Intel and Microsoft assess the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre updatesNews It’s not a matter of whether your PC will be slowed down, but by how much.

Intel and Microsoft assess the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre updatesNews It’s not a matter of whether your PC will be slowed down, but by how much.

Intel and Microsoft assess the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre updatesNews It’s not a matter of whether your PC will be slowed down, but by how much.

Intel and Microsoft assess the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre updatesNews It’s not a matter of whether your PC will be slowed down, but by how much.

Intel and Microsoft assess the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre updatesNews It’s not a matter of whether your PC will be slowed down, but by how much.

Intel and Microsoft assess the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre updatesNews It’s not a matter of whether your PC will be slowed down, but by how much.

Intel and Microsoft assess the performance impact of Meltdown and Spectre updatesNews It’s not a matter of whether your PC will be slowed down, but by how much.

Twitter via Jacob Freeman (EVGA). EVGA has been telling CES attendees that its new PSU can power up to seven GeForce GTX 1070 graphics cards. Forget Crysis, with proper SLI scaling, you could run whatever you damn well please at 8K off of seven GeForce GTX 1070 cards. Those users will find that the all-important +12V rail provides a staggering 183.3 amps, which is exactly 100a more than EVGA’s 1000W model. Pulling that much power out of a typical 110V US household outlet is a problem.

After debuting on PS4 in late 2016, Final Fantasy 15 will grace PC later this year. And as if that wasn’t enough whimsical JRPG news for one year, Square Enix has now revealed Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age is also heading to desktops, alongside a handful of PC-exclusive features. Following its console introduction last year, The Zodiac Age is due on our platform of choice on February 1. Again, Final Fantasy 12: The Zodiac Age is due February 1, 2018. In the meantime, check out Tom’s conversat

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac age is coming to PC on February 1. We sent over a few questions to producer Hiroaki Kato to see what the team have added in the course of bringing the best Final Fantasy to PC. PC Gamer: Do you think PC players will find different ways to enjoy Final Fantasy XII than console players? How come Final Fantasy games tend to launch on PC long after their console counterparts? I have not been involved in the development of any other numbered Final Fantasy games, so I cann

Like most of Paradox’s games, the space-flung 4X-meets-grand strategy affair Stellaris has benefited from a slew of post-launch support. Said to “redefine stellar warfare”, Apocalypse caters to both violent and non-violent players. Lead your fleets to battle with the new “enormous” Titan capital ships that offer “tremendous” bonuses to vessels under their command. Apocalypse adds marauding space pirates too. Look out for Stellaris: Apocalypse in the coming months.

Last year, Dark Souls mastermind Hidetaka Miyazaki declared his twisted action role-playing series complete with the launch of its Ringed City DLC. Now, Bandai Namco and From Software have revealed the original game is being remastered—set to land on PC later this year. Announced at this afternoon’s Nintendo Direct Mini, Dark Souls: Remastered aims to let players “experience the rich world of Dark Souls in upscaled 4K resolution with 60FPS”, so says the game’s publisher in a statement. With this

In Grand Theft Auto, if there’s an email system for the player, that means that there’s an internet. The Grand Theft Auto series fills its world with rabbit holes of detail most teams wouldn’t even dare to touch. This detail brings GTA 5’s extraordinary world to life, then, but it’s the story that dictates the tone of each GTA. Despite what appear to be more sincere sides to GTA 5’s ensemble, few take these confessionals beyond their face value, because the game doesn’t either. In its successful

Billed by its producer Akihiro Suzuki as an open-world “rebirth” of the series, Dynasty Warriors 9 is coming to PC next month. Now, publisher Koei Tecmo has dropped a new gameplay trailer, five new character trailers and a load of new information on its horses and scrolls. From back to front, scrolls are used to craft weapons and items, and are comprised of several collectible parts. Obtained by completing missions or from fallen enemies, new weapons, items and higher ranked weaponry can be craf

Street Fighter 5 welcomes its much-anticipated Arcade Edition next week, which adds an Extra Battle Mode, Team Battle Mode, a host of balance adjustments, and a new colour-coded advantage system to the game’s training system. The latter lets players view the frame data of each move—in turn determining how safe or unsafe committing to specific maneuvers may be. In practice this has players glowing blue when the move in question offers an advantage, whereas moves that might leave players vulnerabl

I stopped by Bloody’s booth at CES to check out the company’s famed optical switch, previously called the Light Strike (LK) switch, which is now in its just-launched third revision. The key—no pun intended—to Bloody’s LK3, now called LK Libra, is an optical switch triggered by a small window in the switch itself. LK switches don’t actually have any electrical component to them, and the sensor and emitter resides on the keyboard PCB itself. When a user presses on the switch, the switch slides dow

It was popular when we were growing up playing FPS games, so it felt fitting to choose WW2. We have to be careful when using the word ‘authentic’ because people often get the wrong idea about Battalion 1944. How long has Battalion 1944 been in alpha now, and what’s feedback been like? Battalion 1944 is quite different to The Turing Test but are there any lessons from making that game that have carried over? We have to be careful when using the word ‘authentic’ because people often get the wrong

Rainswept is an adventure game set in the innocent-looking town of Pineview, where detective Michael Anderson heads to investigate a murder-suicide after a couple is found dead in their kitchen. It’s coming to PC later this year, but you can already try it via the hour-long demo available on Itch (both the .rar and .exe versions work fine). The demo drops you at the scene of the crime on the rainy morning of October 7, 1996. Following the demo’s release, Frostwood published a blog post detailing

Welcome back to The PC Gamer Show , our weekly livestreamed podcast. You can catch the show live on Wednesdays at 1 pm PDT on our Twitch channel , or after the fact at any of the links below. This week we’ll be talking about the hardware news trickling out of CES, our time with historical RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and the ever-changing state of digital storefront curation. Listen:Download the MP3 directlySubscribe on iTunesGrab the podcast RSS feedWatch it on YouTubeYour flapping heads for

SSDs using the NVMe protocol have been slowly gaining ground on traditional SATA SSDs. Mushkin hasn’t offered any NVMe drives until now, but the company is looking to change that with a full suite of models. Starting at the top, the new Mushkin Pilot-E drives will use the Silicon Motion SM2262EN controller, with capacities ranging from 250GB to 2TB. Third is the Helix-L M.2 line, which goes after the budget NVMe crowd. Capacities range from 120GB to 1TB, with read/write speeds of up to 2.4/1.7GB