PC Gaming
The games industry is on fire. Countless layoffs, anxiety and strife abound. Despite that, 2023 is probably the best year I’ve ever seen for games themselves, with something new and exciting dropping every single day. Forget the award shows, we’re going hipster here—outside of the obvious indie must-haves of the year (such as Pizza Tower…
The latest patch for Baldur’s Gate 3 launched last week—bringing a whole new way to punish yourself along with it: Honour Mode. This permadeath-style challenge tasks you with completing the game before suffering a single party wipe (though you can convert it to a custom game and finish the story if you beef it). As…
The critical success of The Witcher TV series on Netflix has had an industry-wide impact. A Disco Elysium television series was announced in 2020, Netflix’s Cyberpunk 2077 anime from Studio Trigger was a smash, and last week we got the first trailer for Prime Video’s Fallout TV series. Games aren’t just for PCs any more,…
It might be because it had something of a rocky start, but it sometimes seems like Windows 11 is only just reaching its maturity, what with the continuing march of added features and substantial Windows 11 updates released over the past year. However, those of you who’ve only recently made the switch may be surprised…
A little over a week ago, an AMD patent titled Distributed Geometry was published by the US Patent Office, the patent itself was filed by AMD in April this year. The patent details a fully chiplet approach to GPUs, where the rendering workload is distributed across a collection of chips, rather than having one massive…
In case you missed it, a little-known developer called Rockstar finally revealed that its first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 would be dropping on December 5. With little more than a graphic with warm sunset tones, palm trees, and the words “Trailer 1, December 5, 9 AM ET,” the developer set fans into an…
Is that time of the month again, when Valve releases the results from its Steam hardware and software survey, and to no surprise whatsoever, Nvidia still rules the graphics card chart. The November figures show that Nvidia accounts for 72.5% of all the entries, with its Ampere-based GPUs (i.e. GeForce RTX 30-series) accounting for 27.3%…
Few careers in the last 15 years have evolved as drastically as game streaming. From grainy webcams as teenagers shrieked over jump-scares in indie horror games, to full-on studios with high-end recording equipment and meticulously curated backgrounds, streaming has become a competitive job that you need to invest a bit into if you’re to get…
Family Guy is now in Fortnite as part of Chapter 5. In an attempt to explain his latest glow-up, Fortnite itself has created a short that will haunt my nightmares. While the choice to make Peter Griffin swole makes sense from a design perspective (his peak male physique would have required a whole new set…
DDR5 memory speeds continue to climb upwards. Gone are the days of motherboards struggling to hit DDR5-6400. Nowadays, four-slot Z790 refresh motherboards are capable of supporting 8000MHz+, and even AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series CPUs are able to hit such speeds with the latest BIOS updates. Now that motherboards and CPUs are capable of running at these…