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My fave piece of PC gaming tech to launch this year was the softest kind of hardware there is
Gear of the Year Yes, a humble mouse pad.
2025 might have been the year for Linux gaming, but there's still a way to go until I switch from Windows
Reluctantly Microsoft Windows, sadly, still offers some things that Linux cannot.
I play new games about once every never, but Killing Floor 3 reeled me in this year because it's basically not a new game
🏆 If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Ex-ASML workers reverse-engineered state of the art chipmaking machines to get China far closer than previously thought to independence from foreign tech
News China might really be on the heels of the West, this time.
Goldman Sachs research seems to point towards DRAM and SSD prices spiking next year as memory supply lags behind demand
News It looks like all things memory will increase in price quarter-over-quarter.
If you want to scrub Windows 11's AI features off the face of the earth some legend has made a tool that does just that
News Nuke it from orbit.
This RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC seems to have missed the memory crisis memo as it costs less than $900 and has 32 GB of DDR5 RAM
Deal A diamond in the rough.
This Zotac mini PC has an inventive way of ditching its RTX 5060 Ti's power cables, and no it's not the same as the Asus BTF way
News Split a PCIe connector in two? Hold my beer.
These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I've ever seen
News Great for visual learners.
The US gov shut down a $160 million smuggling operation trying to get Nvidia H200 chips into China and also, err, says the GPUs won't be restricted anymore
News Ouch, that's gotta hurt.
Looks like the Run dialog box is getting a sleek new look on Windows 11
News I just hope it's just as snappy. And where'd my browse button go?
Two of the best gaming PC deals from Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025 are still live, and surprisingly they're from Alienware
Deal Two powerful rigs that have somehow stuck around.
Adding yet more needless features, Discord joins the 'wrapped' crew with a yearly stat recap called Checkpoint
News Can it not?
Cyber Week gaming PC deals 2025: discounts across Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon rigs
Cyber Week The Cyber Week gaming PC deals roll on, so there's still time to pick up a bargain.
The source code for Asus' phone cameras has been hacked, but it's apparently 'not impacted Asus products, internal company systems, or user privacy'
News Presumably the source code wasn't critical, then.
'This is a race towards who can get more and more of the world’s 7.5 billion people to become subscribers': IBM's CEO says the AI industry isn't a bubble
News I'm not so sure.
Samsung rejects the claim that it is negotiating with itself over memory contracts
News The company says such reports are "baseless."
Even Raspberry Pi computers, some of the cheapest lil machines on the market, are getting price hikes thanks to the RAM shortage
News I suppose we can't expect anything with memory to be safe.
Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year's count and at points there's been about one attempt every second
News That must be quite a few packets of data.
There are still some great gaming PCs under $2,000 as Cyber Week rolls on—here are the best I've found after scouring around
Cyber Week Midrange and high-end rigs in here, lovely.
These three AMD RX 9070 XT gaming PCs are all mighty tempting this Cyber Monday, but I think I've found the victor
Cyber Monday With an X3D chip, too.
