PC Gaming
Arm chips are making increasing inroads into the realm of PC gaming. Valve is already all over the chip architecture, and is planning to launch an Arm-specific version of SteamOS alongside its Snapdragon-based VR headset, the Steam Frame, later this year. But what about the Steam Machine? We asked Valve engineers Yazan Aldehayyat and Pierre-Loup…
AMD and Nvidia’s GPUs are currently built on 4 nm-class silicon by TSMC. And they’re not exactly cheap. Meanwhile, TSMC has indicated that it would like to put the prices it charges to chip designers up. In that context, the prospect of IBM’s newly announced sub-1 nm silicon is both very exciting and totally terrifying….
If there is one thing that is common across all devices that natively run SteamOS, it’s that the graphics chips inside them don’t have access to a great deal of VRAM. That’s a bit of a problem with some games, but thanks to the genius of a handful of coders, a solution has been rolled…
It feels like the whole world is on tenterhooks for the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, if not because they are excited for a videogame then because it feels like Rockstar is propping up that part of the global economy not propped up by AI. But I’ll tell you one guy who isn’t going…
Shut the front door. Framework is cutting prices on its laptop SSDs. In fact, it will be supplying some 1 TB drives at lower cost than an existing 500 GB option and some existing pre-orders that haven’t shipped are included in the price drop. So, has the worm finally turned on the AI-driven memory and…
Cards on the table, the first thing that piqued my interest about the Steam Machine’s initial reveal were the interchangeable faceplates. After all, I am but a simple hardware creature with a penchant for the aesthetic. Unfortunately, Valve has no plans to release a whole slew of custom plates for their tiny game box. We…
The Dark Rock Pro 6 and Dark Rock 6 are a huge upgrade over Be Quiet’s previous air coolers. Where it had previously struggled to keep up with our picks for the best air coolers, these new arrivals are amongst the top performers in my testing. Be Quiet hasn’t lost its eye for aesthetics, either….
As we know, Turtle Beach loves to put a big ol’ screen on its peripherals and this decadent Hall effect keyboard is probably the apotheosis of “big screen on otherwise screen-less thing” design. It’s a big 4.3-inch color touchscreen affair that does little more than what can already be achieved on the monitor directly in…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, PC Gamer’s 2025 game of the year and absolute all-timer, has hit the 6 million copies sold landmark. If you recall, this is the game that implemented a shoe-stealing system because of a PC Gamer article. So, if you think about it, it’s almost like we’ve reached 6 million copies sold,…
Three years ago, AMD introduced a new type of CPU core for its Zen 4 microarchitecture. The idea behind them was to reduce the amount of die space taken up by a regular core, so that more of them could be packed into a chiplet. The compact design is now a staple part of the…