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2026-07-16 7 stories
- Review: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D: The New Go-To Best Value Gaming CPU for AM5 PCs 2 sources
- CoD: Modern Warfare 4 Receives Backlash On Recent Gunplay Video 2 sources
- Xbox 'Save Data' Errors To Be Less Cryptic And More Actionable
- This AliExpress-sourced $5 USB hub has been described as 'mildly dangerous' for your PC, thanks to a nasty power issue
- The company that makes all the West's chipmaking machines says it's selling more than it expected thanks to 'very strong momentum in both DRAM and advanced logic'
- Redditor fashions a 'game cartridge' system for their Steam library out of cheap SATA SSDs
- Marvel Rivals is making some big visual changes to 'cut down on battlefield chaos' which is wonderful because my old brain can't handle that level of overstimulation
2026-07-15 15 stories
- Review: Denshattack! Fast Arcade Action That's Technically Rock-Solid and Highly Addictive 9 sources
- GTA 6's Lack of a PC Port Isn't Out of Greed, According to a Former Rockstar Producer 4 sources
- Xbox adds 52 more titles to 'Stream Your Own Games,' including Black Ops 6 and indie classics
- Wuthering Waves players slam the Xbox version for poor performance, saying it “looks like a mobile game on low settings”
- Samsung Follows Up 990 Pro, 990 Evo and 990 Evo Plus SSDs with Vanilla 990
- Roundup: The First Reviews Have Arrived For The Mound: Omen Of Cthulhu
- Platforming Classic Rayman Origins Looks Fab in 4K on PS5
- Once Upon A Katamari Is The Latest Game To Roll Onto Switch 2
- Newegg offers some of our favorite gaming CPUs bundled with motherboards and precious RAM in a limited summer sale
- Microsoft's Snapdragon X2 Surface Laptop 8 and Pro 12 for Business are now available
- Microsoft blocks Windows 11 KB5101650 update for Dell PCs due to "unexpected shutdowns, poor performance, increased heat, and battery drain"
- HWMonitor now shows you thermal hotspot data for RTX 50-series graphics cards, so I thought I'd give one of ours a quick test
- Alienware made an "entry-level" gaming laptop with RTX 5050 graphics — but this 15-inch PC needs more than NVIDIA's clever upscaling tech to offset its downsides.
- AC Black Flag Resynced Update 1.04 Live Tomorrow, Patch Notes Revealed
- 'Yes, that's Counter-Strike on a PSP!': Modder gets favorite PC FPS working on Sony's 22-year-old handheld console
2026-07-14 13 stories
- Dying Light: The Beast Cancelled for PS4 and Xbox One Consoles, 10 Months After Current-Gen Launch 8 sources
- "It's already exceeding our expectations on Switch 2" - Dragon's Dogma 2 Dark Arisen already running at '30fps and higher' on Nintendo handheld 3 sources
- Your Snapdragon X PC just took a step toward becoming a true gaming laptop
- Witcher 3 Director Says Next-Gen Console Delay Would Not Be Such A Bad Thing
- We might see a new Logitech Superstrike this September, just a few months after the world's first proper analogue mouse launched
- This capable mini-PC for both work and 1080p gaming with increasingly expensive RAM and storage is now on sale just for today
- Review: Razer Viper V4 Pro: The Apex of Ultra-Light Gaming Mice
- Review: Black Flag Resynced: Accomplished on All Consoles - but a Cut Above on PS5 Pro
- Researchers predict a memory demand shortfall so large that half of this year's actual global DRAM capacity wouldn't cover the extra needed
- Microsoft’s powerful new Snapdragon X2 Surface PCs are here, and they're more than a spec bump
- EA Is Finally Trying to Save Your Sims 4 Saves
- A delayed next generation of consoles is "better for us", says The Blood of Dawnwalker director, as price rises continue to plague the industry
- 'Most Technically Ambitious Gears To Date' - Xbox Partners With NVIDIA On Gears Of War: E-Day
2026-07-13 10 stories
- Dragon's Dogma 2 devs on the big fast travel U-turn, and wanting to "win back the trust" of RPG fans with the Dark Arisen DLC 2 sources
- Too hot to handle: A leaked internal Nvidia tool re-enables blocked GPU hotspot sensor data for RTX 50-series graphics cards
- The Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet with 64GB RAM is down to $2,100
- Steam Machine overheating: Valve confirms warning showing too early, BIOS fix coming soon
- Steam Machine compatibility checks are here, though not every game on the store enjoys a rating
- Redditor builds Valve's e-ink Steam Machine faceplate, but pans "distracting" screen refresh
- More evidence that Multi Frame Gen is on the way to AMD RDNA4 GPUs, potentially as high as 8x
- Microsoft announces major Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes clearer, local results, and removes ads: Huge effort to fix search on Windows is finally happening
- Budget OLED versus budget mini-LED: The best real-world PC gaming monitor tech tested
- A new Copilot feature tells you what might be slowing down your PC—while gorging itself on a fair chunk of your system RAM