PC Gaming
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Kogado Studio Released: 1991 PCs: PC-98, X68000 (Image credit: Kogado Studio) The mysterious snack-hoovering gap between holiday celebrations and getting back to normal is a great…
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is a new animated project from Netflix that’ll explore one of Andrzej Sapkowski’s short stories, A Little Sacrifice. In an interview with SFX magazine (via GamesRadar), writer Mike Ostrowski discussed what fans can expect from this movie including a neat little easter egg. Sirens of the Deep is set…
Anyone who has been around in PC gaming for a long time will know that every time a new high-end graphics card gets launched, supply is never enough to meet demand. In the case of the GeForce RTX 5090, board partner MSI says that its cards will have limited availability and it’s down to an…
While the TikTok US ban debacle rolls on, it looks like TP-Link is being considered for the same treatment. After a letter signed by two US congressmen called for a ban of TP-Link devices last summer for having “unusual vulnerabilities” linked to Chinese cyberattacks, one of its signees is now voicing continued concerns. Rep. Raja…
SanDisk Desk Drive | 4 TB | USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 10 | 1,000 MB/s | $379.99 $268.99 at Amazon (save $111)This external SSD is only ‘portable’ in the sense that a laptop is ‘portable’—you’re not going to be putting one in your pocket. But what you get is something incredibly capacious, reliable, and consistent,…
Marvel Snap—a cardgame I distinctly remember losing a month to in 2022 before I got a little tired of the typical TCG progression cycle—has made a downright generous apology to players who missed out during a recent outage, due to TikTok being temporarily banned in the US. In case that just gave you a case…
US-based companies have been at the forefront of the AI revolution, but now it looks like a new challenger has emerged. China-based DeepSeek is just over a year old, but the startup has released an open-source AI model called R1 that seems to have the rest of the industry worried. DeepSeek was founded in 2023…
Need to Know What is it?: A third-person snipe ’em up with tense combat and fun stealthExpect to pay: £44.99 / $49.99Developer: Rebellion Publisher: RebellionReviewed on: NVIDIA RTX 4080, AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 8-core processor, 32GB RamMultiplayer?: Yes, co-op and adversarial Link: Official Site Nazis are pretty much the definitive bad guys. They’re perfect videogame…
The best gaming monitors are engineering marvels, packed with millions of pixels, that can change colour quicker than you can imagine. You do need a decent graphics card to push them all around, though, but one inspired coder has a solution to this in the form of a game that just uses your monitor’s subpixels….
With Nvidia’s RTX 50 series launch at CES earlier this month and all the subsequent reviews of the RTX 5090, especially in-depth ones like our Dave’s, laying out all the specifications, we all know that the biggest Blackwell chip is one seriously big GPU. And thanks to a new die shot of the processor, we…