PC Gaming
With AI data centers swallowing up every bit of memory storage around, it should come as no surprise that some creative engineers might be looking at alternatives. Most aren’t going to be considering solutions from the 1950/1960s, of course, but that’s precisely what one self-professed tinkerer did to create the “world’s worst USB device”. Tech…
The Entertainment Software Association, in an ongoing attempt to slow the roll of the games conservation movement Stop Killing Games, made a baffling statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over a proposed Protect Our Games Act that goes as follows: “[Private servers are] illegal. They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft….
I’m told that the youths of today find using animated gif reactions ‘cringe’. As a millennial who misspent her youth on Tumblr, reacting to good game news with a gif of The Arm from Twin Peaks rubbing his hands together has become an unfortunate part of my idiolect. Before I break out the folder of…
It is time to do war crimes in a cool way. Battlefield 6, EA’s big loud military-themed shooter that earned a coveted 82% from PC Gamer FPS czar Morgan Park, is free-to-try for a week. The trial period runs from yesterday, June 30, up until July 6. The trial gives you access to five modes…
Once nothing more than a basic text editor, Windows Notepad has been expanded in recent years to become almost a fully-fledged word processor. For some people, the little tool has become synonymous with Microsoft’s penchant for bloat and unnecessary changes, so one former Redmond coder decided to do something about it. The person in question…
In an update early last month, Battlefield 6 accidentally made a change everyone loved. The in-game description of XP Boosters was changed to say that they would now count down only while you’re actively playing a match, rather than in real time, as they have since launch. Wasting your precious boosts because you’ve had to…
LLMs can be most simply understood as sycophantic, ‘yes, and’ machines. To the surprise of very few, that’s gotten AI companies in hot water when LLM-based chatbots and AI agents attempt to answer users’ more unsavoury requests. So, AI companies have implemented safety guardrails that make fulfilling certain requests off limits. Unfortunately, these have proven…
Microsoft’s likely got another wave of layoffs and studio closures coming, it’s my displeasure to say—with multiple studios on the chopping block. It’s another pip in a pattern of scattershot project cancellations and studio closures, in the same vein as the company shutting down Project Blackbird despite Phil Spencer loving it, or closing Tango Gameworks…
As big-budget, blockbuster PC games have become increasingly more packed with cutting-edge graphics over the years, their minimum hardware requirements have naturally scaled upwards too. But there’s one forthcoming game that has taken that quite a lot further than you’d expect, with the memory specs likely to cause more than a few raised eyebrows. It’s…
Oblivion Remastered is coming to the Switch 2 on August 11, as Bethesda announced with a trailer featuring a live-action Adoring Fan that conveniently shows as little gameplay as they can get away with. I would love it if, after all the work that’s presumably gone into getting it to run on the Switch 2,…