PC Gaming

As an unrepentant lover of weird, obtuse RPGs, I’ve been pleased to see the critical consensus on Steam turning in Crimson Desert‘s favour—and it is an RPG, despite Pearl Abyss’s baffling insistence that it is not. When Crimson Desert launched last week, it was quickly inundated with reviews both positive and negative on Steam. Players…

The Sanctum of Benediction puzzle isn’t the hardest I’ve come across in Crimson Desert, but it certainly isn’t the easiest either. It’s plain to see how someone could find this sanctum confusing, especially when one of the parts you recover doesn’t seem to fit onto the central device you’re trying to repair. Thankfully, though, it’s…

A week ago or so, I flagged a report claiming that CPUs about to become the next chip class walloped by an AI-instigated shortage and spiralling prices. Now another source is making essentially the same claim but this time via at least two gaming PC maker. Nikkei Asia reports that a supply crunch is hitting…

Just yesterday, Epic Games announced that it had laid off more than 1,000 employees from across the company, as well as cutting over $500 million in contracting, marketing, and closing job posts. According to CEO Tim Sweeney, Epic is still “spending significantly more than [it’s] making,” despite the company running one of the most popular…

I can’t have been the only one intrigued by the prospect of Ayaneo’s Next 2 handheld, a Strix Halo-powered machine with a whopping 115 Wh battery, twin NVMe drives, a whole host of high-capacity memory configurations, and the sort of specs sheet that would make many gaming laptops tremble in their boots. Well, the company…

Working out how to dispatch the Howling Hill expansion in Crimson Desert is rather tricky. For the longest time, I didn’t even realise you could inspect areas on the map, revealing mission lists that you can undertake with your Greymane Freeswords—it’s especially unclear on mouse and keyboard. You’ll finally have to come to grips with…

Nvidia’s DLSS 5 hit the gaming public to much controversy—including from us here at PC Gamer. In one corner, you’ve got folks who are just seeing it as a very fancy filter analogous to AI upscaling, in the other, you’ve got Instagram filter Grace Ashcroft trotted out as a proud advancement of technology rather than…

Primate Labs, the company behind Geekbench, has announced that it will be attaching a warning to benchmark results produced by Intel’s new Arrow Lake Plus CPUs. The benchmark specialist says that Intel’s new BOT tool, which only runs on the freshly-launched chips, as well as Panther Lake parts, “can boost Geekbench 6 scores by up…

After learning the singleplayer basics of cardslinging your way up the tower, it’s time to learn how Slay the Spire 2 multiplayer works. It’s not that complicated, really, but I didn’t expect the deckbuilding roguelite to add co-op to begin with, so I had trouble seeing Mega Crit’s initial vision. It’s as clear as day…

If there’s one thing that can ruin a beautiful and efficient city, it’s the people who insist on living in it. Build them shelter (well, command them to build themselves shelter), and they’ll want a convenient marketplace to buy food. Make food available to them and they’ll start complaining that they want more than one…