104, said to the world’s smallest microcontroller or MCU and measuring a mere 1.38 mm². If you look carefully at the image above, you can just make out the eight ball-grid connectors on the tiny 1.38…
The over-ear headset rules the roost for gaming at a desk but peel yourself away for a moment to touch grass or, more likely, play Steam Deck in bed, and a set of earbuds comes into their own. I’m being pulled away from wearing chunkier headphones in favour of slim in-ear designs these days, and…
A major drawback for online gaming on an Arm-based machine has been the lack of Easy Anti-Cheat support, which is necessary to play Fortnite and many other online-based games. Not for much longer, it seems, as Epic Games has just announced it’s adding Windows on Snapdragon support to Easy Anti-Cheat later this year. That’s good…