Earlier in these pages, I discussed whether Dungeons and Dragons meets the technical definition of an old school retro video game. Tabletop RPGs, despite having a clear progression to video games, aren’t exactly video games themselves. Well, way back in 1989, the Japanese gaming magazine Marukatsu PC Engine found an intriguing way to bridge…
The liquid cooler that Hyte called “the raid boss of liquid coolers”, the Thicc Q80 Trio, is being taken off the market and all users are instructed to stop using them immediately and get a refund. This is, Hyte says, because of a “fragile internal component that is susceptible to damage during transport.” This comes…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. OK, I admit it: I played a ton of XCOM 2 again over the holiday break and now I can’t…
Activision has announced a brand new Grand Prix for Crash Team Racing and it is the Winter Festival Grand Prix. The special timed event runs from Thursday, 12th December until the 12th of January. Here’s the additions you can look forward to from tomorrow running up until next month! New Track Gingerbread Joyride The Pit…
Hey everyone, It has been quite a while since PUBG‘s PlayStation launch back in December 2018, and while time has flown by, we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes. Since launch, we have added a ton of exciting content to the game, including a new winter themed map, a new weapon progression system, and…
A BIOS update awaits AMD yesterday announced the arrival of a new APU, the A10-7870K. The new A-Series APU is part of AMD’s “Godavari” lineup, which are basically extensions of Kaveri, and as we said they should serve as painless drop-in replacements on any socket FM2+ motherboard. Lest there be any doubt, Asus was quick…
Is the Prince returning? There have been multiple times during the Switch generation where Bandai Namco has trademarked a certain game or series and has actually gone on to officially announce something. With this in mind, it’s been discovered the Japanese publisher recently filed a trademark for ‘Once Upon a Katamari‘ in Europe towards the…
The world of AI boffins really is baffling, sometimes. I’m finally used to the idea that I can chat to a non-sentient, very knowledgeable and occasionally hallucinatory machine, and already we’re talking about AI models interacting with AI models. It’s only in such a world that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang could think to utter the…
Video game prequels are tricky. These games are tasked with simultaneously advancing the gameplay experience while rewinding the narrative. Sometimes we get gameplay mechanics that don’t gel within the world established by the original, or new stories that are about as impactful as dynamite without a fuse. Rockstar Games’ latest opus, Red Dead Redemption 2,…
Microsoft’s fabled Project Helix chip, the AMD-engineered basis of the next-gen Xbox console, will reportedly be used by Asus, MSI and other brands to make third-party gaming machines. However, consumers won’t be able to buy the Helix chip separately. So says KeplerL2, one of the most reliable members of the tech-leak illuminati. Posting on NeoGAF…