PC Gaming
Fortnite’s Chapter 6 final flourish appears to be a Simpsons mini season with an entirely standalone Springfield-themed map. Leaks hint at what’s coming: the key art shows new skins and at least two of the weapons—the classic assault rifle, aka the SCAR, and the Thunder shotgun—while the full leaked map shows iconic Simpsons locations. But…
I feel like we’re in an era of trying desperately to cut cords and have things look as neat and tidy as possible. Unfortunately, the tech isn’t quite there yet to make such things possible—at least not for cheap. We’re past the ‘tangled heap of cables’ stage, but we’re not quite at the ‘cables? What…
Back when Nivida’s RTX 4090 mobile GPU was the latest hotness for laptops, we took the view that it didn’t actually make sense compared to the cheaper RTX 4080. That’s because it was often constrained by the limited power budget of mobile form factors. Well, it turns out the laptop RTX 4090 is quite the…
Did you know digital games store Fanatical is doing comic and book bundles these days? They’re worth keeping an eye on—this month, for example, they’ve done a whole series of really excellent value horror comics deals that I’ve enjoyed taking advantage of. But to keep this on the topic of games, there’s one bundle in…
Earlier this week, reports came out claiming that 183 million Gmail passwords were exposed in a data leak. Google has since come out to dispute this claim (via its X account), attributing “inaccurate reports” to “stemming from a misunderstanding of infostealer databases.” As spotted by Bleeping Computer, this report was picked up by major outlets,…
Thanks to the memory demands of AI and key manufacturers reducing production, DDR4 RAM prices have been steadily rising over the past few months. However, this rapid rise has now turned into an overwhelming surge, and in the space of just one week, DDR4 modules have almost doubled in price. We were shocked to see…
Mushrooms are the coolest. Not quite flora, not quite fauna, they are a secret third thing—isn’t that neat? Many types of fungi have also been observed to form symbiotic relationships with the root systems of plants. Sometimes mutualistic, sometimes parasitic, this root-meets-fungus network is called ‘Mycorrhiza’—and a similar web of mycelium may one day come…
When you think of video games as a tool to teach kids English, horror probably isn’t a genre that immediately springs to mind. You might think of something a bit more narrative-heavy, or perhaps any sort of puzzle game to drill in simple tasks. But no, a fifth grade English class in Niigata prefecture has…
Microsoft has lost an awful lot of goodwill in recent times. Over the last two years, it has laid off over 10,000 workers, closed iconic studios like Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks, and raised the prices of Xbox Game Pass and its consoles multiple times. It seems that Microsoft, in light of this, has had…
As I have written time and time again at this point, The Sims 4 is a mess. One that only gets more complex with every kit, game pack, and expansion that gets stuffed into its spaghetti code. EA has been making a more concerted effort to address the multitude of bugs and glitches since it…