PC Gaming
Valve stuck its oar in the tides of history yesterday, performing a spring clean of Steam’s user-tagging system that added 17 new tags and removed 28 old ones. Most importantly, of course, it finally settled the debate as to what the hell we all call the “Vampire Survivors-like” genre, but it also notably excised the…
A new report claims that Intel is pushing its client PC customers to buy its latest CPUs built on 18A silicon. It’s said the older Intel 7 node is increasingly being reserved for more profitable server chips and even Intel CPUs made in TSMC’s fabs will be in short supply. Nikkei Asia says Intel’s move…
Discord has just announced that all voice and video calls that take place on its platform will now enjoy end-to-end encryption. You may be forgiven for thinking the platform already had this in place, but that’s not the case. The platform began ‘experimenting’ with end-to-end encryption back in 2023, but has only just made it…
It’s important to archive things for future generations—books, culture, music, film, and hey, absolutely videogames. The awareness of the very latter being a hot button topic per the Stop Killing Games movement. The British Film Institute (BFI)—a charity funded by our national lottery which, among many other things, maintains the world’s largest film archive—has similarly…
Subnautica 2 is now out in early access, and despite all the drama preceding it—so much drama—the game itself is actually great. Hurray! But hold on a second, because publisher Krafton is not done trying to stab itself in the foot. We’ve now got some post-launch drama to enjoy, courtesy of Subnautica 2’s ridiculously severe…
As my ancient PC gets ever older and my hopes of upgrading it someday grow ever dimmer, I spend a lot of time peering through skeptical eyes at upcoming game trailers. “Looks good, but will I be able to run it? I bet those slick graphics are going to set my GPU on fire. Reflective…
Tom Clancy’s The Division, to give it its full name, has a lot more staying power than anyone would have originally credited it with. The gloomy post-apocalyptic shooter spawned a sequel, a mobile spin-off, a third game is still in development, and there’s even a movie in the works—though the latter has been in limbo…
Last week Embark explained to players that it would be scaling down the frequency of major updates in Arc Raiders, citing the need to slow down to provide concise and “more impactful” changes. But now, just one week later, we’ve got another patch with quite a few highlights: a new weapon, durability adjustments, and a…
Microsoft has been leaning hard into the idea that what matters with Windows is getting the basics right, as opposed to bolting on more AI gunk. An early example of that drive is a recent announcement involving more configurability for the taskbar and Start menu in Windows 11. In a blog post titled, “Improving Windows…
The Rascal is a new gun randomly dropped in Arc Raiders‘ 1.29.0, alongside the Nomadic Envoy rotating trader. This little pocket-sized rocket launcher (it’s adorable) is designed to be a cheaper, easier-to-maintain alternative to the Hullcracker. It’s a reliable anti-Arc sidearm, and we certainly need it with how dangerous the Riven Tides map is. So,…