PC Gaming
Well, this is a first for me: Software for a gaming mouse from the manufacturer’s own site had, for a while, been compromised with XRed malware. Igor of Igor’s Lab first noticed the reports coming in about the Endgame Gear OP1w 4K V2 configuration tool on the MouseReview subreddit. The reports suggest the tool had…
I never bought into the bitcoin boom, at least back in the day. In 2011, many would have told you your trousers were on backwards if you dropped over 50 grand on the then-ailing cryptocurrency, and I listened to said trouser-judgers. Crypto was a flop, bitcoin was dead in the water, and many of us…
OpenAI consumes compute capacity like few have ever done before it. A recent report expects it to gorge itself on datacentre capacity and research between 2025 and 2030—burning cash at a rate of swimming pools per minute by some estimations. The Information reports that OpenAI is chasing fresh investment to allow it to expand its…
There are many things that have kept me from joining the crypto hive-mind up until now: mild scepticism, lack of knowledge, confusion, laziness. I never pegged SSD longevity as being on that list, though. Until now, that is, because one popular crypto wallet extension is apparently writing an inordinate amount of data to and from…
If you don’t have enough money to LARP, you might want to become a Helldivers 2 player, because those guys are embodying the spirit of the satire-laden universe without setting a single foot outside. As evidenced by a recent Discord poll that allowed players to rename the city of Remembrance, which was reduced to near-rubble…
I wasn’t adequately prepared for just how massive the new Alienware Area-51 is in the flesh. It’s frankly enormous, especially compared with the rather meek little Aurora desktops of the last Dell gaming box refresh. Those Auroras just felt like pretty standard mid-tower machines, with a rather dull, very Dell design. This Area-51, however, is…
Umamusume: Pretty Derby has been a surprise hit on Steam, as PC gamers flock to its horse girls and surprisingly in-depth management sim systems. While it looks all fun and cutesy on the outside, there are some important nuances the game doesn’t necessarily tell you which can make or break your career runs with each…
I don’t necessarily think every voice actor in videogames needs to play them, in the same way I don’t think Vin Diesel is obligated to spend half of his life doing donuts. I’m starting to wobble on that theory in the face of Charlie Cox who, bless his cotton socks, barely seems to know a…
Upon opening pretty much any news site, I’m immediately reminded that the freight train of AI continues to plough through any and all barriers, oblivious to puny human protestations. Technological determinism has a certain ring of truth to it. So, I’m not entirely surprised by Elon Musk recently posting on X, “I resisted AI for…
For those who know me, it’s no secret that I’m a massive Lenovo Legion Go fan. I loved my time with the original, and now I love my time with the Legion Go S (SteamOS). We’ve known a proper (non-S) second iteration of the handheld is in the works for a while now—with a potential…