In February, we reviewed the impeccable Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike and called it the ‘biggest gaming mouse innovation in a decade‘. That’s a pretty big win for Logitech, and though the Logitech G512 X doesn’t feel like as much of a revolution for its market, it does feel like it could be just as…
On an old sticky note taped to a wall early on in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is a phone number you can call that will connect you with the past. Real Witcher heads should recognize the fuzzy music coming out of the phone instantly as the Witcher 3’s main theme. The reference to CD Projekt’s…
I’ve seen some wild and wacky PC cooling solutions in my time, but this one might beat them all: An RTX 4090 cooled with a household air conditioner. Chinese techtuber 电解碳酸钠 (which machine translates to “Electrolytic sodium carbonate”) has shown off the extreme cooling system in a video on Bilibili. The channel says that it’s…
A security vulnerability found in the Unity engine, which had laid dormant for almost a decade, was recently patched. Games made using the engine also need to be patched, however, so expect a lot of games you wouldn’t expect to still be receiving updates to suddenly download one out of the blue. Overcooked 2, for…
Can we combine compact size, high performance, and loads of storage? We’ll give it a shot Length of Time: 1–2 Hours | Level of Difficulty: Low The Mission If you couldn’t tell by now, we’re performance junkies here at Maximum PC. Just last summer, we were crazy enough to build a $30,000 liquid-cooled computer with…
Apple’s relentless in-house silicon release schedule continues this week with the announcement of the new M5 chip. And early leaked benchmarks of the chip suggest the new M5 is about twice as fast as the original M1 for single-thread performance. So, the question is, why can’t PC CPUs make those kinds of gains? The immediate…
Heaven a good time. This review was originally published in November 2014. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the game’s arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online NES library — and its official debut in North America nearly 40 years after its Japanese launch on Famicom. As far as obscure releases within the NES library…
“DEVICE Switch”. Celebrated Swedish developer Simogo — most well known for its two most-recent games, Sayonara Wild Hearts and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes — has shared a little teaser of an iOS gem running on Switch, hinting at a potential console port. That game is Device 6, a text-based adventure game that launched on…
It’s an even bigger show than usual! We sit down and talk with J from Bandai Namco Entertainment about Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin on PS4. We also hear about video game worlds our listeners would want to visit, killer sweet potato soup recipes, and — of course — more Bloodborne. Enjoy…
A new era for net neutrality As seemed destined to happen, the Federal Communications Commission voted today to reclassify broadband Internet service as a public utility, thus giving the FCC the power it sought to implement strict net neutrality rules. The new rules were approved in a 3-to-2 vote and also apply to mobile Internet…