Chris Harper
Opinions and content posted by HotHardware contributors are their own.
Recent posts
Battlefield 6 has made an explosive entrance onto the gaming scene, quickly becoming EA's most-played title on Steam and becoming the #4 most-played game on the platform overall. Battlefield performing this well after such a long dormant...
Read more...
This morning, we spotted a PC build that looked as cool as ice—and according to the person who built this refined high-end beast, that's an accurate description of how it runs. The build, referred to as both an "Icy Build" and the more grandiose "King 95", is a standard tower PC powered by an...
Read more...
Xbox is getting absolutely battered this console generation, but Microsoft still insists a next-gen AMD-powered Xbox is in the works—and the rumor mill is now pointing toward a 2027 release window for the next-gen Xbox with AMD's "Magnus"...
Read more...
Earlier this year, Synology made headlines for all the wrong reasons when it announced it would be limiting support for third-party drives in its 2025 NAS lineup. Following months of backlash, however, a new update has mostly reversed this...
Read more...
Last year, the CrowdStrike BSOD crisis resulted in vital IT infrastructure all around the world being forced offline. Now, a year later, Apple has released a short film parodying these events titled The Underdogs: BSOD, which also serves...
Read more...
In a video posted to the official PlayStation YouTube channel this morning, AMD and Sony detailed a few major advancements in AMD's GPU architecture developed under the two companies' Project Amethyst collaboration—advancements that point...
Read more...
Today, I've perused Amazon to find the best deals on for the hot handheld gaming market in terms of accessories. This is a follow-up to yesterday's 10 Awesome Amazon Prime Tech Deals, which includes high-quality third-party controllers and...
Read more...
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days for 2025 are happening at the moment, and there are a myriad of items deeply discounted for buyers hoping to score some hot tech on the cheap. Here's a list of recommendations in a broad range of categories...
Read more...
It has been a tumultuous month for the Xbox brand. In the face of near-simultaneous price hikes on Xbox consoles and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, reports indicate that retailers like Costco are not only putting existing Xbox consoles on...
Read more...
Today, Gigabyte introduced its Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5090 AI Box, a Thunderbolt 5-powered eGPU solution for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 outfitted with 32GB of GDDR6X VRAM. As the name implies, it's being marketed as a practical accelerator...
Read more...
Nintendo is once again in the news for a multi-million dollar lawsuit, but this time it's against a piracy subreddit operator instead of a game developer. Nintendo's latest high-profile lawsuit has the company pouncing on James C...
Read more...
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri took to his platform to "myth bust" claims that the Meta-owned app is listening to user's microphones for the purpose of pushing targeted advertisements and related content. It has been a prominent theory across several social networking apps for many years that this...
Read more...
Recently, a user on the Chinese site BiliBili discovered and subsequently reviewed a Frankensteined NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, but outfitted with 20 GB of GDDR6X instead of its original 10 GB specification. Like other modified GPUs with more...
Read more...
ASUS just announced the ExpertCenter PN54-S1 Mini PC, a follow-up to its existing line of PN54 Mini PCs aimed at enterprise customers. The ASUS ExpertCenter PN-54-S1 Mini PC is a lower-end version of the PN54, now touting Ryzen 200 Series...
Read more...
With the help of Stable Diffusion 3, researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a way to use AI and Wi-Fi signal information to map a real-time image of a room and the people or objects within it. This implementation, called...
Read more...
Amidst the buzz and sales of the LEGO Game Boy, we doubt people are surprised to see that hardware modders are already turning them into playable handhelds. It probably helps that the existing buttons are already pressable on the LEGO Game...
Read more...
Within less than two weeks of raising prices of its Xbox consoles, Microsoft has brought price hikes to the digital realm in the form of a huge Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price hike—and gamers are not happy. Not only have the lower tiers of...
Read more...
Ahead of the October 16th launch date of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally, one question has lingered in this the minds of more than a few gamers: how does this new gaming handheld actually compare to the Nintendo Switch 2? The Nintendo Switch 2 vs...
Read more...
One of the most infamous game glitches of all time is arguably the Minus World glitch in the original Super Mario Bros. on NES, which allowed gamers to access glitched levels not meant for end users. Now, almost four decades later, an...
Read more...
A new and unique crowdfunded mini PC project is making waves thanks to its desktop-class components and fishtank-style design—meet the Wee Beastie Super Mini Gaming PC. Its "Super Mini" fishtank design comes in at a footprint of just 4.75...
Read more...
Earlier today, LG introduced its latest and greatest high-res pro display will be available for pre-orders in the US starting October 10th. That's the LG UltraFine Evo 32U990A, a 32-inch 6K Nano IPS monitor with full support for...
Read more...
No celebrities were harmed in the making of Battlefield 6 or the recent Call of Duty games—but COD gameplay has had a strangely high concentration of immersion-breaking celebrity skins lately, and Battlefield 6's live action launch trailer...
Read more...
