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Nintendo is planning to launch its next-gen Switch 2 console on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, the day after April Fools' Day and the same day Nintendo will hold a special Direct: Nintendo Switch 2 event, according to a Best Buy Canada blog post that went live ahead of schedule. Best Buy has taken the blog post down, but... Read more...
Nintendo is nearing its big event to usher in the Switch 2 era, but the company wanted to host one final Direct showcase for the original Switch. As expected, most of the games shown off were smaller experiences because the company wants to hold off on any big reveals until the Switch 2's Direct event. However... Read more...
In case you missed it, Dell unveiled some beastly upgrades to its Alienware lineup back at the Consumer Electronics Show, including a new QD-OLED monitor, refreshed desktop configurations, and the return of its Area-51 gaming laptop lineup. As it applies to the latter, both the Alienware 18 Area-51 and Alienware 16... Read more...
AMD was quick to debunk a recent report claiming it revealed combined Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 shipments had topped 200,000 units. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. Either way, AMD never shared an actual specific tally. In the days since, however, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su did provide an interesting figure... Read more...
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle launched late last year, giving Microsoft a great title to cap off a strong year. However, with all the hoopla of awards season, the game got overlooked as the gaming community discourse focused on the game of the year discussion. Now, the game is getting a second chance to get the... Read more...
While software driver updates are not typically as exciting as new GPU launches, the NVIDIA App does have a few new intriguing goodies in store. The depth of NVIDIA's involvement with AI is no secret, and it is making its way more deeply into the gaming GPU side. With the new NVIDIA App update, Project G-Assist can... Read more...
When you read that headline, it probably sounds like former Intel CTO and CEO Gelsinger's got a case of sour grapes. Of course, the man's far more mature and experienced than that. His comments came while speaking to the Acquired podcast as an invited guest at NVIDIA's GTC 2025 conference, where the GPU vendor... Read more...
Remedy Entertainment has been on a hot streak these last few years, releasing Control and following it up with the critically acclaimed Alan Wake 2. After putting out these stellar single player experiences the studio is now looking to replicate that success in the multiplayer space, with its cooperative first-person... Read more...
I'm old enough to remember to when PC monitors weren't exactly known for innovating. These days, however, it's a challenge keeping up with all of the fancy new display technologies and their various tricks. One of the latest innovations gaining traction is the advent of dual-mode displays, and ViewSonic has officially... Read more...
We made the trek out to HP Amplify this week (as well as NVIDIA's GTC conference), and while there, we got to to go hands-on with a beastly laptop configuration that is available to preorder. It's the HP Omen Max 16, and as configured it pairs an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor based on Arrow Lake-HX with a mobile... Read more...
Google's Pixel 9a isn't even launched yet, but reviews and performance benchmarks are already out in the wild for all to see. Definitely looking legit, these reviews show off a phone that makes some incremental improvements in design and performance while cutting cost in areas that may irk buyers. Ultimately, the... Read more...
If you need more evidence that camera-based image processing isn't at all a good idea for fully autonomous driving, go no further than this fun expos comparing self-driving tech between a Tesla versus a LiDAR-equipped system in a Lexus. The multi-stage experiment culminates with both cars being driven towards a wall... Read more...
Half-Life, one of the best first person shooters of all time, got its flowers with the amazing Black Mesa remake made by fans with Valves blessing. Half-Life 2 is now getting the same treatment, once again led by fans, with Half-Life 2 RTX. While the team initially debuted its effort towards the end of last year, it... Read more...
It's fair to say that Apple's products are not known for being super-friendly to DIY (do-it-yourself) repairs, though not without the occasional surprise, such as the iPhone 16 that scored 7/10 by the folks at iFixIt. What about Apple's newly minted M4 MacBook Air? A fresh teardown reveals it's largely more of the... Read more...
The last few weeks for AMD have been pretty remarkable. The chipmaker is firing on all cylinders: the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D have arrived to universal praise, the Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" processors finally launched to wide acclaim, and the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards brought the RDNA 4 architecture and... Read more...
The last few weeks have been very eventful for AMD. The company launched the well-received Radeon RX 9070 series of GPUs for PC gamers, based on the brand new RDNA 4 graphics architecture. And just a few days ago, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D hit and proved to be an absolute beast, thats great for both gaming and content... Read more...
Yesterday, Google DeepMind unveiled two new AI models -- Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER -- to advance robotic intelligence in multiple markets. According to Google, these models, built on the Gemini multimodal foundation, enable robots to process and respond to text, voice, and visual data making it possible... Read more...
Someone seems to have gotten their grubby hands on the Google Pixel 9a, showing off the full phone in a video in all its glory. The person in question also included a bonus video likely captured by the phone's camera as well. The Pixel 9a is believed to launch as early as this month or April, so it's possible for... Read more...
The problem with introducing a new technology, whether it be an upscaler like FSR 4 or a hardware feature like AVX, is that you have to wait for software to make use of it. Except maybe not, in the case of FSR 4, thanks to the OptiScaler mod and its fresh support for AMD's new AI-powered scaling tech. OptiScaler is... Read more...
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach perhaps has become a bit of an afterthought, with so much attention on the speculation surrounding Grand Theft Auto VI and the sales success of Monster Hunter Wilds. However, the game has managed to recapture the zeitgeist after its latest trailer, which was directed by the legendary... Read more...
The current console cycle is mature enough that rumors have begun swirling regarding the next generation. Theres already been some rumblings about the PlayStation 6, and now theres some potential information about what the next Xbox will have in store for fans, by way ofWindows Centrals Jez Corden. During the... Read more...
Having trouble finding a newfangled GPU in stock? Join the club. Alternatively, you can join NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming service, at least until things calm down at retail (and perhaps grow a killer 5-foot beard while you wait -- sigh). All that aside, GeForce NOW is actually a capable service and it's gaining... Read more...
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