Today brought the bombshell news that Rockstar has delayed Grand Theft Auto 6 until May 2026, a pushback of approximately half a year on perhaps the most anticipated game the industry has ever seen. Some fans were inconsolable, Take-Two's shareholders needed the smelling salts, and my immediate reaction was, simply, god we won't be playing this thing on PC until 2027 at the earliest.Before the delay was announced, Take-Two had...

No Rest for the Wicked has had a bumpy ride through early access so far. While I thought the initial release was an impressive overhead blend of Diablo-ish action RPG systems and Souls-like tropes, it was held back by performance issues and limited scope, and only saw one major update after release (the Crucible patch) before developer Moon Studios fell largely silent.I'm chalking most of that quiet spell up to...

Nvidia and AI firm Anthropic are currently embroiled in a back-and-forth around claims the former's chips are being smuggled into China, and the concerns that smuggling raises. Where Anthropic cites a systemic problem, Nvidia argues Anthropic is telling "tall tales".In a recent blog post, Anthropic warned of the 'major threat' that is chip smuggling. It claims China has "established sophisticated smuggling operations, with documented cases involving hundreds of millions of...

Jacob Fox, hardware writer(Image credit: Future)This week: I spent hours emptying my office to make room to build a new desk. Then I spent hours building said desk. Finally, I spent hours looking at the ruin wrought upon my apartment as my various office gubbins sit tucked into every nook and cranny, all the while putting off actually moving it all back into the office again. As I was sitting...

Good news: AMD has finally announced the specs of the much-rumoured RX 9070 GRE. The bad news? It appears to be a China-only card for now, leaving those of us in the rest of the world to stare in wonder. Or at the very least, mild interest.Not that this is a particularly big surprise, given the RX 7900 GRE was also a China-exclusive card to start with, although it did...

I've written so much hagiography for Morrowind on this website that I'm even starting to annoy myself. You'd think that means I'm not going to spend yet another article gushing about Morrowind. You'd be wrong. You should play Morrowind: it's the best Elder Scrolls game and, quite frankly, one of the best games of all time, and you can currently pick it up for cheap as part of Fanatical's ongoing...

A couple of weeks ago, a mooted high-end variant of Intel's Battlemage gaming graphics architecture was spotted in a shipping manifest. That was labelled for "R&D" purposes, but still had me hoping Intel was cooking something up that might compete with Nvidia's RTX 5070 on performance but radically undercut it on price. This latest spot of the increasingly hallowed Intel G31 GPU is a fraction more straight up, in some...

Don't you just love how buying one of the best graphics cards is impossible right now? The latest cards are either out of stock or just priced up to a ludicrous degree, and the last-gen GPUs are in such tight supply their prices are far from a comfort, either. And just when we all thought the nightmare of out-of-stock GPUs was behind us. Following the 2021 GPU shortage (spurred by...