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You might be forgiven for thinking there’s something very worrisome going on in the PC hardware industry, what with memory modules staying at their skyrocketed shortage-induced prices. But don’t worry folks, because memory makers are doing very well indeed, with revenue shooting up to nearly $100 billion as of the last quarter, according to Counterpoint…

With Intel riding high at the moment, thanks to its excellent Panther Lake and Arrow Lake Refresh processors, any news about its forthcoming Nova Lake chips is worth paying attention to. Point in case: it’s rumoured that Team Blue will release a 100% E-core mobile chip, with a big integrated GPU, with its next-generation architecture….

As someone who is slowly burning out on The Sims 4 and bounced off the uncanny sameness of Inzoi’s world, Paralives was my last hope for a new direction in life sims. No pressure to the small indie team at Paralives Studio, but I was feeling very “this hits, or I’m over the genre for…

No matter how much fun I’m having with Paralives, I’m not going to stand here and act like it isn’t buggy as all getout in Live Mode. There are glitched menus, failing interactions, and wacky texture glitches, which are all the sorts of things life sim players pretty much knew to expect from an early…

In the opening moments of Outward 2, I receive what sounds like a simple quest: to find a flower with medicinal properties in the wilds to the west of the city, and deliver it to a doctor. But I’m no dummy. (Note: I will soon prove myself to be a dummy.) I’ve played the original…

Earlier this year, Remedy Entertainment hired a new CEO, Jean-Charles Gaudechon, a former EA executive and sports betting guy who talked about things like the need to “scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value.” I don’t care for that sort of Mr. Business lingo, really, but it’s not beyond the pale to suggest…

IO Interactive is giving Agent 47 a short rest, and all eyes are now on Mr. Bond as the Hitman studio launches 007 First Light less than 24 hours from now. PC Gamer doesn’t have a review ready in time for publication today, so I can’t reference my colleague’s impressions on a final build just…

IO Interactive’s long-awaited Hitman-with-hair game 007 First Light is out today, and as an astute observer of videogames you will have noticed that we don’t have a review up just yet. Why might that be? Who can say. What we can say is that it’s coming: PC Gamer’s resident Double-O agent Joshua Wolens is hard…

Sim racing may finally have broken its glass ceiling; or rather, the plasterboard ceiling of the basements that used to house every car nerd’s Logitech wheel-and-pedals setup. If the rest of the family once found the hobby slightly embarrassing, those days appear to be ending. The proof: thousands of car enthusiasts, motorsports fanatics, and sim…