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The soft crackle of a fire in the fireplace. Snow gently falling outside your window. The twinkling of festive lights throughout the neighborhood. The only thing that could complete this image is the glow of your PC’s RGB lights and a cup of hot cocoa. The holidays are typically seen as an opportunity to reconnect…
Looks like we won’t be getting our hands on a Horizon OS-powered VR headset made by Asus, Lenovo, or any other manufacturer for that matter. Meta has killed, for the time being, the program that was to see it all happen. “We have paused the program to focus on building the world-class first-party hardware and…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. As a reader of PC Gamer you’re probably an expert when it comes to PC hardware… but what about the…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. As a reader of PC Gamer you’re probably an expert when it comes to PC hardware… but what about the…
It looks like Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone may be getting up to his old shenanigans again, and by ‘old shenanigans’ I mean turning a small, just one more thing update into a big, beefy add-on. Barone said shortly after confirming the Stardew Valley 1.7 update is on the way that “it’s hard to just…
RAM prices have been, uh—bad. You can keep track of them yourself via the work of our diligent hardware team, but the rampant use of generative AI by big tech has led to such sharp increases, you could basically watch them climb in real time. This has also impacted Larian, of all people. That’s per…
As if skyrocketing RAM prices wasn’t enough, Kingston’s Datacentre SSD Business Manager Cameron Crandall says to expect rising SSD costs throughout 2026, confirming what we already feared. Why? Crandall, who has worked at Kingston for 29 years, says the company is experiencing NAND wafer price spikes the likes of which have never been seen before….
It might feel like tech news is a stuck record at the moment, with every other headline reporting on the grim effects of the current DRAM supply crisis. And at first glance, a report that Nvidia is planning on cutting discrete GPU production by up to 40% just seems like a case in point. However,…
Dungeons, raids, boss battles? In my MMO? Pshaw, lame. Predictable. Overdone. A glitched-out level one nothing mob minding its own business out in the wintery wilderness? Now that’s the good stuff right there. Something actually worth playing the goddamn game for. Final Fantasy 14’s Patch 7.4 dropped on Tuesday, tying up most of Dawntrail’s plot…
I’ve gone back and forth on the Arc Raiders Expedition mechanic. At first, I was pretty skeptical, especially as Embark didn’t reveal the rewards in full, but once it did, I actually came around the idea, understanding the advantage, however minor, that bonus skill points would provide to those retiring their Raiders without breaking the…