PC Gaming
Prices are getting a little out of hand for graphics cards at the moment, but some are affected more than others. While you do have to pay over the odds for the PNY RTX 5070 Ti OC, no more so than most high-end Nvidia graphics cards today, and a good deal less than some. It’s…
One of my biggest regrets over the last year is not picking up more hardware before the memory crisis, yet it turns out even thinking ahead may not save you. One customer bought a DDR5 memory kit back in 2024, and upon finding it (broken?), now they’ve been offered its worth… from 2024. As covered…
European game rating agency PEGI is about to make life more complicated for some game developers, as it plans to expand its system later this year with new “interactive risk categories” specifically targeting games with loot boxes, in-app purchases, or unmoderated in-game communications. Videogame age rating systems were initially established over fears about the presence…
After Embark Studios’ “playtest battles” and slew of competing plans caused it to pivot Arc Raiders away from its PvE boss-killing roots, it decided to add PvP to spice things up. While the rest isn’t quite history (development was still far from simple), it would be a defining factor in how it became the PvPvE…
Seven years on from Disco Elysium’s release and we are once again getting a game with the ZA/UM studio name on it. Zero Parades is a CRPG spy thriller that—when I played its demo a few weeks ago—felt very Disco-Elysium-shaped indeed. Which is weird, because when our Wes Fenlon chatted to principal writer Siim Sinamäe…
According to games industry market research firm Newzoo (PC Gamer’s official data partner), PC games revenue has trailed console software sales for over a decade. That, however, is changing. In its 2026 PC and Console report, Newzoo says that PC revenue growth outperformed consoles in 2025 as the industry began to emerge from its “post-2020…
We’ve already reported how Apple’s new MacBook Neo is putting the frighteners on PC laptop makers. Now comes news that early benchmarks show the chip beating every single x86 CPU currently available when it comes to single-core performance in Cinebench 2024. Yep, that includes desktop monsters like AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X and Intel’s Core Ultra…
Embark has not shied away from discussing its original plans for Arc Raiders, which were drastically different from what ultimately emerged. It was supposed to be a more PvE-focused game before it became the extraction shooter hit it is today. We stopped forcing the game [or games] we wanted, and we looked at the game…
Every Friday morning, I cast an eye over the land of SSD deals…only to find it unnervingly quiet as of late. RAM prices aren’t looking so hot either, but if you’ve been keeping track of the raging memory supply crisis, you likely didn’t need me to tell you that. Well, here I am anyway with…
“It’s the year 1963 in a world that replaced computers with human brains,” is how horror game Brainshell describes its setup. “The nuclear arms race has led to a point of no return. Your government uses propaganda, brainwashing and body modifications to create the ultimate weapon: a conscious nuclear missile.” I checked BBC News, looked…