Paul Lilly
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The wait for the next Civilization game isn't quite over—there's still several months to go before publisher 2K releases Sid Meier's Civilization VII to PC (Windows, macOS, and Linux), Switch, and both PlayStation and Xbox game consoles...
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It appears as though Samsung will be slightly tweaking the design language of its next mainstream Galaxy device, the Galaxy S25, when it arrives (presumably next year). Most notably, photos, video, and some accompanying specifications of a...
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Amazon has announced a refreshed Fire HD 8 tablet with some key upgrades over its predecessor, and also a massive early discount ahead of the retailer's upcoming Prime Big Deals Days event, a two-day sales affair that runs through October...
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When we posted our Radeon RX 7700 XT review last year, we noted that it's position withing the discrete graphics card landscape "is not as clear cut" as the Radeon RX 7800 XT at time, due to its pricing in relation to GPUs like the GeForce...
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One thing I've gotten in the habit of doing during my daily perusals of the web is to hunt for deals, including whatever happens to be Best Buy's advertised 'Deal of the Day' promotion. These can be hit or miss, though if you're in the...
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How high of a DPI do you truly need in a gaming mouse? The answer depends on who you ask and the though the consensus is typically in a range much lower than what mouse makers like to promote, they remain undeterred in pushing the limits...
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Microsoft announced it has begun a phased roll out of its Windows 11 2024 update, otherwise known as Windows 11 24H2, which the company describes as a "full operating system (OS) swap" containing brand new foundational elements to help...
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Samsung recently unveiled a few new hardware devices, one of which includes the Galaxy S24 Fan Edition (FE), which is now official and available to preorder in several colorways—graphite, gray, blue, and mint (light green). Additionally...
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An alleged car thief who was arrested for stealing a 2023 Ferrari 812 GTS, a sports car that's worth over half a million dollars, must have thought he scored a major haul. However, he was undone by a pair of Apple's AirPods (possibly the...
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It's totally fair to criticize Sony for artificially limiting production of its PlayStation 5 Pro 30th anniversary edition console to just 12,300 units, which essentially means it's a console for scalpers and not genuine fans. However...
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It's taken a minute, but memory makers are finally starting to approach the DDR5-10000 mark, though they're not quite there yet. They are getting close, however, with G.Skill being the latest to announce yet another overclocked DDR5 memory...
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A sketchy leak purporting to show a photo of an unreleased 14-inch MacBook Pro refresh touting Apple's custom M4 silicon has found its way to the web, and with it comes possible confirmation of an upgrade to a key baseline specification...
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Floor 84 Studio has collaborated with Taito on a new smartwatch that tugs at the nostalgic heartstrings of folks like myself who, decades ago, spent hours playing Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 or on an actual arcade cabinet. Launched as...
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We never did end up seeing a Ti or Super variant of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 4090 like there was with the previous generation's top SKU (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti). That ship has sailed at this point and instead, all eyes are looking ahead...
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It's taken a minute, but there are finally a handful of earbud options specifically for gamers, and I couldn't be happier about this. While there are a million and one earbud designs to choose from overall, ones that specifically take aim...
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SK hynix, which notably supplies memory chips to NVIDIA (among other customers), said it has begun volume production of the world's first 12-layer high bandwidth memory 3E (HBM3E) chips in a 36GB capacity, which is the largest capacity of...
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If the 990 Evo Plus is the last PCI Express 4.0 solid state drive (SSD) that Samsung releases before fully embracing PCI Express 5.0, then it stands as one heck of a PCIe 4.0 swan song, at least on paper. To be clear, we have not tested...
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There are multiple reasons to think that discrete graphics cards would see a decline in shipments during this time of the year, such as typical seasonality and this being the tail-end of the current generation product cycle for AMD (Radeon...
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A nonprofit digital privacy group called NOYB, short for None Of Your Business, has formally issued a complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority (DSB), urging it to investigate the browser maker's "Privacy...
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In case it went unnoticed, two years ago, Sony unveiled its INZONE brand for PC gaming gear, which it kick started with a series of monitors and headsets. It's still not an especially expansive lineup, but it just grew a little bigger with...
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This is shaping up to be a busy month for Sony. First, it introduced an upgraded PlayStation 5 Pro console with a beefier GPU for faster performance and crisper visuals (including ray-traced gaming), then it followed that up with a...
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Alienware is launching what it calls "the best headset we've ever made," a claim it posted during a press briefing for its what's simply called the Alienware Pro Wireless Headset. This is an expansion to its Pro lineup of peripherals...
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