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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...

After years of holding as the de facto gold standard for PC game anti-piracy, Denuvo has been functionally broken by a new class of exploit. Hypervisor-based bypasses, which operate beneath the Windows operating system at Ring -1, are now enabling pirated releases of major titles within hours of...

Sometimes schadenfreude has educational value. A video circulating on Chinese social media this week shows a memory vendor in Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei electronics market standing in front of a warehouse stacked high with DDR5 modules, delivering a despairing monologue: “Brothers, memory prices...

It has been a rough road for Stormgate, and it just got a (probable) final destination of eternal singlle player mode. A few days back in the Stormgate Discord server, Frost Giant Studio confirmed that Stormgate’s online modes will be shut down at the end of April 2026, effectively ending the...

Valve’s monthly hardware survey data for March 2026 is in, and it contains a couple of numbers worth dwelling on. Linux has now crossed 5% market share among Steam users for the first time, and the 16 GB system RAM configuration is seeing a notable jump in adoption. Keep in mind that the data is...

Marvel Rivals Season 7, titled “The Hunt Is On,” has gone launched, and it brings the expected pile of new content along with a meaningful technical upgrade for NVIDIA GPU owners. White Fox joins the roster as a Strategist hero, and the new Lower Manhattan convergence map launched alongside the...

On April 1, the Intel told no jokes while announcing an agreement to repurchase the 49% stake in its Fab 34 joint venture that it sold to Apollo Global Management in 2024, at a price tag of $14.2 billion. That original $11.2 billion deal was a sign of how badly Intel needed a cash infusion […]...

But... are you a fan of a built-in cutting board? That's the key enhancement that was announced yesterday, April 1.....

The PS5 Pro at $900. Marinate on that for a moment or three. Sony confirmed last Thursday that new prices for the entire PS5 hardware lineup take effect on April 2, meaning if you wanted the old price, the window essentially closed yesterday. The standard PS5 goes from $549.99 to $649.99, the...

We should be getting one of these in to review shortly.

After what feels like an eternity of waiting (Ed: Isn’t that how all Noctua product launches go?), Noctua and Asetek officially confirmed that their collaborative AIO liquid cooler has completed its Production Validation Test phase, clearing the final major hurdle before volume production. Q2...

Whoops. This was supposed to be set for AM...

Elden Ring patch 1.18 dropped overnight, and buried in the patch notes after seven paragraphs of balance adjustments and network stability fixes is the following entry, presented without elaboration: “Added ‘Assisted Mode’ toggle to Options menu. Assisted Mode reduces the HP and aggression of...

Fixed the link. Accidently briefly published this last night, so the URL was probably wrong...

AMD’s official RDNA 5 architecture whitepaper (Ed: I could use a link here) dropped this morning, and the headline finding is this: the company has replaced all Compute Units with a new processing element it is calling a “Vibe Unit,” or VU. Each Vibe Unit is described in the whitepaper as “a...

When Fractal Design launched the original North in 2022, the walnut front panel was polarizing in the way that good industrial design sometimes is: you either immediately understood it or you found it confusing that someone had put wood on a PC. The design won enough converts that Fractal has...

The year is 2026 and G.SKILL has announced a DDR5 kit whose RGB LEDs only activate when the ambient light sensor on the heatspreader detects that the PC case side panel is closed and the room’s lighting has dropped below a specified lux threshold, suggesting, probabilistically, that no one is...

Noctua has spent years patiently explaining that its signature tan-and-brown color scheme is not a bug, it is a feature. It then spent several more years releasing the chromax.black line for builders who disagreed. Today, the Austrian cooling company has announced what can only be described as a...