Latest articles by James Bentley
'Windows is evolving into an agentic OS' says Windows president in what I can only assume is a bid to make me swap to Linux
News Making the move is looking more and more tempting.
Secretlab's Black Friday sale is now live, and it's one of the best ways to get a gaming chair or desk upgrade for cheap this year
Deal Almost $100 off our favorite gaming chair is pretty solid.
The Steam Frame's vision is only black and white and that could be a real miss
One step back Accurate passthrough is a boon for everyday VR use.
Someone has to challenge Meta for the VR throne and I really hope Valve has the guts to with its new Steam Frame
On a Quest Will Meta run out of steam?
Amazon's own-brand condenser microphone blew us away this year, and it's now just $20 in the early Black Friday sales
Deal Sounds good.
Creative is on an absolute tear right now with its value gaming speakers, hogging fully half our top recommendations
Enter stage left Though the overall spot remains unchanged.
Best PC speakers in 2025: From 2.1 systems to bookshelf bangers, these are the best gaming PC speakers
Volume up Treat yourself to an awesome audio experience with the best PC speakers.
Intel is suing an ex-employee of 11 years alleging the engineer downloaded nearly 18,000 files, many of which being top secret or confidential
News Intel's intel has apparently been stolen.
A few Redditors faked the recent Ryzen 7 9700X3D benchmark leaks and explain 'why you can't trust online bench databases'
News Playing X3DChess.
At a company sports day, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang acknowledges 'without TSMC, there is no Nvidia today' and says thank you to the 'pride of the world' company
News Nvidia will want to keep a strong bond with the Taiwanese manufacturer.
One techie has built a camera out of an old Logitech gaming mouse, and it's inspired by the Game Boy Camera
News It even has multiple shot types.
Windows 'really does suck for some people': Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer explains how he would fix the popular OS
News "I think we've crossed the line over to where the operating system feels like a sales channel for all their other properties."
If you think 2025 couldn't get worse, Collins Dictionary awards 'vibe coding' the word of the year
News And I'm here to say 'Um, actually'.
OpenAI's Sam Altman is not looking for government rescue if things go bad: 'Taxpayers should not bail out companies that make bad business decisions'
News That doesn't mean the US government won't help in other ways.
Great, now even malware is using LLMs to rewrite its code, says Google, as it documents new phase of 'AI abuse'
News I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
This 1080p 100 Hz gaming monitor for $70 would make for a rock solid second screen on a budget
Deal The color is quite pretty, too.
Ex Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer says 'SD cards are lame!' and opts to rescue a 200 lb 14-inch magnetic disc drive from the '80s with just 622 MB of storage
News Just listen to that noise.
Japan's biggest publishing house and one of the world's largest manga producers takes aim at OpenAI, accusing it of 'trampling on the dignity of artists'
News Copyright is pretty big to a major publisher, in case you can't tell.
'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'
News The Internet Archive has archived one trillion webpages since its inception.
Ayaneo is teasing a 'mobile phone truly made for gamers' and I hope it keeps its promises
News Do I need a gaming phone? No. Do I want one? Maybe.
Samsung and other memory manufacturers reportedly leave DDR5 buyers hanging as prices expected to surge 30–50% every quarter from the end of 2025 through the first half of 2026
News The biggest rise in recent memory.
It looks like a NUC, it smells like a NUC, but this is not a NUC: Asus ditches the Intel naming for new AMD-powered mini PC, but restricts its GPU choice
News You can get an AMD one with an RTX 5060 or 5070, while the Intel NUCs top out with an RTX 5080.
The MSI Claw handhelds are the first non-Xbox devices to get the Windows Full Screen Experience, with more said to arrive 'in the coming months'
News Getting all your games in one place is kinda neat.
