Here comes Intel's new CEO: a semiconductor veteran that won the same prestigious award as Jensen Huang and Lisa Su

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 22:17

Lip-Bu Tan has a degree in physics, a masters in nuclear engineering, and won the semiconductor industry's top award, the Robert N. Noyce award.

Recently appointed Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

8 months into their strike, videogame voice actors say the industry's latest proposal is 'filled with alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse'

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Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

12 mars 2025 à 22:05

Progress has been made, but SAG-AFTRA says the two sides in the dispute are still far apart.

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 15: Protestors attend the SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike Picket on August 15, 2024 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Lila Seeley/Getty Images)

Dune: Awakening confirms air-to-air combat in ornithopters

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Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

12 mars 2025 à 20:33

You can mount rockets on your 'thopter which will help "when you’re dealing with other ornithopters in the sky," says Funcom.

Orithopter shooting down another in Dune

LocalThunk forbids AI-generated art on the Balatro subreddit: 'I think it does real harm to artists of all kinds'

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Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

12 mars 2025 à 20:31

A recent kerfuffle over AI art forced the Balatro creator to get involved.

live action Jimbo the Jester from Balatro holding a playing card and addressing the camera

Oh great, the full Inzoi system requirements are posted and I'm barely above the minimum specs so I guess my Zois will be beautifully blurry

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Par :lauren@pcgamer.com (Lauren Morton)

12 mars 2025 à 19:34

I guess it's time for an upgrade.

Inzoi - A Zoi's face in three graphical presets showing a progression from a slightly blurry minimum specs to a higher fidelity recommended specs.

BioWare veteran says a big delay is better than lots of little ones, because sometimes you just gotta 'burn it down and take the other fork in the road'

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 19:04

"You are laying band-aid on top of band-aid on top of band-aid."

Rise of the Ronin is another crappy PC port, performance patch coming 'soon'

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Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

12 mars 2025 à 18:44

Widespread problems with stuttering, low frame rates, and sub-par graphics have saddled Rise of the Ronin with a "mixed" rating on Steam.

The state of Final Fantasy 14 in 2025: It's in a weird spot, huh?

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 18:38

Lingering snags from Endwalker have left Dawntrail's early months feeling a bit strange, but the road ahead looks brighter.

A dead MMO that launched with a now-cancelled TV show in 2013 is coming back 4 years after servers were shut down

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 18:35

Defiance, indeed.

Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 18:15

7 GHz-plus computing here we come...?

photo shows a factory tool that places lids on data center system-on-chips at an Intel fab in Chandler, Arizona, in December 2023. In February 2024, Intel Corporation launched Intel Foundry as the world’s first systems foundry for the AI era, delivering leadership in technology, resiliency and sustainability.

OpenAI is working on a new AI model Sam Altman says is ‘good at creative writing’ but to me it reads like a 15-year-old's journal

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Par :jessica.kinghorn@futurenet.com (Jess Kinghorn)

12 mars 2025 à 18:06

Wanna read AI’s take on teenage poetry? Eh, not especially…

The OpenAI logo is being displayed on a smartphone with an AI brain visible in the background, in this photo illustration taken in Brussels, Belgium, on January 2, 2024. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

'This is essentially a fraudulent project': Some scientists are firing shots at Microsoft's recent quantum computing claims

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 17:42

Major majorana disputes, here.

This impractical method of getting a 1-second capture time in Monster Hunter Wilds can make you the fastest hunter alive—on paper

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 17:23

Just don't tell the Guild Knights I'm bullying frogs for bragging rights.

Alma, the handler from Monster Hunter Wilds, closes her eyes and looks a little disappointed.

Lego is going to make its videogames in-house from now on, says it would 'almost rather overinvest'

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 17:19

Blockbusters?

My favourite 4K webcam spins on a gimbal to track your face, and it's now at its lowest ever price at Amazon

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:45

Get active in your morning meetings.

The OBSBot Tiny 2 Lite on a blue background

We've just got a first look at Vergil in Netflix's upcoming Devil May Cry series alongside another key character from Devil May Cry 3

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:32

The trailer's giving late-2000s AMV.

More affordable sub-$1,000 RTX 50-series laptops likely coming in May as RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 models spotted online

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:29

Likely 8 GB GPUs with specs yet to be determined.

Audio-Technica ATH R50X review

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:21

Light, airy, punchy; there's very little to not like about this studio-reference headphone for gaming or work.

GTA 5 publisher takes legal aim at account-selling site for allegedly raking in 'millions in revenue', while recruiting hackers to keep its cogs turning

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 16:06

"PlayerAuctions refuses to stop."

XFX is letting you add customisable 3D printed wings to its Quicksilver RX 9070-series graphics cards

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 15:54

It's even okay with you selling your RX 9070 Quicksilver mods.

XFX Radeon RX 9070 XT Quicksilver graphics card on a blue background with angel wings on either side

Corsair K70 Pro TKL review

PC Gamer

Par :jessica.kinghorn@futurenet.com (Jess Kinghorn)

12 mars 2025 à 15:22

A far from small tenkeyless board boasting a premium feature set.

The Corsair K70 Pro TKL gaming keyboard seen from above, with the wrist rest attached, on a well-lit desk. Game mode has been activated, bathing every key in red light.

So, wait, now TSMC is supposedly pitching a joint venture with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom to run Intel's ailing chip fabs?

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 13:58

And it's all because of Donald Trump? This story will run and run...

Marvel Rivals is carrying on the tradition of chaotic patches after buffing two of the most annoying heroes, but I main one of them, so I'm not complaining

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 13:38

Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good.

One of the biggest victories of Monster Hunter Wilds' streamlining is I don't have to deal with those awful gimmick fights anymore

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 13:12

Rampage mode… never loved ya.

Some Sapphire RX 9070/9070 XT graphics cards have hard-to-spot foam inside that must be removed or it 'may result in a decrease in cooling capacity or product failure'

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 12:47

No logo on the foam.

Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9070 XT on a red and orange background

Gemma's English VA is right with us on Monster Hunter Wild's confusing menus, which makes me feel a little better for having to Google symbols all the time

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 12:40

"The menu is like looking at something written in a foreign language."

Monster Hunter Wilds Artian weapon crafting - Gemma holding hot metal

Haunted printers turning on by themselves and printing nonsense has to be one of my favorite Windows 11 bugs ever

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 12:29

Though this is one Windows 11 update you might want to avoid if you're not into the whole horror vibe.

Promotional image of the HP Envy Inspire inkjet printer

This water-cooled gaming laptop packs a full-size desktop RTX 5090 and even fits in a backpack, but I sure wouldn't want it in mine

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 11:39

I'm pretty sure I saw this once as an Xbox 720 'leak'.

Samsung's handheld prototype delivers folding phone screens to Switch-like gaming hardware, and I am absolutely here for it

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 11:23

I love my folding phones, and I'd bend over backwards for a folding portable gaming device.

Still from a CNET video highlighting the Samsung concept device from MWC 2025

Corsair's Custom Labs is now available in Europe, allowing you to make your gear as cute or ugly as you want and no-one will stop you

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 10:41

Featuring options from popping single colours to beautiful cherry blossom designs.

Trump says the United States is already talking to potential TikTok buyers: 'We're dealing with four different groups, and a lot of people want it ... all four are good'

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 10:31

TikTok owner ByteDance can choose to be banned in the US, or sell up.

The TikTok app with Donald Trump ranting behind it.

Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, March 12

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 05:00

Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.

The latest Monster Hunter Wilds event quest gives piles of Armor Spheres for hunting a Chatacabra, making this a very bad week to be a frog in the Forbidden Lands

PC Gamer

12 mars 2025 à 01:01

It's a perfect time to stock up for armor upgrades.

NBN bargain hunters, here's a good one: Optus is offering AU$210 off its NBN 1000 service

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Par :shaun.prescott@futurenet.com (Shaun Prescott)

12 mars 2025 à 00:16

NBN bargain hunters, here's a good one: Optus is offering AU$210 off its NBN 1000 service

TF2 Heavy giving the Bret Rambo thumbs up

Rebellion CEO seems kind of awed by major studios making massive videogames: 'How do you organize a game that has 2,000 people working on it?'

PC Gamer

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

11 mars 2025 à 23:27

Rebellion makes big games, but not that big.

Here's a roguelite dungeon crawler Steam reviewers call 'a botanical Diablo' and 'like Cult of the Lamb' except you manage a mystical garden

PC Gamer

Par :clivingston@pcgamer.com (Christopher Livingston)

11 mars 2025 à 22:23

In Grimoire Groves you explore an enchanted forest and grow plant creatures in your garden.

A young witch watering a smiling mushroom in a magic garden

Oops! Bungie rolled out Destiny 2's Rite of the Nine event three weeks early, and new loot is already dropping

PC Gamer

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

11 mars 2025 à 22:11

The Dungeon-themed event was supposed to go live on April 1, but it looks like someone hit the wrong button.

Destiny 2 Rite of the Nine: The Emissary, massive, ominously standing at the edge of a water basin.

No Rest for the Wicked developer Moon Studios is now 'fully independent' after acquiring the rights to the game from Take-Two

PC Gamer

Par :andy.chalk@pcgamer.com (Andy Chalk)

11 mars 2025 à 20:25

Take-Two said when it sold Private Division in 2024 that it would continue supporting No Rest for the Wicked itself, but the plan has changed.

No Rest for the Wicked Steam early access screenshots

Attention, fashion hunters: There's a Monster Hunter Wilds mod to disable all those obnoxious glowing buff effects that distract from your fits

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 20:10

Turn the glow off for a glow up.

A hunter posing with an absurd Blangonga outfit in Monster Hunter Wilds.

Should Age of Empires and Quake be in the 'World Video Game Hall of Fame'? You can vote for them to be inducted this year

PC Gamer

11 mars 2025 à 19:43

Voting is open for the Strong National Museum of Play's 2025 hall of fame candidates.

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