PC Gaming

When you have a product that’s generally deemed to be the best in its class, it can sometimes be hard to think of ways to make it better. But in the case of the Maxwell planar magnetic gaming headset, Audeze has given it 16 “community inspired” improvements and just as importantly, rolled out a fresh…

Final Fantasy 14’s North American servers have been hammered by DDoS attacks since the release of Patch 7.4—I’d know, I play on them—which has players starting to grind their teeth in frustration. Especially given the release of the latest Savage (high-difficulty) raid tier, and the race to world first that buoys it. Take a look…

Just when you think there are no worlds left for the first-person shooter to conquer, some mad lad goes and makes one where your health is literally your framerate. Spotted by PCGN, FPS Quest is an upcoming FPS that’s all about, uh, your FPS. That is to say, it’s an FPS where the framerate you…

The end of 2025 was absolutely stacked with brilliant games; we had Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades 2, Battlefield 6, and, of course, Arc Raiders. There were almost too many great games to play them all, a problem that all studios releasing games at the time undoubtedly had to grapple with. Arc Raiders had the monumental…

A laptop’s panel can account for over half of its overall power usage, according to Intel, hence why it’s teamed up with Samsung Display on a new OLED technology to reduce power consumption by as much as 22%. It’s called SmartPowerHDR. It works by analysing each frame’s peak brightness in real-time, sending that data to…

Vegans and ovophobes, look away now because crafty PC case makers InWin’s latest full tower creation looks not unlike a futuristic glass egg. Unveiled during CES 2026, it’s the Taiwanese company’s 12th ‘Signature Chassis’ and it’s called Aeon. However, its angular glass panelling is hardly the most dramatic thing about it. Don’t get me wrong,…

For a game all about building ever-expanding production lines, StarRupture stumbles at the first step: creating a power grid to sustain it. It’s explained briefly in the tutorial, but generating electricity and working out how to connect power to said machinery isn’t all that intuitive, despite how simple it is on paper. If you’ve been…

At last year’s CES, Lenovo showed off a rollable laptop screen that could unfurl and expand up to a peculiar 8:9 aspect ratio. This time, the company’s back again rolling its screens up, but this time in a much less peculiar, horizontal fashion. That unfortunately means none of the top-tier gags our Jess identified as…

Birdwatching seems like the kind of hobby that would instil an indescribable zen within you, but the unpredictability of it all makes it feel a lot more chaotic than you realise. Not only are you practically under the control of the weather, but there’s never any guarantee that you’ll see anything good. That’s why in…