PC Gaming

As reported by IGN and Gabe Follower on X, Backrooms director Kane Parsons shared an Instagram story from Valve’s Bellevue, Washington headquarters on September 16. The director has previously said that Portal was extremely influential on his work, inspiring hopes for a Parsons-led adaptation or some other collaboration with the studio. There’s more circumstantial evidence…

The industry obsession with high-resolution graphics has haunted it for years, but given the dire state of things in regards to both layoffs and hardware prices? It’s now starting to be downright incompatible. Raph Koster, a veteran developer who worked on Ultima Online and was the creative director for Star Wars Galaxies—and is now making…

If you remember a very cool project we reported on a few months ago that got Ubuntu Linux up and running on PlayStation 5 consoles, I have some bad news: the lead developer of the open-source project, Andy Nguyen, has stepped away: “I am stepping away from the PS5 scene and stopping all my work…

I’ve got to the point where I grimace when I see a listing for a gaming PC. The memory crisis has so severely gutted pricing and availability that I’ve found my eyes glazing over PCs whenever they’re on the screen in front of me. One glance at our roundup of the best gaming PC deals…

In case you were wondering, the HP Omen 35L really is 35 litres. Take off your shoes and socks and do the maths, the dimensions are somewhere on this page: HP has named its compactish gaming PC rather sensibly, and while there’s no way this could ever be called SFF (it’s about the size of…

1,000 Hz. That’s 1,000 frames. Every. Single. Second. Welcome to the wild world of the new LG UltraGear 25G590B, the first ever 1,000 Hz gaming monitor. Well, it’s the first gaming monitor capable of 1,000 Hz at full 1080p resolution, as opposed to displays hitting that kind of refresh rate at, say, 720p. The tempting…

When Dishonored director Harvey Smith announced his new studio, co-founded with fellow Arkane alumnus Ben Horne, there was no doubt about the kind of games the team would be working on. Black Pony Immersive makes it pretty damn clear. Putting “immersive” right there in the name is a statement of intent, one born from his…

I’ve had a very good time with Final Fantasy 14‘s new Beastmaster, and I’ve very much enjoyed the Crucible of the Unbroken—but that doesn’t mean there aren’t problems. While the first few boards are a great time, problems start to pop up when you try to be competitive. Those problems have grown so numerous, in…

AMD promised neural rendering is coming to Radeon cards and consoles with FSR Diamond, and we’re starting to see signs of that new approach in the works from the red team. The company’s technical staff just published a paper on how it’s using image generation to replace global illumination in real-time. The paper outlines a…

World of Warcraft: Forever’s beta arrives today, but the dataminers are way ahead of us, having ferreted out all sorts of new details. WoW Forever’s still around a month and a half from launch day, so this should be considered a work in progress, but it’s still interesting. As datamined by WoWHead, Forever will be…