Category: PC Gaming July 14, 2026 How The Coalition and NVIDIA are Building Gears of War: E-Day for PC Kate Rayner, Technical Fellow at XBOX At XBOX and The Coalition, our goal for Gears of War: E-Day is simple: deliver the most visceral and technically ambitious Gears of War to date — whether you prefer…
“These discs were not burned with a CD writer, these discs were pressed in a factory”. This is the second in a two-part deep dive into the history of video games in South Africa. You can read part one here. In 1995, my family emigrated to the UK, which is why I’ll be sharing the…
Say what you want about Windows—I’ve certainly said my fair share—but recent months have shown at least that Microsoft is willing to make some positive changes. Now, at least some of these are coming to fruition, as the company is releasing an improved Windows start menu search box for Insiders. The changes are ones that…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Derek Sorrells, who is displayed on card number 832, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Derek is also featured on cards 1280, 2158 and 2254. Derek is an old school gamer who loves arcade machines. He grew up in the prime of the arcade era and played as many arcade machines…
“You don’t gotta catch ’em all!”. Thanks to fan translators, it’s now possible to play Pandora Box and Imagineer’s N64 monster-taming RPG Zool – Majyū Charmer Legend in English. But Zoinkity, the patch’s hacker, is already warning people not to expect the game to be a “Pokéclone”, stating that those who “go in expecting Pokémon……
Recently a bunch of motherboard and component makers have been validating their stuff for Chinese-made memory. That’s brands including biggies, such as MSI and Asus. The reason, it turns out, is apparently a massive ramp up in the amount of DRAM production coming from China, especially from memory maker CXMT. Basing their analysis largely on…
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has been a massive success for Ubisoft, having sold two million copies in a day and breaking the series’ concurrent player records on Steam by nearly 40,000. Despite this good news, the company is planning to lay off 51 developers at Ubisoft Barcelona. These layoffs were announced last month, alongside…
“The bigger dream, being the default place to play retro games, we’re still working on”. Modern emulators have made it easier than ever to play your favourite retro games on a phone, laptop, or even smart refrigerator, but unless you have some technical know-how, it isn’t easy to take your saves with you. Patrick Corrigan…
Acquiring Cryogenic Coolant in Palworld lets you craft a bunch of different items, from a saddle for Jormuntide, to more advanced coolers, to the refined cold resistant metal armour. Chances are at some stage you’ll need to use this material, so here’s how to get it. As with some other materials, players are reporting that…
Caught up in the wave of Xbox ‘reset’ layoffs that occurred last week, id Software has been hit particularly hard. And while official statements given by the studio maintain that it’s still of a decent enough size to make the kinds of games it used to, that sentiment’s at odds with many of the developers…