PC Gaming
Horror games don’t have to be action-packed thrillers to be fun. Some of my favourites (or least favourite, depending on how you look at it) have been quiet journeys full of tension and anticipation with minimal fights—games like Amnesia: The Bunker or Little Nightmares. But there is a line between a psychological horror game and…
Up to now, anyone wanting to build a new gaming PC with an Intel Core Ultra 200S processor has been forced to choose a Z890 motherboard, and the cheapest of those is only just under $300. Intel’s new B860 motherboard chipset, aimed at the mainstream market, is supposed to address this by offering fewer features…
The Super Mario Bros. speedrunner Niftski has achieved a new world record for the classic Nintendo title on a PC emulator, setting a time of 4:54.565 in the “any%” category. You may well be wondering why I’m bothering to include the hundredths of a second: So many talented players attempt to do something with Super…
The Crucial X9 surprised me a little. I’ve spent so much time with 20 Gbps external drives that I forgot the simple unassuming pleasure of a solid 10 Gbps external SSD such as the Crucial X9. Which is a shame, really, because the best USB ports on most motherboards and laptops tend to offer speeds…
Well, that was a blast. Several of our illustrious hardware team were on the ground at CES 2025 in Las Vegas this year, and now the jet lag has abated and the dust has settled it’s time to round up all of the winners of our Best of CES 2025 awards for your perusal. CES…
If there’s one sure sign we’re living in some sort of cyberpunk future, it’s the number of drone stories in our newsfeeds these days. From shady conspiracy theories to their involvement in ongoing conflicts, drones are now a hot topic of discussion—and consumer models flying over areas where they shouldn’t is an ongoing theme. Now…
Call them what you like: retro FPS games, your dad’s shooters, boomshoots, or 3D interactive first-person combat software titles for personal computer, we all know what this niche within the shooter market provides: a heady blend of purity, nostalgia and above all, incredible gunfeel. It’s a niche that developed during the 2010s in response to…
Nintendo finally revealed the new Switch 2 handheld console yesterday after months and months of rumours and speculation. While most people just seem to be happy that there’s finally confirmation, one person can’t seem to look past the leaks that led up to its announcement. Hideki Kamiya, the game designer of Devil May Cry, Okami,…
I mean this with all the affection in the world—I cannot think of a single gaming community that is as cooked as the Silksong fanbase. “Cooked” as in, stewing in their own juices for so long that said juices have evaporated, leaving behind a shiny braised lump in a scorched pot. This is not an…
There are flops, and then there was Concord. A first-party PlayStation hero shooter from ex-Bungie devs, Concord had been in production for around six years and the development costs were reported by Kotaku as an eye-watering $200 million (a figure that some industry figures did dispute). It launched in August last year and lasted 11…