PC Gaming
The last few months have seen some incredibly low prices on memory and storage products, particularly SSDs. That’s great for consumers but not so for manufacturers, who have been struggling to turn a profit. That looks set to flip. The prices of DRAM and NAND chips are on the rise, and that means the bargain…
People did a lot of things to pass time during the early pandemic lockdowns: learn to play the guitar, make sourdough starter, spray their groceries with disinfectant. Among those popular pandemic activities was identifying murderous space goons in Among Us, and if you’ve set the social deduction game aside since then, you might be interested…
Well, that didn’t take long: Amazon’s Fallout TV series won’t be streaming until April 2024, but some Fallout fans have already begun to pick it apart based on just a handful of new images from the show released yesterday. If you follow Fallout lore discussions even casually, it won’t surprise you to hear a lot…
After literal decades of middling-to-terrible 3D Sonic games, it seemed like an actual honest-to-god miracle that the Sonic movie and its sequel were so successful. Both movies got largely positive reviews, were praised for the performances of Ben Schwartz as Sonic and Jim Carrey as Robotnik, and made $300 million and $400 million, respectively. I…
66 members of The Game Awards Future Class, a program intended to honor people “who represent the bright, bold, and inclusive future for video games,” and hundreds of others involved with the videogame industry have signed an open letter calling for a statement acknowledging the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza during The Game Awards show…
There’s more bad news out of struggling gaming conglomerate Embracer: The company has confirmed that approximately 50 employees are being laid off from Chorus developer Fishlabs, and is also reportedly looking at closing TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design completely. Fishlabs is best known for the well-received “sentient starfighter” sim Chorus, but it’s also had a…
I suppose it was only a matter of time before Taskmaster got its own VR game. The game show, in case you’re unfamiliar with it, is about giving celebrities and comedians increasingly absurd tasks to fulfil—with very few clues on how to get those tasks done. Similarly, a lot of great VR games offer an…
The Emerald Mark of Mastery in World of Warcraft is rewarded for completing the achievement, Dragonflight Season 3 Master. The achievement itself is counted as a Feat of Strength, so it doesn’t actually award any points, but the Mark of Mastery allows you to buy gear from a vendor in the Emerald Dream. Speaking of…
Destiny 2 is not having a great year. If you’ve not been following the trials and tribulations of Bungie’s 2023, here’s a quick rundown of the major lowlights: Lightfall launched in February to middling reviews. The campaign—a highlight of the previous year’s Witch Queen expansion—was a mess, and many of the planned sandbox changes fell…
Within picoseconds of news landing of the US government’s impending ban on RTX 4090 sales to China, prices of the world’s fastest gaming graphics card ticked up sharply. Now come reports that traders-come-scalpers are buying up 4090s en masse with intentions to ship the cards into China. X user I_Like_NV (via Tom’s Hardware) has posted…