PC Gaming
Buying a good laptop is an intimidating affair, as you need to check the TGP of the discrete GPU (if it has one), the speeds of the SSD, and the generation and performance of the memory. The memory crisis (and the associated NAND shortage) means laptop makers are making even more compromises in their builds,…
The axe has fallen on Xbox, which announced another major round of layoffs that will see approximately 3,200 people put out of work, with 1,600 losing their jobs today and another 1,600 to follow over the course of the company’s fiscal year. Four studios—Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Ninja Theory, and Undead Labs—will also “leave Xbox…
The extent to which some will try to feign skill, whether it be cheating in games or in other activities, has always baffled me. Why can’t people just be ok with sucking at things? In this case I’m talking about Meccha Chameleon—you know, the casual fun game you’re meant to play with friends. It turns…
I think we can all agree, Warhammer 40k’s Inquisitors are cool customers. Once you put aside their whole shtick of being able to commit genocide on a whim, exterminatus-ing planets that have fallen to the predations of Chaos, they’re basically Witch Hunters hanging out in a moody and noir-ish sci-fi future. There’s a reason folks…
World of Warcraft‘s had another brush with a digital plague—on the Moon Guard US server, capital cities were overcome with waves of toxic activity that saw vitriol line the streets. But enough about trade chat—there was also a debuff spreading around and killing people. The incident occurred late last week, when Stormwind was suddenly assailed…
As a manufacturing hub, China sees plenty of unique hardware projects—like this gaming Megazord. But there’s plenty of innovation to be found beyond one-and-done projects like this. For instance, back when the US Department of Commerce restricted the export of Nvidia’s RTX 4090 cards, Chinese manufacturers got creative. The so-called RTX 4080M card was one…
Seven years ago, a user of the Steam Controller subreddit found a prototype of the original Steam Controller at a local Goodwill. Recently, in a strange bit of luck, a second prototype has been found at Goodwill. If one more pops up at the same chain, one must assume that Gabe Newell is simply dropping…
We’ve watched the slow death of physical games media for a decade now, whether it be discs costing more, digital-only consoles, or the recent revelation from PlayStation that come 2028 it will cease productions of videogame discs. It’s nerve-wracking for videogame conservationists, player’s rights advocates, fans of the hobby, and even Hideo Kojima himself. Kojima…
As of a few days ago, Anthropic deployed its Claude Fable 5 AI model after the US temporarily restricted access. Now it has already been used to port the 2003 video game Command & Conquer: Generals – Zero Hour to iOS. It seemingly needed the source code, previous ports, and some human tweaking to get…
Isla de las Muñecas, the Mexican island that holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of haunted dolls, served as the inspiration for Where Dolls Hang, a survival horror game where you play a detective searching for people who’ve gone missing in a particularly cursed location. “Players must investigate missing person cases by examining…