Latest articles by Nick Evanson
UK government says Нет to British companies selling game controllers to Russia, to combat the use of drone attacks
News "Gaming consoles will no longer be repurposed to kill in Ukraine."
There's a 25-year-old piece of PC hardware that's still being used in even the most powerful gaming PCs sold today. Happy birthday to USB 2.0
news And it's not the only ancient bit of PC tech that's still inside your gaming rig. Well, sort of.
This odd but surprisingly well-priced mini ITX motherboard from Minisforum packs an embedded AMD X3D processor
News Its specs are far from perfect, but that price tag is very tempting.
Microsoft Recall finally launches for AI PC users, along with some other new features, almost one year after Copilot+ was announced
News If you don't have a Copilot+ PC, then no new stuff for you, which is a shame, as the improved search feature does look good.
Best external hard drives in 2025: the storage media I'd take on my own gaming adventures
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.
I've tested Intel's new 200S Boost mode for its Arrow Lake chips and the verdict is simple: You should enable it immediately
Faster arrows In one game, I saw a performance increase of over 40%, which is just wild to see.
A graphical history of Far Cry: 17 years of huge maps, epic vistas, and fast food fighting fun
Far out, man Open-world mayhem at its best.
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti launch day: Where to buy the new mainstream GeForce RTX 50-series graphics card, including all those at MSRP
RTX 5060 Ti deals US shoppers might want to wait (or weep), but at least UK shoppers can rejoice a little.
As games become ever more multithreaded, Intel's hybrid CPU design might start to lag behind AMD's simpler but more effective architecture
Core concerns E-cores and the loss of hyperthreading aren't helping Intel win any future gaming crowns.
App promising a universal shopping experience automated with AI actually used a small army of human workers in the Philippines and Romania instead
news The power of a button or in this instance, several hundred people pressing other buttons.
The first leaked GPU specs for AMD's RX 9060 XT appear and it's pretty much an RX 9070 XT chopped in two
News Named and specced to meet Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti head-on.
MSI will switch to AMD chips for its high-end Claw handheld PC if the rumour mill is to be believed
News The current version uses an Intel Lunar Lake chip, which is potent but pricey.
Microsoft tweaks Edge to give it "significant performance improvements" though you're only getting up to 9% more oomph
News While Chrome be all "you're getting performance improvements?"
Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
Microsoft's head of AI wants to create an artificial overly-attached companion for us all: 'It will have its own name, its own style. It will adapt to you. It may also have its own visual appearance and expressions'
News 'Copilot in the workplace, Copilot at home is the future of the company.'
The Last of Us Part 2 proves that 8 GB of VRAM can be enough, even at 4K with maximum settings, so why aren't more games using the same clever asset-streaming trick?
Magic 8 ball Any performance issues you have in TLOU2 aren't down to a lack of GPU memory
Microsoft's 100% AI-generated Quake 2 made us nauseous but John Carmack, the game's OG coder, is into it: 'What? This is impressive research work!'
News The research, folks, the research. Absolutely not the frame rate. I hope.
Patent document shows AMD started researching the use of neural networks in ray-traced rendering at least two years ago
News Just because it's patented doesn't mean it'll ever be used but you never know.
Nvidia hasn't announced them yet but laptop vendors confirm that RTX 5050 and 5060 GPUs are almost here, and they'll both have 8 GB of VRAM
News A power-efficient RTX 5050 laptop could be the perfect entry-level gaming laptop.
With a quick BIOS flash and a spot of overclocking, one modder has got his RX 9070 to outperform the normally faster RX 9070 XT
News It's the Vega 56 days all over again.
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered isn't perfect on PC but it's a million times better than Part 1
Fungal FPS Wave goodbye to VRAM and shader compilation problems but say hello to a major CPU workout.
The first Radeon was superior to Nvidia's GeForce2 in almost every way but it set the tone for how AMD would fair against the jolly green giant for the next 25 years
Happy birthday Radeon Futureproof features mean squat here and now.
AMD goes all-in on being a data centre designer by purchasing ZT Systems for $4.9 billion
News That's a lot of money but it's peanuts compared to how much cash AMD could rake in via AI.
