PC Gaming
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), one of the world’s largest media conglomerates, has announced it is putting itself up for sale (thanks, NBC). A press release announced “a review of strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value” following “unsolicited interest” from “multiple parties for both the entire company and Warner Bros.” The news caused an immediate spike…
Every time an Amazon delivery driver drops off a parcel at my door, they whip out their phone and take a photo of it. And if I happen to be holding the package already, I pose with it, like a 1960s catalogue model desperate to make their big break. I’m telling you this because I…
Razer has been knocking it out the park with its controller designs of late. We had the Wolverine V3 Pro as our pick for the best high-end controller for a short while, and now that’s been replaced by, er, another one, the Wolverine V3 Pro 8K PC. And now Razer has launched the Raiju V3…
I don’t own a crystal ball, but if I did, I’m sure it would be telling me all about memory prices continuing to climb. No doubt those will be the words tumbling along the semiconductor industry winds for some time. The latest on this front, in case we needed any more evidence, is that according…
If you’re the type to want to show off your components to the world, one of the best fish tank PC cases is a great way to do it. Due to the sudden popularity of this sort of case design, I’m going to presume this includes most PC gamers—we’re vain creatures, after all. I’ve tested…
It’s been a strange few years for Remedy Entertainment. On the one hand, it’s more independent and successful than ever before. With less reliance on publisher investment, it’s been able to develop and expand its studio-owned properties into a connected universe, and move towards self-publishing. And it’s produced some of its most critically acclaimed games…
Critical Role Campaign 4 is off to a terrific start—even if it is a borderline magic trick to see DM Brennan Lee Mulligan handle thirteen players at once for its first four episodes (they’re not all at the table at once, mind, but it’s still a terrific feat). I’ve been equally impressed by the new…
Even after a couple of hours with Full Metal Schoolgirl, I’m not entirely sure what it wants to be: a shooter, a roguelite, a campy yet lewd robo-corpo hack-and-slash? It’s a little bit of everything, and doesn’t particularly excel in any aspect. Yet I’m weirdly endeared to its bizarre late 2000s jankiness. It reeks of…
The utterly baffling status of Intel’s Arc graphics technology just got a bit clearer. Oh, and a whole lot more confusing, too. In a nutshell, the Xe3 iGPU in the new Panther Lake chip definitely isn’t based on Celestial, Intel’s supposed next-gen graphics architecture. Instead it’s a tweak of Xe2, as seen in the Intel…
The new Painkiller is out now on Steam, and it brings me no pleasure to say that it’s really not very good—although it does at least maintain the 20-year streak of Painkiller follow-ups being pale, flaccid imitations of the original. Painkiller—intended as a reboot, I guess, hence coming to the table with the same unmodified…