As reported just yesterday, if you’re a proud owner of a Radeon RX 5700-series graphics card, you’ve got little chance of being able to play Alan Wake 2. That’s because the game uses a feature of DirectX 12 called mesh shaders and that particular GPU doesn’t support them. And yet the GPU’s architecture is only…
Category: Announcements January 21, 2026 January Xbox Update: Xbox Expands to Arm-based PCs, Game Save Sync Indicator, and More Dean Shimabukuro, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Xbox Services Marketing Starting the new year, we have some new updates to help expand and improve how you play Xbox games. This includes adding the Xbox PC app to…
If there’s one thing sure to draw the ire of PC enthusiasts, it’s proprietary parts. One of the great joys of our beloved hobby is upgrading an older machine with the newest components, but Alienware gaming PCs have previously featured non-standard sized motherboards, PSUs, and coolers that have made that process more painful than it…
What do Re-Logic, Eric Barone, and CD Projekt have in common? They won’t quit screwing around with (read: improving) their old games: Less than a week after announcing that The Witcher 3 is getting “one more patch” to add cross-platform mod support, the studio revealed today that Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a new update, too….
Have you heard of Forever Skies, the game where you’re trawling above a ruined earth swathed in poison fog in a tricked-out airship? Where you fish for giant moths and deconstruct the ruin-tops of skyscrapers for parts? Where “we salvage every scrap and make every drop of water count?” Well, with its recent World Evolved…
Full acquisition of Commodore Corporation B.V. secures all official Commodore trademarks dating back to 1983 DOVER, Del – July 31, 2025 (OSG was given permission for early publishing) – Commodore International Corporation today announced a monumental milestone: the successful acquisition of Commodore Corporation BV and all 47 original Commodore trademarks, the oldest of which dates back…
New site, more content, a lot more Kick-Ass A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article letting everyone know that Maximum PC would be going through a transition. It’s here. During this weekend, www.maximumpc.com will go through a short content freeze. The new site and platform will go live on Monday around noon PST….
Subscribe via iTunes, Google or RSS, or download here The gang’s all here! Well, two of them anyway. That’s right, this week’s show sees Ryan and Justin at the reins, which means there’s nobody to stop them from talking about Final Fantasy for an hour straight! Except they don’t do that, because that wouldn’t make…
One of last year’s biggest pleasant surprises was Judero, a surreal little adventure by a two-man team whose art consisted entirely of action figures and other handmade, physical objects digitized as sprites and textures or animated in stop-motion cutscenes. Developer Talha & Jack Co. is already working on what’s next: Mashina. “A little robot digs…
It’s not often that a liquid cooler flies under the radar these days. Many on the market are adorned with massive screens and more bling than a boxing match. Not the Corsair Nautilus 360 RS. It’s a top-notch liquid cooler with solid performance and low noise levels. Available for $110/£110, the Nautilus is an affordable…