PC Gaming
The Italian plumber has very rarely graced our humble rigs, but lest we forget Mario has been on PC before in a couple ’90s educational videogame stints. Which, to me, is more than enough of an excuse to yap a little about the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy Movie which just made a brief appearance in…
It’s been too long since I’ve felt the rush of excitement that comes with a new MMO launch. Millions piling into woefully unprepared servers, trying and failing to get my bearings in a sea of usernames, and the rare joy of playing an online RPG before the community has figured out the tier list placement…
The latest version of the BTF or Back to the Future rear-connect standard for motherboards, BTF 3.0 , goes even further in its quest to banish cables for a super-clean look, this time consolidating power supply for everything into a single server-derived power slot rated at over 2,000 W. BTF has always been about reducing…
Despite the fact it won’t launch for at least another year, Grand Theft Auto 6 is already having a huge impact on the games industry. Its shifting release date has already caused developers to adjust their own launch schedule to avoid being crushed by its spacetime-curving cultural mass. But with GTA 6’s latest delay to…
It ain’t cheap being a raider in a robot-infested apocalyptic playground. Along with the price of entry, Arc Raiders copies the traditional live service playbook by double-dipping through premium cosmetics, which includes a $10 hat for a chicken that you only see in a menu screen. The prices, and the fact that you need to…
When it comes to budget versions of the best gaming CPUs, we’ve been particularly big fans of the old AMD Ryzen 5 7600X. Those looking to save some money on a gaming processor are usually well-served by a fast-clocked six-core chip, and AMD’s reasonably-priced contender has, until now at least, fit the bill perfectly. What…
Over 32 hours with Arc Raiders, I have explored maybe 50% of its four launch maps. My friends recently gave me the grand tour of Blue Gate’s elaborate southern tunnel system, a thing that I did not know existed because I spent hours picking olives on the surface. But because there ain’t no rest for…
Why do we love game cartridges so? It’s something about the tactility, I’d wager, combined with the nostalgia of holding your individual games in your hand. Holiday gift vibes, that sort of thing. Anyway, Joel of YouTube channel Joel Creates has taken that nostalgia trip to its absolute extreme, creating a CRT-equipped Nintendo Switch 2…
Bungie’s next game, the troubled reboot of Marathon, is most easily described as an extraction shooter—currently the hottest genre on the planet due to the enormous success of Arc Raiders. But if one former Bungie developer had got his way, Marathon wouldn’t be an extraction shooter. Not because he would have made the game differently,…
As much as I love starting a new Minecraft world, it can be a little bit of a slog. I’ve spent more hours than I like to admit punching trees and building 4×4 dirt huts to call home. So, if there was a way to get this process streamlined for me, I’d probably jump at…