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2026-06-03 3 stories

• Will Insomniac's hairy Wolverine unseat Leon Kennedy as 2026's biggest gaming hottie?
• What's better than one high tier gaming rig? A double-decker gaming rig, according to Thermaltake
• This is me playing Alan Wake 2's native Arm build on an RTX Spark laptop, and I'm here for it

2026-06-02 26 stories

• Rayman Legends Retold Is More Than A Remake–It Could Be The Future Of The Series 16 sources
• Fallout 76 Is Coming To PS5 And Xbox Series X|S With Better Frame Rates And Up To 4K Support 6 sources
• Review: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Switch 2) - Some Rough Edges, But Still A Great Game 2 sources
• Review: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: Switch 2 Performance Boosted Over Demo, But Xbox 60fps Mode Still Disappoints 2 sources
• Microsoft is making a Surface mini PC for AI developers: Meet the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, featuring 128GB RAM and one petaflop of AI compute power 2 sources
• While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler
• Tryx claims 'world's first holographic liquid cooler' at Computex but I doubt it was much of a contest
• Thermal Grizzly enters the PC fan scene and of course it's more about quality engineering than RGB, though there's that, too
• Round Up: The Reviews Are In For Final Fantasy VII Rebirth On Switch 2
• Nvidia may have announced the RTX Spark, but the first true Nvidia CPU for the PC is coming in 2028
• Noctua's pumpless liquid cooler prototype is now 'neck and neck' with a normal AIO: successfully cools Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 230 W
• Next-gen GPUs aren't around at Computex, but MSI's got a taste of what they might look like
• MSI's Maestro 900R case is almost here. Tremble in fear, poor wallet
• Maingear MG-1 Mk.II (2026) review
• Keychron's on-the-fly optical/Hall effect mouse switch is taking on Logitech over one of the few things people didn't like about the SuperStrike
• Jen-Hsun says RTX Spark 'is 100% awesome at everything everybody expects the PC to do, and it can do more'
• I held the next-gen handheld
• I dug into the Windows 11 features insiders got in May 2026 and here’s what matters most
• Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards
• Excess often sells in the world of gaming PCs, but Asus' new 3000 W power supply makes little sense for even the wealthiest of whales
• Corsair has shown off a military-themed PC case with fighter jet controls, and it's still not as over the top as its see-through PSU
• Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 and MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ PC handhelds announced at Computex
• Asus outs 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with new LG RGB-stripe panel, but it's a bit behind on brightness
• AMD is considering a Ryzen 5 9600X3D 'later this year' but its value for gaming could suffer against its own stiff competition
• After a week of playing on nothing but Panther Lake laptops, it's safe to say that Intel has its gaming mojo back
• 'Flydigi Vader 5S' wired Xbox controller review — It's a bit ugly, but it has some fantastic features I wish more Xbox controllers had by default

2026-06-01 21 stories

• Nvidia reveals RTX Spark N1/N1X "superchip" at Computex, with Gaming Performance Equivalent to RTX 5070 Laptop 11 sources
• AMD at Computex: AM5 Until 2029, Ryzen 7700X3D and 5800X3D Anniversary Edition, Radeon RX 9070 GRE Announced 4 sources
• AMD's New GPU Makes No Sense | Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs. GeForce RTX 5070 3 sources
• Asus has announced a gold-plated 82 g version of its Harpe II mouse with a 65K DPI, but price rumours make me think it's way out of my budget 2 sources
• Sony's $350 Official PS5 Monitor Has a Very Cool Gimmick for Gamers
• Push Your PS5 Pro to the Limit with PSSR2 Update for F1 25's New DLC
• PS5's First Ever Official Speakers Promise 'Lifelike Audio in a Portable Form Factor'
• Project Motor Racing Dev Says Team “Let Players Down” After Troubled Launch
• Nvidia announces that a DLSS 4.5 update for Ray Reconstruction is finally on its way, promising better ray-traced and path-traced graphics for 'similar performance' as the old model
• Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets
• MSI's new skinny two-in-one laptop has an Nvidia RTX Spark chip, which could make for some impressive gaming chops
• Modern Warfare 4 gameplay shows off the new movement system and first look at Create-a-Class emerges
• Intel's attempting to break into the AI market once more, but this time avoiding Nvidia's dominance in training by going for inference
• FLASH DEAL: Behold one of the world's fastest 4.0 PCIe SSDs for PC gaming — it's got tons of space, great thermals, and can cut PC game load times by half
• Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit… and it's not far off
• Computex 2026 Live: All the best PC gaming hardware announcements at this year's show
• ASUS ProArt P16 and P14 N1X bring workstation‑class power, RTX graphics, and AI‑PC performance for creators
• As if ROG Astral 50-series graphics cards could get any beefier, Asus has just announced a CHONKY anniversary update
• Acer tries to dodge the RAMpocalypse with its Nitro Blaze Link by making it streaming only
• "The best gaming keyboard I've ever used": ASUS gave its ROG Azoth Extreme a golden glow-up to celebrate 20 years, and the results are spectacular
• 'Lost 255 Hours Of Progress' - Forza Horizon 6 Players Warn Of Xbox & PC Saving Issue