PowerA LucidSound LS500/P review

Hope’s been writing about games for about a decade, starting out way back when on the Australian Nintendo fan site Vooks.net. Since then, she’s talked far too much about games and tech for publications such as Techlife, Byteside, IGN, and GameSpot. Of course there’s also here at PC Gamer, where she gets to indulge her inner hardware nerd with news and reviews. You can usually find Hope fawning over some art, tech, or likely a wonderful combination of them both and where relevant she’ll share them with you here. When she’s not writing about the amazing creations of others, she’s working on what she hopes will one day be her own. You can find her <a href="https://blockbusterstation.buzzsprout.com/" target="_blank">fictional chill out ambient far future sci-fi radio show/album/listening experience podcast right here. No, she’s not kidding. 

This MSI PC has the best price for an RTX 5070 Ti rig I've seen all year

Jacob got his hands on a gaming PC for the first time when he was about 12 years old. He swiftly realised the local PC repair store had ripped him off with his build and vowed never to let another soul build his rig again. With this vow, Jacob the hardware junkie was born. Since then, Jacob's led a double-life as part-hardware geek, part-philosophy nerd, first working as a Hardware Writer for PCGamesN in 2020, then working towards a PhD in Philosophy for a few years while freelancing on the side for sites such as TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and yours truly, PC Gamer. Eventually, he gave up the ruthless mercenary life to join the world's #1 PC Gaming site full-time. It's definitely not an ego thing, he assures us.

Jensen Huang's first-ever post on X is in defense of open access to AI models, alongside Google, OpenAI, and Meta

James is a more recent PC gaming convert, often admiring graphics cards, cases, and motherboards from afar. It was not until 2019, after just finishing a degree in law and media, that they decided to throw out the last few years of education, build their PC, and start writing about gaming instead. In that time, he has covered the latest doodads, contraptions, and gismos, and loved every second of it. Hey, it’s better than writing case briefs.

Zach Cregger admits 'I'm not going to be able to improve on Leon' which is why he's using original characters for the upcoming Resident Evil movie

Elie is a news writer with an unhealthy love of horror games—even though their greatest fear is being chased. When they're not screaming or hiding, there's a good chance you'll find them testing their metal in metroidvanias or just admiring their Pokemon TCG collection. Elie has previously worked at TechRadar Gaming as a staff writer and studied at JOMEC in International Journalism and Documentaries – spending their free time filming short docs about Smash Bros. or any indie game that crossed their path.

Memory chipmaker CXMT sees shares surge 466%, becomes one of China's most valuable listed companies right below Tencent

Jess has been writing about games for over ten years, spending a significant chunk of that time working on print publications PLAY and Official PlayStation Magazine. When she’s not investigating all things hardware here, she's either constructing a passionate defence of a 7/10 game, daydreaming about her debut novel, or feeling wistful about the last time she chased some nerds around a field with an oversized foam sword. 

More bad news for Valve and its still unreleased Steam Frame as Qualcomm is set to raise the price of its chips, like everyone else

James is a more recent PC gaming convert, often admiring graphics cards, cases, and motherboards from afar. It was not until 2019, after just finishing a degree in law and media, that they decided to throw out the last few years of education, build their PC, and start writing about gaming instead. In that time, he has covered the latest doodads, contraptions, and gismos, and loved every second of it. Hey, it’s better than writing case briefs.

Modder restores missing PS2-era visual effects to Metal Gear Solid 2, including 'a ton of things that were literally left marked as BLUEPOINT TO-DO still in the source code'

Steam Week in Review: A torrent of janky retail sims continues to flood Steam, and there's no end in sight

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Yet Another Zombie Defense HD, which is its real name, is free on Steam for a limited time

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, <a href="https://zedgamesau.net/tag/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Zed Games . He's written for <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Rock Paper Shotgun , The Big Issue, <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/author/jody-macgregor/" target="_blank">GamesRadar , <a href="http://www.zam.com/author/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Zam , <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606042647/http://www.glixel.com/contributor/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Glixel , <a href="https://fiveoutoftenmagazine.com/downloads/issue-16-identity/" target="_blank">Five Out of Ten Magazine , and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171009125722/https://www.playboy.com/authors/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Playboy.com , whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-audio-of-alien-isolation/">audio of Alien Isolation , published in 2015, and since then he's written about <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/why-silent-hill-belongs-on-pc/">why Silent Hill belongs on PC , <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/10-years-on-recettear-an-item-shops-tale-is-still-the-best-fantasy-shopkeeper-tycoon-game/">why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game , and <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/there-is-so-so-much-weird-shit-in-lost-ark/">how weird Lost Ark can get . Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

If you miss the straightforward action RPGs of the past, try the generous demo for Darkstone Restoration

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, <a href="https://zedgamesau.net/tag/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Zed Games . He's written for <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/authors/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Rock Paper Shotgun , The Big Issue, <a href="https://www.gamesradar.com/author/jody-macgregor/" target="_blank">GamesRadar , <a href="http://www.zam.com/author/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Zam , <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170606042647/http://www.glixel.com/contributor/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Glixel , <a href="https://fiveoutoftenmagazine.com/downloads/issue-16-identity/" target="_blank">Five Out of Ten Magazine , and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171009125722/https://www.playboy.com/authors/jody-macgregor" target="_blank">Playboy.com , whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/the-audio-of-alien-isolation/">audio of Alien Isolation , published in 2015, and since then he's written about <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/why-silent-hill-belongs-on-pc/">why Silent Hill belongs on PC , <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/10-years-on-recettear-an-item-shops-tale-is-still-the-best-fantasy-shopkeeper-tycoon-game/">why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game , and <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/there-is-so-so-much-weird-shit-in-lost-ark/">how weird Lost Ark can get . Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

One of the best shooters around just got a barely recognizable second episode, and it's only $12

Capcom wants to release a Resident Evil every year and sees remakes as the way to make it happen

What does GTA Online 2.0 even look like—and, more to the point, what do we even want from Grand Theft Auto 6 multiplayer?

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The new 'backward compatible' Xbox games on PC run on an OG Xbox emulator inside an Xbox 360 emulator, and people have already used it to run other Xbox 360 games

Red Faction: Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered review (2018)

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Final Fantasy 14 is planning 2 major overhauls to its housing system to catch up with World of Warcraft: 'It's probably the number 1 thing on the list a lot of people are requesting'

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Final Fantasy 14 boss Yoshi-P doesn't get the deal with Chort

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J.K. Simmons hasn't played Baldur's Gate 3 or any of his games, but he loves Portal 2: 'I could have done the feature film, or the play, or whatever'