Latest articles by Jacob Fox
This humanoid robot is playing ping pong better than most amateur players I've seen
News It's even balancing like a human. When do we move into uncanny valley?
Hyte says all Thicc Q80 Trio users should 'remove the cooler from their system immediately' and get a refund after internal fault found
News The 'raid boss of liquid coolers' has been slain.
'This is an Xbox', Microsoft claims over an image of a car that will soon offer cloud game streaming
News Seems like the logical next step.
Get those Steam Decks and Legion Go S handhelds updated because Valve's just released a metric ton of fixes in the latest client
News How long has Valve been sitting on these?
Someone hacked AI into Animal Crossing to give villagers even more to gossip about, including Tom Nook's evil empire and Trump
News Tom Nook becomes enemy no.1 for the AI-powered villagers. Understandable.
One lucky Redditor has bagged a second-hand $8,000 RTX 3080 Ti Threadripper PC for a mere $32
News And I'm not mad about it. Nope, not one bit.
Eye scans and digital IDs to stop online bots in games: It's not quite as Orwellian as you might think but proof-of-human isn't problem-free
Machine wars Iris scans and face scans? Or do we need a "new class of solutions"?
If Microsoft wins this UK court case it might spell the end of second-hand Windows licenses
News Microsoft's defence is to do with "non-program" parts of the OS.
Intel reshuffle puts engineering and 'a new custom silicon business' in the spotlight but also ends a 30-year career at Intel for Product CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus
News Who knows what Intel will look like after it all plays out.
The latest AMD Adrenalin driver lets you turn FSR 4 on in a bunch more games but OptiScaler might still come in handy for older titles
News More global driver toggles, let's go.
A week after removing special status from two Korean memory manufacturers to use US tech in China, the US government is thinking about letting them go for it again, with a caveat
News Unpredictable seems to be the modus operandi, here.
Best capture cards for PC gaming in 2025: whether it's streaming, recording, 1080p or the big 4K, these cards have you covered
Broadcast Show off your greatest gaming moments with the best capture cards.
Linux almost turned my Gamescom trip into a catastrophic disaster, but a Windows USB came to my rescue
Play it safe User error, you say?
I am officially elderly because the new best budget 1440p monitor is better than my own, and I was very proud of it once upon a time
How many Hz? I must have missed the refresh rate memo. And the next one. And the one after that.
The many-chambered PC cases at Gamescom really showed up my old banger of a chassis
News I can't start a new build just to use a new case... right?
Glorious is bringing an actually customisable gaming keyboard to the 'boring entry-level market'
News Click clack. Sorry, I mean, thck thck. Membrane, innit.
I got my hands on Nvidia GeForce Now's new RTX 5080 upgrade and I couldn't tell the games weren't running locally, but 4K with frame gen was a little laggy
News I was impressed with the low latency for competitive shooters.
Forget OLED, it was a 610 Hz TN gaming monitor that stole my heart over Gamescom week
News Although with OLEDs getting much faster, maybe the older panel tech has less to offer.
I got a look at the first AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme handheld, and no, that's not an ROG Ally you're looking at, it's the MSI Claw A8
News Jutty, I like it.
'This is the Ally 2, 100%': Asus says the ROG Xbox Ally is a bona fide successor to the first two handhelds, but the originals will still get new Xbox features
News Out with the old, in with the new.
I just got my hands on the ROG Xbox Ally and can confirm the sheer comfort is worth that peculiar grip design
News And the whole Windows lite thing seems alright, too.
Call that ideal GPU physique? Nah, the 800 W 30th anniversary Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 is ideal GPU physique
News Is this a sleeper GPU, then? Retro but hella powerful.
