Consoles still have one big advantage, and it’s hurting PC gaming
The death of PC gaming. That’s been the topic at hand for the past several weeks, with port after port after port arriving on PC in disastrous states. PC gaming…
How generative AI will create games with ‘broader, bigger, and deeper worlds’
Of all the use cases for generative AI out there, I can’t think of one more significant than video games. Sure, we’ve seen people create simple games from GPT-4 —…
How a viral bodycam game tricked the internet into thinking it was real footage
It’s difficult for small game developers to make an impact in 2023, but Unrecord, a bodycam-style first-person shooter developed by the French game studio Drama, took the internet by storm over…
Gaming laptops are still lying to us, and it’s getting even more complicated
Around a year ago, I claimed that gaming laptops were lying to us. It was hard not to when you couldn’t trust the spec sheet to give you an idea…
How Unreal Engine 5 is tackling the biggest problem in PC gaming
During its State of Unreal address at GDC 2023, Epic announced a wide-ranging suite of features for Unreal Engine 5.2. But perhaps the most important feature coming in the updated…
Here’s how Intel doubled Arc GPUs’ performance with a simple driver update
As newcomers in the world of discrete graphics cards, the best hope for Intel’s Arc A770 and A750 was that they wouldn’t be terrible. And Intel mostly delivered in raw…
I built a couch gaming PC that puts the PS5 to shame — and you can too
The PlayStation 5 is back in stock, and if you’ve been eagerly waiting to jump into the next generation of gaming, now seems like the time to strike. I’m here…
We’re not in a GPU shortage, but it sure feels like one
The GPU shortage that plagued graphics cards for nearly two years is over, and it has been for a while. But high GPU prices still have the same effect. Fumali –…
These were the best (and worst) technical PC games of 2022
2022 brought some big technical hits and some big technical messes on PC. Here’s the best and worst PC releases we saw this year from a technical perspective. Fumali – Service…
Here’s why Portal RTX is the most demanding PC game I’ve ever tested
Portal RTX may look like a quant remaster, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s one of the most demanding games available today.