Tag: hardware

Valve clarifies what’s required for a game to be Steam Machine and Steam Frame verified, but it just makes me worry about the Gabecube even more

Valve clarifies what’s required…

At this year’s GDC event in San Francisco, Valve gave a talk on its Steam hardware family (pdf warning),…
Microsoft spills the beans on its Xbox-PC hybrid at GDC while suggesting it’s still years away

Microsoft spills the beans…

Microsoft continued the rollout of its future Xbox plans at GDC today in a talk hosted by VP of…
Asus CFO Nick Wu thinks Apple’s MacBook Neo is ‘certainly a shock to the entire market’

Asus CFO Nick Wu…

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one a bit shocked by Apple using the worst memory crisis in recent…
Razer BlackShark V3 review

Razer BlackShark V3 review

There are many differences between Razer’s BlackShark V2 and the new V3 line of gaming headsets—from sparkling new drivers…
We just got our first proper look at GPD’s battery-optional Strix Halo handheld gaming PC and I’m still unconvinced

We just got our…

The GPD Win 5 is looking to be a strange device. An AMD Strix Halo-powered gaming handheld that lacks…
Intel announces Arrow Lake ‘Plus’ desktop chips with more cores and clocks for less cash—and IPC-boosting ‘BOT’ tool

Intel announces Arrow Lake…

Much rumoured, perhaps not necessarily all that anticipated, Intel’s refreshed Arrow Lake CPUs have finally arrived. We give you…
Nearly two-thirds of Brits surveyed about the UK’s new age verification laws think the changes aren’t effective, but even more support them being made in the first place

Nearly two-thirds of Brits…

It’s been one week since the UK government introduced its Online Safety Act, legislation that requires people to provide…
The first gaming benchmarks for AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme show memory bandwidth is hobbling the full potential the new handheld chip

The first gaming benchmarks…

At the start of 2025, during the annual CES event, AMD launched the successors to its popular Ryzen Z1…
Semiconductors left in Trump’s trade purgatory as new US tariffs on Taiwan set at 20%

Semiconductors left in Trump’s…

If you’re anyone other than President Donald Trump, there’s a good chance you’re sick of the word tariff. I…
The latest version of Intel’s XeSS 2 now lets other GPUs run its AI-based frame generation system, throwing RTX 30-series owners a Team Blue-shaped bone

The latest version of…

For what seems like a very long time now, the combination of the words ‘Intel’, ‘news’, and ‘good’ has…