As PC Gamer is wont to do, we’ve been posting a lot about how our device of choice has won the console war. I would like to unilaterally, with authority that I do not have (and have not asked for), state that we’ve lost. Catastrophically, because the PlayStation 5 has randomly received Patch 8 of…
Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Kogado Studio Released: 1991 PCs: PC-98, X68000 (Image credit: Kogado Studio) The mysterious snack-hoovering gap between holiday celebrations and getting back to normal is a great…
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is a new animated project from Netflix that’ll explore one of Andrzej Sapkowski’s short stories, A Little Sacrifice. In an interview with SFX magazine (via GamesRadar), writer Mike Ostrowski discussed what fans can expect from this movie including a neat little easter egg. Sirens of the Deep is set…
Have a little patents. Years of leaks and rumours made Nintendo’s official Switch 2 reveal feel more like a confirmation of what we already knew than a showcase full of surprises. That said, there was so much chatter out there before the reveal that there’s still plenty of room for speculation, particularly when it comes…
Category: Games Eternal Strands Is a Remarkably Fresh Action-RPG Woven from Familiar Threads Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Published January 27, 2025 Eternal Strands – launching into Game Pass today – doesn’t so much draw from its influences as treat them like some kind of thought experiment. What if, in a Monster Hunter game, every…
Anyone who has been around in PC gaming for a long time will know that every time a new high-end graphics card gets launched, supply is never enough to meet demand. In the case of the GeForce RTX 5090, board partner MSI says that its cards will have limited availability and it’s down to an…
While the TikTok US ban debacle rolls on, it looks like TP-Link is being considered for the same treatment. After a letter signed by two US congressmen called for a ban of TP-Link devices last summer for having “unusual vulnerabilities” linked to Chinese cyberattacks, one of its signees is now voicing continued concerns. Rep. Raja…
SanDisk Desk Drive | 4 TB | USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 10 | 1,000 MB/s | $379.99 $268.99 at Amazon (save $111)This external SSD is only ‘portable’ in the sense that a laptop is ‘portable’—you’re not going to be putting one in your pocket. But what you get is something incredibly capacious, reliable, and consistent,…
Marvel Snap—a cardgame I distinctly remember losing a month to in 2022 before I got a little tired of the typical TCG progression cycle—has made a downright generous apology to players who missed out during a recent outage, due to TikTok being temporarily banned in the US. In case that just gave you a case…
With the appearance of the role-playing game on video consoles, a genre less about actual role-playing and more about navigating enemy dungeons via numbers rather than reflexes, we also saw the appearance of grinding. How grinding works is simple enough. If your statistics aren’t good enough to defeat an enemy boss, just defeat enough…