PC Gaming

Earlier this week, senior vice president of AMD Jack Huynh and PS5 lead system architect Mark Cerny revisited their co-engineering effort with a glittering cross-section of quartz. Alright, they’ve got my attention. Named after the purple stone the two tech heads are seen posing beside, Project Amethyst began back in 2023 as an AMD-Sony collaboration…

Raising your Mecha Break rank is going to be a challenge, but that’s not unusual for a PvP-focused game like this. Still, if you want to stand at the pinnacle of mech-based competitive play (in this game at least), you’ll have to grind your way up a lot of ranks in order to reach the…

If you’ve spent the better part of $1,000 on a high-end VR headset and perhaps the same again on a graphics card, you’d be pretty frustrated to find it didn’t work properly on your Linux gaming rig. Imagine how you’d feel if the problems continued for more than a year. That’s been the exact situation…

Working out how to change character in a free-to-play game like Mecha Break is always a challenge, as you walk the fine line between what you get for free and what they want you to pay for. Sadly, Mecha Break is pretty stingy in terms of character cosmetics—you’ll be able to customize your character’s base…

The sales results from one retailer can’t be used to judge the success of a product across the globe, but if those from German retailer Mindfactory are anything to go by, it would seem that PC gamers have really had enough of 8 GB graphics cards. So much so, they’re willing to pay an extra…

I remember it well. Four years ago my friends and I were gearing up for the annual Minecraft Live broadcast, excited to see what the big update theme would be this year, but primarily concerned with one thing: The Minecraft mob vote. Back in 2021, the vote was between three mobs, the allay, the copper…

Krafton has announced a major leadership exodus from Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds, in a move that casts fresh doubt on the prospects of Subnautica 2: which was scheduled to launch in early access this year, but is nowhere to be seen. Subnautica designer and director Charlie Cleveland, CEO Ted Gill, and co-founder Max McGuire have…

Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor, Hardware (Image credit: Future) This month I’ve been: testing some shiny new liquid coolers, including the latest iteration from Arctic, the Liquid Freezer III Pro. This week I’ve been: trying to stay cool in the UK heat. We’re not cut out for this. Luckily, I do have my trusty Noctua desk…

Another one bites the dust. According to a new report from Reuters, Intel’s customer foundry business could largely give up on its all-important 18A node. Instead, Intel will retain 18A as an internal node for chips like its upcoming Panther Lake laptop CPU and shift the focus to promoting its 14A for external customers. If…

A single survey only ever tells you a snapshot of how things are, but take 44 consecutive surveys, and the patterns you see will give you some good insights. That’s what Valve has been doing for the past four years, and delving into its hardware survey results over time shows that PC gamers have been…