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So You Want to Buy RAM in 2026. Have You Considered Therapy Instead?
You loaded up a price comparison site with entirely reasonable expectations. You've done your homework. Then you saw the prices. Then you closed the laptop. This is the RAM crisis of 2025-2026, brought to you entirely by artificial intelligence — and what you should actually do about it.
The Sofa Sultan’s Guide to PC Gaming on Your TV
Your gaming PC and your living room TV have been living in the same house, ignoring each other, for long enough. Here's the complete guide to connecting them properly. Yes, it's worth it. No, you won't miss the gaming chair.
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.
Loot Boxes, Battle Passes, and the Industrialisation of FOMO: How Modern Gaming Learned to Pick Your Pocket With a Smile
Gaming monetisation didn't arrive as a villain. It arrived as a reasonable proposition — a way to fund ongoing development and to reward engaged players. Then the reasonable proposition became a psychology experiment. Then the psychology experiment became the product. Here's how it happened and why you should be annoyed about it.
Pearl Abyss Are Showing the Industry What Good Looks Like. The Industry Should Be Taking Notes
Pearl Abyss launched Crimson Desert, listened to everyone complaining about it, and then fixed most of it. In three weeks. While other studios are still deliberating whether to acknowledge a bug from 2022, a Korean developer has quietly rewritten the rules of what players should expect from the people making their games.
Can the Test of Time Update Save Civ VII From Itself?
I have 471 hours of Civilization VI on Steam. I have 18 hours of Civilization VII. Those numbers tell a story that no amount of patch notes can easily undo, and the Test of Time update has the unenviable job of changing the ending.
Why Unreal Tournament’s ‘Facing Worlds’ In Low Gravity Is the Greatest FPS Map Ever Made
Facing Worlds. Low gravity. Six beige computers hauled across town in parents' cars by teenagers who had no idea how an IPX network worked, and at least one who did. Unreal Tournament was the finest multiplayer FPS ever made, and everything since has been a step backwards.
The Warhammer Games You Forgot You Loved (and Some You Never Did) Are Back
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.
The Next Xbox Is Just a PC with an Identity Crisis
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.
How to Build a Gaming PC in 2026: The Complete Beginner’s Guide
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.
I’ve Got a Steam Controller. You Probably Haven’t. Here’s Why That’s Everyone’s Problem.
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.
Turning Off Ray Tracing Is the Most Self-Defeating Thing You Can Do
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.