This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. The Doctor tackles your questions about: BIOS Settings Bottleneck speeds Non-gaming PCs IDE To AHCI Greetings Doctor. My PC has a 256GB SSD as its primary drive. Back when I installed it, I neglected…
Games! Games! Games! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch 2 eShop – Highlights The Rogue…
I don’t use YouTube much, but back in 2010 I posted a clip called Radiation Side Effects in STALKER. It’s 30 seconds of footage I recorded while playing Stalker: Call of Pripyat, and not to brag, but over the past 14 years it’s gotten over 6,000 views. How am I not making mad bank as…
Bugs now available on Switch 2. This review was originally published in June 2018 when Hollow Knight launched on the Switch 1. To celebrate the release of the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, we’re republishing it along with some brief impressions of the free upgrade, which is available to download now. The Switch isn’t exactly lacking…
One of the major victims of Xbox’s “reset” is id Software, which suffered a whopping 136 layoffs—a move one artist likened to reducing it to a “support studio”. This is a line that Microsoft itself has tried to counter, both via official studio channels and a statement given to Windows Central last week. More on…
Comes with all ‘Early Access’ updates. Cast your minds back, dear readers, to June 2020. Yes, it was a time many of us would rather forget, but you may remember that we reported on a rather intriguing game called Inkulinati that had been confirmed for the Switch after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Now, over two…
With the latest Windows Release Preview, Microsoft is fixing a problem that has persisted for years: Its Task Manager CPU usage stats didn’t make a lot of sense. This change was originally announced in the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build at the end of February and has now finally launched onto the Release Preview channel….
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Online retailer Base UK has sadly started to inform some customers that that their pre-orders for the upcoming Super Mario 3D All-Stars have been cancelled. The reasoning given is that the allocation of the game is “woefully short” and Nintendo UK hasn’t given any reassurance that there will be more stock after the game’s release….
When I make tabletop RPG bundle recommendations around here, normally you just have to trust my judgement (which is flawless, of course). But for Humble Bundle’s latest offering, you don’t have to take my word for it—every game in the deal is a former winner or nominee of the Ennie Tabletop RPG Awards. That does…