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The next few weeks are stacked for PC gamers. Remedy’s sequel, a free overhaul of one of the best RPGs ever made, and a Gears launch all land within about two weeks. NVIDIA’s latest Game Ready driver covers all of them in one download. GeForce Game Ready 617.14 targets AION 2 (October 5)...

Most of the x3d death shenanigans have been related to the 9000 series. I think it's also difficult to infer causation/failure rate based on user internet reports as those that have issues tend to be loudest...

Valve’s second VR headset finally reached reviewers this week, and the verdicts split cleanly down the middle: nobody argues the hardware is bad, and nobody agrees on who should spend $1,059 on it. Elsewhere the week belonged to displays and storage, with two OLED monitors arriving at opposite...

AMD quietly filled in a gap in its own back catalog by not sending out review samples to any outlet, so we went out and bought one to see the how it performs. The result is the most interesting value question on AM5 right now: we bought a retail Ryzen 7 7700X3D, ran it against […] See full...

Some early access games ship. Most do not (Ed: If we’re keeping with the sailing theme, you mean sink, right?). Valheim, which sold ten million copies in five weeks in early 2021 and then settled in for a very long haul, has officially reached 1.0. Iron Gate’s Norse survival game entered early...

Four months ago the Radeon RX 9070 XT did not appear in the Steam Hardware Survey at all. In our March write-up we noted that RDNA 4 was invisible, with only the plain RX 9070 charting at 0.16% in 99th place and the 9070 XT and 9060 series missing entirely. April told the same story. […] See...

Introduction PowerColor spent the better part of three decades as an AMD board partner before deciding it wanted a piece of the peripheral market, and the ALPHYN line is what came of that. The ALPHYN AM10 wireless gaming mouse turned up in February 2025 alongside the ALPHYN AH10 wireless...

NVIDIA has released another GeForce Hotfix driver, version 616.86, aimed at cleaning up three display-related problems affecting recent drivers. GeForce Hotfix 616.86 is based on the recently released Game Ready Driver 616.64 and addresses intermittent flickering that can occur in web browsers...

Firaxis and 2K have revealed some significant plans for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII in 2027, including an entirely new fourth Age that stretches the game into the modern era and the title’s first paid expansion. The free Arc of Tomorrow update will introduce the Atomic Age, covering...

Neural rendering stopped being a demo this week. DLSS 5 shipped inside NBA 2K27, reviewers got their hands on it, and the picture that emerged is more complicated than either NVIDIA’s slides or the “AI slop” crowd suggested. Elsewhere Fractal Design emptied an entire product launch onto the...

If you have ever plugged in an external SSD and watched it crawl at 40 MB/s, then blamed the cable, the port, the drive, and eventually Windows, there is a fourth suspect you probably never considered: your hand. Insert a USB 3.0 Type-A plug slowly enough and the connection can silently...

Getting a red banner telling you your antivirus is disabled is exactly the kind of notification that ruins an evening, and right now a lot of people are getting one for no reason at all. Microsoft has confirmed two separate problems in recent Windows servicing, and the more alarming of the two...

There is a version of driver week where you install the new build, gain some frames, and never think about it again. This is not that week. Game Ready Driver 616.56 landed on August 26 with a performance bump, and over the following days two separate regressions surfaced that between them touch...

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The second Modern Warfare 4 beta weekend opened to everyone at 10:00 AM PT last Thursday and runs until 10:00 AM PT on Tuesday, September 1. No preorder, no beta code, and this round includes Nintendo Switch 2 alongside PC via Steam and Battle.net, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X...

Buried in the Star Wars Zero Company Steam FAQ is one of the more candid admissions a publisher has made about PC performance this year, and it went up before the game launched. Answering a question about Steam Deck verification, the developers wrote that they recently removed “native” from the...

Nobody who follows this stuff is surprised that Nova Lake-S wants a new socket. What changed this week is who is saying it. Intel’s Design-In Tools store now lists an “ILM Kit for the LGA1954 NVL-S Interposer for the Gen5 VR Test Tool.” NVL-S is Intel’s internal shorthand for the desktop Nova...

The most useful thing anyone has said about DLSS 5 this week did not come from NVIDIA. It came from Linus Sebastian, sitting on the WAN Show, confirming that Linus Tech Tips has signed an embargo agreement covering DLSS 5 and already has a video finished and waiting to publish (Ed: NVIDIA still...

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The best-covered product of the week is a 39-inch ultrawide, which tells you something about where display tech is right now. Alienware’s AW3926QW put a glossy 5K2K RGB-stripe tandem panel at $1,099 and reviewers spent the week trying to find the catch. Elsewhere, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction...