Latest articles by James Bentley
Crimson Desert has received FSR SDK 2.2 support, offering better upscaling and frame generation for AMD cards
News Time for a second playthrough? It'll only take you 600 hours.
Someone has made a tool to add achievements to non-Steam games on Linux, which feels like a niche in a niche
News How much effort would you put in for some extra achievements?
EasySMX D05 review
Score: 87% You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Microsoft's Project Helix sounds like it could be better for gamers than the Series X but in a way that is worse for Xbox
Ex-Xbox Is 'anywhere' really where you want to play Xbox?
EasySMX D10 controller review
Score: 80% A feature-rich budget TMR controller that only sometimes feels like a compromise.
'Cripple their sales, tank their stock price. Stop collaborating with them as developers': New Blood CEO on fighting against DLSS 5
News DLSS 5 has unleashed a fiery debate among game developers.
Amazon US sold nearly half the number of CPUs it did this time last year
News That's the memory crisis for you…
The co-founder of a major datacenter company has been charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in AI chips to China
News Supermicro has put them on administrative leave with another employee also charged, and a third has been fired.
Crimson Desert will not boot on Intel Arc graphics cards and users are being encouraged to refund the game
News We were greeted by a pop-up saying our hardware is not supported when we tried.
Gnome gets Nvidia performance boost, offering 'smoother window animations and general desktop fluidity' for Linux gamers
News That will hopefully continue to bridge the gap.
The memory crisis certainly isn't ending soon, as Micron confirm 'demand significantly in excess of our available supply for the foreseeable future'
News It is reportedly "working to address the unprecedented gap between supply and demand".
Fake Pudgy Penguins phishing page 'plays dead' when it thinks it's being probed to avoid detection
News The Web3 game launched just last month.
Capcom and Ubisoft developers surprised by DLSS 5 announcement: "We found out at the same time as the public"
News DLSS 5 is proving to be quite contentious.
Another nail in the Metaverse coffin: Meta Horizon Worlds is shutting down in three months for VR, but the mobile app will remain
News You have until the end of March to download it, and until June 15 to play it in VR.
'If that was shown as a next-gen hardware reveal and not AI you guys would be going nuts': Epic Games lead producer says the idea DLSS 5 looks bad or detracts from art direction is 'absolutely insane'
News "The lighting and shading improvements are bonkers."
Bethesda weighs in on negative DLSS 5 reaction: 'This will all be under our artists’ control, and totally optional for players'
News Yassified Starfield, anyone?
'Bad ending: now every game is slop': Game developers share mixed reactions to DLSS 5
News Is the 'future of real-time rendering' in the room with us?
MSI reportedly plans on tackling 'the most challenging year since the company was founded', with 15-30% price raises, making DDR5 motherboards DDR4 compatible, and increasing AI server revenue
News The RAMpocalypse is nowhere near done messing with market prices.
YouTuber replaces PC fan with 15 miniature fans in unholy experiment dubbed 'The Fanhattan Project', performs pretty much the same as a standard fan
News "This fan is basically a meme of the [Noctua] A12x25."
Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything
News Just don't let strangers near your rig soon, or any time really.
If you were scammed by malware hiding in your Steam games, the FBI wants to hear all about it
News This is for games accused of scamming users between May 2024 and January 2026.
Google is adding official Chrome support for users running Arm and Linux and it's about time
news Anything to help Linux users feels like a good shout.
