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Why I Love This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023, as part of our Why I Love series. Every month we talk about our favourite characters, mechanics, moments, and concepts in games—and explain why we adore them so much. I’m ten hours into Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC…
There’s a new Samsung Odyssey G8 monitor in town. Yup, it’s OLED. Nope, it’s different from the Odyssey OLED G8 Samsung already sells. This one is a 32-inch 4K beast running at fully 240Hz. Quite distinct, then, from the existing Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 34-inch ultrawide with 3,440 by 1,440 pixels or the Samsung Odyssey…
Happy New Year folk, welcome to 2024! Hopefully your holiday season was filled with plenty of good food, festivities, and just the right amount of mandatory family interactions. Is it me, or did 2023 somehow fly by and also feel like the longest year ever? Regardless, we successfully battled our way through the months and…
The Chinese Communist Party—who had taken aim at free-to-play monetisation schemes just before the holidays—softened its stance. This was after “nearly $80 billion in market value” bled from Tencent (League of Legends) and NetEase (Diablo: Immortal). The draft rules intended to target the live service giant’s favourite toys (such as daily login bonuses) while also…
The War Within arrives this year—promising to finally address Battle for Azeroth’s biggest dangling plot thread: the giant bloody sword that’s sticking out of the planet. We know this because of some subtle hints from the expansion’s cinematic trailer, like when the camera pans to the giant bloody sword. The one that’s sticking out of…
We all spent 2023 huddled round a deathbed, waiting for its raving occupant to finally gasp their last so we could get on with the business of finding a suitable heir. But in spite of it all, Twitter staggers on. Barely. That is, it must be said, quite remarkable. Twitter has had what business experts…
An image of the much rumoured Intel Core i9 14900KS CPU has emerged, fuelling expectations that Intel will indeed unleash this new 6.2GHz chip at CES on Monday. An image of the processor reportedly first appeared on Chinese messaging platform QQ before being reposted on X (via Sweclockers). The chip’s serial number has been obscured,…
I haven’t played Monster Sniper Season 3—no one has yet, except its creator—but I can already tell you it’s the worst game ever made. That’s not a value judgement; it’s the stated goal of the project. Starting in November last year, TikTok creator Everywhere Nowhere has set out to deliberately make the worst videogame they…
Vizio has agreed to pay out $3 million to settle a 2018 California class action lawsuit that accused the company of misleading consumers over the refresh rates of its TVs. Vizio had been claiming that black frame insertion technology increased the “effective refresh rate” of its TVs from 60Hz to 120Hz. It also applied the…
Activision-Blizzard’s transfer over to the growing empire of Microsoft has been a bit of a drama, to say the least—but it’s all over now, its curtains called with the departure of the company’s former CEO Bobby Kotick, exiting stage right. Kotick has been a controversial figure in gaming, quickly building up a reputation as a…