I tried out GeForce Now’s expanded mod support for Baldur’s Gate 3, and it’s nothing but a good thing for the future of the game
GeForce Now, Nvidia’s cloud streaming gaming service, has just implemented support to add even more mods to your (probably already mod-ridden) Baldur’s Gate 3 save. Baldur’s Gate 3 on GeForce Now now supports “the same curated mods from Mod.io that are available for Xbox Series X/S consoles”. Unfortunately you do need the premium subscription plan […]
Fortnite has 58 creators that got paid over $1 million in 2024, and 7 of those made over $10 million
Epic has released a 2024 “Year in Review” of the Fortnite creator ecosystem and, surprise surprise, there are a lot of big numbers to be had. As well as an overview of the year just gone, the publisher also took the opportunity to share some of the future plans for Fortnite which, going by these […]
This USB flash drive has a built-in anti-malware system, but I still wouldn’t use one I found in a parking lot
There’s nothing more innocuous-looking than a USB flash drive. But, as anyone with some basic cybersecurity knowledge knows, they can be one of the easiest ways to infect your devices. The Buffalo RUF3-KEV might be more secure than most, though, as it boasts a whole host of security features to its name. Buffalo’s DiXiM Security […]
Air coolers are still cool
Jacob Ridley, Managing Editor (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Purchasing and trying out a handheld air blower. Why oh why have I been fighting with compressed air cans all these years? This thing rocks. It’s even a tiny vacuum to help me clean up cat hairs from my keyboard. This month I’ve been: […]
The RTS genre might be in a bit of a state, but at least you can pick up these 10 classics for $30 in the Steam Real-Time Strategy Fest before it ends soon
While the RTS genre is as busy as it’s ever been, when it comes to big success stories, they have been few and far between. While there are smaller teams doing interesting things, the major launches of the last couple of years have largely been disappointing sequels and throwbacks. Even the RTS I’m most excited […]
The world’s fastest nuke-simulating supercomputer is now online, boasting peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second and other numbers my pea-sized brain can’t comprehend
All hail the new king. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world’s fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched, which strikes me as a hell of a nervy first boot. You always hold your breath the first few times you fire up a freshly-built gaming PC, don’t you? However, […]
Hyte Y40 review | PC Gamer
Hyte kinda blew up in early 2021; its Y60 chassis changed the game in the world of PC cases in a wild way. As soon as you could blink an eye, every media outlet, influencer, and PC enthusiast had one of those shiny fishbowls strapped to their Instagram page, complete with the latest hardware. And […]
Logitech and iFixit team up in repairability collab to make your mice, keyboards and headphones last longer
Peripherals specialist Logitech and the repair gurus at iFixit are ganging up to deliver that most noble of pursuits, making your devices last longer. The basic gist is to sell genuine Logitech parts on iFixit along with listing step-by-step repair guides. A quick tally of the guides on the Logitech Repair Hub on iFixit suggests […]
Tim Sweeney says Epic is losing billions fighting Apple and Google because it can afford to, jokes that ‘we might run into serious financial problems after a couple more decades’
Epic Games has for several years now been engaged in a legal war with Apple and Google, centered around the closed ecosystems of iOS and Android: Where developers have no choice but to pay a 30% store fee on all revenue. The massive success of Fortnite seems to have brought this into sharp relief for […]
Dataminers turn up potential details on WoW’s upcoming player housing feature—from the Cataclysm Classic PTR, of all places
The dataminers appear to have struck some hypothetical gold while panning for details in, bemusingly, Cataclysm Classic’s public test realm (PTR) of all places. In case you aren’t in the know, player housing—an oft-requested feature of the 20 year old MMO—is absolutely coming to World of Warcraft in the game’s next expansion, Midnight. The only […]
Palworld studio’s first move as a publisher is to save a struggling indie dev: ‘This is the energy I want to see driving games in 2025’
Pocketpair, the developers behind Palworld, has announced its first project as a publisher—a new horror game alongside Surgent Studios. This comes a few months after the studio responsible for Tales of Kenzera: Zau put its team on notice for redundancy. “We noticed a pattern in the entertainment industry, and Pocketpair has given us the opportunity […]