PC Gaming
The games industry has been putting transparent glass and plastic on its hardware for decades now, yet Corsair’s see-through power supply might feel a tad too vulnerable for my liking. Luckily, Corsair has also shown off a case that seems hardy enough to protect it. We have seen Corsair’s HX1000i Shift Crystal before (its 1000W…
So Nvidia has announced the RTX Spark chip, its first CPU—or should that be APU—for the PC. Except the chip is basically a rebadge of the GB10 superchip in the DGX Spark desktop AI box that it launched in October last year. And it uses pretty ancient CPU cores licensed from Arm. So when might…
Noctua has returned to Computex in Taiwan with a new and improved version of its pumpless liquid cooler. This time, the company says it’s able to compete with a standard all-in-one cooler for temps. “We had that demo last year on a 9800X3D,” Noctua’s Jakob Dellinger says, calling back to this thermosiphon prototype from 2025….
We’ve seen all manner of keycaps over the years, from Kerbals to desserts and just about everything in between. But I don’t think I’ve seen any quite so peculiar as those just announced from Asus ROG. They come in a ‘Mystery Box Edition 20’, with the latter part of this referring to the company’s 20th…
The AMD RX 9070 GRE is probably the most 2026 graphics card any GPU company could release this year. With the possible exception of Nvidia digging down the back of the sofa again and releasing another RTX 3060. The RX 9070 GRE was previously a China-exclusive card and represents a dumbing down of the Navi…
We haven’t heard much about Riot’s League of Legends MMO—basically nothing, if you get down to it—but it’s still alive and kicking, and today it kicked again: Brian Holinka, who spent more than a decade at Blizzard, including nearly five years as the lead combat designer on World of Warcraft, has joined the dev team….
Last year for Christmas, a good friend got me the best gift of all: Love The Orange Box the 1997 PC Gamer US “Holiday Extravaganza” issue, 456 pages of news, reviews, interviews, and, crucially, retro full page ads from the late ’90s golden age of PC gaming. Rogue One screenwriter Gary Whitta was still editor-in-chief,…
“The wind stirs. The world shifts. Stand ready,” the official Guild Wars account posted on its social media channels on Monday. Accompanying the message was a cryptic video, showcasing lightly animated concept art with a clear fantasy theme, and a date: June 5th, 2026, when we’ll all be watching the Summer Game Fest 2026 broadcast….
In an effort to provide Marathon with some additional staying power, Bungie said in May that it would be experimenting with PvE and PvE-adjacent offerings as Marathon seasons continue, giving players a chance to see what playing the game is like when they aren’t drenched in sweat. Today, the studio offered some preliminary details about…
Back in 2023, a court ordered Valve chief Gabe Newell to testify, in person, in the long-running antitrust suit filed by Wolfire Games in 2021. A new report by Bloomberg runs down some of what Newell had to say during that testimony, including a denial that Steam holds any kind of monopoly on PC gaming….