Latest articles by Jacob Ridley
Phil Spencer, forever the optimist, hints that he's interested in a Microsoft version of Big Picture Mode for handheld gaming PCs: 'I want my Legion Go to feel like an Xbox'
News "The things that usually frustrate me are more Windows-based than device-based. Which is an area I feel some ownership of."
Intel's future multi billion dollar mega-fab is set smack-bang on top of multiple neolithic burial sites
News More digging to come before the heavy machinery rolls in.
Free Dragon's Dogma 2 mod hands RTX 40-series owners a much-needed performance bump
News Frame Generation will be added to the game at a later date, but for now we have PureDark's swiftly released and slightly turbulent mod.
Uncovering the secrets of Save As, debunking Y2K and bragging about Internet Explorer—take a trip to the Windows 98 webpage
Time machine A journey to the distant past... the late '90s.
AMD promises less fuzziness and flickering from improved FSR 3.1 upscaling algorithm
News Better AMD upscaling is coming to Ratchet & Clank, and likely a few more games this year.
What's a good system monitoring tool?
Ask PCG There are many system monitoring tools to choose from, but one stands out amongst the crowds.
Google researchers find novel way of turning a single photo of a human into AI-generated video good enough to make you think 'this might go badly'
News Don't think about the repercussions. Don't think about the repercussions. Don't think about the repercussions.
Playtron promises an alternative to SteamOS for handheld PCs: 'Play all your games from every store, Steam, Epic and more'
News Playtron claims SteamOS is "compatible with Steam only", which isn't true, but is one reason it's giving for creating its own Linux distro called PlaytronOS.
Nvidia had already sold tens of thousands of Blackwell GPUs before the next-gen architecture was announced
News What's that old adage again? "The more you buy, the more you save."
Nvidia CEO brings out a monster dual-GPU Blackwell chip at GTC: here's what it tells us about the next GeForce graphics cards
News "It's just one giant chip," says CEO Huang.
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) review
Better than ever AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS | Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (90W) | 32GB LPDDR5X | 1TB SSD | OLED | $2,000 | £2,400
RTX Remix 'is the great equaliser' bringing veteran and hobbyist devs together to remaster the most beloved and best PC games
Remix/Remake The modding platform created by Nvidia is bringing together teams from across the globe to reimagine classic games.
Elon Musk calls OpenAI 'a lie' after announcing plans to make his 'spicy' ChatGPT rival open-source this week
News Grok is made by xAI and is available for users on X, but 'don’t use it if you hate humor'.
Convai aims to put an end to basic 'one-line' NPCs with AI but says it 'needs more high quality writers and artists, not less' to get it done
Chatty bots I chat to the CEO of Convai, an AI platform that empowers videogame NPCs with personalities.
Oregon just passed the most powerful right to repair legislation yet in the US
News The law would ban the practice of parts pairing from 2025, and once in place will make repairs much easier for customers.
Destructive testing of six liquid cooling radiators reveals some don't match the marketing
News In-depth testing by Igor's Lab shows brass used instead of copper within some radiators, among other complaints.
What are XMP and EXPO profiles and how do I use them?
Ask PC Gamer XMP and EXPO profiles automatically set your system RAM to higher frequencies. Here's how to do it.
Asus ROG Swift OLED PG49WCD review
Ultra OLED The ultimate OLED gaming screen? Probably, but the panel technology still has drawbacks.
Nvidia's new desktop app doesn't require you to login: 'your identity isn't essential to this experience'
News You can access pretty much all of the features included in the Nvidia App without making an Nvidia account.
Nvidia's game filter for RTX GPUs lets you enable HDR in games that never supported it
News Works with any RTX 20-series or newer graphics card and on games running DirectX 9–12 or Vulkan.
Shadowplay can now capture games at 120 fps and gets a new look in the Nvidia App
News Do most need to capture at 120 fps? Probably not, but it's nice to have the option.
The new Nvidia App killing GeForce Experience: new overlay, system monitoring, 120fps capture, and lets you add HDR to any game
News The Nvidia App is currently in beta but will also replace the Nvidia Control Panel eventually.
I'm calling time on stick drift and getting Hall effect in every one of my controllers in 2024
Drifting away I never want to experience stick drift again in my life, and Hall effect is an easy answer.
