PC Gaming
Marvel Rivals is a bit of a genius trick, really. The concept of making a hero shooter, well, about super heroes? Downright savvy. Comic books are famous for having dozens upon dozens of characters with entire wardrobes of bespoke outfits pre-created—not to mention their powers lend themselves well to the ‘three-to-four abilities plus an ultimate’…
Marvel Rivals’ popularity has led to that most contemporary of cottage industries: A whole bunch of dataminers and supposed leakers that descend upon any new version of the game, and get into the guts to predict what’s coming next. Almost immediately after launch a large chunk of the future roster was apparently revealed via “hero…
If you’re a fan of 1990s disaster movies, you’ll know all about the potential damage that an undetected asteroid could wreak if it impacted Earth. While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder to spot. A team of physicists at MIT, however,…
AMD’s Frank Azor was quick to step on rumours last week of a 32 GB variant of the RX 9070 XT, categorically denying the mega-VRAM-equipped hypotheti-card would be released. Now it seems he’s just playing with us, as he’s taken to his X account once more to “tease” a 320 GB card called the 90700.05XTXT…
Live service games are treated like some great and powerful cheat code for generating awesome amounts of shareholder value. It’s so great that EA’s CEO thought that it could’ve saved Dragon Age: The Veilguard from underperforming, and a recent GDC survey revealed that a third of “triple-A developers” are working on live service games as…
Viewers of Super Mario 64 speedrunner, Bubzia, presumably spent an entire 60 minutes chewing off their fingernails—not because he was doing poorly, but because he was doing rather well. See, Bubzia is a special kind of speedrunner, choosing to tackle his game of choice with a blindfold on, and he’s been grinding at his world…
We’ve all seen those Meta Quest adverts, in which a practically-challenged human being wears a VR headset for basic construction tasks, like building a crib, with great success. However, The Swedish Maker has taken things further by several orders of magnitude—by wearing a Meta Quest 3 for the entirety of a woodworking project, including while…
In 2019, AMD started a new paradigm in processor design, with its Zen 2 architecture and the use of chiplets. Since then, every CCD or Core Complex Die has been home to eight cores—no more, no less. However, if one tech leaker is to be believed, then Zen 6 will mark a new era for…
My many years of experience have taught me: you should only stay with someone because of who they are, not who you think they could be. The last two weeks have taught me: unless they are a horse. Because it turns out that, if you stick with the worst nags in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2…
The problem with our modern, humdrum, urban existences is that there’s just no magic. Back in the day, when the world was young and the woods were thick, the world abounded in witchcraft and devilry. Now if I accuse an old woman of curdling my milk, suddenly I’m the bad guy. Not so in Urban…