Tag: OVERFLOW

Someone’s always trying to change how we build gaming PCs—bold new concepts are commonplace at CES—but very few ideas actually succeed in changing anything at all. Yet it really looks like one trend could stick around this year, and that’s motherboards with all the connectors and cables hidden around the back. Now, feel free to…

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, which means MSI must really like Nvidia’s Founders Edition design. It’s taken the core concept of Nvidia’s RTX 30- and 40-series FE cards, the push/pull fan concept, and reimagined it with its own RTX 4080 Super 16G Expert. MSI tells me it liked how Nvidia’s Founders…

Has SSD cooling gone too far? Are PCIe 5.0 speeds worth it? These are the questions to wrestle with as you stare down an SSD with its own dedicated liquid cooler. The drive in question is MSI’s Spatium M580 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 2TB Frozr Liquid, which comes with its very own pint-sized water cooler,…

One day after dropping a teaser that shone a pretty clear light on what was coming next, Behaviour Interactive has made it official: Alan Wake, the long-suffering writer and star of Remedy’s Alan Wake games, is coming to Dead by Daylight as a new survivor. Alan Wake brings a trio of unique perks to the…

Alienware has always had a reputation as a brand that leans towards some of the more aesthetically interesting choices in gaming hardware design, but its new Alienware x16 R2 gaming laptop announced at CES 2024 might just take the cake. While the chassis design may look familiar, nestled underneath that per-key backlit keyboard on the…

I knew I was in for a stomach-churning time with Divine Frequency’s demo after I finally acquired my first weapon. I came up to a fenced hallway in the game’s vast industrial underbelly and spied an ominous figure looming way down the hall. The light above it cut out, I turned around, and there it…

As the CES techfest thunders towards us with unstoppable momentum, Dell has pulled the wraps off its latest XPS laptops and the new 16-inch model looks almost irresistible. It’s not an out-and-out gaming laptop. But it is available with an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU and it’s also drop dead gorgeous. For its new XPS laptops,…

Why I Love This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 391 in December 2023, as part of our Why I Love series. Every month we talk about our favourite characters, mechanics, moments, and concepts in games—and explain why we adore them so much.   I’m ten hours into Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC…

You can’t swing a stick without someone bringing up AI these days. Generative AI is the hottest tech trend in 2023, but as awesome as it is to see Leonardo DaVinci’s Madonna busting out TikTok moves, it doesn’t exactly revolutionize my life. What really catches my interest is AI integrated into the tech I use…

This year I made cozy games my entire personality. It wasn’t hard. Partly that’s because I was already a lover of farm sims and puzzle games, but also because the popularity of “cozy” gaming grew exponentially in 2023. Every week there was a new cute or chill game about gardening or decorating or moving to…