If you’re hearing weird sounds from your fans or you’re noticing higher than usual CPU temps, it’s probably time to get new fans. Or a whole new liquid cooler, but we’re looking at the cheaper option of the two here today. I’ve just wrapped up testing a new fan design from well-known cooling company Arctic,…
Dream Machine meets Large Pixel Collider Maximum PC has been around for over 20 years now. Starting out as the ground-breaking boot magazine, we’ve been covering PC tech and culture with an attitude ever since. With the launch of the Maximum PC website several years ago, we were able to expand our coverage of hardware…
On Monday, a team of fan translators celebrated the birth of the visual novel with an English patch for 1996’s Japanese PC-98 game Shizuku. In the mid-90s, recently established development studio Leaf—which at that point had only made a strip mahjong game and an adult JRPG—launched a “Visual Novel Series” of three adult games, beginning…
The outbreak of the coronavirus has resulted in the cancellation of another gaming-related event. SXSW has released a statement saying that “The City of Austin has cancelled the March dates for SXSW and SXSW EDU. SXSW will faithfully follow the City’s directions”. This is the first time in 34 years that SXSW has been cancelled….
Pump the volume. Nintendo has continued the trend of releasing one soundtrack a release for its music app, and the latest addition is album for the 1988 NES release Super Mario Bros. 2. Although the game itself might not be quite as popular as certain other Mario side-scrollers, the soundtrack is an absolute banger. This…
The Super Mario 35th Twitter account has confirmed that Bowser’s Fury contained in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury can be selected right away from the game’s title screen and played anytime. This means you won’t need to play through Super Mario 3D World before you start Bowser’s Fury. Super Mario 3D World +…
Asymmetric multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight celebrated its ninth anniversary with a chonky livestream broadcast from PAX East where a screaming crowd of Dead-heads reacted to the announcements of upcoming additions and collaborations. Among them was a couple details about the previously announced Five Nights at Freddy’s collaboration, which will bring the villain of…
‘Silver Surfer Redux’ is out now! A new patch has just been released for Software Creations’ 1990 NES game Silver Surfer, which overhauls the famously challenging game, reducing the hitbox, increasing shot damage, and granting the player infinite lives to try, try, and try again. If you’ve ever read a list online of the most…
We’ve seen all manner of keycaps over the years, from Kerbals to desserts and just about everything in between. But I don’t think I’ve seen any quite so peculiar as those just announced from Asus ROG. They come in a ‘Mystery Box Edition 20’, with the latter part of this referring to the company’s 20th…
How does it hold up? We’ve been lucky enough to go hands-on with the upcoming Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition on Switch, and as part of that, we thought it might be useful to see just how the new release stacks up next to the Wii U original. In short, the Switch remaster represents a…