PC Gaming
After weeks of leaks and rumours, Intel has officially announced its 14th Generation of Core desktop CPUs, starting with a total of six new models. There’s the Core i9 14900K, i7 14700K and i5 14600K, along with KF variants missing the iGPU component. Prices for each one are the same as the previous generation and…
If you love the performance of Nvidia’s latest RTX graphics cards but hate the fact they’re all flipping huge, then you’re not alone. One inventive Reddit user decided to take matters into their own hands (and a CNC miller) to make their dream of a svelte, dual slot RTX 4080 come true. The one thing…
Late last month, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam opened a special exhibit in partnership with Pokemon, celebrating its 50th anniversary—and, in a move that’s a little unwise in hindsight, also offered a limited-edition Pikachu card in the style of Gogh’s piece “Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat”. The intent was to make a fun, family-friendly…
The UK-based climate change group Just Stop Oil is often in the headlines for its large-scale marches and disruptive protests, most notably closing sections of the UK’s busiest motorway, but this weekend its sights moved from civil disobedience to the fighting game community. A Tekken 7 event being held at EGX 2023 was targeted, during…
Diablo 4’s Season of Blood drops tomorrow. In the run-up, the game’s social media accounts have been in overdrive—dropping trailers, explainer videos, memes, all that good stuff. One such video, however, came and went like a vampire in the night. As spotted by PCGamesN, a video promising to explain “the best quality-of-life changes coming with…
More Lords of the Fallen guides (Image credit: Hexworks / CI Games) Lords of the Fallen best class: Start strong How to get boss weapons: Spend your Umbral Scourings How to beat the Pieta boss: Smash this saintly knight How to respec: Change your build To upgrade weapons in Lords of the Fallen, you first…
With the world having to get a second mortgage on a house just to buy a bag of potatoes these days, increases in the price for a relatively niche service won’t be a surprise. But if you’re a fan of Nvidia’s GeForce Now and want to keep using it, you’ll be paying anywhere between 10%…
AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames (AFMF) technology took a while to come to market. When it made its debut just over a couple of weeks back, support was limited to just two games: Forspoken and Immortals of Aveum. It appears as though AMD is happy with how the tech is maturing, as it’s just released a…
In 1946, computer science pioneer Grace Hopper used the word “bug” to refer to a malfunction in a computer at the Harvard Computation Laboratory, which was caused by a moth trapped inside a relay. Engineers were already calling defects bugs at the time, building on the word’s connection to the same root as “bugbear” in…
The indie RPG scene is basically solely responsible for keeping the torch of the old-school isometric RPG burning. The spirit of that those old games inherited from tabletop roleplaying—do whatever, be someone weird, have your choices truly matter, nobody’s immortal—aren’t very feasible to implement in the fully voiced, richly animated world of modern AAA RPGs….