It’s Memorial Day deals time, folks, and I can’t think of a better upgrade for your PC than a new monitor. Unlike CPUs and GPUs, monitors don’t tend to date overnight when a new model with twice the performance appears.

What’s more, while the price of so many PC components has been going up of late, screens have been getting cheaper. Don’t believe me? Today you can get a big-brand 34-inch ultrawide 1440p panel using IPS technology and offering 144Hz for under $250. Or you can go 16:9, 1440p, and 170Hz for well under $200.

A little higher up the scale, high refresh 4K gaming is attainable for just over $400. There are even deals on some OLED monitors, with Samsung having already slashed $500 off its 49-inch G9 uber-wide monster. OK, it’s still $1,100 and OLED monitors remain …

Though PC Gamer is first and foremost a website dedicated to PC gaming and hardware, we’ve been covering the escalating technology and chipmaking dispute between China and the US and its allies. Whether it’s the blocking of vital chip making equipment, or banning of the sale of certain AI chips, this latest act in the tit for tat tech dispute could directly affect how much we pay for our rigs.

Following the new US proposal to ban the sale of Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips to Chinese businesses, China has announced new controls on the export of various gallium and germanium materials and products. According to Bloomberg, these controls will come into effect on August 1. Companies exporting the metals must apply for licenses and provide information about who they’re selling to and …

Update: It turns out that, yet again, the trailer takedown was not about the game, but about licensing rights. A Sony rep told Kotaku that “as part of normal business, we delist assets with licensed music when the licenses expire.” The only music in the trailer is a clip of the Star Wars theme, which is owned by Disney, and it seems odd to me that a teaser for a licensed Star Wars game would be pulled because it has licensed Star Wars music, but I am not a businessman and so my understanding of how these things work may be flawed or incomplete.

In any event, this doesn’t necessarily confirm that the KOTOR remake isn’t in trouble, but at the very least this particular incident doesn’t mean that it is—it’s just business.

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I’m a sucker for weird but brilliant peripherals. I like customisation, clever ideas and solid implementation. And every time I see this Mountain Everest Max modular keyboard on discount, my heart jumps a little. I mean, come on. Take another look at the photo. It’s everything I want in a keyboard, and I reckon it might be everything you’re looking for, too.

Currently available at Amazon for $140 as part of the Prime Day sales, this Swiss army knife of mechanical keyboards swings for the fences. It’s been out for a while now, but when we reviewed it back in 2020 we found that its impressive modularity and excellent construction really did live up to the promise of a keeb with very few compromises.

For a start, let’s talk about that numpad. You can magnetically attach it to e…

You’re stressed out at work, which means, naturally, you wanna throw a stapler off the roof and tell your boss exactly what you think of them. Then you see a calming montage of your family, vacation photos, and an inspirational picture of a cat hanging on a washing line, set to calming music, and the rage quietly fades away. Yes, everything is fine again, back to generating value for the shareholders. All is well.

How weird would that be in your actual day-to-day? Well, it’s real, and a bank in the United States is rolling out this sort of system to its customer call centres, as American Banker’s Penny Crosman reports.

First Horizon Bank is opting for this system as a way to keep its call centre agents relaxed over long shifts of dealing with the public—I get it, peopl…

Fallout 76 landed with all the grace of an atom bomb. Back when it first released, PC Gamer’s Christopher Livingston called it a “A beautifully crafted but ultimately repetitive world”, giving it a 60 in his Fallout 76 review. 

It arrived with a bunch of glaring flaws, too: game-breaking bugs, a whole host of missing features like no FoV slider (this happened again with Starfield, somehow), and a bungled $200 edition which promised fancy canvas bags that… turned out to be made of nylon (which Bethesda did eventually fix, though not until a whole year later). ‘Troubled history’ is an understatement, which is something Todd Howard’s wildly aware of as per a quick jaunt through Bethesda’s history with WIRED.

“I think as people know, we struggled,” Howard says—…

Revealed today in the video above, Project Loki is the codename for a team-based competitive PvP “hero battleground” from startup studio Theorycraft Games, which was formed by developers with MOBA, hero shooter, and battle royale experience from the likes of Riot, Bungie, Respawn, and Blizzard.

“In a session of Loki, players will assemble a squad of heroes; outplay other teams in sprawling, free-flowing battles; run the edge of a huge world in the sky; and dream up crazy strategies in a massive combat sandbox,” said Theorycraft in a press release.

We first heard from Theorycraft Games last year, as they snapped up a key Riot artist and developer. Today’s “pre pre pre pre pre alpha” game clips show off teams of four heroes each clashing in rolling fights across terrain varied…

Survival and town-building RPG Bellwright will release on Steam this month, with developers Donkey Crew announcing that they’re targeting April 23 for a release. The low fantasy RPG was well-received during its Steam Next Fest demo last year for its blend of survival crafting gameplay and third-person town building.

“Set in low medieval times, Bellwright combines the thrill of survival, combat and open-world exploration, with a deeply immersive storyline of intrigue and revolt. Players will lead a burgeoning rebellion against a tyrannical Sovereign, liberate oppressed villages, and uncover the dark secrets of their lineage,” said the developer in a press release.

PC Gamer writer Christopher Livingston took a look at Bellwright’s demo last year and q…

AMD is going first out of the big PC gaming tech companies in rolling out its plans for 2024, with its CES livestream kicking off today at 7am PT/10am ET, and 3pm UK time. The general information on the event is pretty vague, and as the “Advancing AI PCs” title suggests, it’s leaning heavily into the buzz initialism of the show: AI.

As rival Intel is wont to suggest, AI is everywhere at CES 2024.

“AMD is powering the end-to-end infrastructure that will define the AI era,” reads the event listing, “from cloud installations to enterprise clusters, AI-enabled intelligent embedded devices and PCs.

“Join Dr. Lisa Su, AMD Chair and CEO, and Jack Huynh, Senior Vice President and GM of computing and graphics, as they talk about the future of AI in personal computers.”

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