Unreal Redux, an in-development remake of the classic FPS Unreal, is not an official Epic Games project, but it does have the official thumbs-up from one very important person: Original Unreal designer Cliff Bleszinski, who said on X that it “looks SO COOL.” (We don’t normally do the all-caps thing, but Cliff’s enthusiasm is contagious.)…
In Taiwan, IKEA has released a slightly different version of its product catalogue where they’ve recreated some of the pages using Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Using in-game screenshots and carefully selected furniture, the company that’s famous for its affordable home furnishings and delicious meatballs, has done a pretty decent job of copying some of its…
Top Deal: Remember when read and write speeds in the 550MB/s range used to be exciting? That was before there were options in the PCI-E space. If you need mind boggling read and writes, then check out today’s top deal for an Intel 750 Series 2.5-inch 400GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive…
007 First Light is a pretty good James Bond videogame and, by early appearances, a hit, and so it’s no great surprise that more of them are going to happen: So says Amazon Gaming general manager Jeff Gattis in a new interview with Polygon. But will IO Interactive be involved in the process? That, apparently,…
We test a lot of components at PC Gamer. We’re often swapping GPUs, CPUs, SSDs and RAM between test rigs to find out whether they’re worth your cash. Yet an important question to ask yourself when digging into the data is: “what’s it like to actually build a PC with this stuff?” To answer that,…
OpenPete is now available in v0.1.3. 27 years after its original release, the classic PlayStation platformer Spyro the Dragon has just received an unofficial PC port. The port, which was developed by Amec and tyscorp, is called “OpenPete” (a reference to Spyro’s original name during development), and is now available in v0.1.3 for Windows, with…
World’s top PC supplier admits it “messed up” Lenovo took to Twitter to issue an apology over Superfish, the visual search software it installed on consumer laptops and desktops without permission, and has posted instructions on how to remove it. Initially Lenovo issued a statement saying that it installed the software with good intentions and…
When it comes to games on PCs, there’s one thing that thousands of them have in common: the graphics API used to tell the GPU what to do. Specifically, I’m talking about Microsoft’s Direct3D and I’m telling you about this because D3D12, for short, has now been updated with a new shader model and a…
Hello! I’m Oli, the game director at Kaizen Game Works, the creators of Paradise Killer. I’m thrilled to announce that the playable demo for our new open world mascot management crime drama, Promise Mascot Agency, is out today on PS5! Play Video We’ve spent a long time working on this game, and the whole team…
In the world of cutting-edge technology, we rarely get to see the behind-the-scenes research and development that goes on at the biggest companies. But every now and then, some details get dropped that remind you just how much better our current gear and gadgets can potentially be. Meta’s VR division has showcased two such examples,…