Category: PC Games

That gaming backlog won’t clear itself — GeForce NOW is here to help. Stream the latest titles straight from the cloud across a variety of devices. This week, five new titles are ready to play instantly in the cloud gaming platform’s library. Screamer drifts onto the scene with retro‑racing attitude and pixel‑perfect speed. Plus, Honkai: Star Rail Version 4.1, “Unraveled for Daybreak,” touches down. Hit the Gas The ‘90s called — it wants the cloud. Screamer from Milestone roars back onto the track as a blistering arcade racer that thrives on speed, precision and pure retro attitude. Tight corners and neon‑soaked straights define…

The company behind the popular Geekbench software tool has taken another pot shot at Intel’s BOT software.Primate Labs says that Intel BOT “only supports a handful of applications, meaning BOT-optimized benchmark results paint an unrealistic picture of how a CPU performs in practice. This makes Intel processors appear faster relative to AMD and other vendors than they would be in typical, real-world usage.”Following the announcement last week that all Geekbench results posted courtesy of Intel’s new Arrow Lake Plus CPUs would receive warning flag in the online database, Primate Labs has a new blog post detailing the results of in-house…

The Minirig has been my favorite Bluetooth speaker ever since I first reviewed one nearly 20 years ago. These perfectly-formed cylinders of sonic wonder sound great, have incredible battery life, and have a rugged build that makes them ideal for travel. With this new gold-plated edition, though, well, this one might be for at-home use only. Currently residing on our best Bluetooth speaker guide as my top recommendation for travel, the Minirig 4 is a surprisingly compact mono speaker with power and longevity that leaves most rivals in the dust. Normally finished in a tough brushed, anodized aluminum finish, this…

The Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition is a celebration of where it all started for Razer. It takes the company’s first gaming mouse design and, 20 years on, packs it with the latest cutting-edge tech to create what should be an ultra-desirable collectors’ edition. However, Razer then put a price on it. Never one to shy away from an aspirational price, Razer has gone all out with the Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition. Despite not being built from solid gold, it costs an eye-watering $1,337. Or should I say cost, as all 1,337 of these limited edition mice are already…

It’s tough to pick a favorite of the broadcasts I’ve been receiving from Planet Blip. I’m partial to the rants delivered by Blinker, an artificial being who lives between channels and signs off with “All hail the new static!” I’m also into Quizzards, a combination quiz show/roleplaying game where contestants answer questions instead of rolling dice to find out how their fantasy alter egos perform, and Boredome, where real teens talk about the real issues of the day. (“No adults allowed!”)Blippo+ is a game in the loosest sense of the word. Mostly what you do is scroll between channels to…

Game development teams are working across larger worlds, more complex pipelines and more distributed teams than ever. At the same time, many studios still rely on fixed, desk-bound GPU hardware for critical production work. At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week in San Francisco, NVIDIA is showcasing a new approach to bring together disparate workflows using virtualized game development on NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and NVIDIA vGPU software. With the RTX PRO Server, studios can centralize and virtualize core workflows across creative, engineering, AI research and quality assurance (QA)…

In case it wasn’t already clear, Nvidia DLSS 5 has been a bit divisive since Nvidia demoed it last week at GTC. The new AI-based real-time neural renderer that ‘enhances’ the look of your games through generative AI has caught the ire of many gamers, developers, and other industry folk, and the latest to add to the pile-on are David Szymanski and Dave Oshry, developer of Dusk and CEO of its publisher, New Blood Interactive, respectively. Nvidia has been quick to try and temper criticism, with its CEO Jensen Huang saying much of the DLSS 5 criticism is completely wrong…

It’s a double feature on GFN Thursday. This week, GeForce NOW offers smoother sights in virtual reality (VR) and a sprawling new land to conquer. Streaming at 90 frames per second (fps) comes to supported VR headsets. And Crimson Desert, which recently surpassed 3 million wishlist additions on Steam, debuts in the cloud with GeForce RTX 5080‑class power. Catch it as part of four new games on GeForce NOW VR, but Make It 90 FPS Power levels rising … to 90 fps. VR in the cloud is getting a smoothness upgrade. GeForce NOW is boosting support for Apple Vision Pro,…

NEED TO KNOWWhat is it? An immersive RPG with an emphasis on personal note-taking.Release date: Mar 5, 2026Expect to pay: $20/£17Developer: Hannah and Joseph GamesPublisher: Hannah and Joseph GamesReviewed on: Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, RTX 5090 (laptop), 64GB RAMSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Official siteBanquet for Fools’ opening drops me straight in at the deep end, a blood-soaked fight for survival against festival-goers gone mad while I’m surrounded by piles of corpses, given a gentle kiss by… I’m not even sure what that kindly oversized bird-person was, actually, and then shoved three centuries into the future without apology or explanation. After…

Modder Transquility on the Elden Ring Nexus has restored Merchant Kalé’s NPC quest in our 2022 game of the year. There was originally a lot more to the early game vendor’s character, and I think it could have been a standout part of the game. Spoilers for Elden Ring and the cut quest ahead.Kalé doesn’t have much to do in the release version of Elden Ring: He’s memorable, being the second NPC you run into, and he offers an intro of sorts to wolf knight Blaidd and Ranni’s sprawling questline. But as dataminer Sekiro Dubi revealed shortly after Elden Ring’s…