PC Gaming
Most gamers enjoy a speedy or balanced feel to their mouse pad, but there are a few of us out there who have a penchant for stopping power. If you’re into tactical shooters that require very steady aim plus occasional flicks with a precise stop on your enemy’s head, slower control pads are for you….
As is the case with a lot of older games (I regret to inform you that The Witcher 3 is 11 years old) that get the remaster treatment, there’s been some anxiety over whether The Witcher 3 Remastered will run properly on the Steam Deck—especially given it’ll be a free update. It’s always frustrating when…
I walked into Nvidia’s DLSS 5 demo last week with some preconceptions, I’ll be honest. I hadn’t enjoyed the images it had produced to date, and I was sceptical about the benefits it could bring to our beloved games. Not to mention the troubling notion of AI-altered images entering into our hobby, even if you…
I think it’s fair to say that DLSS 5 is the most controversial Nvidia creation… well, ever. After the huge amounts of backlash it received in reaction to its unveiling earlier this year, Nvidia’s AI image enhancing tech has been mostly kept under lock and key. However, myself and a select group of journalists were…
California’s Digital Age Assurance Act is due to take effect at the very start of 2027, bringing in sweeping age-verification checks by system providers. As part of it, operating systems will have to do age checks on users to lock down certain functions, which had led some Linux developers to go full crisis mode in…
With Persona 4 Revival giving my favourite game a modern-day makeover, I was hoping Atlus would use it as an opportunity to reintroduce features that didn’t make the cut the first time around. You know, like a certain romance between protagonist Yu Narukami and his bestie Yosuke Hanamura. Both English and Japanese voiced dialogue was…
The game industry is—to use the lightest possible language—in an interesting spot. While videogames are as profitable as ever on paper, we’ve had a few consecutive years of brutal layoffs and studio closures, as well as all of the knock-on impacts that the advent of generative AI (and the subsequent and boneheaded insistence that it’s…
With Fable (it’s just called Fable, but it’s technically Fable 4) set to release on February 23 next year, we finally have its system requirements. And for a big budget game launching in 2027, they’re not too bad. That’s according to the newly updated Fable FAQ, which says you will need an Intel i7 6850K…
A thing that often happens in this line of work is: a developer or PR person enthusiastically trying to convince you that a not-especially-interesting game is actually incredibly innovative and exciting. The Gamescom demo for Nekome: Nazi Hunter is the first time I have been in the reverse position: I thought the game was interesting,…
The MSI Crosshair 16 Max HX E2W is in many ways the polar opposite of the other MSI laptop I recently tested, the Stealth 16 AI+ B3W. The latter is an ultra-expensive, sleek and subtle machine that limits its power for the sake of thermals, efficiency, and form factor. Not so with the Crosshair: it’s…