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The biggest hardware story of the week is one that barely involves a graphics card: Valve’s Steam Machine finally shipped to reviewers and the verdict from every major outlet landed within 24 hours. The cooling segment also stays active, with a new post-launch look at Noctua’s debut AIO and a...

Superceded by a hot fix... https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-26-6-3-HOTFIX.html

We did it. The FPS Team finished first in PrimeGrid’s National Egg Day Challenge, and it wasn’t close. Every member who attached a machine and let it run through the event is the reason we’re sitting at the top of the standings, and you have my thanks. This is exactly the kind of result we […]...

The GPU story this week is our own: Brent Justice’s head-to-head comparison of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 landed today, putting a focused 1440p performance lens on a card that already received thorough launch-day treatment from the broader enthusiast press...

Half a million copies in seven days for a remake of a 25-year-old niche European RPG is a result that deserves some respect. THQ Nordic announced on June 12 that Gothic 1 Remake has shipped 500,000 units across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S since its June 5 launch. The game peaked at...

Dead by Daylight started in 2016 with a handful of original killers, one survivor pool, and predictions of 300,000 copies sold. Ten years and 70 million players later, Behaviour Interactive held a celebration in Montreal yesterday, and the scope of what they announced is about as far from a...

After years of AAA games shipping with requirements that instantly excluded a huge chunk of the Steam hardware survey, Gears of War: E-Day is heading in a different direction — and it’s a welcome sight. The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios published the official PC system requirements for Gears...

AMD’s marketing chief Saša Marinković posted a screenshot to X last week that Intel’s PR team is probably choosing not to look at too closely: all 15 of Amazon’s top-selling processors are AMD, with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D holding the number one position at $449. Intel’s nearest entry, the Core...

Added a call out.

Looks like it's up on Amazon now https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Blaster-Hi-res-Discrete-Headphone/dp/B0H1PZ7ZGF/

Onboard audio has gotten decent over the past decade. Motherboard manufacturers have been quietly dropping better Realtek codecs and op-amps onto their boards, and for casual listening or gaming with mainstream headphones, it largely does the job. But “largely does the job” is not the same thing...

This was a quiet week for marquee launches and the review queue is starting to run dry as hardware review boffins recover from jet leag, so the Round Up leans on the long tail: a wave of LGA1851 refresh motherboards, high-speed DDR5, a 1600W PSU, a retro chassis, and a creator laptop...

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As was originally teased a few days ago, Guild Wars 3 has been announced by ArenaNet with a beta targeting fall 2027 with releases on both PC and Playstation 5. ArenaNet has confirmed what a lot of MMO players were hoping to hear. In an IGN Live interview, studio head Colin Johanson went on...

If you’ve been fighting phantom stutters and G-SYNC weirdness since updating to Game Ready 610.47, NVIDIA has an answer. The company pushed GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 610.52 live yesterday through its customer care portal, targeting a focused set of display-related bugs that have been...