PC Gaming
If you’ve ever wished your fidget toy were a mini games console with an OLED display and six key switches, you can build one yourself with some electronics know-how. Well, more accurately, you need a lot of electrical know-how, as demonstrated by user wjddnjdnd’s project at Instructables (via Hackaday). Playfully titled the GameBox Clicker, this…
One of the biggest draws towards Helldivers 2 is the Galactic War—a high-concept metagame that sees the entire community taking objectives, defending planets, and securing story-relevant goals to shape the fate of the galaxy itself. Or at least, that’s the premise. Throughout the game’s lifespan, it’s been occasionally called into question. Take the Menkent Line,…
If you’ve just dropped into the hellish battlefield of Cyberstan in Helldivers 2, you’re likely already wondering how to kill a Vox Engine. These are the heaviest new Automaton enemy—a rolling arsenal of lasers, miniguns, and rocket barrages, and they’re seemingly very tanky, at least to conventional explosives, orbitals and airstrikes. Well, after getting far…
Mewgenics isn’t very forgiving on your troupe of cats. Some will be born with genetic mutations, others will get permanent injuries from in-fighting, and some will be lost in battle, and lots of it will be out of your control. However, one thing you can decide is your cats’ classes, which take the form of…
I like to think I’m a relatively smart person; I can often remember most of my ABCs and it only takes me around five seconds to add seven to something. But one thing will remain forever beyond me: mahjong, the Chinese tile-based game that I mostly know as ‘that one Yakuza minigame I simply don’t…
Deadlock has me in an iron grip at the moment, and I owe part of that to my prior experience with Dota 2—see, back when I was a lot less happy (these things might be correlated), I sunk about 2,500 hours into that MOBA hell dimension. I regret just about every single one, but they…
Sometimes, a game needs time to age before we come to appreciate it—as is the case, Josh Sawyer, studio design director at Obsidian, claims of Fallout: New Vegas. Considered a cult classic, and potentially the best “modern” Fallout game (I put “modern” in air quotes there because it did come out 16 years ago. Sorry),…
I can think of nothing I would hate more than for someone to go rummaging through my PC once I’ve popped my clogs. Not that there’s anything particularly incriminating lurking within years of accumulated files, but there’s something that feels weirdly private about this hulking setup that takes up half of my tiny apartment, you…
Hardware Canucks has posted a performance preview of Qualcomm’s new second-gen Snapdragon X2 PC chip. And with the very heavy proviso that it’s a video sponsored by none other than Qualcomm, we can say that, well, it looks decent but not hugely exciting. The comparison here is a bit tricky given all the different possible…
Ask any long-term PC tech enthusiast or hardware journalist what they think about AMD, and you’ll probably be met with endless praise for its products and engineering know-how. Prod them for the negative aspects, and they’ll probably grumble about its marketing decisions, but perhaps that’s all set to change, as there’s a new bod in…