PC Gaming
This month, PC Gamer delivers a kick-ass Duke Nukem special issue. On the landmark 30th anniversary of the now legendary Duke Nukem 3D, and the 15th anniversary of its more infamous follow-up, Duke Nukem Forever, PC Gamer speaks directly to many of the key people who made both games happen. Seriously, this is a must-read…
When shopping for extra devices for your rig, it can be tempting to go cheap. Especially for something as simple as, say, a USB hub. However, Dr Gough Lui of Dr Gough’s Techzone has torn a $5 AliExpress-sourced model apart to take a peek at the internals, and the results are pretty shocking. As the…
Software development, much like making a stew that’s a perfect umami bomb in every bite, is a tricky business. Every major commercial product is touched by many hands, and sometimes the chefs leave cardamom and bay leaves in the mix. Okay, perhaps I’ve overstretched the metaphor—what you need to know is that apparently Microsoft’s Secure…
Xbox’s 1,600 layoffs last week were brutal on the developers impacted, and will have uncertain ripples on the industry for years to come—however, a recent report from Game Developer states that the “reset” itself was chaotically implemented. Speaking with multiple sources, the report shares that employees across Xbox were “informed their jobs were being eliminated…
The life of a pirate is short and dangerous, full of adventures on the high seas, plundering galleons and sticking it to The Man. When you fire up a pirate-themed game, then, you might expect to do a lot of swashbuckling and looting (which should help take your mind off the fact that you’re riddled…
Every year, Call of Duty either tries to reinvent the wheel, or undo the reinvention it tried last time. With the upcoming Modern Warfare 4, it’s attempting the latter—Morgan has played MW4 multiplayer at Infinity Ward recently, and he’s not convinced it’s a leap forward, despite being confident it’ll be the best-playing Call of Duty…
ASML, the company that makes the semiconductor machines that every big Western chipmaker uses to make their chips, has “raised its guidance“—i.e., increased its predictions over how well it’s going to do—for the year. It says this is thanks to being able to keep up with customer demand coming from both memory and processor/accelerator chipmakers….
We are, as a people, awash in old operating system simulators. The Roottrees Are Dead, Hack ’95, Pipes.exe—something deep inside us yearns for the old ways. We remember, hazily, as though glimpsed through fog, a time when booting up the PC yielded an ethereal Brian Eno startup noise and a world of possibility, rather than…
Every publisher and developer has been trying to avoid the black hole that is Grand Theft Auto 6—easier said than done, given that Rockstar has shifted the GTA 6 release date several times now just to bait the entire industry. Even Call of Duty is giving it a wide berth, with Modern Warfare 4 opting…
I do not possess the required amount of brain cells to digest and discern whatever happens in a Marvel Rivals team fight. I’ve tried, but anytime I get caught up in the middle while waves of crowd control abilities, ultimates, and everything in between are thrown at me, my brain just turns off. Which is…