PC Gaming
This is the monitor I’ve been waiting for. As someone who has just entered another Counter-Strike arc that is sure to last an epoch, as my arcs tend to, I’ve been on the look-out for a 1080p monitor around the 360 Hz (ish) sweet spot that doesn’t break the bank. Enter stage left: the KTC…
The first hotfix since Arc Raiders’ 1.36 update has rocked up, and while it may be small it does tackle some important issues, namely a new duplication exploit which has popped up recently and saw mountains of explosives spawn even faster than the throwables glitch. “We have just pushed a hotfix on all platforms to…
Xbox’s ‘reset’ layoffs have hit Bethesda hard, with long-term institutional talent shown the door—Zenimax Online Studios, which is part of the same studio family as Bethesda and works on the Elder Scrolls Online, was also particularly dismantled by Xbox, with over 60% of its staff laid off in the past year. Understandably, Bethesda developers are…
We’ve known for some time now that AMD was planning on launching next-gen Zen 6 CPUs in 2026, but hardware has been in a weird place for a while, so it’s best not to assume something will be going into your rig / server until it’s in your hands. And yet AMD has confirmed it…
Plenty of Warhammer 40,000 novels have been written from the perspective of humans and space marines, but it took a while before Games Workshop really got into publishing books from the perspective of 40K’s many alien species. If you’re into orks I recommend Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh, and for swashbuckling aeldari pirates there’s…
Roblox has done a lot of crossovers and collaborations, but the new one announced today really leaps out at me. The Rolling Stones, the world’s greatest rock and roll band, is coming to Roblox in a new game based on the band’s 60-year history. “Players will encounter various parts of The Rolling Stones’ legacy trapped…
In 1984, an upstart retail company called Costco had just opened its first handful of voluminous warehouse stores on the west coast of the United States when it decided to try an experiment. It installed a hot dog cart in front of its San Diego store and started selling Hebrew Nationals with a drink for…
It’s not just you: Steam is down right now. If this were a Tuesday around this time that’d be no big deal (Valve does maintenance every week), but on a Thursday, you have good reason to be looking for an explanation for the error that currently displays when you try to load Steampowered.com: “You’ve made…
John Carmack has reacted to massive layoffs at id Software, the studio that he co-founded in 1991, by its current owner, Microsoft. The company is cutting 136 roles (reports indicate over half of its headcount) at the Doom studio, which just released an expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages this week. “My ‘Microsoft will probably…
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the body overseeing the implementation of United States monetary policy, has announced the creation of five task forces intended to evaluate and improve the Fed’s operations. In a press release, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh named the “external advisers” who will lead each task force, ranging from…