Latest articles by Andy Edser
Some gamers are going full conspiracy theory over Pragmata's path tracing vs ray tracing debate, so I've donned my tin foil hat and taken a look
News Yes, path tracing looks better than ray tracing. No, I don't think that's a plot.
'We have no choice but to impose a severe punishment': Ex Samsung researcher sentenced to 7 years in prison for leaking DRAM tech to a Chinese competitor
News The semiconductor process tech was reportedly deemed 'a core national technology' of South Korea.
Deezer says it's being bombarded by 'nearly 75,000' AI-generated tunes every day, and that 97% of survey respondents can't tell the difference between human-made and AI music
News Robot music is no longer beeps and boops.
The makers of Playdate, the console-with-a-crank, will no longer accept games created with generative AI
News 'There are lots of people in the world who are extremely eager and excited to create beautiful music, art, and words for your Playdate creation.'
Backpack-friendly and ready to rock, this little 14-inch OLED RTX 5060 Asus machine is my kind of gaming laptop
Deal Come to me, delicious OLED.
Anthropic had a 'productive and constructive' meeting with White House officials after the preview release of its new cybersecurity-challenging AI model
News Best friends again?
Gigabyte describes its new PSU range as a 'Hardware Guardian', protecting your graphics card from melting and presumably fighting crime in its spare time
News To the Volt-mobile!
This AMD-powered, Linux-running mini PC looks like a Steam Machine disguised as a vinyl record player, without the fancy controller
News A mixing console?
Report claims the global CPU shortage is 'more acute for processors than memory' as industry waits for Intel's 18A chips to plug the gap
News Yes, it's caused by AI demand. What else?
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB review (Asus Prime)
Score: 63% Yes, it's cheap—but there's still a cost.
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB review (Palit Dual)
Score: 73% A punchy little performer, but 8 GB of VRAM comes with caveats.
Forget the dual-mode, I want this 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with a mega discount because it looks absolutely lush
Deals It's the perfect size, too.
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.
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.
These are the only RTX 5060 gaming laptops worth a damn right now, and I'd 100% be buying the OLED one
Deal One stand out candidate, but three great machines regardless.
Minecraft creator Notch says 'DLSS fundamentally makes no sense', but the X comments say 'um, actually'
News Hey, we're all learning. All the time.
Two high-rated motherboard security vulnerabilities have been identified in Gigabyte Control Center, so come update your software along with me
News Time for a spring clean.
Dell XPS 14 laptop with a Panther Lake chip manages a staggering 43-hour+ battery life result, thrashing the latest MacBook Air
News MacBook in the mud.
512,000 lines of Claude Code's own CLI source code have leaked due to 'human error', but the company says 'no sensitive customer data or credentials' were exposed
News I'd imagine it'll still be keeping some coders busy over the weekend.
To the surprise of no one, running a PC without system RAM is not the solution to the memory crisis—but hey, you can always force Snake to run in the BIOS
News We try these things not because they are easy, etc etc.
The latest Nvidia App beta update adds DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation support and an intriguing Auto Shader Compilation feature to the green team suite
News More frames, dynamically.
The new Crimson Desert patches are grand and all, but the Ray Reconstruction performance and lighting options are still all kind of b0rked on my machine
News I guess it's going to take a while to fix, but Crimson Desert's visuals have some... issues left to resolve, at least for me.
I've rounded up the 5 cheapest SSDs (and an external wildcard) I'd buy with my own money for world backup day
Deal It's a slim crop, but a good one.
