PC Gaming
The entire game industry is still reeling from yesterday’s bombshell announcement that Microsoft—hot on the heels of its $69 billion acquisition of Activision—would be laying off 1,900 employees across Activision-Blizzard and Xbox. Inevitably, Twitter is awash with reactions highlighting the human cost, both from dazed devs waking up in a world in which they no…
If you’ve yet to acquire a flying mount in Palworld, then the Grappling Gun is a great way to traverse difficult terrain early on. Though it isn’t great for combat since it doesn’t pull Pals towards you, it does let you zoom up to the top of cliffs without having to worry about a slow…
Sometimes a game will make its way into the public spotlight not because it’s good, inventive, or bad—but simply because it is. It captures a specific moment and gets a bunch of attention at a specific point of time. A small moon that casts a big shadow, like a solar eclipse. Palworld is one of…
Space fans prepare yourselves, for I have some sad news: NASA’s Mars-based helicopter, Ingenuity, has flown its last, thanks to a broken rotor blade. It is now an ex-helicopter, or if you prefer, the little space helicopter that no longer could. Pour one out for a true original, and give mad respect to the first…
Depending on how you measure, you could argue that Apple’s iPhones are the world’s most popular gaming devices, what with well over two billion of the things sold and an ongoing installed userbase of nearly a billion. But conspicuously absent from the iPhone’s Appstore has been game streaming services. Until now. You’d think allowing game…
The Japanese multimedia series Love Live! has been around since 2010, and has enjoyed popularity through various anime series, films, and rhythm-action videogames. The setup is fairly simple, and revolves around girls who attend school with each other but are secretly the planet’s greatest pop idols. One especially successful entry is Love Live! School Island…
In the cavernous recesses of my heart I nurture the belief that Dwarf Fortress is the greatest game ever made. And ever since it got its shiny Kitfox-branded new version in 2022—now with graphics!—I’ve been convinced that’s the best way to play it. But that version isn’t quite feature complete. It’s still missing original Dwarf…
Ergonomic keyboards pretty much come in one of four categories: not-really-ergo, entry-level, serious, and one for the absolutely committed. The MoErgo Glove80 is well and truly in the last one. This particular model is a second revision of the original Glove80, first launched in 2022 after a successful Kickstarter campaign, following years of design, experimentation,…
As US chip export sanctions continue to be enforced, there are signs that the Chinese AI chip industry may be feeling the strain. Two of the country’s leading chip manufacturers and designers are showing signs of struggle, and as the restrictions continue to put the squeeze on China’s chip manufacturing and development sector, it seems…
Asus’s ROG Ally handheld gaming PC only arrived in May last year. But Asus is already plotting a follow up for later in 2024. In an interview with Techlusive, Asus India’s VP of consumer and gaming PCs, Arnold Su, briefly outlined Asus’s plans for the Ally. “We most likely will launch a second generation [handheld]…