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2026-05-22 8 stories
- Riot Games Says It 'Would Not and Cannot' Use Vanguard Anti-Cheat to Brick PCs After Rumors Spread 4 sources
- You can crank wild performance out of a MacBook Neo if only you use a giant industrial air blower and Peltier thermoelectric cooling
- Review: Directive 8020's UE5 Tech Sets A New Visual Standard For Interactive Cinema
- Review: Crimson Desert (PS5) - One of the Most Frustratingly Brilliant Games I've Ever Played
- MSI's next "Claw 8 EX AI+" moves closer to a $2,000 price tag — as the handheld gaming industry seemingly loses its collective mind
- LEGO Batman Comparison Shows Difference Between Xbox Series X And Series S
- Intel's freshly leaked roadmap for desktop and laptop CPUs is so complicated that it's given me a headache, but at least it all looks very promising on the Core Ultra processor front
- If this breakdown of the full cost of producing your favourite graphics card is accurate, then prices for certain GPUs are going to make 64 GB DDR5 kits look cheap
2026-05-21 13 stories
- Lego Batman Is The Arkham Sequel You’ve Been Waiting For In More Ways Than One 6 sources
- Splinter Cell designer says modern lighting has made stealth games harder to read 3 sources
- Fallout 4 on Consoles Will Soon Let You Add More Mods 2 sources
- Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced PS5 Pro Version Confirmed 2 sources
- The latest 100% Chinese-made GPU may still lag behind an RTX 3060 but it could be the start of something big in graphics cards
- Red Dead Redemption 2 Overtakes Wii Sports in Best-Selling Games of All Time List
- Rebooted AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU for the 10th anniversary of the AM4 socket spotted online for $310, keeping DDR4 and your hopes of a PC upgrade alive
- Newegg's Memorial Day Sale has offered a 40% discount on a 2TB SSD that's highly regarded for its "Best in class 4K read performance" for PC gaming
- Forza Horizon 6 hits a massive milestone across Xbox, PC, and Game Pass after its explosive release — it just set a new Steam peak player count, too
- Asus’ Memorial Day Sale Has Everything You Need To Upgrade Your PC Setup
- AMD Reportedly Prepping Cheaper Ryzen 7 7700X3D CPU, Could Discontinue 7800X3D
- AMD is investing $10 billion+ into Taiwan tech to 'accelerate next-gen AI infrastructure', with some fancy new toys on the way
- AMD announces production ramp of first 2 nm CPUs as Intel teases 10A and 7A chip roadmap
2026-05-20 12 stories
- PSA - Upgrade Your Nvidia Graphics Drivers To Avoid a "High-Severity" Vulnerability 3 sources
- Windows 11's new "Haptic Signals" feature is a quality of life upgrade I didn't realize the OS needed until I tried it
- Valorant gets Anti-Lag 2 but after testing it I don't think users with high-end AMD rigs should crack open the champagne
- This PCIe 5.0 SSD with "blazing fast speeds across the board" is starting to drop in price, but the memory crisis painfully lives on
- The 13 biggest Windows 11 changes from early May — and why these updates matter for how the OS evolves through the rest of 2026
- Tech leaker suggests that AMD has a Ryzen 7 7700X3D lined up in the wings but if the specs are correct, it'll need to be genuinely cheap to sell well
- Samsung unveils "industry-first" 6K gaming monitor with 165Hz refresh rate and DisplayPort 2.1
- Microsoft plans to launch a cheaper 8 GB Surface laptop later this year which won't meet the requirements of a Copilot+ PC
- Microsoft confirms Windows 11’s May 2026 update is failing to install with error 0x800f0922 and outlines a mitigation for affected PCs
- Mac users say Microsoft Teams won’t stop demanding location access, and Microsoft is now blaming Apple for the undismissible pop‑ups
- If gaming laptops are just too bulky for you and you're desperate to burn an enormous hole in your wallet, the new Asus ROG NUC is surely a vision of your dreams
- Fallout 4 is finally getting this huge update on Xbox and PlayStation 6 months late next week — Bethesda's RPG will never be the same on consoles
2026-05-19 14 stories
- Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 for 2026 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, display upgrades, and new haptics: Launching first for business customers today 6 sources
- Open-world action RPG Outward 2 sets summer early access release with a "potato specs" gameplay trailer starring a talking tuber 5 sources
- LG Unveils First Native 1080p 1000Hz Monitor, Equalling CRT Performance 2 sources
- ARC Raiders is Adding Denuvo in New Update 2 sources
- Xbox Ally in 2026: Thoughts on the state of "Xbox Mode" on Windows PC, AutoSR tested, and what comes next for Xbox Helix
- Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition Switch 2 Update Adds "TressFX"
- Microsoft says it's going to 'fundamentally raise the bar' on driver quality, reliability and security across Windows
- I love my Steam Deck, but I hate managing its pitiful storage size for games — with this 2TB SSD, however, I won't have to manage it again for months
- Former Samsung boss predicts the memory crisis could be over in the second half of next year thanks to a 'surge' in Chinese capacity
- Don't buy a new gaming keyboard until you see this 60% tenkeyless with 1,000Hz polling — saving your desk from any more clutter
- Assassin's Creed: Black Flag star Matt Ryan says the term 'voice actor' is outdated: 'You see the performances in the eyes, it blows me away'
- Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Shows Off No-HUD Option
- 'It's a Clear Upgrade': Why 007 First Light Will Look and Play Best on PS5 Pro
- 'Every Detail Matters': Sony Drops New Promo for $900 PS5 Pro
2026-05-18 3 stories
- Advanced Shader Delivery banishes long loads and shader stutter on first time launch, but only for certain games and there are a number of other caveats too
- Acemagic Retro X5 review
- 'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much