PC Gaming
Here at PCG towers, we’ve recently been sorting through some of our old treasure hoard of magazine issues, including interviews with many of the industry’s leading figures. One that recently jumped out to me was a 2008 interview with John Carmack, at which time he was still at id Software, around the launch of Quake…
Meta is increasing the price of the Quest 3 and Quest 3S VR headsets. It says this is down to the high costs of components, namely memory, and the change will affect refurbished units, too. “We’re making this change because the cost of building high-performance VR hardware has risen significantly,” Meta says in a blog…
Last October, Intel launched its Panther Lake mobile processor architecture, and when we got our hands on a Core Ultra Series 3 CPU several months later, we were greatly impressed by its gaming chops. Now it’s back again with Wildcat Lake: all the best parts of Panther Lake, but cut down to a kitten-sized little…
On paper, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB makes a whole lot of sense. I was particularly impressed by the RX 9060 XT 16 GB when I tested it last year, and the 8 GB version is usually substantially cheaper. In fact, out of all of AMD and Nvidia’s current-generation graphics cards, it’s…
It’s not often that I write about a refresh of a vendor’s gaming laptop portfolio, and it’s simply because there’s rarely anything new to report. A slightly better screen here, a mildly faster processor over there: small changes are pretty much par for the course. But in an announcement for its new Raider and Crosshair…
There’s nothing like watching US politics from the outside to make you feel in-fucking-sane on the daily. For today’s WTF news, here’s New York mayor Zohran Mamdani explaining the benefits of charity with an extended Mario Kart metaphor. And here’s a transcript for those of you on public transport without headphones, or people who just…
Bear with me here: the Xenosaga JRPG series belongs to the wider Xeno series, which also includes the lately-very-popular Xenoblade Chronicles games. The Xenosaga trilogy originally released for PlayStation 2, and the first two games were also ported to Nintendo DS. You don’t need to be a JRPG or Monolith Soft fanatic to be aware…
Pragmata‘s Red Zones are some of the most challenging combat arenas in the game, and each one offers great rewards that make it worth the effort. But the challenge doesn’t start in the arena. First, you’ll need to find the associated Red Gate Keys to even enter the room. After you stumble upon the first…
Pragmata‘s a weird game. It feels both like a game from two decades ago and like it’s breaking new ground at the same time. Case in point, its level design tends to be very linear, especially early on, but then there’s a variety of activities that give you heaps of overly complicated currencies. It also…
Almost immediately after entering Sector 1’s Solar Power Plants in Pragmata, you’ll stumble across a doorway blocked with blue crystals and rock. You can peek into the room, but you can’t get past these barriers. Once you reach Sector 2, the Mass Production Array (the area that looks like New York), you’ll find even more…