This week in PC games: Summer Game Fest, the Gothic remake, and the policing of furry Chicago

Last week, I blithely commented that the Maw was "taking a break", because we had too much else to do besides feeding our resident cosmic newsbeast. We have now paid a grievous price for my negligence. Friends, I am horrified to report that the Maw has broken containment and eaten Geoff Keighley, the face of Summer Gam...

This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast

Last year at Gamescom, I got to feast my greedy little eyes on a 540 Hz monitor from Asus ROG (pictured above) and was mighty impressed. That one is a 26.5-inch 1440p/720p dual-mode deal, though, so not necessarily for esports. As I've argued before, 720p is a bit low even for esports. And 26.5 inches and 1440p is too...

AMD CPUs will now support socket AM5 motherboards until 2029, for long term easy CPU upgrades

One of the main reasons AMD CPUs have proven so popular in recent years the company's policy to use the same CPU sockets across multiple generations. This has meant that a user could buy a motherboard and CPU one year, then still be able to drop in a newer, faster CPU, four, five, six, or more years later. For instance...

Computex 2026 Live: All the best PC gaming hardware announcements at this year's show

Computex 2026 officially begins on June 2, but we're already swimming in PC gaming hardware announcements. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed the RTX Spark SOC for laptops, desktops and more, Intel has taken the wraps off its G-Series Panther Lake-based gaming handheld chips, and... gosh, this'll be a long intro if I...

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Arc Raiders might be getting a PvE-focused map condition according to limited tests for the Chinese version of the extraction shooter

Even if Arc Raiders isn't as high up on the Steam charts as it was a few months ago, it's still doing well and choosing to step away from live-service tradition. Meanwhile, a new Chinese version of the game with region-specific quirks might be teasing a PvE-oriented map condition. Read more

Backrooms And Obsession Beat Mandalorian And Grogu At The Box Office

Disney executives might be starting to get a little uncomfortable looking at The Mandalorian and Grogu's box office numbers. While they're not terrible, the new Star Wars movie dropped to third in the rankings during its second weekend thanks to two films that the minds behind the Mando movie likely didn't consider str...

Lara Croft actress Sophie Turner hints at a long future ahead for Amazon's Tomb Raider series

Amazon may not have officially announced a second season of its Tomb Raider TV series, but Lara Croft actress Sophie Turner already sounds confident there will be one. Read more

Fable's delay into 2027 is the right move, but it'll make looking through the window bars at GTA 6 on consoles slightly more painful

Ah, the Fable reboot isn't coming out in 2026 after all, then. Rumours had suggested the wind was blowing in that direction and Xbox exec Matt Booty chose to interrupt last Friday's chill vibes to confirm that a delay to February 2027's now been set in stone, ripping the plaster off ahead of the impending Summer Geoff...

Upcoming LEGO Minecraft Set for Dungeons 2 Revealed

LEGO has officially revealed The Twisted Warden Battle, a new 438-piece set based on Minecraft Dungeons 2. Scheduled to arrive in mid-summer, the newly announced model will extend LEGO's evergreen theme with a fun build primarily catering to play.