Part of the StoreJet 35T3 range Transcend has added an 8TB option to its four-year-old StoreJet 35T3 USB 3.0 external hard drive range, which also contains 3TB and 4TB models. According to the company, the drive boasts “real-world” transfer speeds of up to 200 MB/s and comes with 256-bit AES encryption. Tom’s Hardware suspects the…
Error creating websockets? Well, the big new Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade of Hello Games’ ever-evolving No Man’s Sky is now in the wild, and it’s certainly looking like a much slicker, smoother experience on Nintendo’s powered-up platform. Indeed, we’re planning a full review in due course, so sit tight on that while we work our…
“This is not how I expected the livestream to go”. A retro computing panel featuring YouTubers and podcasters was interrupted by a bomb threat that brought the Vintage Computer Festival East event to an early end this weekend. The panel included Bill “AmigaBill” Winters (who livestreamed the event), Modern Vintage Gamer, Action Retro, The Retro…
The best of both worlds. Optical drives are often the first thing to fail on retro consoles, which is why so many people choose to swap out their disc drives for an Optical Disc Emulator – effectively, a device which replaces the drive and allows you to load games from solid-state media. We’ve seen the…
I’m not entirely sure Life is Strange: Double Exposure was a good idea conceptually—nor was series fan and PC Gamer writer Mollie Taylor, who played the thing and had a good, if “unnecessary-feeling”, time. That doesn’t mean I’m greeting today’s news with any particular sense of joy. Quite the opposite: The fact that nobody picked…
“I should be in a position to release the code into the public domain”. When Nintendo launched the DS alongside a port of Super Mario 64, it felt like witchcraft to a great many people, even though the game itself was almost a decade old by that point. Having one of the most seminal and…
I know a guy whose only game is Age of Empires 2. He’s been playing it for about 25 years. He doesn’t have a gaming PC, doesn’t have a wider interest in gaming, and when I once mentioned Age of Empires 3 he said “oh yeah I heard they made another one” and that was…
Almost immediately after the launch of its Arrow Lake desktop CPUs in October 2024, Intel said it would work on producing firmware and software updates to improve its lacklustre performance. The likes of the Core Ultra 9 285K not only ran games slower than Raptor Lake chips, the previous generation of processors, but also worse…
Hello everyone! Vinit Agarwal here from Naughty Dog. Today, I’m happy to announce that our next major update to Uncharted 4 launches today, and with it, our new mode: Survival. Survival is our new cooperative mode where you and up to two of your friends can take on 50 waves of increasingly skilled enemies, a…
The evolution of video games has brought about controversial additions like constant online connectivity and battle passes, but some of these newer features are actually quite good. Take for instance the modern achievement system, popularized in 2005 with the release of the Xbox 360 and later implemented on platforms like PlayStation, Steam, and more. Now,…