PC Gaming

Remember back in the good old days, when MMO dungeons used to be big, sprawling mazes you could spend hours just getting lost in? Now most of them follow a similar formula: Narrow-ish corridors with three to five bosses. Sure, the set dressing varies, but the mechanical template is always bite-sized. World of Warcraft is…

MOBAs are interesting videogames—imagine, if you will, a slot machine. Then imagine that slot machine takes forty minutes to do one pull of the arm, and also it’s yelling colourful and exciting swearwords at you in a language you don’t understand the entire time. That’s sort of what playing a MOBA with public voice chat…

Long-term data storage is a tricky one. As I look at my personal hard drives, full of photos, screenshots, and ancient drafts of teenage poetry I hope never see the light of day, I can’t help but wonder how long I really have until I encounter the dread spectre of disk failure. SSDs may sound…

Generative AI sucks for so many reasons, from its impact on the environment to the skyrocketing cost of RAM, but in my day-to-day life the most frustrating side effect is that whenever I look at an image online, a piece of art, or even a video, I have to wonder if someone’s trying to pull…

The last remnants of Nvidia’s once-bold plan to take control of CPU specialist Arm have been defenestrated. According to regulatory filings, Nvidia has dumped its remaining stake in Arm amounting to 1.1 million shares with a value of approximately $140 million. Nvidia hasn’t commented on the move, which took place at the end of last…

I love being outdoors with the excuse of watching the birds, but given it has rained every single day here since the new year rolled in, I haven’t had a great opportunity to do so yet. Not only do the grey skies and constant downpours put me off, but the birds themselves have spent more…

Commodity fetishism is the Marxist term for the process by which relationships between people become relationships between commodities. That is to say, the long narrative of the box of cereal, the pair of shoes, the smartphone you pick up from a store shelf is mystified by the scale and complexity of capitalism. You don’t see…

Developer Scope Creeps warns me as I boot up gun dating simulator Polyarmory: High Calibre Love that it is a team very much dedicated to the bit, and I didn’t have to go any further than its options menu to figure that out. For starters, there’s a toggle for BDSM clowns—much appreciated for those of…

A 40-year old man from Ridderkerk in the Netherlands has been arrested for reportedly downloading files accidentally sent to him by the police, then apparently refusing to send them back unless he received a reward. That’s according to the Dutch National Police’s report on the incident (via BitDefender). The report (machine translated) says the man…

German website ComputerBase.de has conducted a blind comparison test pitting AMD’s and Nvidia’s latest AI-based upscaling technologies against native rendering at 4K in a poll of over 1,000 gamers. Across six different games, Nvidia DLSS came out on top as the stated preference of gamers, beating not only AMD FSR but also native 4K rendering….