PC Gaming
I think people do feel as though it’s incredibly binary, and even shooting one raider, one time, just automatically puts you into an aggressive lobby. But that’s not at all how it works. Virgil Watkins One of Arc Raiders‘ most contentious topics is how it weighs your approach to PvP in order to decide what…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there’s a shortage of things to worry about right now when it comes computing-adjacent hardware. Personally, I’m finding the AI boom, memory crisis, tariffs, over-priced GPUs and all that simply isn’t enough to be getting on with. So, here’s something else to get us all vexed, a good old-fashioned…
AI has been in a funny place for some time. Growing exponentially, and sucking up much of the world’s supply of memory, GPUs, and energy in the process, we’ve seen countless examples of models being released with few guardrails and being reigned in after the fact. This week, Google published its “responsible AI progress report”…
The memory supply crisis rages on, sparked by AI datacentres’ ravenous hunger for RAM and system storage. If you’ve been on the hunt for a reasonably priced bit of kit, the most sensible deals have long since been flushed away, with manufacturers also having to grapple with rising costs from their suppliers. But it turns…
Arc Raiders is a fascinating social experiment, and also occasionally a videogame. Even as someone on the outskirts, I’ve sunk hours into watching social interactions play out between rats and good guys, chucked into a pressure cooker where you can kill each other, but are never forced to. Speaking to PC Gamer’s own Tim Clark,…
Earlier this week, the district court of the Western District of Washington favoured Valve Corporation in its 2023 lawsuit against Leigh Rothschild and his associated companies, on all counts, including breach of contract and the violation of Washington’s Patent Troll Prevention and Consumer Protection Acts. Rothschild is an inventor with a huge array of patents…
Overwatch’s grand return has, for the most part, been pretty damn good. I mean, it’s not like the game ever went away, but it certainly feels like it’s having a little resurgence since dropping the ‘2’ in its name, adding five new heroes, and doing a big ol’ overhaul of its UI. True 2026 is…
Dean Hall, creator of DayZ and CEO of RocketWerkz, has a message for the world: let’s all be more chill about game delays. Especially devs who, Hall reckons, can often work themselves into far too much of a tizz about avoiding delays, sometimes to the detriment of the final game. Hall’s remarks came as part…
If you’re familiar with the world of simulation, then force feedback racing wheels are likely nothing new to you. Force feedback (FFB) flight sticks, on the other hand, are a much rarer find. A search around for current options reveals a small selection of boutique, “made in a shed” solutions that may well be excellent…
Despite banging on about data privacy, my password practices are perhaps not actually that secure. No, I’m not leaving them lying around on post-it notes like my office is just the latest level of an immersive sim, but a recent study suggests that cloud-based password managers ain’t it either. A number of these services tout…