Daily Archives: Sep 18, 2026

Turning off ray tracing for better frame rates has become a ritual for PC gamers who've decided the technology is an overpriced gimmick. They're wrong about the quality, wrong about the development costs, and wrong about the future. Here's why.

The Steam Controller went on sale on 4th May 2026. It was gone in 35 minutes. Within the hour, the same controller you'd just missed buying for £85 was available on eBay for £200. Same controller, different breed of parasite. This is the piece where we talk about scalping properly, because it's time someone did.

Building a gaming PC is less like assembling complex machinery and more like expensive Lego with better instructions and a significantly more satisfying power-on moment. The difficulty is not high. The satisfaction is.

Microsoft's next Xbox is a Windows PC with a console UI bolted on top and a rumoured £850 price tag attached. This is either the most honest thing a console manufacturer has done in thirteen years, or a very expensive identity crisis. Possibly both.

Over twenty classic Warhammer PC games have returned to Steam under the Warhammer Classics label. Some of them are genuinely important pieces of PC gaming history. Some of them are Chainsaw Warrior. Here's the full picture, plus an interview with the people who spent years untangling the rights to bring them back.