PC Gaming
When it comes to budget versions of the best gaming CPUs, we’ve been particularly big fans of the old AMD Ryzen 5 7600X. Those looking to save some money on a gaming processor are usually well-served by a fast-clocked six-core chip, and AMD’s reasonably-priced contender has, until now at least, fit the bill perfectly. What…
Over 32 hours with Arc Raiders, I have explored maybe 50% of its four launch maps. My friends recently gave me the grand tour of Blue Gate’s elaborate southern tunnel system, a thing that I did not know existed because I spent hours picking olives on the surface. But because there ain’t no rest for…
Why do we love game cartridges so? It’s something about the tactility, I’d wager, combined with the nostalgia of holding your individual games in your hand. Holiday gift vibes, that sort of thing. Anyway, Joel of YouTube channel Joel Creates has taken that nostalgia trip to its absolute extreme, creating a CRT-equipped Nintendo Switch 2…
Bungie’s next game, the troubled reboot of Marathon, is most easily described as an extraction shooter—currently the hottest genre on the planet due to the enormous success of Arc Raiders. But if one former Bungie developer had got his way, Marathon wouldn’t be an extraction shooter. Not because he would have made the game differently,…
As much as I love starting a new Minecraft world, it can be a little bit of a slog. I’ve spent more hours than I like to admit punching trees and building 4×4 dirt huts to call home. So, if there was a way to get this process streamlined for me, I’d probably jump at…
The convenience store—konbini—is at the centre of daily life in Japan; it’s not just a place you just leg it down the road to in an emergency when you’ve run out of milk. They have everything you could possibly need to get through the day, from some of the best snacks you never knew you…
Arc Raiders players have been trading info and sharing tricks of the trade with others in an effort to help newer players learn all the ways to ensure they get in, get loot, and get out. Recently, the hot new topic is the MK3 Survivor augment. The MK3 augments are the epic level (pink) variety…
AMD’s Ryzen CPUs currently dominate the market for gaming—seriously, all our current recommendations, whatever your budget, are AMD chips. And we’ve long suspected the company’s next generation of processors will arrive in 2026, but we’ve now had confirmation of this thanks to a CPU core roadmap that AMD has just released for its Financial Analyst…
Capcom has revealed when we’ll finally be able to take on our first Elder Dragon in Monster Hunter Wilds during this week’s State of Play Japan, though I’m more interested in the mysterious performance improvements the developer is promising will arrive along with it. Gogmazios was teased back during September’s Tokyo Game Show, in what’s…
Sony has announced a new “PlayStation” branded gaming monitor, due out in 2026. It’s a 27-inch model running at 1440p and features a swing-down charging hook for DualSense Playstation controllers. Specs wise, the information Sony has released places the new panel towards the lower end of the mid-tier in a PC gaming monitor context with…