PC Gaming
Gaming is an expensive hobby. I mean, don’t get me started on how much you’re expected to shell out for even middling rig upgrades these days, or how full-price game releases are now asking for $70 of your hard-earned cash. In such a landscape, with console prices going up instead of down over time, is…
An AMD patent application for a new spin on DDR5 PC memory has been spotted. The so-called high-bandwidth dual inline memory module or HB-DIMM is designed to boost memory bandwidth courtesy of pseudo channels, buffer chips and intelligent signal routing. It looks very fancy, but we’ll take some convincing it’ll appear in PCs any time…
Developer Illfonic last month announced a game based on 1978 horror classic Halloween, and now we’ve got a look at it. The game looks a lot like the studio’s own (excellent) Friday the 13th adaptation and is set in the small town of Haddonfield, recreated with real period style. It’s primarily an asymmetrical multiplayer horror…
I first got my hands on the Glorious Model O3 Wireless sitting on the floor in the halls of Gamescom as a slapdash 15-minute product demo. I was a little frustrated that I only got a few minutes with it because it’s not often you have a product that tries to genuinely innovate in a…
Qualcomm has announced its second-gen Snapdragon X2 SoC for PCs and with it come some big claims, especially for gaming performance. The new chip has 18 CPU cores, 50% more than the the OG Snapdragon X, and over double the GPU performance. But will this actually translate into usable gaming performance? First, some more details…
There’s a weird dearth of vampire videogames, which is a shame, because I often find myself craving them. This year, at least, we’re finally getting Bloodlines 2, but only a few months later we’ll be switching sides and hunting vamps down in Code Vein 2. During Sony’s latest State of Play, Bandai Namco gave us…
Birt’s Bees might sound like a very cutesy, tame legendary in Borderlands 4, but it’s actually absolutely terrifying. Firing a barrage of homing projectiles, Birt’s Bees has quite the sting, but it’s made even better with parts like Torgue sticky bombs and a taser underbarrel, which, when activated, breaks the damage multiplier of stickies. However,…
Oh boy. Xbox’s TGS stream didn’t exactly set my heart a flutter for most of its duration, but then we got a lovely little treat at the end. Forza Horizon is back, baby, and it’s heading to Japan. Forza Horizon 6’s teaser didn’t give much away, mostly just showing a bunch of licence plates from…
I wrote about Ananta yesterday, and while I’m all for its slurry of genres and inspirations, I’m eating humble pie as I write this one. I have thoroughly and completely judged a book by its cover. Despite having all the hallmarks of a Zenless Zone Zero, or a Genshin Impact—that is to say, being a…
I am, as is well-documented, something of a remaster sicko. I love having an excuse to revisit a classic in its mostly original form (I shouldn’t need an excuse, sure, but my brain works like this to my detriment), I love hoovering up the daft achievements for the sheer narcotic thrill of it, I like…