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Call of Duty: The Best Franchise Ever

Call of Duty is one of the most revolutionary first-person shooter games. It was flawless and considered one of the best at its time in the early 2000s. The...

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How to Improve Your Gaming Experience

Video games are a popular pastime. The video game industry generated about 150 billion dollars in 2019, and that number has grown since then, especially because of the ongoing...

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Building The Ultimate Gaming PC: Tips And Tricks

Building a gaming PC is an exciting, if daunting, project. If this is your first foray into building a PC, it is essential to do your research and prepare...

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Cybercrime: Managed threat detection and response

The explosive growth of online cybercrime in the last two decades has set modern IT departments an almost impossible challenge. At the start of this era, security was largely...

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Next Level: How Games-as-a-Service is changing the video game marketing industry

Gaming is a billion dollar industry. With billions of players logging on everyday, developers are looking for ways to monetize and keep their players coming back for more. That’s...

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The 25 Best PC Games Of All Time

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The Golden Age of LucasArts: Why Those Adventures Still Matter — And Where to...

Jim Devereaux

DLSS 5 Backlash: The Real Reason Everyone’s So Angry

Jim Devereaux

The “Fake Frame” Fallacy: Why Your Eyes Are Lying to You

Jim Devereaux

Can the Test of Time Update Save Civ VII From Itself?

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The 25 Best PC Games Of All Time

Thirty-plus years of the greatest gaming platform ever built, distilled into one list. Prepare to be furious.

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Who Reviews the Reviewers? Why Games Criticism Has a Problem

IGN gave Crimson Desert a 6/10. Players are having a considerably better time than that suggests. So who's right — and does it matter? A look at what games criticism gets wrong, what it gets right, and why the gap between critic scores and player experience keeps getting wider.

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DLSS 5 Backlash: The Real Reason Everyone’s So Angry

The forum-flaming over NVIDIA’s latest AI wizardry has reached peak unhinged, but it’s not the core tech that’s got so many knickers in a twist. It’s the creeping dread of AI disruption.

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Resident Evil: Requiem Review

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DOOM: The Dark Ages Review

Blasphemous 2 Review

Opinion

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Turning Off Ray Tracing Is the Most Self-Defeating Thing You Can Do

Jim Devereaux

I’ve Got a Steam Controller. You Probably Haven’t. Here’s Why That’s Everyone’s Problem.

Jim Devereaux

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The Next Xbox Is Just a PC with an Identity Crisis

Jim Devereaux

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Turning Off Ray Tracing Is the Most Self-Defeating Thing You Can Do

Jim Devereaux

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How to Build a Gaming PC in 2026: The Complete Beginner’s Guide

Jim Devereaux

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The Sofa Sultan’s Guide to PC Gaming on Your TV

Jim Devereaux

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The Golden Age of LucasArts: Why Those Adventures Still Matter — And Where to Find That Feeling Today

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Crusader Kings 2: The greatest game you’ll never play

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Why Unreal Tournament’s ‘Facing Worlds’ In Low Gravity Is the Greatest FPS Map Ever Made

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Amazing Games Exhibition, The World’s Largest, Opens In Scotland

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The forum-flaming over NVIDIA’s latest AI wizardry has reached peak unhinged, but it’s not the core tech that’s got so many knickers in a twist. It’s the creeping dread of AI disruption.

The “Fake Frame” Fallacy: Why Your Eyes Are Lying to You

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DLSS Frame Generation gets dismissed as "fake" by purists — but is the latency concern legitimate, and does it actually matter for most players? We make the case for AI frames, but not without hearing out the other side first.

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The 25 Best PC Games Of All Time

Who Reviews the Reviewers? Why Games Criticism Has a Problem

DLSS 5 Backlash: The Real Reason Everyone’s So Angry

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Resident Evil: Requiem Review

DOOM: The Dark Ages Review

Blasphemous 2 Review

Opinion

Turning Off Ray Tracing Is the Most Self-Defeating Thing You Can Do

I’ve Got a Steam Controller. You Probably Haven’t. Here’s Why That’s Everyone’s Problem.

The Next Xbox Is Just a PC with an Identity Crisis

Guides & Tech

Turning Off Ray Tracing Is the Most Self-Defeating Thing You Can Do

How to Build a Gaming PC in 2026: The Complete Beginner’s Guide

The Sofa Sultan’s Guide to PC Gaming on Your TV

Retro Articles

The Golden Age of LucasArts: Why Those Adventures Still Matter — And Where to Find That Feeling Today

Crusader Kings 2: The greatest game you’ll never play

Why Unreal Tournament’s ‘Facing Worlds’ In Low Gravity Is the Greatest FPS Map Ever Made

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Amazing Games Exhibition, The World’s Largest, Opens In Scotland

Botched Sonic CGI is actually Danny DeVito in a weird costume, admits Director

The Agony Of Choice

About us

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Must Read

The 25 Best PC Games Of All Time

DLSS 5 Backlash: The Real Reason Everyone’s So Angry

The “Fake Frame” Fallacy: Why Your Eyes Are Lying to You