PC Gaming
Starfield‘s community keeps getting smarter with their ship builds—we’ve had AI-exploiting nightmares made of corners, ladderless flat discs, and some sci-fi classics. But what about the little guys of the universe—pilots who don’t want some big, fancy warship with 500 autocannons? That’s exactly who these players are repping. The tiny ship trend’s here to stay—well,…
Kiss goodbye to native-res raster rendering. The biggest noise in PC graphics, Nvidia, thinks it’s game over. The future is—it has to be—AI rendering. In fact, AI rendering is more “real” than traditional raster graphics rendering. In a Digital Foundry round table discussion on Nvidia’s new DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction technology, Nvidia’s Vice President Applied…
I’ve never played Cyberpunk 2077 until recently. I didn’t have this job when it came out, I didn’t have a PC that could run it, and its massive bug baggage gave me pause. Add in some (well articulated) critiques about how the story handles its punk, anti-establishment roots, and I felt better off. Well, now…
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is out next week, but you can play the 2.0 update now. It’s added a whole host of tune-ups like vehicular combat, new skill trees, balance tweaks to the RPG system, and a revamped police force—but who cares about that? You can do cool rocket jumps on your motorbike now, which…
I often spare a thought as to whether I should pack my Steam Deck when travelling and trying to pack light. It’s a fine problem to have: my portable PC isn’t quite portable enough to slip it into my backpack without debating it in my head. Should I? Shouldn’t I? Often I side with taking…
Bummed that your Starfield character’s beard doesn’t look nearly as lush and masculine as you’d like it to? Well, worry no more over patchy stubble, because this absolute hero has just raised the bar—or more specifically, the texture resolution—for Starfield beards. Thanks to creator BulwarkHD on Nexus Mods, beards just got a whole lot more…
The spirit of Tolkien’s Shire has always lent itself to the cozy game aesthetic. It’s been a dream of those with a love of all things that grow for some time but finally, someone has decided to turn their hand at a cozy Shire game. And it’s not just any old game studio taking the…
Is there such a thing as too much screen? Obviously, yes. Try plonking, say, a 65-inch HDTV on your desktop as PC monitor and the limitations of size are obvious enough. But the incredible, preposterous new Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 G95NC Dual UHD is no thinly disguised TV. It’s a proper PC-optimised panel. And yet…
Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been a major source of corporate drama these past few months. Back in April, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) moved to block the acquisition, stating “Microsoft’s proposed solution failed to effectively address the concerns in the cloud gaming sector”. This block included a massive, 200-plus page findings…
We’ve been here before. But Valve’s latest attempts to squish any imminent expectations of a faster Steam Deck are that little bit more specific. There won’t be one until at least the end of 2025. And quite possibly longer. Speaking to The Verge, Valve rep and Steam Deck designer Pierre-Loup Griffais explained that Valve wanted…