Latest articles by James Bentley
Even the French government is switching to Linux now in a bid for 'digital sovereignty'
News This is an attempt to "reduce the state's extra-European digital dependencies."
Keychron has shared the source files for all its keyboard and mice meaning you could almost build an entire kit from scratch
News It even offers a license to sell homemade accessories you make.
Microsoft is removing Copilot branding from Photos, Notepad, and more after promising to reduce 'unnecessary Copilot entry points'
News It's better than nothing, I suppose.
Framework: 'There is a very real scenario in which personal computing as we know it is dead'
News The memory crisis may have a very lasting impact on the PC hardware industry.
Best wireless gaming mouse in 2026: These are the cordless rodents we love getting our mitts on
Unbound Let go of the tethers and embrace the freedom of living life cable-free.
Microsoft claims WireGuard and Veracrypt account termination was merely due to not verifying an email: 'Not everything is a conspiracy, sometimes it's literally paperwork'
News "Not every 'WTF micro$oft' moment is a slam dunk."
A renowned New York Times investigative reporter thinks British cryptographer is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, said cryptographer says no
News We may never truly know who it is.
US victims lost nearly $21 billion to cybercrime last year says FBI with crypto and AI 'complaints among the costliest'
News A good reason to be even more sceptical of everything you see online.
Where does your PC live? There is obviously one correct answer, can you pick it out?
Poll Don't hide your gaming light under a bushel. Or a desk.
After a Redditor said there's a 'zero percent chance' of porting macOS to a Wii, one developer went and did it anyway
News The things that are possible with spite.
Corsair announces new Frame cases, and one comes with a classy wood finish
News RGB or wood? Which way, modern PC gamer?
LG has unveiled the 'world's first 39-inch 5K2K curved OLED' gaming monitor, and it's about as expensive as you think it would be
News The PC market might be in a bad spot, but monitors are still looking mighty neat.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite reviews are in, but these second-gen Windows-on-Arm chips still aren't grabbing me as a PC gamer
news Though I'm excited to actually test it out myself.
Samsung is cashing in on the memory crisis, as it estimates profits of over 8 times this period last year
news "Congrats", I say begrudgingly.
AMD's senior director of AI thinks 'Claude has regressed' and that it 'cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering'
news This is reportedly since changes made in February.
Crimson Desert has received FSR SDK 2.2 support, offering better upscaling and frame generation for AMD cards
News Time for a second playthrough? It'll only take you 600 hours.
Someone has made a tool to add achievements to non-Steam games on Linux, which feels like a niche in a niche
News How much effort would you put in for some extra achievements?
EasySMX D05 review
Score: 87% You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Microsoft's Project Helix sounds like it could be better for gamers than the Series X but in a way that is worse for Xbox
Ex-Xbox Is 'anywhere' really where you want to play Xbox?
EasySMX D10 controller review
Score: 80% A feature-rich budget TMR controller that only sometimes feels like a compromise.
'Cripple their sales, tank their stock price. Stop collaborating with them as developers': New Blood CEO on fighting against DLSS 5
News DLSS 5 has unleashed a fiery debate among game developers.
Amazon US sold nearly half the number of CPUs it did this time last year
News That's the memory crisis for you…
