PC Gaming
As an owner of a Gigabyte motherboard, I am intimately familiar with the intricacies of the Gigabyte Control Center (GCC) app. We’ve had issues in the past, me and that particular program. Anyway, there’s an even better reason to update it now, as the company has posted two separate advisories relating to a pair of…
Peak was one of the surprise successes of last year. What was originally meant as just a simple game jam project turned into a huge hit as hundreds of thousands of players gathered around the foot of the mountain with their friends with the aspirations of scaling it and escaping the deserted island. Since then…
Crimson Desert is a game utterly stacked with systems—minigames, theft, horse stabling, farming, follower missions, you get the picture. It’s something that PCG’s own Mollie Taylor called out in her Crimson Desert review, describing it as “an infinite trail of gumdrops”. Turns out, however, that there were in fact more systems that developer Pearl Abyss…
Furtive Meeting is a painful new quest in Arc Raiders, especially if you don’t know your way around Stella Montis like the back of your hand. Just like Fragmented Logs, another of the Flashpoint quests, you’ll have to run all over the map to complete your objectives in a single round. Only this time, you…
Steam Hardware Surveys come with copious caveats, including some courtesy of Valve itself. But the latest results for March are still intriguing, including a big jump in the proportions of gamers running Linux and a regression to the mean for the survey’s GPU stats. First up, that Linux result. According to March survey figures, the…
Hardware Canucks has tested the latest Dell XPS 14 laptop with a Panther Lake Core Ultra 7 355 chip at its heart, and the battery life appears to be nothing short of astonishing. The channel recorded a 43-hour+ result when performing a Chrome web browsing test, beating out the latest MacBook Air 15 by roughly…
Say it ain’t so, a product in the custom PC industry space right now that’s dare I say “cheap”, “affordable”, “coming down in price”. Unbelievably, yes, that is the case. This is Thermaltake’s TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync all-in-one liquid cooler. And despite the ridiculously funky name, it’s surprisingly impressive all things considered. That’s mostly…
Recently uncovered cassette tape recordings of the 1989 Computer Game Developers Conference reveal how much has changed in the games industry in the last 40 years, as well as how much has stayed the same. Decades ago, Origin Systems’ Robert Garriott was already worried about the PC gaming market being oversaturated, even when a mere…
According to a recent job listing, Blizzard is cooking up a new game in an engine and a genre that none of its releases have used before. The studio is looking for a “Lead Designer, Innovation” to run development on a “AAA open-world shooter” without a name. Right now, every Blizzard game except Hearthstone (made…
If you’re signed up for Steam client betas, you might have noticed that the storefront looks a little fresher today. That’s because Valve is testing some updates to the Steam store home page that, you guessed it, “aims to make it even easier for you to find new games by displaying more content and information.”…