PC Gaming
I join three standup meetings per week. On paper, these video calls are where we check in, discuss what we’re working on, and assign stories for the immediate future. In practice, it’s a thrice-weekly Sisyphean gauntlet for my audio configuration, during which I’ll frequently discover that Windows has lost track of what input and output…
McFarlane Toys’ upcoming addition to its line of Fallout action figures is an absolute whopper, a doozy, “The Big One:” A premium, $50 take on the elite NCR Ranger from New Vegas, complete with an arsenal of weapons out of the game. The figure is up for preorder now, and set to ship in Q4…
The slick fishtank system before you is the supremely effective sweet spot for a modern, high-end gaming PC. This Corsair Vengeance gaming PC isn’t packing in the absolute best hardware available right now, but it is rocking a CPU/GPU pairing that absolutely delivers on a bang-for-buck level. After all, not everyone can afford to spend…
Technologically speaking, America has been quite afraid of Chinese development for, well, ever, but there’s been a significant resurgence of this thought since the boom of AI in the last few years. After much deliberation and argumentation, Nvidia was finally cleared from US scrutiny to import its H20 chips into China recently, and this came…
I’m a big fan of little, cheap processors for gaming, so when Intel stealthily announced the specifications for its six-core, 12-thread Core Ultra 120/120F processors, I was really looking forward to seeing them on retailers’ shelves. Unfortunately, the first prices for them have just dropped, and Raptor Lake Regurgitated is anything but cheap, weighing in…
What do you do when you’re waiting for a game to release? Go back and visit some old classics? Distract yourself by picking up a new hobby? Or do you draw the world’s teeniest-tiniest Hornet that can only be observed under a microscope? Because that’s what this one Silksong hopeful did. In ritualistic preparation for…
When it comes to gaming, Intel hasn’t held any kind of crown since it launched its range of Arrow Lake processors. With its 3D V-Cache desktop CPUs and all-conquering APUs, AMD has consistently been the brand to go for. However, a recent comparison of the new Ryzen Z2 Extreme against the Core Ultra 7 258V…
It’s no great shock that AI models scrape information from just about everywhere to train their data sets, but some users have been surprised to find their chats with ChatGPT turning up in Google searches. As Fast Company reports, “Nearly 4,500 conversations come up in results for the Google site search, though many don’t include…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wasn’t quite made by “just 30” people, as is often repeated—both Sandfall and Kepler credit contractors and additional studios for aid—but it is still much, much smaller than any big-budget studio, even with the full cavalry called in. And apparently, its director is keen to keep it that way. Speaking to…
As with most RPG players who grew up around The Elder Scrolls and Fallout, I am positively rabid for loot. Take literally any item, put a big number next to it, and you can bet I’ll stuff an impossible quantity of them into my knapsack before hauling my burden back to the nearest settlement to…