PC Gaming
The life of a pirate is short and dangerous, full of adventures on the high seas, plundering galleons and sticking it to The Man. When you fire up a pirate-themed game, then, you might expect to do a lot of swashbuckling and looting (which should help take your mind off the fact that you’re riddled…
Every year, Call of Duty either tries to reinvent the wheel, or undo the reinvention it tried last time. With the upcoming Modern Warfare 4, it’s attempting the latter—Morgan has played MW4 multiplayer at Infinity Ward recently, and he’s not convinced it’s a leap forward, despite being confident it’ll be the best-playing Call of Duty…
ASML, the company that makes the semiconductor machines that every big Western chipmaker uses to make their chips, has “raised its guidance“—i.e., increased its predictions over how well it’s going to do—for the year. It says this is thanks to being able to keep up with customer demand coming from both memory and processor/accelerator chipmakers….
We are, as a people, awash in old operating system simulators. The Roottrees Are Dead, Hack ’95, Pipes.exe—something deep inside us yearns for the old ways. We remember, hazily, as though glimpsed through fog, a time when booting up the PC yielded an ethereal Brian Eno startup noise and a world of possibility, rather than…
Every publisher and developer has been trying to avoid the black hole that is Grand Theft Auto 6—easier said than done, given that Rockstar has shifted the GTA 6 release date several times now just to bait the entire industry. Even Call of Duty is giving it a wide berth, with Modern Warfare 4 opting…
I do not possess the required amount of brain cells to digest and discern whatever happens in a Marvel Rivals team fight. I’ve tried, but anytime I get caught up in the middle while waves of crowd control abilities, ultimates, and everything in between are thrown at me, my brain just turns off. Which is…
Steam Game Cartridges from r/pcmasterrace One Redditor has created a physical media project that not only laser-targets my cartridge-based obsession but also scoffs at the raging memory supply crisis. User Jibril-sama scored a bunch of second-hand 2.5-inch SSDs “for cheap” and has leveraged them to create a game cartridge system for their Steam library. The…
One of the major victims of Xbox’s “reset” is id Software, which suffered a whopping 136 layoffs—a move one artist likened to reducing it to a “support studio”. This is a line that Microsoft itself has tried to counter, both via official studio channels and a statement given to Windows Central last week. More on…
The Secretlab Atlas has a lot going for it. It fits snugly into a home office and it’s very comfortable for use throughout the day (with regular breaks, of course). It’s even good for a spot of gaming in the evening, if you’re so inclined, providing you understand that this isn’t explicitly a gaming chair….
TSMC, the world’s biggest chipmaker, has reportedly just announced it plans to invest another $100 billion in the US (via AP News) to expand its chip production in the country. ‘Another’, that is, on top of the $100 billion the company committed to last year. That previous $100 billion was in addition to the $65…