It's absurd how impressive Cyberpunk 2077 is on a high-end PC. Starting a fresh game as a corporate drone, you explore an office complex from the future, its meeting rooms boxed in by tempered glass as nearby server rooms glow. In the glass windows, you ...

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Tempest Rising, a real-time strategy game that's being called a "spiritual successor" and an homage to Command & Conquer, is now available to everyone. It was supposed to be released on April 24, but according to its developers, it was "unexpectedly made ...

I have a friend Steve (not his real name) who still installs his PC games on a large, slow, noise hard drive. You know, the old-school kind that spins up before it can read or write data? I keep telling him to switch over to an SSD, not just for his own ...

Steam has unveiled its mega list of the most played PC VR games of 2025. And it looks to be another year of ‘old reliables’, as the top 50 only features a single game released that year. Valve released its annual “best of” games list, again ...

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If you're one of many gamers who have both a PC and a PlayStation console, you've probably made the mistake of assuming you could simply plug the controller that came with the latter device into your PC and just start playing. Or maybe you're thinking ...