Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Intel's Big Battlemage Arc Pro B70 GPU benchmarked in games, ends up bang-on Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB performance
News So much silicon for such modest performance.
MSI MPG 322UR X24 gaming monitor review
Score: 92% The art of QD-OLED very nearly perfected.
SATA drives are still going strong as Kingston announces it has shipped 100 million A400 SSDs
News Perfect for when you're feeling precious about PCIe lanes...
Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it
News 'Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.'
Microsoft exec. confirms Windows 11 is just as full of old code as you suspected: 'We were thinking flying cars and moon stations by the year 2026, not Win32'
News "Did anyone in the '90s expect Win32 to still be a first-class API surface in the year 2026? And I think I can safely answer, no."
'In China we have now dropped to zero': CEO Jensen Huang bemoans Nvidia's market share and calls for US to export AI 'like crazy'
News Restricting sales of GPUs to China has 'backfired.'
Alienware AW2726DM gaming monitor review
Score: 85% Alienware's surprisingly affordable, but still pretty excellent, QD-OLED gaming monitor.
Raspberry Pi-based homebrew dongle enables full wireless Sony DualSense controller functionality on the PC including haptics
News With better latency than a generic Bluetooth dongle, too?
'Where the goblins came from': OpenAI's strange but not entirely surprising story of little critters infesting ChatGPT's output
News 'Goblins, gremlins, and other creatures...'
Apple has reportedly 'given up' on the Vision Pro headset and that doesn't seem like a good thing for VR, generally
News No more Metaverse, Vision Pro apparently dead, VR just can't get a break... roll on Steam Frame.
Microsoft announces Shader Model 6.10 preview, bringing neural rendering into the mainstream and just maybe making the games industry a bit less reliant on Nvidia
News Max out your GPU's matrix hardware without paying fealty to Nvidia.
Keychron unleashes big, eminently bashable $65 mechanical single-key keyboard with 8K polling for ultra-low latency tantrums
News Fully mechanical stress relief...
Samsung's 'world's first' 6K 32-inch gaming monitor goes on sale for 1,499 euros
News Expect a similar dollar price.
Valve is 'hard at work' on the Steam Deck 2, but over four years after the OG Deck there's still no indication of a launch date
News Valve wants the next Steam Deck to be a really major upgrade.
'I know a bubble when I see one': US senator's grave warning about the AI industry
News Senator Warren fears another '2008-style financial crisis'.
Is smellovision the future of VR gaming?: 'Projectile vomiting as your headset psychically projects the scent of yeast-infected rotting fish from the pregnant fox OC on the other side of the room'
News Be very careful what you ask for...
Former head of FSR development at AMD posts 'big trouble' meme when asked why the company won't release the INT8 version of FSR 4 for older GPUs
News The guy that previously lead development of FSR 4 thinks AMD should release it for older GPU owners.
Microsoft's Xbox 'Helix' chip is reportedly the basis of next-gen consoles made by Asus and MSI, but you won't be able to buy it separately
News Probably not the budget PC gaming saviour we've been hoping for.
TSMC reportedly plots ultra-advanced sub-1 nm chips with 'trial' production starting in 2029 [Updated]
News Meanwhile, TSMC's A14 node is supposedly go for 2028.
The best gaming monitors in Australia for 2026: the pixel-perfect panels I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors offer the perfect mix of resolution, refresh rate, and size to immerse you in your favorite gaming worlds.
Gigabyte GO27Q24G gaming monitor review
Score: 75% This cheaper WOLED gaming monitor comes at an image quality cost.
Gigabyte MO27Q28GR gaming monitor review
Score: 90% This is surely the sweet spot for 1440p OLED gaming.
Valve rumoured to be working on 'SteamGPT' AI bot for support and anti-cheat functions
News It definitely won't be anything like GlaDOS...
