Category: Announcements December 16, 2024 This Holiday, Xbox, The Coalition, Double Fine, Ninja Theory and More Support Mental Wellness Team Xbox Summary Xbox Game Studios partners with Take This to help increase awareness of mental health stereotypes in gaming. Explore relaxing games on Xbox Game Pass. Artist Steve Wade shares his Starfield-inspired logo redesign in…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. For someone whose daily job is to write about, test, and review PCs, components, and peripherals, you’d think I’d know instantly what my top pick for the best hardware of 2025 is….
Launching Spring 2024. Developer and publisher Giants Software has announced Farming Simulator Kids for the Nintendo Switch, offering a more child-friendly, accesible take on its long-running Farming Simulator franchise. Switching out text for more audiovisual cues, Farming Simulator Kids will require players to harvest crops, care for a variety of different animals, and make use…
Ah, I almost feel nostalgic. Remember ‘meltgate’, in which 16-pin 12VHPWR connectors were regularly in the headlines for, well, melting under heavy usage or incorrect installation? The problem appeared to be limited to certain Nvidia cards like the RTX 4090, as they were the ones making use of the connector standard at the time, before…
Pokemon HOME which is a paid app which allows users to manage the various Pokemon they have caught over a number of games and transfer them to Sword and Shield has a release window. You’ll be able to connect with Pokemon Bank, Pokemon GO, Pokemon Let’s GO Pikachu and Eevee, and of course Sword and…
Game developers weigh in on VR input I recently had the chance to attend Valve’s Steam VR Developer Showcase and had a great time trying out a dozen VR demos (you can read about the games here). It was the first developer-focused event that I’ve attended that showed a wide assortment of games that used…
Arcade Card Duo Case If you were around for the 16-bit console wars, you probably remember the unspoken rule: Neo Geo fighting games were not supposed to be portable to “normal” home hardware without compromises. The Neo Geo MVS/AES was basically the arcade in a box, and it wore that identity like a leather jacket…
A release window, finally! It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about the Kingdom Come: Deliverance port on Nintendo Switch. But today, in a surprise announcement, publisher Plaion has shared an update with us: the port of the 2018 title will be coming to the Switch in early 2024. At last! The Switch…
Despite receiving numerous updates and enhancements since its rough launch in October 2024, Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop CPUs have not been especially popular, and for multiple reasons. At a recent technology conference, the chip company openly admitted that it had “kind of fumbled the football … particularly [the] high performance desktop side”, but also promised…
Corsair has created what it holds to be the first triple-chamber PC case. One chamber for the parts, one chamber for the PSU and cables, and one special chamber that only houses a 360 mm radiator. This is designed to get the hot air out of your case as quickly as possible, without heating up…