Method

How this site works: how a score is built, which games we refuse to score, and the tools behind the testing.

SCSKiller: the free tool taking on shader compilation stutter

A single-developer open-source Windows app pre-compiles your games' shaders into the driver cache before you play, and Digital Foundry and Hardware Unboxed both put it through real tests within two weeks of each other.

Testing desk · 2026-11-06 · 6 min

Method

Why we stopped scoring games out of ten

A ten-point scale packs how badly a game runs and how well it is written into one number. Readers cannot decide from that. Seven dimensions later, the complaints after purchase are more accurate.

Editorial · 2026-10-28 · 3 min