PC Gaming
Both Samsung and LG, the two big makers of OLED screens that go into TVs and monitors, announced new panel technology at CES 2026 with 4,500 nits of peak brightness. Question, will that tech appear in a PC monitor any time soon? The answer is yes and no. Yes, the technologies seen in the new…
Both Samsung and LG, the two big makers of OLED screens that go into TVs and monitors, announced new panel technology at CES 2026 with 4,500 nits of peak brightness. Question, will that tech appear in a PC monitor any time soon? The answer is yes and no. Yes, the technologies seen in the new…
You can start collecting Helium right away in StarRupture from small meteorites dotted around the planet’s surface. But, at first, you won’t have any use for it. Once you’ve got your head around the likes of Wolfram, Titanium, and Calcium, you’ll need to get this resource en masse. Luckily, the Helium locations aren’t all that…
Despite StarRupture‘s admittedly thorough base-building tutorial, you’re oddly not introduced to blueprints—collectable crafting recipes hidden around the planet. Given that these restricted items periodically block progress, it’s certainly an odd oversight. You’re in luck, though; the Stabilizer blueprint location isn’t all that far away. Just like the Rotor and Tube blueprints to the northwest and…
Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined just got a demo—a generous one at that, spanning about three whole hours of the game and letting you carry your save over to your primary save. But Square Enix giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other, because if you happen to get the game early—say, via its…
If there’s one great thing about this year’s CES, it’s that it’s been a nice distraction from all the memory crisis-induced hardware pricing doom and gloom. Admittedly, it’s given us its own share of mild gloom with its own expensive products and relentless focus on AI, but that’s by-the-by. Now the main excitement is out…
With the 2025 cycle of drops out of the way, Minecraft has already revealed a feature of its next update—and let me tell you, it’s simply adorable. In fact, it’s probably going to stop me from creating tiny little animal farms as a food source as a whole, which is a pretty dramatic statement given…
Arc Raiders was one of last year’s nicest surprises, a chilled PvEvP extraction shooter that’s constantly surprising, challenging, and… well, OK, it’s got one problem for me. It’s on the crafting and upgrades side. I hate inventory management and Arc Raiders is particularly bad at it: You’re constantly bottlenecked on upgrades by a shortage of…
When I’m playing Arc Raiders, one of the things I’m most struck by is just how cinematic it is. I’m creeping through sand-swept streets at night as gunshots ring out in the distance and flares start flying, then all of a sudden a Rocketeer starts hounding me in and out of houses, and I narrowly…
I’m a fan of extraction shooters, sure, but I’ve never liked one as much as Arc Raiders. Now, Embark Studios has made the notoriously difficult sub-genre slightly easier with more forgiving death penalties, plentiful loot, and nicer lobbies, but the standout feature for me is undoubtedly the social element. I’ve encountered bloodthirsty raiders who’d fit…