Painfully high graphics card pricing has become a seemingly permanent norm and at least some of that comes down to the impact of the burgeoning AI boom. Are SSD and system memory prices poised to go the same way? According to analysis by Tom’s Hardware, the unfortunate answer is yes. Tom’s claims that, “nearly every…
Celebrating the small(er). 2025 has been a bit of a loud, bonkers year for video games. Big title after big title, a brand new console in the Switch 2, and a new GOTY contender almost every other week. It’s been breathless, but not without industry struggles, mass layoffs, cancellations, and closures. Which is why now,…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2025, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find them all here. Okay, I…
Doctor, heal thyself. Or, in this case, malware, self-destruct. A joint press release from the US Justice Department and the FBI has announced a multi-month law enforcement operation involving multiple international partners that has succeeded in removing malware from over 4,000 US computers—by telling it to delete itself. The malware in question is known as…
Hello Prospects and Absolvers! The team at Sloclap has been unusually quiet these last few months but that’s all due to the work on Absolver: Downfall – the new, free expansion for Absolver which we’re happy to announce will be coming on September 25. The expansion is rather robust with something for both the PvE…
Return to the track in the ‘Frozen Tour’. We’ve finally made it to the holiday season and F-Zero 99 has returned with another limited-time event. If you didn’t catch it last year, you can now race and slide around ice-covered tracks in the Frozen Tour. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Samsung has divulged some updates on its next generation memory products—including GDDR7 memory—at its annual Memory Tech Day in San Jose. Alongside GDDR7, Samsung announced its Shinebolt HBM3E memory, which is being developed for upcoming AI and compute GPUs. GDDR7 memory has been in development for some time. It’s set to appear in next generation…
Operation Apocalypse Z is upon us, with hordes of ravenous undead across all the game modes as the latest season of content arrives for fans of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4! Expect new weapons to unlock and master, a return to Treyarch’s incredible Aether story in a shocking new Zombies experience, Multiplayer maps that…
Jingles, all the way. I have been banging the ‘Theme’ drum for so long now, my hands have started to hurt. It doesn’t make any sense to me that every Switch menu has been this music-less graveyard when Nintendo has churned out the likes of the Wii Shop Channel, 3DS Theme Shop and a multitude…
“people forget we’re a relatively small indie team”. Yooka-Replaylee is a great reimagining of the enjoyable yet flawed 2017 original, yet for many the lack of a 60fps performance mode on Switch 2 was disappointing. Well, the good news is that it’s finally here! After months of painstaking work to optimise the game, Playtonic has…