PC Gaming

A team of researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Maryland have published a study [PDF warning] detailing their attempts to pick up unsecured information from the airwaves using a basic receiver system. Over the course of three years, the team pointed their off-the-shelf residential dish at various geostationary satellites and interpreted the…

Tavern Keeper is a game I’ve been excited about for a while and, in fact, have raved about on this very site before. It’s had a long old development, taking around 10 years on the path to release—and will continue to amble into Early Access. But it’s a cosy sort of amble, the kind a…

Nvidia has finally started shipping its first DGX Spark mini ‘supercomputers’ and Musk’s got his mitts on the first one. The company relays, “Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang arrived at the SpaceX facility—amid towering engines and gleaming steel—to hand-deliver the company’s just-launched DGX Spark to Elon Musk.” Huang joked, “Imagine delivering the smallest supercomputer…

Battlefield 6 is a surprisingly grindy game. Not only does it take ages to rank up your account, which you’ll need to unlock most of the best guns, but you then need to level up those weapons to unlock attachments. And how can we forget the pile of extra assignments that you can complete for…

I remember going through an extended ‘thock’ phase, ie, that period of my life where I soaked in as many glorious custom mechanical keyboard ASMR videos as my little ears could handle. For some, that’s less of a phase and more of a lifestyle choice—and fair do’s, I say. If that describes you, then I…

Minecraft’s Mounts of Mayhem drop will mark the game’s fourth update this year, and even though we’ve only got surface-level information about what’s included, a few of its most appealing features are now available to test with Java edition. This includes getting hands-on with the brand new Spear weapon, alongside a new weapon enchantment we…

Our clue for the October 14 (1578) Wordle is on hand and ready to help give you some great ideas, while still leaving plenty of room for you to make your own word-guessing fun. Not sure how to follow that up? No problem. We’ve got a trio of fresh hints for Tuesday’s game ready to…

Blizzard recently opened the gates on a renewed version of an old World of Warcraft expansion, giving players the opportunity to blast through familiar quests and dungeons with way more power than they had back in 2016. For many players, WoW Legion Remix is an opportunity to collect achievements and cosmetics they previously missed—or the…

Few games enjoy such a long stay in the conversation as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, one of the biggest and most celebrated fantasy RPGs ever released. And release it did, again and again—but it’s hard to blame Bethesda for all those re-releases. The game’s community is so enthusiastic that modders are practically making entire…

The last major update to Helldivers 2, Into the Unjust, caused all sorts of performance problems that developer Arrowhead said were a result of unaddressed technical debt. As the game grew in size and complexity, it became increasingly unstable, and Arrowhead said in September that it had plans to address it. Arrowhead dropped a new…