Latest articles by James Bentley
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.
4K gaming monitor prices are now mighty reasonable and this $200 MSI would be my choice of the lot
Deal It even has a neat dual mode to swap between 1080p/288 Hz and 4K/144 Hz.
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?
There's only one budget wireless hall effect controller I'd recommend right now, and my current favorite is only $30
Deal It even comes with a charging stand.
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.
The Amazon Big Spring Sale may be on but it's actually Newegg offering the best OLED gaming monitor deal right now
Deal That's a saving of $150.
Amazon US sold nearly half the number of CPUs it did this time last year
News That's the memory crisis for you…
The co-founder of a major datacenter company has been charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in AI chips to China
News Supermicro has put them on administrative leave with another employee also charged, and a third has been fired.
Crimson Desert will not boot on Intel Arc graphics cards and users are being encouraged to refund the game
News We were greeted by a pop-up saying our hardware is not supported when we tried.
Gnome gets Nvidia performance boost, offering 'smoother window animations and general desktop fluidity' for Linux gamers
News That will hopefully continue to bridge the gap.
The memory crisis certainly isn't ending soon, as Micron confirm 'demand significantly in excess of our available supply for the foreseeable future'
News It is reportedly "working to address the unprecedented gap between supply and demand".
Fake Pudgy Penguins phishing page 'plays dead' when it thinks it's being probed to avoid detection
News The Web3 game launched just last month.
Capcom and Ubisoft developers surprised by DLSS 5 announcement: "We found out at the same time as the public"
News DLSS 5 is proving to be quite contentious.
