PC Gaming
Final Fantasy 14 is one of my favourite videogames, and has been for the better part of a decade now. But when I try and get a vibe check on where the game is at, the one word that constantly pops into my head is: Strange. It’s in a rather odd spot right now, isn’t…
Trion Worlds’ Defiance was an odd duck. It launched in 2013 alongside a TV show tie-in with the same name, set on a future Earth following an alien invasion—during which the planet was aggressively terraformed. Both the game and the show were a mix of grungy post-apocalyptic western and futuristic sci-fi. A neat hook in…
Silicon has dominated the chip industry as its foundational material since, well, forever. But now researchers at Peking University claim to have cooked up a novel approach to integrating transistors using, yup, you didn’t guess it, bismuth. The result (via Interesting Engineering) is said to be 40% more speed in return for a 10% lower…
Ever since I was a wee sapling, I wanted to be a writer. The goal was originally to become a published fiction author, but then I discovered videogames, and that’s hauled me down a merry little rabbit hole that I’m not in a particular rush to exit–truly, a time honoured tradition for creatives everywhere. Well,…
Last month I reported that Microsoft claims its new quantum chip is powered by an ‘entirely new state of matter’. I said back then that I would leave it to the brainy big wigs to assess whether this new Majorana 1 chip actually represents the breakthrough that’s been claimed. And I’m glad I did, because…
As Monster Hunter Wilds rises to some absolutely absurd popularity, and the game’s most tryhard of tryhards get to grips with its armoury of systems, the playerbase has already shifted over from ‘how do I hunt monsters?’ to ‘how do I hunt these monsters in the most stylish, braggadocious way possible?’ Among this secret society…
The world’s largest toymaker, Lego, has told the Financial Times that it intends to build its own videogames in-house from now on. The company has heavily invested in digital infrastructure in recent years, tripling the number of software engineers it employs since 2022, and aims to move away from outsourcing the brand to third party…
It’s been a while since we first got to see what Netflix’s Devil May Cry series would look like, with the first trailer releasing back in September last year. But while the latest look at Devil May Cry may seem awfully similar to the first trailer, what with Dante’s quick wit and regular backflips mid-fight,…
Following hot on the ray-traced heels of that leak covering off the RTX 5050, RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti desktop GPUs comes news that the mobile versions of the RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 should be available in laptops from May. The kicker here is that it should enable RTX 50 laptops to dip…
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first unboxed the Audio-Technica ATH-R50X. Audio-Technica’s reputation in the professional audio world is rock solid, but open-back reference headphones aren’t exactly a dime a dozen in the gaming space. These aren’t your typical bass-heavy, RGB-infused gaming cans. Instead, the ATH-R50X aims for pure, uncolored audio reproduction—an honest,…