PC Gaming

Welcome to Silver Pines. You might recognise it, if you’ve visited Twin Peaks or Alan Wake’s Bright Falls. It’s wet, it’s weird, it’s a bit unsettling. It’s also the last-known location of Eddie Velvet, a musician being tracked by private investigator Red Walker—that’s you. But who cares about runaway musicians when there are monsters trying…

As anyone who’s endured hearing me talk about Linux (which is cool) will know, one of my favourite things about the sunlit uplands of free and open-source (FOSS) software is Luxtorpeda, a compatibility tool that will automatically download and install open-source engine reimplementations—and other mods—for supported games you run with it. For instance, fire up…

With the RAMpocalypse doing its very best to ruin PC gaming, with memory and storage now ludicrously expensive, the handheld market has struggled to keep things affordable. Acer’s solution to all this is simple: bin everything needed to play games locally, and just make a streaming device instead. Officially called the Nitro Blaze Link, Acer’s…

As hardware goes, graphics cards can be on the heftier side. Asus ROG’s Astral cards were already a case in point, but the company has just unveiled an anniversary edition well-deserving of the two C’s in ‘thicc’. During this year’s Computex, Asus announced the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20. The GPU isn’t only CHONKY,…

It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have sight of Nvidia’s very own Arm-based CPU. And as if to remind us it’s not all a fever dream, we have sight of some actual laptops that will feature the chip, like the MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI+. The first thing you’ve probably noticed is…

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X is undeniably a great device, but it’s an expensive one. So when I saw Asus had unveiled an upgraded anniversary edition, bundled with a pair of AR glasses, I felt a little pain for my bank account. The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 bundle includes an Xbox ROG Ally…

There was a time where I was a chronic pre-orderer. If a videogame was coming out, I would buy it months in advance. I eagerly awaited its release date—and back when I was a console gamer, I crossed my fingers and hoped that a physical copy would slide into my letterbox a couple days early….

There are a few pesky challenges in Forza Horizon 6‘s Series 1 update, and Link Skiller isn’t going to be too popular. Why? Because you need to perform Link Skills, and that requires you to work with other players. The good news is that it’s actually easy enough to do without friends once you know…

After long-time Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada departed Bandai Namco last year—having now started up his own studio under SNK—the game director behind the last two entries is now following in his footsteps. Kohei “Nakatsu” Ikeda has been with the developer for 20 years, first joining the team behind Soulcalibur 4 before eventually becoming the game…