PC Gaming
Minecraft has announced the Vibrant Visuals, which plans to visually overhaul the entire game—it’s basically built-in Minecraft shaders for Bedrock with plans to bring the overhaul to Java edition later. Unlike the Spring to Life update, which was also announced at Minecraft Live, Vibrant Visuals won’t add any new blocks or mobs, but it has…
The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is my first taste of the RTX 5080 mobile GPU, and while this might not end up being my favourite gaming laptop of this generation, the Nvidia graphics chip might well be. The GPU itself is capable of delivering the same sort of gaming performance that we’ve seen from the…
Back in 2023, I had a blast with developer Frogwares’ remake of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. Its blend of detective work and Lovecraftian horror felt like the studio fully in its element. I enjoy its straight Sherlock Holmes games, but increasingly they have this undercurrent of dark strangeness—particularly noticeable in most recent entry Chapter One—as…
Leave a videogame series in a covered, humid environment for long enough and it will, according to some inextricable and mysterious law of nature, become Dark Souls. So, please put your hands together for Doom: The Dark Ages, which swaps out previous games’ emphasis on guns (firearms) for an emphasis on guns (biceps), finally giving…
Monster Hunter Wilds has been out for over four weeks now, but that doesn’t mean Capcom’s finished cooking. We already have a roadmap for future updates, like this week’s Title Update 1—introducing Mizutsune, a gathering hub, and arena quests—as well as more updates into May before a second major patch in the summer. But wait,…
Now, I’m not going to sit here and pretend I’m a Counter-Strike 2 sicko—honestly, I’d rather cross cards in Library of Ruina than aim down sights. Still, I have a feeling that even the FPS fiends would agree a 600 Hz refresh rate sounds perhaps a touch excessive. At a press event in sunny Lisbon,…
Split keyboards are not for everyone. But if you fancy the hands-spread typing experience and don’t feel like paying $200+ for something like the Kinesis Freestyle Edge, Japanese YouTube channel Nomoluk Report has shown a quick and easy method for cutting a regular one in half. Okay, I lied. Nothing about this looks quick and…
While Microsoft’s Windows OS dominates the PC gaming market, the rampant success of the Steam Deck is doing sterling work at turning gamers towards Linux. The open-source operating system has been given a kernel update that contains at least one change that’s potentially great news for PC gamers—enough to forgive the fact that Torvalds himself…
The infamous Blue Screen of Death feels like it’s always there, waiting. The scourge of PC gamers and IT workers alike, it lurks in the distance, seemingly anticipating the right moment to ruin your day. Now Microsoft has announced that it’s previewing a “more streamlined UI for unexpected restarts” in the latest Windows Insider build—and…
Generative AI has shunted its great technological heft into all sorts of industries over the past few years—and videogames aren’t an exception, not by a long-shot. Voice actors in America are embroiled in a battle over rights to their own vocal likeness, studios with enough money to do better are bending over backwards to avoid…