PC Gaming

Imagine that you’d just bought a new Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the best gaming CPU around right now. You drop it into your AM5 socket motherboard and start enjoying the freshly boosted frame rates. After a while, you then start experiencing all kinds of problems, until eventually your gaming PC no longer fires up: the CPU…

Nova Lake, the next-generation of Core processor, is set to launch at the end of the year. That’s no surprise, but with the ongoing memory crisis making upgrading your processor and motherboard a very expensive ordeal, we had worried for both Intel and AMD’s forthcoming generations. In Intel’s Q4 earnings call, the company’s CEO, Lip-Bu…

A whopping 16 main Armored Core games have released since 1997, but only 2023’s brilliant Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon is officially available on PC. Until now, that is: a second Armored Core game just released on Steam courtesy of Japanese publisher G-Mode, and it’s going for the bargain price of $11. Alas, Armored…

Fable gameplay footage debuted at today’s Xbox Developer Direct, and despite a long 16-year wait between instalments the presentation felt very on brand. That’s maybe a little surprising, given Lionhead Studios closed in 2016. The new game is in the hands of Forza Horizon studio Playground Games, which has very little in common with the…

Hytale is off to a strong start in early access, securing two more years of development time in preorders, becoming Twitch’s most-watched game on launch day, and responding quickly to community requests. It’s also received a few big updates in its first couple weeks: last week’s patch added fun stuff like underground dinosaurs, and a…

Fable developer Playground Games seems to have its priorities in order: its reimagining of fantasy world Albion is full of beautiful scenery, the tone remains goofy, and there are choices to make that leave an impact on the people around you. More important than all that, though, is that Albion’s citizens are each unique, and…

I like it when a game has a beginning, middle, and end⁠—I’m old fashioned like that⁠—so I tend to avoid a roguelike unless it looks really, truly special. Upcoming stealth-immersive-platform-brawler-prank sim DreadBound fits the bill. From its first trailer, DreadBound looks to be taking a page from the likes of Dark Messiah of Might &…

If I was to put this in pro wrestling terms, I would say the Triple Threat match has become a surprise Fatal Four-Way, and if you don’t know what I’m talking about, I mean that Remedy Entertainment says Alan Wake 2 would not exist without Epic Publishing. Does that clear things up for you? Okay,…