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The bloated tyranny of two-factor authentication is ruining my online existence. There has to be a better way
Who am I? Why won't you remember me?!
Asus TUF A14 gaming laptop review
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 | Nvidia RTX 4060 (100 W) | 16 GB LPDDR5x-7500 | 1 TB SSD | $1499 | £1479
Valve says its 'not really fair to your customers' to create yearly iterations of something like the Steam Deck, instead it's waiting 'for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life'
News Valve may not be creating yearly iterations of the Steam Deck, but it's having to give the same answer every year.
AMD's spoiling Intel's Arrow Lake party with Ryzen 9000-series price cuts and the promise of 'next-gen gaming' X3D chips arriving November 7
Kicking a lump of silicon while it's down.
There's a future where you and your graphics card decide what a game looks like, not the developers
Gen-Hsun? The current stream of gen-AI game videos teases a future where the rendering power of your GPU barely matters, it's the built-in AI chops which matter.
After 20 years in the business and too many Prime Days to mention these are my favorite Big Deal Days PC gaming deals
Deals I'm picking my absolute favorite Prime Day deals from across Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, Walmart, B&H and the rest.
1440p is the absolute gaming sweet spot [fight me] and this $150 Prime Day gaming monitor deal is great value, but for just $6.77 more another cheap screen has my heart
Deals No Prime membership required to bag this 1440p Acer Nitro monitor for a great price, but the ASRock is far brighter.
Prime members can bag the cheapest 34-inch LG ultrawide I've ever seen. The damned thing's just $237 right now
Deals If you're in Jeff's Amazon gang you've got dibs on a mighty fine wide-boi gaming monitor.
With its healthy price drop, this is the affordable 4K OLED gaming monitor I'd buy this Prime Day
Deals The MSI MAG 321UP has pared back some unnecessary specs and features to leave a stunning 32-inch 4K OLED gaming panel that's just $760.
I reckon Alienware has already dropped the best October Prime Day gaming PC deal with this inexplicably cheap RTX 4070 Ti Super rig
Deals Alienware has slashed the price of its Aurora R16 even more over the weekend, just in time for the Big Deal Days this week.
The latest Nvidia RTX 5090 specs rumour makes the ol' RTX 4090 look like a goddam clown card
news Who's going to buy a new GPU for the rest of the year with these things looming large?
The holy THOCK of Awekeys' Full Metal Keycaps cannot make up for the fact that I'm a terrible typist
Fully🤘Metal They're all metal, all the time. But the blank set has frustrated me, and the premium price is hard to swallow despite their utterly premium feel.
Dezctop Bifrost Elite 160 gaming desk review
Stay Frosty A sturdy standing desk, but it's got a fight on its hands trying to topple Secretlab's mighty Magnus.
Looks like Intel has quietly killed the 20A process, announcing that no Arrow Lake chip will use its first Angstron Era node
news The Intel 20A process seems like it's going to go down in history as purely a test platform for backside power and GAAFET.
Possibly one of the cutest and definitely the cheapest way to bag an RTX 4070 GPU this Labor Day
Deals A heavy splash of RGB and a powder pink shroud... I'd say that's worth another 10% higher frame rate, right?
Labor Day PC gaming deals 2024: the best bargains available today
Deals Treat yourself this Labor Day with some great savings on gaming monitors, laptops, and the latest PC hardware.
No other laptop maker would let me cannibalise the best bit of its new machine the way Framework does and that's a damned shame
🦄 The new Framework laptop display is exactly why I love its products.
This Nvidia GPU paired with one of the best AMD Zen 4 CPUs feels like we're finally getting the sub-$1,000 gaming PCs we deserve
Deals With RTX 4060 Ti and Ryzen 7 7700 silicon inside, this is peak $1,000 PC.
Framework 13 (Intel Core Ultra Series 1) laptop review
Step back Lots of improvements, but fundamentally a weaker proposition than the Ryzen mainboard.
New SteamOS beta hints at an imminent general install with ROG Ally support added
news "Added support for extra ROG Ally keys" is music to my ears.
I can't decide which of these $2,000 RTX 4080 Super gaming PCs I'd rather pick *checks feed* oh wait, yeah it'll be the AMD one
Deals The fact that an RTX 4080 Super gaming PC for under $2,000 isn't an isolated incident is pleasing.
How to add DLSS and Frame Generation to Starfield
Upmarket upscaling As well as whether you should...
The 11 Prime Day PC gaming deals that have been the most popular with you fine PC Gamer readers
Deals Crunching the numbers and parsing the data, we've finally figured out what it is you lot like: a lot of headsets, 4K monitors, and gaming chairs. And, of course, the best gaming laptop.
