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AMD’s first Zen 4 processors featuring 3D V-Cache technology have landed, and with a focus squarely on gamers, we’ve been eager to see how 3D V-Cache elevates AMD’s Zen 4, and not to mention how it performs against the Intel competition. With the 16-core 7950X3D and thirteen games in-hand, let’s explore what AMD’s latest and greatest gaming CPU can pull off.

No one likes juggling a bunch of game store clients, so when we recently discovered Playnite, we were kicking ourselves for not finding it sooner. The software acts as a front-end for clients like Steam, GOG, and Epic, and even adds emulation capabilities to the mix. If you’re worried that it will be difficult to set up, don’t be!

Codemasters’ latest Formula 1 game, F1 22, has released this month, so we’ve hopped into the cockpit, and given the game a thorough performance test at four resolutions, with and without ray tracing. Let’s see how both AMD’s and NVIDIA’s current-gen GPUs hold up.

Codemasters has just released F1 2021, and for the first time in the series, ray tracing features are offered. For that and other reasons, we decided to dive into a look at both the technical and performance aspects of the game, with plenty of benchmark results to be had at four resolutions with current generation GeForces and Radeons.

Watch Dogs: Legion has just released, and given it’s the latest title to implement ray tracing, we couldn’t help but jump in and test its performance across a range of GPUs. In this look, we’re comparing sixteen GPUs at 1080p, 1440p, 4K, and ultrawide, with and without ray tracing and NVIDIA’s DLSS.

NVIDIA has long made it a mission to introduce cutting-edge graphics technologies to our games. Once real-time ray tracing APIs became available, the company was quick to launch its GeForce RTX line of GPUs with full support. Today, we can’t stop hearing about how enlightening ray tracing can be, so let’s take a few moments to reflect on what’s happened in the first year of real-time ray tracing’s life.

Borderlands is back, and that means one thing: Borderlands benchmarking is also back! We’re taking a look at graphics card performance with the help of fifteen GPUs and four resolutions. Since the performance picture between AMD and NVIDIA varies quite a bit between DX12 and DX11, we’re including results for both.

Finding a solid third-party controller can be challenging, but with its Stratus Duo, SteelSeries is offering a compelling option. This pad includes a 2.4GHz dongle right in the box, and works over Bluetooth for either PC or Android mobile gaming (the latter of which is made even better through the SmartGrip add-on accessory).

Corsair has three new gaming mice that cater to three types of gamer, and those who like their mouse to cost $60 or less. The $50 Harpoon RGB looks to be a particularly good value with its inclusion of 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth wireless. We’re taking it for a good test drive, along with the M65 RGB Elite and Ironclaw RGB.

Final Fantasy XV Windows Edition brings an awful lot of PC goodness to the table, but given the fact that it’s as demanding on GPU hardware as it is, we wish the game would’ve shipped with NVIDIA SLI support. But who needs official support? Join us in our quest to hit 4K/60 at max detail with dual TITAN Xps in FFXV.

We recently spent a few hours tearing up Far Cry 5’s Hope County, and now, we get to share what we experienced in both the solo and co-op shared campaign. Join us as we head to Montana’s fictional Hope County, where sanity has become a scarce resource as a doomsday cult has taken over. Freaked out? Let’s proceed…

Games like PUBG often present two scenarios for becoming enraged: suffering the fate of a cheap kill, or managing to get an amazing kill and then realizing no recorder was running. NVIDIA feels that pain, which is why it’s developed ShadowPlay Highlights. Let’s see how it works with PUBG, and review some humiliating deaths!

Four months have passed since the launch of Destiny 2, and since we haven’t seen a single quality patch from Bungie in all of that time, it’s safe to say that the game has some obvious issues. While the game acts as a great base, too many of Bungie’s actions are raising very important questions lately. Let’s look at those.

After months of anticipation, the PC version of Destiny 2 is soon to drop. That being the case, there may be things you’d like to know about before jumping in, whether you’re entirely new to the Destiny universe, or are transitioning from the original on console. Fortunately, some of those things can be found right here!

At a time when PC gamers are eagerly awaiting Destiny 2 for their platform of choice, the game has now been available for Sony and Microsoft consoles for just under two weeks. We’ve been playing it, doing everything short of the raid, so read on to see what we think about Bungie’s seriously hyped sequel, and what you have to look forward to if you’re waiting on the PC version.