PC Gaming
While others at PC Gamer have been extolling the virtues of their Steam Decks, I’ve held off on shelling out for a PC gaming handheld for one main reason: None of the gaming handhelds on the market are big enough to double as an impromptu charcuterie board. Luckily, at CES 2025, Acer just unveiled the…
Less than two years after its release, WWE 2K23 has been chokeslammed into oblivion: The game’s servers have been closed, meaning all online functionality, including online matches and Community Creations, will no longer work. 2K Games telegraphed the move back in September 2024, announcing that WWE 2K23 “is getting its final takedown” on January 26….
In a recent video on his YouTube channel, veteran RPG developer and project lead on the original Fallout, Tim Cain, offered a look at his collection of photos from the game’s development between 1994 and 1997. The photos are not only a fun time capsule of mid to late ’90s game development, but also show…
Intel recently launched the first discrete graphics card in the Battlemage generation, the Arc B580, late last year. It was generally well received, even though we had our qualms with its performance in a handful of titles in testing. Well, the good news is Intel is now feeling pretty good about its next GPU generation,…
A busy mod community quickly sprung up around popular multiplayer shooter Marvel Rivals—there are over 500 mods already and it’s only been out for a month—but with mods, as always, comes drama. The current squall kicked up around the Nexus Mods’ removal of a couple of mods for Marvel Rivals: one which replaces Captain America’s…
Starfield lead quest designer Will Shen says “a growing section of the audience is becoming fatigued” with huge games that require dozens or hundreds of hours to properly play through, and—tongue in cheek—that he’s sorry for the role he played in helping popularize that trend. “I’m sorry. I’ll say that,” Shen said, laughing, in a…
Dell’s branding has always seemed a bit clumsy to me, and it seems the Texas-based tech giant may agree. It’s just announced a branding change that simplifies its core PC product tiers into three main categories—Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max. Dell becomes the default brand, in the sense that it’s designed for “play,…
No longer an elusive creature of legend, we’ve been learning all of the Strix Halo APU’s secrets lately. Firstly, there’s power in names and AMD’s flagship laptop APU has finally been knighted the ‘AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 w/ Radeon 8060S.’ Fair play to AMD—that is a name that strikes fear in the hearts…
Announced today, AMD’s Adrenalin software is getting an AI bump for compatible cards Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070, which will be launching in the coming months. Over the last few years, we have seen countless companies cash in on the popularity of AI with their own chatbots, image-generation tools, and more. Creatively…
Well, it’s finally here. We’ve been crossing our fingers for a long, long time waiting for AMD Strix Halo, and now the waiting’s over. As one of its many rabbit hat-pulls for CES 2025, AMD’s just announced the halo (ie, top) end of its Strix Point mobile processors, combining Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5…