PC Gaming
After playing a few hours of Highguard at a hands-on event in Los Angeles last week, I don’t think it’s my next FPS obsession. I do, however, respect the stance its developers at Wildlight Entertainment are taking with their debut game’s business model. Highguard is free-to-play, it has cosmetic-only battle passes that never expire, new…
When Highguard debuted as the “one last thing” at the end of The Game Awards in December, the internet responded to the new hero shooter with a resounding “meh.” After the reveal, Wildlight Entertainment then went dark for nearly two months as it geared up for its late January launch. Official Highguard promotion stopped as…
The immersive sim is, of course, the best type of game. There’s just no beating it. Being able to stack boxes or throw a refrigerator at a guy? That’s what it’s all about, right there. And yet, despite the fact imsims are god’s own genre, no one ever makes them. Why? Oh, because they’re hard…
Fast, feisty, fabulous. That’s how I described the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H in my review, and I stand by it. It’s got an Arc B390 iGPU that crushes all the others we’ve tested for gaming performance, and that’s a remarkable technical achievement given the size of the graphics tile relative to the rest of…
In June 2025, after two years of virtual silence, we got our first up-to-date look at InXile Entertainment’s upcoming steampunk RPG Clockwork Revolution. And then, well, it was back to silence. That may be because Clockwork Revolution is the studio’s “most ambitious title, probably by a factor of 10,” InXile head Brian Fargo said in…
I checked out the Logitech G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad last year and I was not impressed. That’s primarily because it was too expensive for what it offers, especially compared to the first version. So consider me downright stupefied that Logitech seems to have raised its price, at least in the US. When I…
The thing they don’t tell you is: it’s easy, this astronaut lark. Oh, sure, they make it look hard—all dials and knobs and switches that have protective covers over them, but it’s just theatre. Easiest job in the world, really: you just go up. Such was my attitude when I fired up Reentry – A…
I have typed the word “pistol” so many times I genuinely forget how to spell it. I go over and over again. Pil—no, that’s wrong. Pistl—no, also wrong. Pit—WRONG AGAIN. Blocks descend on me as my brain goes into overdrive and my HP gets decimated. How the hell do you spell pistol again? The repetitiveness…
AMD’s ‘Strix Halo’ (ie, Ryzen AI Max 300) chips have been a bit of a damp squib for gaming. Despite some initial and possibly naïve hopes that it could deliver fantastic integrated graphics for mainstream gaming laptops and handhelds, in reality it’s been out for a year and has delivered only a little. Instead, it’s…
AMD’s ‘Strix Halo’ (ie, Ryzen AI Max 300) chips have been a bit of a damp squib for gaming. Despite some initial and possibly naïve hopes that it could deliver fantastic integrated graphics for mainstream gaming laptops and handhelds, in reality it’s been out for a year and has delivered only a little. Instead, it’s…