Tag: hardware

I found out the hard way that Linux is not a dad-friendly gaming OS, and maybe neither is the PC

I found out the…

Dave James, EICHardware (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been… troubleshooting Linux gaming issues and coming to terms with…
Johnny Silverhand’s bionic arm from Cyberpunk 2077 is now a real-life prosthetic

Johnny Silverhand’s bionic arm…

Xbox, CD Projekt Red and Limbitless Solutions have teamed up to bring Johnny Silverhand’s iconic Cyberpunk 2077 prosthetic to…
Noctua’s all-in-one liquid cooler has finally received a release window in 2026, but a few fans, cases, and mice have been pushed back in the latest roadmap

Noctua’s all-in-one liquid cooler…

Noctua has some interesting products in the pipeline. Collaborations with other brands, slapping its fans and iconic colourway onto…
Valve applies to use ‘Steam Frame’ as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues

Valve applies to use…

Remember Fremont, that supposed SteamOS device from Valve that popped up in Geekbench’s CPU results and according to some…
The European Commission wants to push Google off its web search throne with a data sharing proposal

The European Commission wants…

Odds are that you didn’t just stumble across this story via the PC Gamer homepage—it’s way more likely that…
MSI says its refreshed Raider gaming laptops have been designed to combat the one thing I hate most about portable PCs: fan noise

MSI says its refreshed…

It’s not often that I write about a refresh of a vendor’s gaming laptop portfolio, and it’s simply because…
Acer shows off the very first Intel Panther Lake laptop with what’s claimed to be the world’s biggest haptic touchpad

Acer shows off the…

Give it up, everyone, for the first laptop based on Intel’s portentous Panther Lake CPU, the Acer Swift 16…
Grovemade desk review

Grovemade desk review

I didn’t expect the sparkle to last quite so long with this desk, but it has. I’m not talking…
Intel spent so much cash on research and development last year that it outspent Nvidia by 28% and AMD by a whopping 156%

Intel spent so much…

It should come as no surprise that the biggest chip companies in the world spend billions of dollars every…
Gigabyte have finally released its RTX 5090 external GPU—but it’s calling it an ‘AI box’

Gigabyte have finally released…

I enjoyed the highs and lows of the gaming laptop life for more than ten years—until the recovery partition…