PC Gaming
The new Nvidia RTX Spark is an Arm-powered system-on-chip (SoC) set to be the heart of new super thin-and-light gaming laptops and mini PCs. It comes packing up to 20 Grace CPU cores and up to 6188 CUDA cores in its GPU, alongside up to 128 GB unified LPDDR5x memory. And one of the most…
One of the issues that gaming on Linux has right now, and one of the main reasons why Windows is still the dominant platform for gaming, is because there are still games that resolutely will not work on SteamOS or any other Linux-based distro. And one of the main reasons for that is a lack…
Have you heard? Nvidia is “reinventing” the PC with Microsoft, launching its own lineup of laptops, desktops, and workstations called RTX Spark, using Windows on Arm. Moreover, we know that the company has plans for the new platform until at least 2030. On a slide behind Jensen Huang during his GTC speech at Computex, we…
Nvidia’s upcoming RTX Spark laptops and mini PCs are being designed for AI agents, software developers, and PC gamers alike. But if it’s going to be a success on the gaming side, the emulation layer required to get today’s games running on the system has to be as transparent, or even as invisible as possible….
There’s an introductory text on the first page of Warhammer 40,000’s first edition that’s been rewritten for various contexts since, with phrases like “there is no peace amongst the stars” and “the laughter of thirsting gods” becoming cheerful taglines for the series as a whole. Now it’s the trailer narration for the upcoming 11th edition,…
After a lot of leaks, a whole lot of rumours, and me boring the crap out of Nvidia’s PRs about it many times over the years, the N1X CPU, now incorporated in the RTX Spark SoC, has finally been unveiled. It’s been one of the most well-known secrets in the industry—that Nvidia would one day…
With this week’s theatrical release of A24’s The Backrooms adaptation, I was expecting an avalanche of new Backrooms-themed videogames to appear on Steam. Surprisingly, the number is quite modest: a mere four! Surely you’ve noticed that Backrooms games have been releasing at a steady clip on Steam for years now. When I search Backrooms on…
Infinity Ward has once again promised that it will keep its skins and cosmetics thematic and grounded in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, a commitment that it has repeatedly asserted as part of the rollout for this anticipated return of Infinity Ward CoD. The promise came as part of an exchange on X, The…
I’ve written before about just how much I love Grand Theft Auto’s radio stations. Rockstar has an incredible knack for musical curation, and there’s nary been a track in those games that I haven’t vibed with. Hell, I’ve spent most of my life as a raging emo in England and I absolutely loved the country-bumpkin-as-hell…
Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Publishers of the ’90s loved a boxed video game collection,…