Items tagged with PC gaming
Even as EA is working on ways to revive Battlefield, it hasn’t forgotten it has a successful competitive multiplayer experience with Apex Legends. The development team released its first blog post of the year detailing some of the improvements players can expect. Specifically, when it comes to combatting cheaters...
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The Battlefield franchise has been a cornerstone of the first-person shooter genre for much of its history. Although lately it’s finding it difficult to compete amongst a flood of free-to-play, competitive online games. Even as one of its contemporaries, Call of Duty, continues to thrive. EA is hoping to turn the...
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It has been a tough few weeks for the modding scene, with one developer taking steps to address privacy concerns due to a mod and another studio deciding to skip a PC release altogether. Now, Take-Two has issued a takedown order to a modding group called the Revolution Team, and their YouTube channel has since been...
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Getting a GPU out of its PCIe slot can be a pain. You often have to reach around increasingly bulky coolers, wiggle your fingers past cabling, and find the tiny release that allows you to yank the card out—which may or may not come out smoothly. Asus intended to alleviate that annoyance with its quick release...
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If you're eyeing a new build with an upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series GPU, you won't want to forget about your CPU, too. Cooler Master has unveiled two newly designed CPU coolers for both air and liquid cooling. The Masterliquid Core II comes in both 240mm and 360mm sizes for various PC builds, and plenty of that...
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If you just want to know the date, well, here it is: DOOM: The Dark Ages hits on May 15th. The game's coming to Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PCs via both Steam and Game Pass. That's probably all that DOOM hardcore fans really need to know, but if you're playing on PC and concerned about your specs, read on for...
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Modern PC peripherals and similar technology are often expensive, small, and put together in a complicated fashion. If you have ever broken an expensive piece of tech and found no replacement parts aside from replacing the entire product, iFixIt has a solution for you. In partnership with Logitech, which makes tons of...
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PC gaming is having a moment right now, spurred on by the launch of Nvidia's latest and most capable GPUs and the proliferation of capable handheld gaming PCs. Even with all that momentum, it's relatively common for some games to skip PC in favor of consoles. Rockstar will launch GTA 6 only on consoles later this...
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Marvel Rivals has managed to breakthrough in the cutthroat live service games space, even as some players complained about bots. It has become one of the most popular games on Steam, often finding itself in the top 5 most played games on the platform, while also finding an audience on consoles. This has led to Marvel...
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I have played a lot of GTA V's online component, simply referred to officially as "Grand Theft Auto Online." The mode has evolved tremendously since its launch in 2013, and yet, like most long-lived live service games, it still carries immense cruft from the era of its creation. As a dedicated player, I have a lot of...
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Hero shooter Marvel Rivals has quickly become one of the most popular live service games available, pushing aside longtime stalwart Overwatch on its way to the top of the charts. However, the game has managed to draw plenty of criticism, such as its expensive cosmetic items that can cost as much as $20. Now, it seems...
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After a couple of relatively weak years in the post-COVID slump, the gaming industry roared back in 2024 with a flurry of amazing releases. There were a number of great games released this year that didn't make it onto our list here, like Hades II, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, and Pentiment (for non-Xbox consoles.)...
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Capcom isn’t the only publisher revisiting its dormant back catalog, as PlayStation is collaborating with Arrowhead Game Studios for an epic Helldivers 2 x Killzone event. This will be the first time a crossover event like this is taking place in Helldivers 2, as Arrowhead wanted to wait until it found the right...
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Despite CD Projekt Red having announced it was shifting game developers off Cyberpunk 2077 to go work on The Witcher 4 project, the company is now rolling out Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. This is a significant update that contains several new features, fixes, and overhauled...
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MSI's maiden Claw handheld was competent, but likely less compelling to cautious consumers when confronted by AMD-powered competitors boasting beefier performance and better battery life. That largely mirrors the reality of comparing Intel's Meteor Lake against AMD's Phoenix in gaming laptops. What about Lunar Lake...
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With the latest update to Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft noted that users running Windows 11 24H2 are susceptible to some annoying issues. However, it appears as if this isn’t the only game from the publisher that’s having problems on Microsoft’s latest operating system. Microsoft has acknowledged in a bulletin that...
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Everybody's excited about the next Grand Theft Auto game, especially considering all of the rumors surrounding the title. A dynamically-updating map, bleeding-edge NPC AI, and next-gen graphics are all said to be a part of Rockstar's next magnum opus. It's a fair ways away, still, though; the game is slated for launch...
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Monster Hunter is a series with a long and storied history, but if you're not a hardcore fan of Japanese action games, you might not know that. The upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds, which will usher in the sixth generation of the series with its launch in February, is in fact the twenty-sixth Monster Hunter game release...
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The debate of console versus PC gaming has been raging for what seems like a millennia, with a constant push for dominancy. According to Capcom, makers of franchises such as Street Fighter, the PC may be winning. Capcom recently reported its financial results, and its PC game sales accounted for about 54% of sales...
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World of Warcraft is still going strong 20 years after its initial release, with the game still getting DLC. Its latest content update, The War Within, has been well received, with players enjoying the story and new features. However, this DLC also brought along with it a major bug that has led to in-game items to go...
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There is something to be said about immersion in video games, and how it ties into accessories that you use daily. That being said, Razer has a new $299 piece of immersive kit that may make you vibrate with excitement (get your mind out of the gutter!). The Razer Freyja has been announced at RazerCon 2024, as a neat...
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If you've been conisdering the purchase of a PC gaming handheld, but are not sure which one is the right machine for you, we totally understand. There are a whole bunch of PC-based handheld gaming systems out there right now, and if you don't stay abreast of this stuff, it can be hard to keep up.
If you look at the...
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