PC Gaming
The Nvidia RTX 5090 is the graphics card company’s big shiny new toy and, packed with 21,760 CUDA cores and taking up to 575 watts worth of power, it’s a bit of a beast. However, it’s also an expensive beast at $1,999, and that’s if you can even get your hands on one when it…
2023 was one hell of a tough year for game developers, with over 16,000 layoffs happening across the industry—but hey, at least things are improving, right? You are now permitted to imagine me laughing nervously and looking very, very tired. 2024 was no stranger to shutdowns and layoffs like, say, the Microsoft carnage at Activision…
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Sonic the Hedgehog 3 since I saw it in the cinema last month. The first two movies were good, sure, but the third movie’s treasure trove of Sonic Adventure 2 references—and the introduction of Keanu Reeves as Shadow, my favourite character—has cemented it as my favourite of…
The Brutalist, the Adrien Brody-led historical fiction epic currently in theatres, has cinema sickos like me frothing at the mouth. For a start, it’s already won three Golden Globes, and for another, The Brutalist is one of vanishingly few pictures to be shot entirely in VistaVision since the 1960s. Besides that though, this period piece…
Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada claims he isn’t trying to up sticks and leave Bandai Namco after some fans noticed that he’d switched on LinkedIn’s “open to work” function. Now I can’t blame people for thinking that means he’s trying to jump ship. After all, the open to work function is supposed to be exactly for…
Released to critical acclaim almost one year ago on the PlayStation 5, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s port to the PC is unlikely to achieve the same accolades in the PC gaming community. Not because it’s a bad conversion and not because the game itself is poor—Square Enix has done an excellent job of making the…
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth gave me the world’s most luxurious vacation. From cruises, to resorts, to the world’s greatest amusement park, I was shuffled like a hurried tourist from one dazzling experience to the next, showered with endless shiny new things to admire. But the indoor kid in me must be too strong, because it…
One of my enduring memories of the original Final Fantasy 7 is turning a corner, getting in a random battle, realizing I’d walked into a dead end, and then having two more random battles trigger while I turned around and walked back. What I’m saying is, Final Fantasy 7 was not the kind of game…
On release, Marvel Rivals had seven maps; now, with Season 1, there are three more on the way, with Midtown already playable. While having so much choice in the map pool this early on isn’t a bad thing, some players are finding fault in the quality of the choice available. Marvel Rivals tier list: Best…
Pop star Chappell Roan was recently garlanded with BBC Radio 1’s “Sound of 2025” award, after a year that saw the singer-songwriter move from cult status to global megastar. As part of this Roan sat down with Radio 1’s Jack Saunders for one of the most in-depth interviews she’s given, and partway through the conversation…