PC Gaming
From sconces and curtain lights to glowing geometric shapes and things seemingly named after bread rolls or vegetable form factors, Govee has a gargantuan catalogue of (frequently discounted) smart lighting options. There’s always something you’d like for any product to do better, and it’s nice when someone listens. The result of one such wish is…
Want to fast travel in Stalker 2? The Zone is pretty vast, with a whole heap of locations to discover and explore, so it’s understandable that you might want to speed things up a little bit in your search for loot and noteworthy locales. Stalker 2’s fast travel requires you to find guide NPCs dotted…
If Thursday’s Wordle is putting up a fight, our hint for today’s game might be just the thing you need to get it tamed. Need something more to the point? Congrats, you’ve got it. The answer to the November 21 (1251) Wordle is waiting below. Wow, OK, I guess that’s today’s Wordle over then? My…
I don’t use YouTube much, but back in 2010 I posted a clip called Radiation Side Effects in STALKER. It’s 30 seconds of footage I recorded while playing Stalker: Call of Pripyat, and not to brag, but over the past 14 years it’s gotten over 6,000 views. How am I not making mad bank as…
Neuralink patient, Noland Arbaugh, has now been in possession of the first Link brain implant for just over 100 days, as the study into the practical application of the device continues—and while the results so far seem promising, it’s not been without its setbacks. In a progress update on the Neuralink blog, the company has…
The creators of a Resident Evil randomiser mod have collaborated with the biggest fighting game channel on YouTube, Maximilian Dood, to bring players the fabled Akuma Mode for the original Resident Evil 2, fulfilling a 26-year-old gag. It all started off as a simple April Fool’s joke back in 1998, when the gaming magazine EGM2…
In case you’ve never played Prey, Fallout 3, or its ‘cooler Daniel’ Fallout: New Vegas—I’ve got great news. You can get all three of them for less than I, PC Gamer writer Harvey Randall, will be spending on lunch shortly after I write this. I don’t have a lot in my fridge at the moment,…
Steam Deck owners rejoice, for Valve has bestowed us with many gifts in the most recent SteamOS preview update, taking it to version 3.6.0. There are plenty of fixes and added features to enjoy, along with a graphics driver update that promises “many performance and correctness improvements”. The OS itself has been moved to a…
Fallout 3, right? What a game. Bethesda’s first foray into the Wasteland was also a lot of people’s introduction to the series. To this day, it’s easy to find people who call FO3 the best game of the lot. Come the revolution, that opinion will be banned. To those of us who get our videogame…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chip is one of the more intriguing prospects for the PC over the next 12 months. Now Arm’s head honcho has revealed that there will be more PC-optimised CPUs incoming over the next few years. One immediately intriguing option for a new entrant into the Arm CPU for PC market could…