Coming To VR: Across The Valley

Coming To VR: Across The Valley

Across The Valley is set to bring the world of farming to VR next month! Players will need to muck in whilst relaxing in a hand-drawn paradise.   Farming has never been so immersive! Across the Valley, the latest VR farm simulator developed exclusively for VR by FusionPlay, lets you lend a hand - literally!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiIUwSlB4NI From April 6th, you can sow, water, harvest your own plants, and raise adorable baby animals. You can even milk the cows, shear the sheep, and go on a truffle hunt…

The Difficulty with DRAM – New Innovations to DDR5 RAM with Corsair

The Difficulty with DRAM – New Innovations to DDR5 RAM with Corsair

RAM is a crucial aspect of any gaming PC, and you can never have such a thing as too much RAM. In fact, Corsair has been making innovative strides to help change the fundamental design of DRAM to boost maximum capacities, speeds, and, ultimately, performance.   Today, we’ll be taking a closer look at DRAM, its limitations, and the latest developments made by Corsair in their new generation of RAM kits.   What is DRAM? Corsair Vengeance 32GB EXPO DDR5 RAM Kit DRAM, or ‘’Dynamic Random Access…

Our Fave Five Badass Gaming Women

Our Fave Five Badass Gaming Women

To continue our celebration of all the incredible women in gaming, we asked around the Overclockers UK office, for everyone’s favourite female video game characters and put together our list of the top five badass gaming women. Lara Croft – Tomb Raider: Lara Croft is the protagonist of the infamous Tomb Raider series.  An archaeologist, treasure hunter, and tomb raider, throughout the franchise Croft embarks on a series of thrilling adventures on the hunt for powerful and deadly artifacts. Her iconic ponytail, tank top, shorts,…

The Best PCs for Working with Pi

The Best PCs for Working with Pi

This Pi Day, we’ve decided to take a closer look at our incredible line of workstations and powerhouse PCs.   A powerful PC can be designed for much more than high-speed AAA gaming.  Our configurable workstations and powerhouse PCs have been crafted utilising cherry-picked hardware, primed for creative and intensive workloads. This includes 3D rendering, simulations, AI modelling, and much more.  Today, we’ll be highlighting a few of our favourites, along with showing you how you can build the workstation of your dreams to enhance your…

Best Gaming Laptops for 2024: 10 Incredible Laptops You Can Buy Right Now!

Best Gaming Laptops for 2024: 10 Incredible Laptops You Can Buy Right Now!

We're always being spoilt for choice for gaming hardware with all the top names bringing out cutting-edge tech designed to level up your performance. All of which has certainly got us thinking about upgrading our set-ups - therefore we've put together this list of the top ten gaming laptops that you can buy right now. Each of these laptops are equipped with all the latest hardware to enhance your performance in gaming and streaming alike.   Gigabyte AORUS 15 Gaming Laptop Enhance your gaming and streaming…

Spend the Weekend with These Five Puzzle Platformers

Spend the Weekend with These Five Puzzle Platformers

The long-awaited weekend is finally here!   We can’t think of a better way to de-stress other than playing one of our favourite puzzle-platformers.   Portal Portal is all about solving puzzles with your handy dandy portal gun. Trapped in the Aperture Science Laboratories, play as Chell, who must solve a series of unique puzzles set by GLaDOS, an artificial intelligent lifeform. To solve these puzzles, utilise your trusty portal gun to defy gravity by manipulating various portals and objects through time and space.   Official PC System…

Women in the Gaming Industry We Stan!

Women in the Gaming Industry We Stan!

This International Women’s Day, we’ve decided to celebrate all of the fantastic and influential women in the gaming industry.  There are thousands and we couldn’t possibly name them all, but we’ve selected a few of our favourites that deserve a shout out!   Amy Henning: Amy Henning is a video game director and script writer, who has worked on some of the most popular game franchises, including Jak and Daxter and Uncharted.   Henning has worked in several different areas and companies in the gaming industry. Starting off…

Great Visual Novel Games to Play This World Book Day

Great Visual Novel Games to Play This World Book Day

World Book Day is all about celebrating the magic of books and reading.   As avid readers, we’re always looking for ways in which we can incorporate our favourite books into video games. In fact, there is a whole genre of games called visual novels, which often tell an interactive and thrilling story with beautiful illustrations and an element of decision-making.   Therefore, to celebrate World Book Day, we asked around the Overclockers UK office and put together this list of our favourite visual novel games.   Digimon…

Our Favourite New Game Releases in March!

Our Favourite New Game Releases in March!

It’s another month and that means it’s time for our top five new game releases in March!  Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty – 3rd March Experience a brand-new dark RPG fantasy in Wo Lang: Fallen Dynasty.    As demons roam free and plague the entire Three Kingdoms, only you, a nameless militia soldier, have what it takes to defeat them and awaken the true power within. As you battle for your survival, fight off these deadly creatures and enemy soldiers utilising fast-paced, dynamic swordplay, inspired by Chinese…

The Ultimate NVIDIA RTX 40 Series Gaming Laptop Guide

The Ultimate NVIDIA RTX 40 Series Gaming Laptop Guide

The RTX 40 Series Gaming Laptops come packed with all the latest and greatest in gaming hardware. Built upon Ada Lovelace architecture, with enhanced Ray Tracing and AI support, achieve superior performance that is sure to make you the envy of your friends and teammates.  If you are looking to upgrade to one of these incredible gaming laptops, we’ve compiled everything you need to know into one handy ultimate RTX 40 Series laptop guide. This includes each of the graphics cards in the series and…

Work From Home: Make The Most of Your Desk (Part 2)

Work From Home: Make The Most of Your Desk (Part 2)

There is no doubt about it. Working from home rocks. In this series of articles, the OcUK content team are showcasing our WFH setups and offering advice on how to make yours.   Welcome to part two of the Overclockers UK content team showing off sharing tips and tricks about how we make our home offices awesome. If you missed it, make sure to check out part one.  Emily Read More Glyn Read More Ruth Read More Jacob Read More Simon Read More Small Office…

Fun and Shenanigans at EPIC38 

Fun and Shenanigans at EPIC38 

Event season kicks off with EPIC38!  Over the weekend, gamers and PC enthusiasts gathered at Kettering Conference Centre to partake in EPIC38. While the EPIC.LAN team had the worst lead up to the event, the weekend was a roaring success. From Powered by Intel Tournaments to fundraising for GameBlast23, there was something for everyone.  Action-Packed Weekend From Thursday to Sunday afternoon, this past weekend has been jam-packed with fun events. Saturday night saw the Community Party back in full swing. Guests were invited to attend…