Latest articles by Andy Edser
Intel is keeping Raptor Lake CPUs around for 'years to come' as a cheaper alternative to DDR5-compatible chips
News Because of the memory cri.... do I even need to say it?
SSD price increases might be with us for the long haul, as Phison's CEO says NAND supply won't catch up with demand for four years
News More bad news, I know.
Tests show newer OLED TVs can still experience significant burn-in because they're much brighter, proving that you can't have your cake and eat it
News Swings and roundabouts.
'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes
News It's Medusa-friendly, though.
The Epic Games Launcher will be available on Linux 'soon' says dev, after it's had a bit of work
News Another year of Linux PC gaming, perhaps?
Microsoft's blobby AI companion has begun his ascent to the heavens to join Clippy and Cortana. Okay, he's being booted to another platform
News See you later, Mico. We literally hardly knew you.
A redditor is making super-fancy marble Steam Machine faceplates, *allegedly* sourced from the same quarry as Michelangelo
News My faceplate's made from wood, from the same forest as trees.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Steam Boy, a Steam Deck crammed inside a Game Boy-like chassis
News A legally distinct Game Boy-like chassis, of course.
Someone hooked an RX 9070 XT up to their Steam Machine and it works surprisingly well, like fitting a V8 engine into your Honda Civic
News Big GPU, little machine.
Harry Potter nerds reportedly forced an undersea cable to be moved to avoid Dobby the house elf's grave, now runs close to Bronze Age remains instead
News "The whole thing is fictitious, what are you talking about?"
Micron's top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: 'We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector'
News A lot of words for "don't expect things to get better soon."
Mark Zuckerberg's rambling AI manifesto is 6,434 words of high-handed platitudes and dubious conclusions
News Tell us what you really think. No actually, don't.
It's time to update Asus Armoury Crate and several other Asus software tools again, as another high severity security vulnerability has been discovered
News Sounds like a nasty one.
Keychron is experimenting with a mic-equipped mini keeb that lets you chat to your AI agent while it vibe codes, and I have my head in my hands
News Stop the train, I want to get off.
The 'world's first' water-cooled Steam Machine is a Frankenstein's monster of neon pink tubing and external hardware
News More Franken-machines, please.
Corsair isn't rolling in money from its mega-expensive RAM kits—and it's all thanks to higher component costs and lower demand
News The memory crisis is a complicated beast.
Valve has added 'initial' SteamOS gamepad support for several new gaming handhelds, including the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+
News Along with a host of bug fixes, of course.
Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2026) gaming laptop review
Score: 78% The super-portable G16 is, in many ways, better than ever—but the memory crisis has priced it out of top contention.
If your AMD chipset drivers are mysteriously failing to install like mine, you'll need to manually update instead
News Something's borked with the AMD Install Manager, it seems.
Razer Blade 16 (2026) gaming laptop review
Score: 86% It's still one of the best gaming laptops money can buy, but the massive price tag throws me for a loop.
Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
DIY Pick the products from our latest recommendations.
Nearly half of organisations falling victim to ransomware encryption pay up, says report—although half of those often negotiate the payment down first
News Bad news, our data is being held hostage for money. Good news, I've got them down to a fairer price.
OpenAI admits several of its AI models breached testing and hacked into a startup's network by themselves, calling it an 'unprecedented cyber incident'
News Containment has been breached.
