PC Gaming
I’ve always stuck to cloth mouse pads, and given the few plastic hard pads I’ve tried have never gelled with me, I didn’t think I’d ever switch. But the QPAD Obsidian Glass has made me realise there’s a whole class of mouse pads out there that I was overlooking, and that’s glass ones. Of course,…
If videogames are about anything, it’s solving deep-rooted and overdetermined social problems by hitting them really hard and also sometimes magic. And few games have ever videogamed harder in that regard than Metaphor: ReFantazio, Atlus’ polychromatic RPG from 2024 that puts you in the shoes of a young man on a quest to defeat racism…
We’ve recently had a bonanza of Bethesda interviews to mark… well, it feels like they were all done to mark the end of Fallout season two, which is a bit odd. But nevertheless, among them is Game Informer’s excellent oral history of Fallout, in which the great and good from the studio reminisce about bringing…
Crimson Desert, the upcoming open-world action-adventure game made by the devs of the MMO Black Desert (don’t worry, it miraculously avoids non-preorder microtransactions at launch), isn’t an RPG. Despite having oodles of systems, gear, and a large map to explore that might make you think otherwise, the developers are steadfast in avoiding the loaded term….
While change is inevitable in the world of tech and the Internet, there’s usually a good reason behind the moves. However, when X explained why it reduced the number of themes users could choose, the reactions appear to suggest that not only is it not a good idea, but one that doesn’t make any sense…
When I got my hands on the Steam Frame last year, I was filled with excitement. The new Valve VR headset promised a fresh take on home VR with a focus on convenience and ease-of-use—in large part led by a technology called foveated streaming. We’re yet to see the Steam Frame due to ongoing launch…
Dave Plummer, the man known for his work with Task Manager and Windows Pinball, has recently taken to Twitter to share what a modern version of his Task Manager would look like, and it’s… interesting. Well, more accurately, he shared the dashboard for his Tempest AI, saying, “This is probably what Task Manager would look…
On the one hand, I don’t want kids to see everything I did in the early oughts thanks to unfettered internet access. On the other, I really do not want to give Discord my personal data just to prove I’m old enough to be talking to my favourite weirdos. There’s gotta be a better way—and…
Ashes of Creation, a kickstarter MMO that recently imploded after it was cancelled and its dev team was laid off, has been revealed to be a hotbed of corporate drama and potential embezzling. First, some context: Back in 2017, Ashes of Creation became one of the most successful Kickstarter projects ever, accruing $3.2 million on…
The humble power button on every desktop, laptop, and handheld gaming PC is nothing more than a device that joins two contacts and nothing more. But have you ever wondered if there was another way—a better way—to fire up your rig every day? What if you could boot your computer using something that is absolutely…