PC Gaming
As a PC gamer, you’ll be all too familiar with the sky-high prices of memory and storage components. To put it most simply, these frankly eye-watering price tags are largely due to big tech’s major players buying up as much DRAM and flash chips as possible in order to fuel their AI ambitions. Well, that…
Earlier this year, there was a rumour that Intel’s next generation of desktop processors could consume up to 700 W of power. That was just for the so-called ‘dual compute tile’ models, with as many as 52 cores, but that claim now carries additional weight; one sharp-eyed leaker has noticed something about Nova Lake motherboards…
With the memory crisis continuing to suck up supplies of memory and push up the cost of computing and gaming devices, a big question mark has lingered over the prices for the next consoles from Microsoft and Sony. And early reports suggest things won’t be looking pretty for their launch. As spotted by TechPowerUp, well-known…
The cold chill has arrived yet again in Forza Horizon 6 for Series 2’s Winter season, and that means another treasure chest. This week, it’s the Sotoyama region Treasure Hunt, sending you to find a small crate surrounded by snow when the entire map is snowy. Bit cruel if you ask me. Thankfully it’s not…
Microsoft is going through another big ‘reset’, which is a nice way of saying culling, as it reportedly prepares to cut major games and studios as part of reassessing its videogame investments. But amid all the carnage, Hideo Kojima’s OD is apparently unscathed. According to IGN, a source familiar with Microsoft’s plans implied the upcoming…
World of Warcraft caught some heat earlier this year for a messy patch that broke a whole lot of stuff. Patch 12.0.5 was a bit of a disaster, taking an accidental wrecking ball to multiple systems and allowing some long-flagged issues to sneak their way into the game. The takeaway that I—and many other players—had…
AMD’s latest line of GPUs barely followed MSRP at launch, and yet they may be set to get even pricier in the future. As reported by Sweclockers, a poster took to Board Channels, a forum for communicating between manufacturers and partners, to share news of an AMD price increase. Effectively, it claims that Sapphire, Asus,…
Having been playing games almost as long as I’ve been alive, I’ve fought and killed more goblins than I could ever hope to count. While MMOs, RPGs, RTSes, and all kinds of other acronyms have happily enabled my lifelong war with goblinkind, Flask—an autobattler that just released a demo on Steam—is the rare sort of…
As a Brit, I’ve been thinking a lot about the climate crisis since last month’s historic heatwave. With many buildings across the UK designed to retain heat, we’re simply not built for 37°C/98.6°F weather. Causes of climate change are numerous, and I know we didn’t get here solely due to the advent of AI, but…
One consequence of the AI boom is that tons of infrastructure is needed to power and run all the massive data centres, and naturally, all that infrastructure is worth a lot of money. And it seems like cargo thieves have caught on to this fact. As reported by Business Insider, investigators with Illinois’ Cook County…