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Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti graphics card
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti review (MSI Ventus 3X) A GPU with performance close to an RTX 5080 that's sadly set to be priced to oblivion.
A still from a YouTube video showing The Swedish Maker cutting a piece of wood with power tools while wearing a Meta Quest 3 VR headset.
YouTuber The Swedish Maker wears a Meta Quest 3 VR headset for his entire woodworking project and miraculously emerges with all fingers intact This could have gone so much worse.
LG UltraGear 45GX950A
LG's new 45-inch 5K2K uber OLED monitor goes into mass production and will land soon on a desk near you. For $2,000 Huge size, decent pixel density, OLED tech, what's not to like?

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A photo of an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor next to an Intel logo

I've tested Intel's new 200S Boost mode for its Arrow Lake chips and the verdict is simple: You should enable it immediately

By Nick Evanson published

Faster arrows In one game, I saw a performance increase of over 40%, which is just wild to see.

Faster arrows
An image of a Steam Deck showing two versions of an Oblivion gate from Oblivion

Oblivion Remastered is 'verified' for Steam Deck, but the original with mods is a far superior handheld experience

By Shaun Prescott published

hand hell If you're one of an increasing number of players who predominantly go handheld, stick with the OG.

hand hell
Framework 13 laptop on a dark grey background

Framework 13 AMD AI 300-series review

By Dave James published

Morals vs your wallet The finest Framework around.

Morals vs your wallet
The Velocity Micro Raptor ES40 and HP Omen 35L gaming PCs on a blue background with the PC Gamer recommended badge in the top right corner

Best gaming PCs in 2025: these are the rigs and brands I recommend today

By Dave James last updated

Perfect PC Everything you need to know about buying the best prebuilt gaming PC.

Perfect PC
AMD RX 6000-series GPU launch

AMD says it will be talking all things gaming and AI at Computex in May, and that could set the stage for the more affordable RX 9060 graphics cards

By Jess Kinghorn published

News Not throwing in the towel.

News
MIT stretchy material

MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible

By Jeremy Laird published

News Strong but stretchy, apparently.

News
An MSI RTX 5060 Ti on top of a PC case and with the rear backplate removed.

Thermal imaging seems to show there are 'weak point' hot spots in some RTX 50-series graphics cards

By Jacob Fox published

News But don't worry about your graphics card melting just yet

News
A screenshot of the PC version of Far Cry 6, using the game's photo mode

A graphical history of Far Cry: 17 years of huge maps, epic vistas, and fast food fighting fun

By Nick Evanson published

Far out, man Open-world mayhem at its best.

Far out, man
A QR code encoding Kuber Mehta's the backdooms game has seemingly emerged from a Doom 2016 demon portal. The Doom Slayer and a nearby demon look on, bemused.

Behold! A single QR code containing a miniaturized take on Doom: 'literally the entire game'

By Jess Kinghorn published

News Asking the question that never gets old.

News
The best microphones for gaming and streaming on a grey background

Best microphone for gaming in 2025: from streaming to podcast mics, these are my top picks

By Andy Edser last updated

Mouth Noises Make your voice heard with the best microphones for streaming and gaming.

Mouth Noises
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