Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. Despite a lacklustre GPU generation and the RAMpocalypse, this year’s PC gaming hardware has made me very happy. That’s because 2025 has seen some meaningful, non-gimmicky leaps forward in competitive FPS gaming…
Mode, a high-end keyboard maker that allows you to customise caps, add a stabiliser, swap switches, plate material, PCB type, and more at checkout, has just announced a refresh to its Encore keyboard. Made in collaboration with YouTuber and creator Matthew Encina, the 2026 Encore has a neat new crown mounting system and some lovely…
Splatoon and Mario Kart events postponed too. Nintendo has today announced that the first Nintendo Live event of 2024, which was set to take place in Tokyo, has been cancelled. Alongside this, several competitive events including the ‘Splatoon Koshien 2023 National Finals,’ the ‘Splatoon 3 World Championship 2024′ and the ‘Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online…
Death Stranding 2 is the best game I’ve played on my dusty PS5, and soon it’ll be one of the best games I’ve played on PC. That’s assuming the PC port, which Sony announced today during a State of Play livestream, will be as good as its predecessor. The PC version trailer (embedded above) boasts…
I loved The Witcher 3’s wobbly bushes. In the original version of The Witcher 3 they used to sway like they were singing Auld Lang Syne on New Year’s Eve, and it really helped bring Velen to life. Particle Wind, a mod by RavenKZP, does the same for Skyrim. It’s not just the shrubbery that’ll…
If a Dune game has a rite of passage, surely it’s being swallowed by a sandworm. It happened to me about 10 hours into the Dune: Awakening beta and it took me quite a while to recover, because there was no chance of running back to collect my dropped gear like you can when you…
Players will require a separate subscription from other platforms. Naoki Yoshida, producer behind the hit MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, has been teasing and wishing for a Nintendo version of the game for a while. And, during today’s Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival Keynote in Anaheim, Yoshi-P, along with Square Enix CEO Takashi Kiryu, have delivered…
Category: Games December 11, 2024 Towerborne’s December Update Brings Yuletide “Grandeur” to the World Danielle Partis Towerborne is coming to Xbox Game Preview and Xbox Game Pass in 2025, a few months into Early Access, and with the launch of this festive update, Stoic continues to refine gameplay while taking input from a core, dedicated…
Level up your laptop Now that Skylake is here, the DDR4 era has begun in earnest. That applies to both desktops and laptops, the latter of which G.Skill is targeting with the addition of DDR4 SO-DIMMs to its Ripjaws series. These are high performance modules with rated speeds of up to 2800MHz, available in capacities…