Chris Harper
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The beloved series Tomb Raider is making a return with not one, but two new games being published by Amazon Game Studios and developed by series veterans Crystal Dynamics. The two new titles revealed during The Game Awards 2025 are Tomb...
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Those of you using WinRAR, Windows 10, or both should be on high alert. Two new vulnerabilities have been documented in the wild and are being actively exploited. As of this week, The National Coordinator for Critical Infrastructure...
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The ongoing memory shortage and resulting price hikes continue to impact various markets, and according to TrendForce, smartphone, notebook, and console manufacturers, are about to react. The impact won't simply trigger price increases in existing products, either—rather, new devices are...
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It's no secret that Microsoft's drive to turn Windows 11 into an "agentic" AI-focused OS has been controversial, but being de facto market leader does not mean users won't push back, and a handy GitHub script from Zoicware is doing exactly...
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In a collaboration video with LinusTechTips where they build his new PC, Linux creator Linus Torvalds made a surprising defense of Windows by stating that "a big percentage of those [Blue Screens of Death] are hardware not being reliable"...
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It's not often that celebrity game developers step down from their posts, or personally survey how their games perform in international arcades, but Katsuhiro Harada has done both. After three decades with the Tekken (Japanese: Iron Fist)...
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The broad rollout of the Windows 11 25H2 update has started, and users who want to fast-track it are being referred to the relevant update options in a new blog post on Microsoft's site. Windows 11 25H2 comes with an assortment of...
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Intel's Panther Lake processors are due to arrive soon in new notebooks from a wide array of partners. MSI has a refreshed line-up of Prestige machines coming, for example, powered by Intel's latest and greatest mobile chips, flaunting...
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince recently spoke out against Google's AI practices, highlighting that while his company has successfully blocked 416 billion unwanted AI scrapers from its customers' content, Google has made opting out of the...
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made his debut on the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience last evening, sitting down for over two hours with the host of America's most popular podcast. During the episode, the two cover a fairly wide variety...
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Part one of the long-awaited fifth and final season of retro-horror flavored sensation Stranger Things has dropped on Netflix, but eagle-eyed viewers have spotted a major inconsistency in an apparent Ghosts 'n Goblins (1986, NES) tribute. While the notoriously-difficult action-platformer did...
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Ayaneo has reintroduced its highly anticipated Ayaneo Next II design, first teased in January 2023. While the handheld looks similar, some obvious changes have been made, including a pivot to an AMD Strix Point APU and a 9-inch OLED...
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Rumors indicate that amidst the ongoing DRAM shortage, and resulting price hikes, NVIDIA may stop bundling its GPUs with VRAM for its AIB (Add-In Board) partners. This rumor originates from Golden Pig Upgrade Pack on Chinese social media...
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It's Black Friday 2025, and we've sifted through the chaff in order to find the best gaming monitor deals currently available. High-refresh rate monitors are now dominated by OLED panels, which are superb in terms of image quality but have historically been quite expensive, so deep Black...
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Black Friday is here, and we've been working overtime to make sure you get the best gaming CPU deals this week. Whether you're building a new PC or upgrading an existing one, these are some of the best processor deals for a modern gaming...
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It's Black Friday 2025 and not a moment too soon with the ongoing DRAM and storage supply crisis (especially for DRAM!), but there are still some great SSD deals available for buyers today. Below, we'll list the best options we were able...
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A growing number of off-brand Android TV boxes promise unlimited ad-free streaming for a one-time fee, but there's a catch. Security experts have found that these devices are being used for botnets and other cyber-crimes.
As spotted by...
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Black Friday 2025 is upon us, and you know what that means—hot deals on HOT Hardware all throughout the week, before and after Thanksgiving fills your stomach. We're tracking all the best deals around the web for cutting-edge PCs, PC...
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Those up-to-date with the best gaming CPUs know that AMD has stolen the crown from Intel with Ryzen X3D chips wielding massively increasing cache allotments. However, Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-S CPUs are rumored to have a massive cache...
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Memory prices have skyrocketed recently and brick-and-mortar retailers are converting to "spot pricing" or "market pricing" for RAM kits, which means pricing is determined at the point of sale based on current market conditions. The most...
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It's an interesting time in the retro gaming world. Thanks to ongoing decompilation efforts, games formerly exclusive to a given platform are being made available on competing, rival platforms, including some that feature signature...
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The latest Windows Insider build for Windows 11 features numerous performance fixes and additions, especially for File Explorer. One of the fixes, pictured below, is a reorganized right-click context menu in File Explorer. Perhaps the most...
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