PC Gaming
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. We live in the golden age of…
The GPU in the hot new PlayStation 5 Pro is mostly pretty old tech. But it does preview the ray-tracing upgrades that are coming with AMD’s new RDNA 4 graphics chips for PC gamers. That’s the low down from the same PS5 Pro deep dive that also revealed Sony went its own way with AI…
If you’re looking to do a high-performance scratch-build in miniature, the ASRock DeskMini X600 seems like an intriguing foundation. Most mini-PCs come with a pre-soldered mobile APU running the show, but the DeskMini doesn’t ship with a chip. Instead, you can install any desktop AM5 CPU across AMD’s 7th and 8th-gen Ryzen range, provided your…
The Illuminate have been terrorising the galaxy and, for the most part, have sort of been sucking at it so far. At the time of writing, Super Earth’s finest have won their first major order against the squid scum, and are on track to win the second, punting them out of the Galaxy whenever they…
So you’ve rolled up your character, battled past innumerable horrifying monsters, and thrashed Doryani’s machine. Twice. You’ve got your free waystone, clicked on the map device, and opened up the Atlas of Worlds. Now what? Path of Exile 2‘s mapping can be intimidating, but after reading this you’ll have all the information you need to…
The now-ancient Commodore 64 should hold a place in the heart of every computing enthusiast, as it’s technically the highest-selling single computer model of all time. Several of them also appear to be in use in a doughnut shop in Indiana, showing that there’s still some (probably sticky) life left in the old dog yet….
What are the best weapons to unlock in The Finals? Now that Season 5 is here, there meta has shifted thanks to the addition of two new weapons—bringing the overall total in the game to 32, split between the three classes. Not to mention the balance changes that a new season brings. The Finals is…
You can keep your CODs and your BLOPSes and your live-service shooters that could poof out of existence at any moment. Give me a lurid cyberpunk world, comical killing animations, and a protagonist with the retro sensibilities of Duke Nukem (minus the outmoded attitudes towards women), and you’ve got my attention. Mullet Madjack ticks all…
Welcome to the future: The world is ruled by corporations headed by invincible tech billionaires with an iron grip over our political processes, our lives are driven by mindless work with precious little economic mobility, and mysterious AI programs threaten our very way of life. These also happen to be things that are happening in…
Graphics upscaling using AI is so important for gaming Sony decided to do its own hardware rather than use AMD technology. That’s one of the most important take-homes from the signature deep dive Sony’s lead architect for its Playstation consoles, Mark Cerny, has just given. AMD, of course, is responsible for both the CPU cores…