PC Gaming

In a new capital markets briefing from Nexon, Patrick Söderlund, the newly appointed Nexon executive chairman and CEO of Arc Raiders and The Finals developer Embark Studios, spoke extensively about everyone’s favourite subject in games right now: AI. More specifically, he talked about how Embark’s approach to game development and AI can be deployed across…

We will never get a game quite like 2015’s Life is Strange ever again. Ready for the mosh pit, shaka brah? Go fuck yourselfie? I was eating those beans, are you fucking insane? I was eating… those BEANS!? Iconic. Equally as cringe a decade ago as they are now, but it just worked. A small,…

Minecraft creator and opinion-haver Notch has taken to X to complain about Nvidia’s upscaling and Frame Generation tech, DLSS. You might have heard of it, particularly its controversial new iteration. However, it’s the whole concept of DLSS that seems to be confusing Notch. “DLSS fundamentally makes no sense,” the creator of the best-selling video game…

The Beehive Club is one of Crimson Desert‘s weirder weapons, letting you envelop your enemies in a cloud of bees. Similar to the Soul Spear, you can’t upgrade or slot Abyss Cores into it, but players were initially using it to annihilate bosses. It seems to have been nerfed since the game’s release, but it’s…

AMD compute and enterprise AI VP Madhu Rangarajan told tech news site CRN that they are expecting next-gen AMD Venice servers to increase the performance lead over next-gen Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids, in part due to Intel’s decision to ditch for the upcoming server CPU generation. The AMD VP said, “We understand that our competitor…

Competitive gaming mice aren’t for everyone. In fact, I’d go as far as to say they aren’t for most people. Part of that is their often prohibitive price; most won’t even get anything out of the milliseconds they can shave off reaction time with higher polling rates, greater DPI, and more accurate actuation. When you’re…

Cambridge Audio might not be the first brand that comes to mind for desktop speakers, not least when the space has been dominated in the past by the likes of KEF, Ruark and FiiO in recent years. However, the brand’s L/R S were shown off to me at an event in December at its London…

Wood-pannelled PC cases? Yeah, yeah, seen ’em. Wood-trimmed motherboards? Novel, but not quite unique. But dark wood-trimmed motherboards? Now you’re talkin’. Gigabyte has updated its existing X870E Aero X3D Wood with revised and darker wood lashings. We give you the Gigabyte X870E Aero X3D Dark Wood, though without the manufacturer’s all-caps verily enabled. The Taiwanese…

Defeating Beloth in Crimson Desert is a tough optional challenge. He’s significantly tankier than the other Antumbra-aligned bosses throughout the world, and what’s more, you’ll have to cope with taking constant ice damage and periodically freezing. A few of Beloth’s attacks can also one-shot you, even if you face him later in the game. The…

This might be the most interesting case I’ve reviewed in the past 11 years. It’s not particularly revolutionary by modern standards, nor is it the most cost-effective chassis on the market, but what it does do is tap into this deep-seated nostalgia that I know a lot of us have for PC gaming and the…