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The culprit behind two weeks of Windows 11 game crashes turns out to be sitting inside your case, glowing. Microsoft has now named RGB peripherals and components as the trigger for the game failures that started after the August 11 Patch Tuesday rollup. In its Windows release health update, the...

Gamescom is usually a games show with a few peripherals bolted on the side, which makes ROG’s plan for this year a little unusual. ASUS is treating Cologne as a component launch venue, and the centerpiece is its 20th anniversary Edition 20 collection finally getting a public showing outside...

AMD spent the week trying to keep a graphics card away from reviewers, which is the surest possible signal that the graphics card is bad. It is, and the numbers are below. Elsewhere it was a storage and display week: Kioxia’s Gen 5 flagship finally got broad Western coverage, two 32-inch...

There is a rule of thumb in this business that has never once failed me: when a company works this hard to keep a product away from reviewers, the product is the reason. AMD launched the Radeon RX 9050 at the end of July with about as little fanfare as a graphics card launch can […] See full...

A week of players yelling into Discord finally moved the needle. Microsoft opened an investigation late on August 19 into reports that its August Patch Tuesday update is breaking PC games, after a studio publicly pinned the crashes on the patch and Microsoft spent several days saying nothing at...

The most useful GPU testing of the week did not involve a new graphics card, or even a benchmark run in the usual sense. ComputerBase strapped an LDAT light sensor to seven games and measured the full input to photon chain to find out whether NVIDIA Reflex, AMD Anti-Lag 2, and Intel XeLL...

If you’ve ever trusted a case manufacturer’s stated CPU cooler height clearance before ordering a large air cooler, Noctua has some uncomfortable news for you. The company has published a blog post detailing its internal compatibility team’s findings after physically measuring more than 100...

The monthly Steam Hardware Survey rarely delivers genuine milestones, but Valve’s July 2026 data contains two that have been building for most of this year: graphics cards with 16GB of VRAM now account for 25.9% of surveyed Steam systems, edging past 8GB cards at 25.32% to become the most common...

The most useful GPU review of the week is not a new graphics card, it is two old ones. ComputerBase went back and re-benchmarked the Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7600 with FSR Upscaling 4.1 in place of FSR 3.1, and the result is an answer to the question every RDNA 3 owner has […] See full article...

Rockstar Games has announced the first extended look at Grand Theft Auto 6, and it’s launching as a Netflix exclusive. “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look” premieres on Netflix on Thursday, August 27 at 3 PM ET. If you don’t have a Netflix subscription, you can watch the same content for free...

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AMD pushed its July driver on July 28, and for once the headline addition is not a performance uplift but a welcome round of stability fixes alongside new hardware support. The Adrenalin Edition 26.7.1 WHQL release notes add official support for both the Radeon RX 9050 8GB and the just-announced...

This week the biggest story in the review landscape is not a new GPU or a new CPU — it is a game. Halo: Campaign Evolved launched on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation this week in Unreal Engine 5, and TechPowerUp’s 35-GPU benchmark is essential reading for anyone who wants to know whether their card can...

Six years is a long time to wait for a new Gears title. Today, Xbox finally showed what E-Day’s multiplayer looks like. In a deep dive published this morning on Xbox Wire, The Coalition confirmed two modes for the game’s online component: Horde Siege and Versus. The open beta early access window...

Three big titles needed day-one driver attention this week, and NVIDIA delivered with the 610.88 WHQL Game Ready driver released on July 28. It is the full production follow-up to last week’s 610.82 beta, which was a targeted emergency fix for a crash affecting RTX 50-series cards specifically...

This week’s review landscape is anchored by the ASUS ProArt GeForce RTX 5080 OC, a 2.5-slot Blackwell card with a wood-grain trim panel and USB-C display output that looks more like studio equipment than a gaming GPU, and Guru3D put it through 32 pages of testing to find out if the...

Battlefield 6’s first naval season is live as of yesterday, and most of the news is genuinely good: a major new map, boats, waves that actually affect gameplay, and a roadmap that carries through September. The less welcome news landed today, and it lands squarely on GeForce RTX 50-series owners...

NVIDIA dropped a hotfix driver today, and if your GeForce RTX 50-series card has been causing trouble in Halo: Campaign Evolved or locking up Path of Exile 2 after long sessions, this is the one to install. GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 610.82 was released this morning, built on the July 7 Game...

Conker: Live and Reloaded is playable on a Windows PC yesterday for the first time in more than two decades, and that is not a sentence anyone was expecting to type in July of 2026. Microsoft’s Jason Ronald, VP of Next Generation at Xbox, published the announcement this morning on Xbox Wire...

The annual Call of Duty beta calendar is set. Activision confirmed the Modern Warfare 4 (Ed: Hasn’t this game already been released a couple times?) beta schedule on Monday via the official Call of Duty blog, anchoring the multiplayer test to the Call of Duty: NEXT event on August 21 and running...