PC Gaming
Will no one stop this mad beast? Can no wall hold against its offensive? Is there any hope for the ‘umble indie game in this, our era of Silksong? Well, no. Or if there is, it ain’t for Star Birds, the base-building and resource management game from Toukana Interactive (who also made Dorfromantik). It’s joined…
Whether it’s your graphics card, RAM sticks, or SSD, they all contain memory chips that have probably been manufactured by one of two companies: Samsung and SK Hynix. While the majority of their production takes place in their native South Korea, both firms have lots of plants in China. And due to a recent decision…
Graham Greene, Oscar-nominated actor and—around our neck of the woods—voice and mocap performer for Rains Fall in Red Dead Redemption 2, has died in hospital after a long illness, Deadline reports. He was 73. A Canadian First Nations performer, Greene broke ground in the 1970s, first on-stage and then on-screen, with his breakout role coming…
Jacob Fox, hardware writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Looking into proof-of-human technology and digital ID, on both technology and privacy fronts. Call me a rebel, but I haven’t been best satisfied with the direction Windows 11 has been heading of late. I’m not alone, of course—just ask a bunch of us here…
When it’s time to choose a gaming mouse, it’s important to factor in exactly what kind of gaming you want to be doing with it. If you’re aiming to be a pro sniper with pixel perfect flick shots your needs are likely going to be a little different from the MMO gamer maxing their cooldown…
I once read somewhere—on the internet, so it must be true—that your eyes have a thing called ‘immune privilege.’ In essence, your body’s immune system lets your eyes get away with all sorts of stuff because if it behaved normally, causing swelling and/or high temperatures when your eyes got poorly, there’s a risk it’d interfere…
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy everything modern PC gaming has to offer—but there’s no use denying I am also a Nintendo girlie. I’m dating myself here, but the company got their hooks in me young with the Game Boy Color, and I’ve had an affectionate respect for cart-based gaming ever since. Enter an OS…
OK, there are some caveats here. Valve’s Steam hardware survey is prone to certain distortions, the particulars of which we’ll come to. But the latest figures for August 2025 are still intriguing, including Nvidia’s RTX 5070 taking top spot among current-gen GPU hardware while AMD’s RDNA 4 cards don’t appear. At all. That the RTX…
Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: GPD) Image 2 of 4 (Image credit: GPD) Image 3 of 4 (Image credit: GPD) Image 4 of 4 (Image credit: GPD) Strix Halo, AMD’s beefy power slurping APU, has been crammed into a handheld from GPD. If you’re wondering how GPD counteracts the battery and thermals needed, the…
In the world of CPUs, GPUs, and all things chip-based, patent applications are so frequent that there’s little point in paying attention to them. However, one filing from Intel has made its way into tech news headlines because it offers a clever way to improve a CPU’s performance-per-watt efficiency. It also suggests that Intel’s hybrid…