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Framework, best known for its modular, moddable laptops, has announced the delisting of standalone memory modules from its marketplace. Meanwhile, one of the most prominent brands in performance PCs, Cyberpower, has revealed plans to increase system prices on December 7. Both moves are in response to the ongoing memory supply crisis. In a statement on…
Fortnite’s The Simpsons mini-season is an undeniable success. Average player numbers for November are the highest since March but, more importantly, Fortnite is fun again. The tone in the game’s subreddit has shifted from the gloom of Chapter 6 Season 4 to optimism: some are praising this as one of Fortnite’s best-ever seasons, others are…
Attacks from The Deer, The Bat, and all manner of creepy cultists are distracting enough, but don’t forget your main goal in 99 Nights in the Forest: Find the lost children. The Roblox survival crafting game sends a constant onslaught of nighttime entities after struggling campers, sometimes making it hard to explore, but it’s all…
Content warning: This article includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, help is available from the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US), Crisis Services Canada (CA), Samaritans (UK), Lifeline (AUS), and other hotlines. Three months after being sued by the parents of a teenager whose suicide was allegedly encouraged…
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. Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it—or at least that’s what my history teacher always said. (Yet…
The end of the year is hurtling toward us like a rampaging sandworm that devours time, and that means every game you own is currently pitching you hard to vote for them in the Steam Awards. And not just the new releases, either—thanks to a category called “Labor of Love,” you can nominate games that…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is well over two years old and its developer is no longer making major content additions, but its players are still finding fresh and exciting ways to crack open its ruleset towards their own gamebreaking ends. This week, as spotted by GamesRadar, BG3 have found a way to recruit a fighting force…
Earlier this year, we relayed a story about how Janet Jackson’s song Rhythm Nation just so happened to include the resonant frequency of 5,400 RPM 2.5-inch hard drives commonly used in laptops for many years. When played on (or even near) those laptops, the song would cause the drives to malfunction—and it was such a…
If you haven’t heard, Steam is having a Black Friday sale for the first time ever. Yep, despite hosting nonstop sale events all year along, this is the first one formally branded around post-Thanksgiving consumerism. It’s not one of Steam’s “big” sales of the year—the kind that takes over the entire store page and gives…
Two months ago, storied shooter studio Splash Damage parted ways with Tencent and ended up in the hands of private equity investors. I said at the time that it probably wasn’t a good development, and I wish I’d been wrong but I was right: The studio said today that it is “entering a studio-wide consultation…