PC Gaming

Last week, developer ShiftUp released a video marketing its upcoming sequel Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. A so-called “music video” which was riddled with generative AI, from Evie’s harrowing grin to a very rubbish song with cringeworthy robotic vocals. The video has garnered a whole bunch of backlash—from myself included—as people wondered why on earth a…

You don’t need me to tell you the memory crisis is looking bleak, but, well, the memory crisis is looking bleak. So bleak, in fact, that Gigabyte has just unveiled a new series of AM4 motherboards. Yes, the socket we thought we’d be done with by now. The B550 X Series, as Gigabyte calls it,…

As you can see in the above video, I recently travelled to Osaka, Japan, to go inside Capcom’s headquarters and play its upcoming action game, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, as well as talk to many of the lead devs who have worked on it. And, as part of my developer interviews, I spoke with…

PC cooling company Arctic has secured a tariff refund from the US government. The company isn’t simply content to sit on the cash, though. As a result of the refund, Arctic is rolling back prices on its cooling components for US customers. On top of that, the company has also pledged to put the money…

It might sound like a cruel joke in a time where memory is costing hundreds of dollars more than it used to, and GPUs are getting price hikes, but there’s a new bit of software called Nukemark that is designed to bring even the best graphics cards to their absolute limits. Nukemark is based in…

I’ve spent the last week playing Beast of Reincarnation and I’ve really enjoyed it, though I am not, admittedly, a huge lover of parry-centric action. And Beast of Reincarnation has loads of parrying. You can’t not parry in Beast of Reincarnation, but there are ways to make the combat far less reliant on precise parries…

Need to know What is it? A melancholy parry-happy action RPG from the creators of Pokémon gamesRelease date August 4, 2026Expect to pay $60Developer Game FreakPublisher FictionsReviewed on RTX 3060 (laptop), Ryzen 5 5600H, 16GB RAMSteam Deck Officially “Unknown”, but unlikely to workLink Steam Beast of Reincarnation is a sci-fi action RPG whose parry-happy woman…

As Games Workshop let slip in a financial report last week, acclaimed horror writer/director Mike Flanagan, fresh off an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie, will be writing a new live action Warhammer 40,000 series in production at Amazon. Noted Warhammer hunk Henry Cavill is producing the series, but has also reiterated in an Instagram…

Today in news that makes perfect sense, Dave Bautista may take over the role of Kratos in Amazon’s God Of War TV series. According to Variety, sources say Bautista is “currently in talks” to play demigod Kratos, the role that originally belonged to Ryan Hurst. Hurst, most recently seen in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey as…

I’ve owned an awful lot of ethernet cables in my life, in all sorts of colors. Black, blue, white, grey, yellow, green… even brown and red, I’m pretty sure. If you asked me what’s the most common ethernet cable color outside black and white, I’d probably go with blue—but this weekend I learned that when…