PC Gaming
The Nvidia RTX 5080 is like the difficult second album for the RTX Blackwell GPU band. It’s a card that comes in at fully half the price of its RTX 5090 sibling, and presents us with a graphics card which—even more so than the previous card—reminds me very much of its erstwhile last-gen stablemate, the…
League of Legends players might spend countless hours brawling with each other, communicating through the ancient art of murder and mayhem, but what they can’t do is have a simple chat. While a voice chat feature does exist, it’s limited to party members, and because of that, it’s gone underused. That Riot Games has steered…
I’ve never been banned from a videogame or even got a single warning before. But sometimes, simply playing by the book isn’t enough to avoid a ban. Maybe you’ve run into a few too many salty players who’ve reported you out of spite, or maybe you got a message in-game telling you that third-party software…
Do you remember a simpler time, when trying to search for things online was tricky for more fun, innocent reasons? When search engines weren’t full of AI poison, your personal data wasn’t stolen every time you tried to buy socks, and playing a five minute video only required five hours of buffering first? OK, so…
Got the impression that a bazillion dollar’s worth of GPUs are required to run a cutting-edge chatbot? Think again. Matthew Carrigan, an engineer at AI tools outfit HuggingFace, claims that you can run the hot new DeepSeek R1 LLM on just $6,000 of PC hardware. The kicker? You don’t even need a high-end GPU. Carrigan’s…
You know, I do admire GOG, a business whose entire reason for being seems to be standing athwart videogame history and shouting ‘Stop’. Ever since it sprang into being back in 2008, it feels like it’s been beating back against the currents that have brought us things like always-online DRM and classics left to wither…
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Last week Marvel Snap went offline during the United States’ short-lived TikTok ban. The superhero CCG was swept up in the diplomatic spat due to its publisher Nuverse, which is a subsidiary of TikTok owner Bytedance. At the time, Marvel Snap studio Second Dinner indicated it would move away from Nuverse, and it looks like…
In February 2024, World’s Edge announced new DLC for Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition that was slated to be out at the end of 2024. In October of that year, however, the DLC was delayed to an unspecified “future date,” and today the studio announced that “after serious consideration,” it’s been cancelled entirely. “We…
The word “iconic” is so overused it makes me wince when I see it, but in the world of Warhammer it can be fairly applied to two characters: Gotrek and Felix, who sum up the duality of the setting. Gotrek, a dwarf trollslayer with a mohawk who longs for a heroic death to erase a…