PC Gaming
While much has been written about Intel’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, one man who has something of a unique insight is Arm CEO Rene Haas. He’s worked at Nvidia, and now heads up one of the biggest chip design companies in the world—and there were reports earlier in the year that Arm…
In this brave new era of game-to-TV adaptations, I was thrilled to learn that Amazon’s Fallout TV show was pretty great. The first season tossed in all sorts of touchstones from the games: from stimpacks to power armor, and a lot of Fallout’s weirdo humor—vault gene pool struggles and all. It was a hit, raking…
Tim Cain’s storied career includes a bunch of what are likely some of your favourite RPGs, including the first two Fallouts and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Some of the games he worked on became huge mainstream successes, while others—particularly the games developed by his RPG studio, Troika—became cult classics. And people are always asking…
Disney Dreamlight Valley loves to bring new characters alongside its major content updates, and the Sew Delightful update welcomed Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s been a while since Jack Skellington made his debut, so it’s about time his partner made her way to the valley. But if you’re new to the game there’s…
While Intel’s new Battlemage B580 graphic card isn’t setting any records for gaming performance, it does have a few things going for it: namely matrix cores and a healthy chunk of VRAM. Both of these are handy for professional applications and AI stuff, so word that a 24 GB version has been shipped for research…
I’ve always wanted to write “We’re doomed” with reasonable justification, and well, here we are. A study published by astronomers at the Max Planck Institute has concluded that, based on observations made by the Kepler space telescope, the occurrence rate of superflares from stars just like our sun may occur much more often than previously…
Once upon a time, pro gaming controllers were for the elite of the elite, costing several hundred dollars a piece. Giants like the Xbox Elite Series 2 and Razer Wolverine used to dominate the scene with unparalleled build, performance and innovative features. These days, you can get some truly impressive controllers—like the excellent PowerA OPS…
Need to Know What is it? A pachinko machine that’s also a strategy roguelike.Release date December 10, 2024Expect to pay $11.10/£12.34 Developer newobjectPublisher Raw FuryReviewed on Gigabyte G5 (Nvidia RTX 4060, Intel Core i5 12500H, 16GB DDR4-3200)Steam Deck VerifiedLink Official site In 2007, a game called Peggle was released. In 2008, the world suffered a…
The Cooler Master Case Mod World Series is back in 2024, and winners have just been announced across the two categories—those being Tower Mod of the Year and Scratch Build of the Year. This year there are some exciting builds, not to mention confusing ones. With Cooler Master’s tagline “Make It Yours” lighting the way,…
Helldivers 2 introduced the Illuminate, recently—aaand they’re gone. No, really. While the Illuminate definitely are in Helldivers 2, you actually can’t fight them right now, because Super Earth’s finest gave them the boot so hard in Calypso that they’ve been stomped off the galactic map. The Major Order, which came alongside the surprise update Omens…