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It is the last week before Computex, which means the review pipeline has gone about as quiet as a stock Intel cooler at 100% load. (Ed: Are you saying they’re fanless now? Or they aren’t in the retail box anymore?) Manufacturers are saving their big announcements for the show floor, so what we...

addlink Technology has opened its 2026 Virtual Showcase, an online product preview covering the Taiwanese storage maker’s upcoming lineup across PCIe Gen5 SSDs, DDR5 CUDIMM memory, portable storage, and docking solutions. It’s not a physical show floor (Ed: This means they won’t be at Computex...

Firaxis dropped the “Test of Time” update for Civilization VII yesterday, and free-for-all owners of the game is an understatement for how significant this patch actually is. The official patch notes run long enough to require a coffee. This is the update the community has been waiting for since...

Plex really wants you to subscribe monthly. That’s the charitable read of the company’s announcement today that the Lifetime Plex Pass is jumping from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1, 2026, a 200% increase that follows a previous hike from $119.99 to $249.99 just over a year ago. In the span of...

SAMA has officially launched the S50, a compact ATX mid-tower that tries to solve the familiar problem of fitting enthusiast-grade hardware into a smaller chassis without carving out GPU or radiator clearance to get there. The trick is a front-mounted PSU compartment that shifts the power supply...

There’s a new brand making its presence known at Computex 2026. Levelplay, a PC cooling company positioning itself around builder-friendly design and modern aesthetics, is using the show as its coming-out party, and the lineup it’s bringing is more interesting than your typical OEM refresh...

It only took about five years, but Microsoft has finally relented. Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel can now move the Windows 11 taskbar to the top, bottom, left, or right of the screen, restoring a feature that Windows users had for decades before Windows 11 launched in October 2021...

Shader compilation stutter has been one of PC gaming’s most persistent annoyances for years, and Microsoft just took a meaningful swing at fixing it on AMD hardware. The AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.5.2 driver is now live, and it brings support for Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery...

Forza Horizon 6 launched its early access window this week, and the PC hardware world met it with a flood of GPU benchmarks. Elsewhere, ASUS dropped a 20th-anniversary ROG Crosshair motherboard that looks like it time-traveled from 2006 and Igor Wallossek spent 109 minutes tearing down a...

Supermassive Games has a new entry in the Dark Pictures Anthology out today, and on PC it happens to be one of the more technically demanding releases of the year. Directive 8020 launched today on PC via Steam alongside PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the PC version ships with path-traced global...

Three PC games are launching his week, and NVIDIA is ready for all of them. The company released GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.49 WHQL, covering Forza Horizon 6, Directive 8020, and Subnautica 2 (hitting Steam Early Access on May 14). The driver is available through the NVIDIA App and the...

Origin Code is bringing a new configuration to its Vortex DDR5 lineup at Computex 2026, and the headliner this time is a 48GB (two 24GB modules) kit running at 6200 MT/s with CL28 timings, in a new Meteorite Black finish. The company is also debuting a dedicated water block for the Vortex series...

Yesterday, Noctua posted a teaser image on X of a blacked-out 120mm fan alongside the caption “Blacked out. Dialled in.” — and given the company’s current roadmap, there’s only one product it can be (Ed: Did you ping them about using spellcheck?). The NF-A12x25 G2 chromax.black has been listed...

The Path of Exile 2 community has been quietly anxious about the 1.0 full launch timeline, particularly given the game’s already lengthy Early Access period and the crowded second half of 2026 release calendar. Director Jonathan Rogers addressed that concern directly in a recent interview: the...

Intel appears to be bringing back one of the more interesting design decisions from its Lunar Lake architecture: on-package memory. According to leaker Haze2K1 on X, the upcoming Razor Lake-AX platform will integrate memory directly onto the chip package, a configuration that shortens the...