PC Gaming
If you signed up for PC Game Pass just to play Bethesda’s sprawling space epic Starfield, then you may still be too busy system-hopping for your attention to stray to other matters like dealing with your backlog of laundry or indeed playing other games. But compelling though Starfield may be, it’s not going anywhere, and…
You know when people use human or anatomical analogies to describe parts of a PC, like how the CPU is the brain, the motherboard is the skeleton, your liquid cooling pipes are arteries, and power cables are… veins? OK, we’ve never heard of some of those either, but few anatomical analogies are more apt than…
The back half of 2023 has delivered again. The triple-A belters are stacking up, with Alan Wake 2 and COD: Modern Warfare 3 showcasing what modern GPUs are really capable of. Meanwhile, big hitters like Baldur’s Gate 3, Diablo VI and Starfield offer roughly seven bazillion hours of content, and you’ve been juggling life and…
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Asus TUF A17 | Nvidia RTX 4070 | AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS | 17.3-inch | 144Hz | 1080p | 16GB DDR5 | 1TB SSD | $1,799.99 $1,399.99 at Newegg (save $400) If you’re after a large-screen laptop for school with a little Triple-A gaming on the side, the TUF A17 will certainly deliver. It’s only…
It was always a bit weird that Starfield launched without DLSS support, given the way Nvidia GPUs dominate the Steam Hardware and Software survey. Better late than never, though, and after some early help from modders and a beta test that launched on November 8, DLSS support is now fully live, meaning owners of compatible…
Starfield was primed to go galactic in the steady countdown to its launch. It was the first big mainline Bethesda RPG in a while. It was big and ambitious—one small step for Bethesda as a studio, one giant leap for gamer kind. Post launch, though, and that hype’s cooled significantly. What we got was more…
You remember that bit in the V For Vendetta film when the people of England—suffused by the fiery spirit of generally agreeable moderatism—all don their own V masks and take to the streets, proving that ideas are unkillable? Well now it’s happening in Elden Ring, but with an upturned jar instead of a V mask…
The new ROG Maximus Z790 Hero Eva-02 Edition motherboard from Asus isn’t notable for its wealth of hardware features or even the fact that it’s been customised with a full blown tribute to the 1990’s anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. It’s garnered more news than most motherboards do thanks to one simple typo. As reported by…
While prepping for my interview with Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Amelia Tyler, I finally started my Dark Urge run. She’d mentioned that it’d be a great example of how she’d adjusted her narration, and my Dark Urge playthrough was long overdue, anyway. This presented a problem, though. See, The Dark Urge is a funny little beast….