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It’s a week heavy on periphery hardware, with a major new flagship 4K QD-OLED monitor landing reviews alongside a surprisingly compelling budget AM4 CPU, a premium AIO cooler, a high-end X870E motherboard, and the long-awaited Antec x Noctua case collab earning serious coverage from multiple...

Like it or not, Windows 11 25H2 is coming to your PC whether you asked for it or not. Microsoft has expanded its rollout of the Windows 11 2025 Update to cover every unmanaged Home and Pro device still running version 24H2, with no mechanism to permanently refuse the installation. The company...

The GPU market just got a little worse for Red Team fans. ASUS has silently updated pricing across several Radeon RX 9070 XT models in its own US storefront, with no announcement, no press release, and no explanation — the kind of move that tends to be noticed only when someone checks...

DICE has confirmed that the Hunter/Prey update for Battlefield 6 arrives April 14, bringing a batch of progression changes, network improvements, and the final content drop of Season 2. For players who have been sticking with BF6 through the post-launch patch cycle, this is the update that...

Despite the date on the announcement, this one wasn’t a joke. On April 1, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton confirmed another round of price increases across most of the company’s lineup, driven by what he described as a sevenfold increase in LPDDR4 DRAM prices over the past twelve months. The...

We knew Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation for A24 was somewhere in the pipeline. We did not know a Twitch streamer would be the one to find the set. Twitch streamer and Elden Ring fan Throxtv posted video on YouTube this week showing a large outdoor construction in an English field that is...

Here’s one for the people who remember that Fortnite was originally a cooperative zombie survival game before Battle Royale ate the world. Epic Games has confirmed that Save the World, Fortnite’s PvE co-op mode where teams build forts, craft weapons, and hold back waves of monsters, goes...

I have a hard time seeing more than a $100-150 premium over the standard X3D....

Skyblivion, the fan-built total conversion that recreates The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion inside Skyrim’s engine, is getting close to the finish line. Or at least, that’s the most current read from project lead Rebelzize, who spoke to PC Gamer this week after the team put out a new call for...

Six years after its reveal trailer and two years since anyone heard anything concrete about it, State of Decay 3 has resurfaced with actual news. Undead Labs announced this week that alpha playtests will begin in May, with signups now open at the official State of Decay website. Franchise...

If you’ve ever updated your GPU driver, fired up a game, and been greeted by a minutes-long “Compiling Shaders” screen, NVIDIA has finally decided to do something about it. The company quietly shipped a beta version of Auto Shader Compilation (ASC) in the same NVIDIA App update that brought DLSS...

After years of rumors and a development cycle that had more than a few fans wondering whether a proper new entry in the series would ever materialize, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era finally has a date. Hooded Horse, Unfrozen Studio, and Ubisoft confirmed the game will launch in Steam Early...

Do you remember the renaming of Quake to Quack benchmarking controversy? We do, but in case you don’t, here’s another one for the pile. Intel’s new Binary Optimization Tool, better known as iBOT, is now doing some benchmark optimization of its own, and Geekbench’s response is worth paying...

Mephisto is not waiting anymore. Diablo IV’s second major expansion, Lord of Hatred, arrives April 28 across PC (Battle.net and Steam), PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One. Blizzard announced the expansion at The Game Awards 2025 and has been rolling out pre-purchase details and class...

April is shaping up to be a legitimately strong month for GeForce NOW subscribers. NVIDIA announced the full April lineup today, kicking things off with 12 games available immediately and confirming another 8 titles arriving throughout the month, including several day-one launches. Leading this...