PC Gaming
Aside from a big step up in sequential throughput speeds, seemingly the common denominator for the latest PCIe Gen 5 SSDs is the need for beefy active cooling to rival an RTX 4090. Well, almost. But not so with the new Sabrent Rocket 5. Sabrent reckons it’ll do just fine with one of those slim-line…
Frogs (the animal) have become an indie darling in the past couple of years—as our former features producer Nat Clayton pointed out last year, people like ’em. They’re round, they’re cute, they’re in Frog Detective, what’s not to like? A lot. Listen, I like a little round green guy as much as the next person,…
A minor theme in FromSoftware’s peerless Soulsborne games is the occasional appearance of an enemy that, for whatever reason, doesn’t aggro on you. My favourite example of this is a mass of crows in Bloodborne’s Hemwick Charnel Lane, all of which bar one will attack, while the remaining crow just sits there all dopey-like. In…
Forget what the megacorps are doing. I’m fairly certain that, if a true artificial intelligence ever does spring from a digital chrysalis and kill us all some day, it’ll be because someone got a bit too enthusiastic twiddling the dials in Garry’s Mod. I say this because I’ve just finished fooling around with the sandbox’s…
Even if you don’t know Jennell Jaquays’ name, you’ve probably explored a tabletop RPG dungeon she created or played a Quake level she designed. The legendary designer and developer’s death last week sparked all manner of tributes from across the industry—but none seem so perfectly fitting for her legacy as a new attempt to crowdsource…
Safe to say the DIY Perks YouTube channel has form when it comes to surprisingly high quality homebrew tech lashups. But his latest effort, a Sony PS5 “tablet” conversion, is a bit special, even if calling it a tablet is a bit of a stretch. The core of the system is the PS5 Slim with…
The CEO and founder of Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has weighed in on recent prophecies from Ubisoft’s director: gamers will likely grin and bear a subscription-model future. Swen Vincke added to the discussion on Twitter in a thread this morning: (Image credit: @LarAtLarian on Twitter/X.) “It’s going to be a lot harder to…
OneXPlayer is hardly a novice when it comes to portable PCs, as it has been producing handheld devices and tablets for over six years, originally under the name of One-Notebook. Now it’s bringing Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs to its portfolio with the X1, the latest range-topper for the OneXPlayer OneXPlorer Series of handheld PCs. It’s…
Chris Szewczyk, Hardware Writer (Image credit: Chris Szewczyk) This week I’ve been getting on the new APU and GPU train: With AMD and Nvidia both releasing new silicon that’s where my 2024 has started, elbow deep in chip benchmarking. My happy place. The mid-life refresh of Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace generation graphics cards is here! They…
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