PC Gaming
Anomaly Agent feels like a tie-in game for an ’80s movie that never existed. The first game from developer Phew Phew Games, Anomaly Agent starts with a bang. You’re dropped into the action mid-mission, your boss harping at you over the radio to stay focused while interdimensional anomalies crop up all around you. You play…
Valve’s monthly analysis of its Steam Hardware Survey for January was published the other day and the figures made for interesting, if not unexpected, reading. For example, Windows 11 was making small gains against Windows 10, and the number of CPU cores and amount of system RAM are all steadily increasing. I’ve been monitoring the…
Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2 recently received an all-singing all-dancing remaster for PlayStation 5, which was both something of a surprise (the game was only released in 2020) and managed to over-deliver with a slew of new modes, cut content, creator commentary, and of course native 4K. Sony hasn’t yet announced whether…
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has scooped this year’s Grammy for best video game soundtrack making it the second game to receive the award since its inauguration last year. Specifically given for “Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive media”, the award was won by Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab, for their work writing…
The sails on the CPU rumour mill are really churning at the moment, with reports that AMD’s successor to its Zen 4 chip design will be launched this year. New processors also means new motherboards and it’s being reported that the top-of-the-line X870E chipset will go one better than the current X670E by offering full…
Well, that kind of snuck up didn’t it. Nvidia has quietly launched the RTX 3050 6GB. At a glance it’s an unexciting and slower version of a graphics card that’s been on the market for nearly three years. According to benchmarks from a retail card purchased by Computer Base, it loses just over 20% to…
Get your Wordle week started on the right foot with our wide range of hints and tips. Keep on scrolling and you’ll find a helpful clue written especially for today’s game, and if you scroll or click just a little further down, you’ll find the answer to the February 5 (961) Wordle too. However well…
Steam’s latest hardware survey has been released. The key trends for December 2023 show that Windows 11 is inching towards parity with Windows 10, gamers are gradually shifting towards higher core count CPUs, and the share of systems with 8GB or less of RAM continues to shrink. Although the wider market has not fallen in…
Best of the best (Image credit: Larian Studios) 2024 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best MMOs: Massive worlds Best RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good…
A toadstool, the Universe, King Midas, the Golem. This is not a free association exercise, but rather a list of concoctions my coworkers and I have produced in Infinite Craft, a deceptively simple browser game by developer Neal Agarwal, who you may know for creating a delightfully “unhinged browser game about passwords” last year. Infinite…