PC Gaming
One thing that really impressed me with our running RPG of the year, Esoteric Ebb, is how it handles failure and save scumming, the practice of abusing a game’s save/load feature just to get your desired result at every turn—we all do it, at least sometimes, and we all feel guilty about it. Save scumming…
Are we all here? Excellent. I’ve gathered the keyboard nerd community today to show you The Listening Museum, a website that allows you to select from 36 different typing devices and switches, and, err, type on them. Well, you get to type in a box, anyway. But it plays the sounds of each keeb/switch in…
It looks like the US government might be getting a little more serious about tackling the growth and development of foreign AI companies, judging by a White House memo seen by the Financial Times. The memo reportedly says: “The US government has information indicating that foreign entities, principally based in China, are engaged in deliberate,…
Due to the memory supply crisis, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that now is a particularly stressful time to experience hardware failure. With a bit of luck, a sensible multi-year warranty should save your bacon when an SSD stops playing ball—but it looks like the RAMpocalypse may be about to claim another…
While nuclear energy is often presented as the potential ‘clean’ solution for powering the vast number of US data centers currently under construction, the reality is that other, less sustainable energy solutions are often used to plug the gap. Wired has been examining air permits for several new natural gas projects linked to 11 data…
Silent Hill: Townfall is the next window into Konami’s long-standing psychological horror series. But like Silent Hill f, Townfall seeks to do something slightly different, stepping towards full survival horror instead. The devs over at Screen Burn have been drip-feeding us more information as we draw closer to its release date, and this time lead…
We know very, very little about the next Mass Effect game. In fact, BioWare hasn’t even revealed its name yet, so we’ve all been calling it Mass Effect 5 in the meantime. That aside, it was announced at The Game Awards 2020, and over five years later, there’s little to show for it. But Mike…
The first Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival for the MMO’s next expansion kicks off today. We should be getting a little glimpse at a trailer, the expansion’s name, and more than likely producer Naoki Yoshida’s usual mind games with a t-shirt that’ll give some sort of hint about one of the new jobs. But first,…
I’ve fully entered my raiding era in Final Fantasy 14—I finally cleared my first full savage tier with the latest Arcadion raids, and I’m in the throes of progging my first ultimate (we do Looper, and then we do Looper etc). It’s been a learning process of not only what my job does, but what…
Intel’s Enthusiast Channel VP and GM Robert Hallock has told PC Games Hardware that we shouldn’t underestimate the impact software improvements could have on gaming performance. In other words, that perhaps our focus as gamers shouldn’t be so laser-focused on hardware: “I truly believe that the general PC gaming market and especially enthusiasts… are significantly…