PC Gaming
Depending on how you measure, you could argue that Apple’s iPhones are the world’s most popular gaming devices, what with well over two billion of the things sold and an ongoing installed userbase of nearly a billion. But conspicuously absent from the iPhone’s Appstore has been game streaming services. Until now. You’d think allowing game…
The Japanese multimedia series Love Live! has been around since 2010, and has enjoyed popularity through various anime series, films, and rhythm-action videogames. The setup is fairly simple, and revolves around girls who attend school with each other but are secretly the planet’s greatest pop idols. One especially successful entry is Love Live! School Island…
In the cavernous recesses of my heart I nurture the belief that Dwarf Fortress is the greatest game ever made. And ever since it got its shiny Kitfox-branded new version in 2022—now with graphics!—I’ve been convinced that’s the best way to play it. But that version isn’t quite feature complete. It’s still missing original Dwarf…
Ergonomic keyboards pretty much come in one of four categories: not-really-ergo, entry-level, serious, and one for the absolutely committed. The MoErgo Glove80 is well and truly in the last one. This particular model is a second revision of the original Glove80, first launched in 2022 after a successful Kickstarter campaign, following years of design, experimentation,…
As US chip export sanctions continue to be enforced, there are signs that the Chinese AI chip industry may be feeling the strain. Two of the country’s leading chip manufacturers and designers are showing signs of struggle, and as the restrictions continue to put the squeeze on China’s chip manufacturing and development sector, it seems…
Asus’s ROG Ally handheld gaming PC only arrived in May last year. But Asus is already plotting a follow up for later in 2024. In an interview with Techlusive, Asus India’s VP of consumer and gaming PCs, Arnold Su, briefly outlined Asus’s plans for the Ally. “We most likely will launch a second generation [handheld]…
Palworld is an edgy game—more in implication than reality. While it’s grown a reputation for a Happy Tree Friends-style subversiveness, everything in its world is pretty sanitised. For instance: Pals eat human cadavers, but they just peck at them until they vanish. The whole game feels like a send-up of Pokémon’s simmering ‘it’s messed up…
Expected release date: H2 2024Codename: BattlemageArchitecture: Xe2-HPGProcess: TSMC N4Performance target: Nvidia RTX 4070 (claimed) Just two years ago, we were all getting ready for Intel’s return to the desktop graphics card market, eagerly awaiting to see if the Arc series of products would be a match for AMD’s Radeon and Nvidia’s GeForce models. It’d been…
September 2023 provided a prime example of why we can’t have nice things, as an anniversary collaboration between Amsterdam’s Van Gogh museum and the Pokémon Company descended into scalper-fuelled chaos. The event was intended to celebrate the museum’s 50th anniversary and featured Van Gogh-inspired art of Pokémon by key series artists: but the big mistake…
There’s a hint for today’s Wordle waiting for you just below if you need to give a floundering game a bit of direction. You can also find plenty of helpful tips and tricks if you’re doing fine but would just like to make sure you’re getting the most out of every guess. Need something a…