Latest articles by Andy Edser
Casio has unleashed its AI Tribble with 'emotions like a living creature' on the US and UK, complete with a Mogwai-like warning that you can't get it too hot, too cold, or too wet
News Cute and cuddly, or downright insidious? You decide.
'It's all good, it's all good' says Mark Zuckerberg as his catastrophic live demo of Meta's new smart glasses goes horribly wrong: 'You spend years making technology and then the Wi-Fi on the day catches you'
News A comedy of errors.
Logitech has announced an affordable 8 Nm direct drive racing wheel setup with full TrueForce support, along with some fancy trick pedals I want to try for myself
News The more affordable end of the direct drive sim racing market is about to get interesting.
Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October—and it seems like there's no way for personal users to opt out
News Don't want it? Time to switch office suite providers, then.
I now know what my life has been missing and it's a set of rotary encoders sunk straight into the top of a mechanical-keebed Framework laptop, for some reason
News Look, we've all got our kinks and this is mine.
'I'm disappointed with what I see' says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, amid reports that China has banned some of the country's biggest tech companies from buying its AI chips
News Fits and starts, now a no-go?
This redditor has discovered a higher-specced engineering sample of the RTX 2080 Ti, with more shaders, ROPS, TMUs, and VRAM than the release version
News It's got the lot.
I don't want to give horror game devs any ideas but this chilling 'sphere o' mouths' lip-syncing robot is haunting my dreams and I want it to stop
News Nope.
Is Borderlands 4 the series at 'its most potent', or 'uninspired' and 'painfully dull'? The PC Gamer team is divided
LANDS APART Five members of the team weigh in with their thoughts so far.
I can think of few things more ridiculous than a tiny OLED screen slapped on the side of some DDR5 RAM, but here we are
News I look forward to physically shoving my head in my case to check my RAM speeds. The future!
I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game
News Still, a fix is a fix. Mostly.
'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'
News I'm not entirely sure this helps.
Europe's first exascale supercomputer is now up and running, using 24,000 Nvidia GH200 Superchips to perform more than one quintillion operations per second with nearly 1,000,000 terabytes of storage
News Yeah, but can it play... y'know what, I'm not even gonna go there.
Intel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch
News New face, same Comet Lake-era performance.
'Microsoft has become like an arsonist selling firefighting services to their victims' says US senator, referring it to the FTC for a cybersecurity flaw, though Microsoft says it has a plan
News "There is one company benefiting from this status quo: Microsoft itself."
'Even with a 9800X3D and a 5090 it runs like absolute buttcheeks': 2K Games posts Nvidia's Borderlands 4 optimised settings guide, but the community is already in open revolt
News 4x MFG and DLSS Balanced for 60 fps+ on an RTX 5080 at 1440p? Ouch.
Upgrading an RTX 4090 to 48 GB of VRAM is (slightly) easier than I thought, thanks to a custom PCB, some second-hand GDDR6X, and a leaked Nvidia BIOS
News Yet another episode of: "Andy learns things with you."
Oracle's $300 billion deal with OpenAI briefly knocked Elon Musk off the world's richest person spot, replaced instead by the company's head honcho, Larry Ellison
News Spare any change, guv?
This YouTuber added over an hour's worth of battery life to their Switch 2 with a pair of scissors and a weeb-themed 8,000 mAh pack
News To those who cut into brand new hardware, we salute you.
Borderlands 4 now has updated minimum system requirements for an eight-core 'or equivalent' CPU, which leaves six-core CPU owners none the wiser
News Poor phrasing, thread counts, or something else?
I bet Return of the Obra Dinn looks perfect on this open-source 75 Hz e-paper display kit—and it's compatible with a whole bunch of existing panels, too
News Can we realistically call this a gaming monitor, of sorts?
I've been testing Nvidia GeForce Now's RTX 5080 upgrade against an actual RTX 5080 and the two feel eerily close—although 4K streaming invokes the occasional wobble
Slayer Streaming Even with the odd glitch, I'll admit I've been seriously impressed.
The impossibly-cool-looking Pocket Scion is a 'biofeedback instrument' that connects directly to plants, bathing you in the electronic sounds of, err, nature
News I am the Lorax, and I bop to the trees.
