PC Gaming
How much memory your graphics card has access to is crucially important to gaming performance, but is a bigger buffer always worth spending more money on? The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT puts this theory to the test, delivering 16 gigabytes of VRAM alongside a very familiar GPU and starting at ~$329. The underlying core…
Looking back, I can’t decide if the Windows I have the warmest memories of is XP or 7. XP was a stalwart, something about it feels eternal, like it’s the ur-version of the OS from which all others emerge. But it was on 7 that I first got my hands on games like Planescape, Baldur’s…
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League spends much of its first couple of hours introducing the Justice League and establishing just how out of their depth the squad is, and while all of these introductions are pretty neat, one in particular stands out: Batman’s. Naturally, there are spoilers beyond. The criminal quartet has narrowly avoided…
By rock and stone, they did it: Dwarf Fortress publisher Kitfox Games and Deep Rock Galactic developer Ghost Ship Studios have managed to convince Valve to add an official ‘dwarf’ tag to Steam. But not without a little confusion leading up to the big triumph. Steam uses tags to help users find what they’re looking…
What’s the word for when something’s like a dolphin? Dolphinesque? Cetecean? Oh, “delphine” apparently. There you go, we’ve both learned something today. The protagonist of Pepper Grinder, she’s delphine, she is. That might surprise you, given she (Pepper) is not a sea mammal, but in fact a squat, teal-haired woman holding a drill almost as…
I love listening to people dissect horror stories. I enjoy a good horror comic, and that hot wash of goosebumps you get after a page-turn reveal. I like dipping my toes into gothic fiction and horror from time to time—the kind that leaves you discreetly double-checking your locks before bed each night. Despite all of…
I’ve been writing about games for too long to keep track of the number of times I’ve been promised a “living world”, but the prospect continues to hold so much appeal that I’ve yet to become jaded—uncharacteristically—despite the payoffs being few and far between. Unforetold: Witchstone is another RPG with these lofty ambitions, driven by…
GPU prices remain painful. On that we can all agree. But can it really be correct that the per-transitor cost of chips hasn’t budged in a decade? So said Google’s Milind Shah last year, according to Semiconductor Digest (incorporating Memory Buses Weekly, or at least it ought to!). More specifically, the claim (via Tomshardware) is…
As any child running around the park holding a plastic raygun will tell you, most issues can be resolved by the correct application of a suitable amount of lasers, preferably of the pew-pew variety. However, one startup is aiming to solve the very real problem of orbital debris by using honest-to-goodness satellite mounted space lasers,…
Here’s the thing about Persona 3 Reload: it’s not all of Persona 3. In particular, the remake is missing the epilogue campaign—called The Answer—that came with Persona 3 FES back on the PS2, and it’s missing the female protagonist you could play as in the PSP (and now PC) version of the game, Persona 3…