Tag: Consoles & PC

I played Lord Of The Rings: War In The North Legacy Edition, and ‘Middling-Earth’ best describes this average action RPG revamp

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. The Lord Of The Rings: War In The North Legacy Edition (henceforth known as WITN) is a new version…

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I was an Nvidia DLSS 5 sceptic —but here are 5 reasons why I’m now hopeful that it’ll revolutionize graphics in PC games

Following the leak of the tech and a raft of unofficial mods, this week saw Nvidia‘s official launch of DLSS 5, with the company showing it off in NBA 2K27 at Gamescom 2026 and providing some further illuminating details. Before, after Nvidia’s initial DLSS 5 reveal in March, I was…

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My first 90 minutes wandering through Silent Hill: Townfall’s 90s Scottish town were atmospheric… and aimless

Silent Hill: Townfall feels like the culmination of two recent trends: the renaissance of Konami’s survival horror series, dormant for the past decade, and the rise of more culturally authentic Scottish games. As a standalone spin-off, it delivers the first full-length first-person Silent Hill experience that was the initial promise…

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From eating the elderly to selling kids, Afterworld gives you the freedom to do terrible things in the post-apocalypse — ‘We shouldn’t judge the player’ says director

Afterworld is a new strategy game by Paradox Interactive It tasks the player with building and managing a post-apocalyptic society Director Dan Lind says the studio won’t “judge the player” for any terrible choices Upcoming grand strategy game Afterworld is all about building your own society in a post-apocalyptic North…

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Nvidia DLSS 5 leak sparks major turnaround among PC gamers — as some brand it an ‘insanely huge graphical update’ that means ‘there’s no going back’

Nvidia‘s DLSS 5 has been nothing short of a bubbling cauldron of controversy ever since the next-gen gaming tech was first aired. That initial reception shocked Nvidia as what seemed like a legion of PC gamers took up arms and vowed, well, all sorts of colorful things — most of…

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‘Is there a point where refresh rate just stops mattering?’: I chat to Samsung’s monitor experts about its crazy-fast 1100Hz gaming display

At Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, fresh off Samsung’s reveal of its 2027 Odyssey OLED lineup, I sat down with two of the people shaping the company’s monitor and TV strategy: Jeremy Demont, Product Management Director for TV, Sound and Monitor at Samsung UK & Ireland, and Pepe Distra, Head of…

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