PC Gaming
The next family of cards in the new RTX Blackwell series of Nvidia GeForce GPUs is going to be an interesting one. Theoretically, the lower we go down the RTX 50-series stack, the less exciting the graphics cards look to be on paper. The generational differences in silicon look slight, and there’s a general expectation…
I like to think I’m pretty speedy when it comes to building a gaming PC, but my record is firmly in the mud. Two contestants at Newegg’s PC speed building contest at Megacon 2025 have finished with sub-five minute times, and that’s a mighty impressive feat, even if it does come with some caveats. And…
If you’re one of the 23 people around the world who has managed to snag an RTX 5090, you might be tempted to splash out on a fancy set of power cables to make your new upgrade look the best it can. That got us thinking about what set would be best to use, so…
I have a confession: I think I might like Warframe. Although in general I think of myself as a strict adherent to the singleplayer philosophy of Saint Moses of Scetis—to “sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything”—when it comes to videogames, I admit that’s been chipped away over the last couple…
This past weekend saw a bizarre, still largely unexplained outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network service, effectively rendering a bunch of folk unable to access digital games and online servers. As someone who moonlights as a console sicko, I’ll admit it was a real spanner in my weekend plans. It was quite frankly terrible timing, too—as…
MMOs—at least, the big boys that have endured from the massively multiplayer golden age—can sometimes be considered a smidge stale. Many design elements are, in a sense, solved. The Holy Trinity took over years ago, dungeon finders are a must, and heaven forbid if you’re running something suboptimal in a pick-up group of hypervigilant strangers,…
Remember the days when high-refresh gaming meant taking out a new mortgage? Thankfully, they’re gone as the new AOC Gaming C27G4ZXE proves. This is a fully 280 Hz gaming monitor for well under $200. Hooray. Of course, at this price point something has to give. Actually, with the AOC Gaming C27G4ZXE, plenty has to give….
In surprising news to me, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman has a blog. And in among the ruminations on traditional blog-like topics like “What I Wish Someone Had Told Me” and “The Strength of Being Misunderstood”, he recently posted three observations on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and its potential uses for the human race….
The most commonly used tech phrase in the PC industry last year was ‘AI PC’ and, according to Intel at least, we were promised that such computers would “save people hours weekly through built-in artificial intelligence.” So far the interest in AI PCs has been somewhat muted so AMD has decided that the best way…
Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and a videogame failing to meet Square Enix’s sales targets. Last year saw Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and Final Fantasy 16 falling short of whatever number the publisher cooked up in suited-up boardrooms, and before that it said Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy undershot expectations, and called…