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The current hardware landscape is a tough one for gamers, as even more price increases are likely to come this year. This challenging environment has meant that cloud gaming services have become a more enticing option, and it looks as if... Read more...
Life can be wildly unfair and at times immensely sad, but in a gracious act of kindness, Take-Two Interactive may be putting pieces in motion to allow a terminally ill gamer stricken with cancer to playtest Grand Theft Auto VI long before... Read more...
Early this morning, the internet was shocked to learn of an explosion within the Rockstar North building in Edinburgh, Scotland. Rockstar North is best known as the developer of Grand Theft Auto VI and the wider Grand Theft Auto series... Read more...
It's cold out there in parts of the country, but do you know what really warms our heart? Yes, hot cocoa, but we're also smitten with savings. If you are too, then do yourself a solid and check out Best Buy's Winter Sale event, with deep... Read more...
ASUS is not planning to release any new smartphones this year, and may be exiting the mobile phone business altogether. That means no more new ROG Phone iterations (making the ROG Phone 9 we reviewed its last gaming handset) and no more... Read more...
The Rubik's Cube is a timeless toy that needs no introduction, and TCL's latest portable projector, the PlayCube, is inspired by its design. Specifically, the side of the projector can be twisted like a Rubik's Cube in order to more... Read more...
Taiwan and the United States have announced what's being described as a $500 billion commitment aimed at expanding semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S., a striking figure that reflects how strategically important chip production has... Read more...
A new study suggests that "high-frequency gamers" are more prone to poor eating habits and sleep deprivation compared to low-frequency gamers. Led by Curtin University and published in Nutrition, the cross-sectional study focused on 317... Read more...
ASUS has confirmed that it tweaked the design of its Q-Release PCIe mechanism on every new Neo motherboard coming out this year, including both high-end models with more premium designs and entry-level options. The official reason for the... Read more...
We're more than a month removed from all those Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals that closed out last year, but we spotted a discount on an Alienware gaming display that brings its price back down to its deepest discount ever. It has... Read more...
Users of Bluetooth accessories beware—a vulnerability was found in the commonly-used Google Fast Pair standard in August of 2025, and an active exploit dubbed WhisperPair is out in the wild. The WhisperPair exploit allows for attackers to... Read more...
Can you smell what ASRock is cooking? Tired wrestling references aside, what ASRock is cooking looks pretty darn tasty — especially for something called "Rock". Four new motherboards in a new family are the inaugural components, which... Read more...
Users of specific versions of Microsoft's Windows 11 can no longer properly shutdown or enter hibernation, and are instead being forced to restart unless the correct Command Prompt command is made, as part of the latest update to Windows... Read more...
Arc Raiders was one of the breakout hits of 2025 and rack up an impressive number of players on Steam. The game has been able to keep its momentum going thanks to a steady stream of content drops, and developers Embark have revealed in an... Read more...
In case you missed it, at CES 2026 AMD actually did have a few consumer announcements despite that the keynote was almost entirely about AI and data center products. Among those were a couple of new Strix Halo products: the Ryzen AI Max+... Read more...
After almost nine-decades of scientific searching, physicists in China have finally captured the "ghost" of the universe by recording the first direct observation of Migdal quantum process that could hold the key to identifying dark... Read more...
It sure sounds like Gigabyte is planning to release a gaming handheld at some point, according to comments CEO Eddie Lin made at CES, though exactly when and what differentiating features it will have are, for now, a mystery. Not just to... Read more...
There is a whole lot of uncertainty in the PC gaming landscape over the core hardware needed to crank out high frame rates in demanding titles, and this time it's because the AI market is feasting on all of the memory capacity it can... Read more...
Google has filed a patent for a glue-free, mechanically interlocked battery system that could make future Pixel repairs dramatically simpler. If this concept makes it to production, it'd be a major right to repair win for the company (and users). The patent (filed in April last year and... Read more...
No, ASUS is not designating its GeForce RTX 5070 Ti or the 16GB version of its GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards as end of life, despite reports to the contrary. In a statement issued this morning, ASUS clarified where things stand in... Read more...
As AI gets more heavily integrated into Windows, enhanced cybersecurity is required to prevent it from being used against us. Take Reprompt, for example. Reprompt is a Copilot exploit, that can use multi-stage prompts to steal user data... Read more...
Apple appears to be pulling out all the stops when it comes to the engineering effort going into its long rumored foldable iPhone, as the company looks to breath new life into its mobile phone lineup. The company seems to have been laser... Read more...
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