I’ve recently performed some in-depth testing of VRAM usage in several modern games, to see if 8 GB budget graphics cards are still good enough for gaming in 2026. And it turns out they are—with some caveats. While the 8 GB variants of the RTX 5060 Ti and RX 9060 XT performed fairly well overall,…
The motherboard is the heart of your PC, the nexus into which everything else connects. Using a good quality motherboard is important for any gaming PC build, as choosing second best can lead to lower framerates and less expansion capability. For AMD’s AM5 processors, such as the latest 9000-series chips including the mighty Ryzen 7…
Six years ago, a bunch of former BioWare, Blizzard, and Riot developers formed Elodie to work on a game that eventually became Seekers of Skyveil, a novel blend of MOBA action and the extraction format made popular by games like Escape From Tarkov. The team at PC Gamer had positive things to say about it,…
It’s always a pain finding trinket items for new projects and events in Arc Raiders, as they’re less predictable to find than standard resources. That strikes again with Riven Tides‘ new Avian Alarm project, which asks you to find three Red Coral Jewelry. Don’t worry though, once you know where to look, it’s not actually…
One of my favorite things about Souls games is that sometimes the best method for dealing with tragic, corrupted knights and primordial horrors is simply hitting them very hard with a large object. It’s an ideal embodied by the Raider, the subject of Bandai Namco’s latest Elden Ring: Nightreign character reveal trailer, who seems just…
Shadow Drop of the Tomb Raider. Oooof, we love a good shadow drop – love it. This is one of the coolest we’ve seen in quite some time, as Aspyr has announced that Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition is now available – out of nowhere – on the Switch and Switch 2. Read the full article…
For PC hardware enthusiasts, the good news has been awfully slim pickings of late. What with the ongoing RAMpocalypse, new GPU generations apparently delayed indefinitely and the seeming inevitability of ever more expensive computer chips, it’s nearly all gloom and doom. Nearly, that is, but not quite. The glimmer of hope in the barren wasteland…
I feel like we’re in an era of trying desperately to cut cords and have things look as neat and tidy as possible. Unfortunately, the tech isn’t quite there yet to make such things possible—at least not for cheap. We’re past the ‘tangled heap of cables’ stage, but we’re not quite at the ‘cables? What…
Mind our dust! And don’t let any of it get into your PC’s fans. We’re temporarily testing a new version of the PC Gamer homepage called the Hyperfeed that you’ll see getting lots of updates over at pcgamer.com/hyperfeed. This is a very early, pre-pre-proto-alpha test, a minimum-viable version for early data gathering and experimentation. You’ll…
