PC Gaming
Is Arm planning to make its own chips and not just sell rights to its IP and CPU designs to other companies? So says the FT in what would be a hugely disruptive development, if true. In fact, the FT claims Arm could unveil its first in-house processor as early as this summer with future…
How much do you really, truly care about latency and motion fluidity? The AOC Agon Pro AG276FK is hoping it’s a lot. Because this 520 Hz gaming monitor costs plenty, but it only gives you 1080p resolution. US pricing has yet to emerge. But the AOC Agon Pro AG276FK is about £500 in the UK,…
Being, as I am, a fashionable man with his finger on the pulse, interested in only the latest and greatest that the videogame world has to offer, the game I’m probably most excited about this year is System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition. That’s Nightdive’s remaster (not remake, let’s be clear) of the original 1999 classic,…
This weekend’s Elden Ring Nightreign network test may not include us PC players, but that won’t stop me from watching from the sidelines with a bucket of popcorn while the servers proverbially burn. And also, you know, installing the thing on my own PlayStation 5 to give things a whirl, only to find myself totally…
Sometimes, in this topsy-turvy PC hardware world of ours, a rumour turns up that really makes us scratch our heads. This week, it was rumblings about a 32 GB variant of AMD’s upcoming RDNA 4 graphics card, the RX 9070 XT. You can rest easy in your beds tonight, though, because AMD’s Frank Azor has…
Good news for fans of amassing huge numbers of PDFs they’ll never read on an external hard drive (me): Humble Bundle has a load more to sell you at a relatively negotiable price. The Pathfinder Kingmaker Bundle contains 53—count ’em—separate bits of Pathfinder Kingmaker TTRPG stuff, mostly tabletop corebooks, sourcebooks, maps and knick-knacks, but also…
I’m old enough to remember a pre-YouTube era, where children played happily in the fields and everyone wore fetching hats to church. Now, though, it’s a staple of so many of our lives, mine included. And according to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, it’s not just dominating the arena of our phone and desktop PC video…
Reported to have amassed over 7,000 players, a free-to-play web3 game named PirateFi launched on Steam last week and was subsequently taken down for containing “malicious files”. Users reportedly found out about this takedown as Valve took to notifying players that their rigs could be compromised. As spotted by SteamDB, the site known for tracking…
A new Kickstarter collaboration for Deep Rock Galactic has been launched, and it’s for “high quality mugs.” You won’t believe how high quality these mugs are. The project is being managed by Scorched Steel Industry and involves replicas of the in-game dwarven mugs. “The DRG Special Beer Mug: a beautiful and safe-to-drink-from pint mug, designed…
As part of Overwatch 2’s big rework, every hero will be getting a set of perks—unlockable upgrades that can be chosen throughout the game. Every hero has different traits, but there’s one throughline that some players hope means an end to counterswapping. Counterswapping is a pretty contentious subject in Overwatch. The actual definition is when…