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Intel’s Raptor Lake refresh CPUs, including the Core i9 14900K, were fairly underwhelming. Apparently, however, that isn’t preventing Intel from spooling up another respin of Raptor Lake for later this year. First things first, no this doesn’t mean that Intel’s upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs aren’t coming in 2024. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger recently confirmed that…
AMD has announced its numbers for 2023 and generally things look good. We won’t get into the weeds on the financials, but aside from AMD increasing its expectations of AI chip sales from $2 billion to $3.5 billion for 2024, the most interesting tidbit was that Radeon gaming GPUs sales are up. The problem is…
The RTX 4080 Super is the most straightforward of all the newly refreshed Ada-based graphics cards because, y’know, it’s actually just a cheaper RTX 4080. Sure, the GPU at its heart has a few more shaders, but we’re talking about negligible performance gains that can almost be waved away as being within normal realms of…
You know where you never usually see helicopters? Underground. No idea why that is, but Bore Blasters is here to buck the trend. Playing as a space dwarf (rock and stone!), your job in this arcadey roguelike shooter is to pioneer a bold new mining technique: shooting gold and gems out of the ground in…
As announced by Blizzard in its Season of Discovery Phase 2 post, gold dragon kill points (GDKP) raids in World of Warcraft Classic are going the way of the dodo on February 8. The dev team wants to “try things without this type of transaction taking place”—that’s a huge experiment, considering how GDKP raids have…
I’ve heard it said that Palworld’s pals bear more than a passing resemblance to Pokémon. Is Wumpo Botan actually Tangrowth? Is Lamball actually Wooloo? Is this thing Eevee? No. Shush. That is clearly Cremis. Zip it, buddy, before we all end up in the dock. But I’ve gotta admit that the latest Palworld discovery—uncovered by…
Like many PC gamers, I’ve seen my fair share of speedruns of Larian’s masterpiece, Baldur’s Gate 3, but nothing compares to this brand-new Honour Mode speedrun by speedrunner wizard Mae. Yes, like me you will have seen some of these Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunning tips and tricks before, but I’m quite confident that you won’t…
Features This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023. Every month we run exclusive features exploring the world of PC gaming—from behind-the-scenes previews, to incredible community stories, to fascinating interviews, and more. The history of Doom is more than just the tale of how John Romero and John Carmack…
Last year a Kickstarter for a remastered version of Spiderweb Software’s CRPG Geneforge 2 passed its humble $30,000 goal and raised $76,777 based on its promise of “Open ended fantasy role-playing fun with your own army of custom-made mutant monsters.” That remaster, which is called Geneforge 2 – Infestation, will be out on March 27….
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