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The SteelSeries QcK Performance series has reignited my excitement over the simple pleasure of a quality mouse pad… and trying to click skulls with pinpoint accuracy
Premium glide Time to party like it's 2012 and pretend I don't have an old man's reaction time.
AMD Radeon RX 9070-series launch day live: The promise of a ton of reference priced stock is a tantalising one but likely won't last long
Live! AMD's impressive new cards are out today, and have had since January to shore up stock in the channel, and we'll be keeping an eye on how that pans out.
Looks like we won't be seeing Western Digital SSDs in our gaming PCs as the company hands the reins back over to SanDisk
News The reins have officially been handed over to SanDisk.
Nvidia RTX 5070 launch day live: Heaps of non-MSRP cards and a handful of MSRP ones released today, but surprise surprise, stocks are low
Live I'm keeping this page up-to-date with all the latest RTX 5070 listings and prices in the US and UK.
The Logitech G PowerPlay charging mouse pad was my baby and now there's a new version with a lower MSRP, thinner mat, and larger charging area
News Looks like more of a sidegrade.
I was wrong, the Logitech G PowerPlay 2 charging mouse pad isn't smaller than the first one, it's just the official dimensions were listed incorrectly since 2021
News Lessons all around, I guess.
Amidst a barren GPU market and talk of 'supply constraints', Nvidia's end-of-year earnings call gives a glimmer of hope for RTX 50-series graphics card stocks this quarter
News Tentatively hopeful.
Maingear CEO says the company has had 'zero GPUs with missing ROPs', so maybe Nvidia's talk of a rare 'early production build' problem isn't just handwaving
News A rare issue is better than a prevalent one, but no issue at all would be better.
GPU manufacturer Yeston's done the unthinkable by dunking its new 'Atlantis' RX 9070 XT graphics card in the ocean
News Keep 👏 your 👏 GPUs 👏 dry.
Your next chance to secure an RTX 50-series graphics card at launch could be a 16 GB variant of the RTX 5060 Ti next month
News That's the latest rumour, though will Nvidia stick to plan when the 9070-series launches?
RTX 50-series black screen issues should finally be fixed this week in an official Nvidia driver update
News VBIOS fixes are now here, too, so we should see more actually usable RTX 50-series cards. Neat.
The RTX 50-series might make 'high-end pricing' seem like an understatement but at least there are still reasonably priced entry-level builds out there like this one
Deal Don't underestimate the humble RTX 4060.
Best mouse pads for gaming in 2025: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on
Slick The best mouse pads offer slick mouse movement and awesome aesthetics, no matter what surface you prefer.
Best external SSD for gaming in 2025: These are the portable drives I'd use for backups, game libraries, and travel storage
SSDs to go Bag one of the best USB Type-C SSDs for game storage on a PC or console.
'This is not unlocking shareholder value, it's a fire sale': Jim Keller weighs in on a possible 'careless' Intel chip and fab spin-off
News Can Intel be made great again?
Microsoft's wacky Majorana 1 chip, powered by an 'entirely new state of matter', could have industrial quantum computing here 'in years, not decades'
News And not a single one of my parallel selves understands a lick of it.
Scuf Valor Pro review
Quality clicks Feature-rich and featuring top-notch quality and ergonomics, it's almost the perfect controller—but not quite.
If the AMD RX 9070 XT is as beefy as these leaked specs and benchmark makes out, low Nvidia 50-series stocks might not matter
News Nice numbers, now no more delays, please.
10-series and other old GPUs should be able to run Assassin's Creed Shadows says director, and my RTX 3060 Ti sheds a single hopeful tear
News Finally, someone stickin' up for the little guy.
Monster Hunter Wilds PC performance: From Nvidia's latest, past AMD's greatest, to Intel's failing silicon, this is what the game does to PCG's own rigs
We put our own machines through the ringer with the Monster Hunter Wilds benchmark, to lesser or greater success.
Assassin's Creed Shadows will let you take your pick from the frame gen and upscaling buffet as 'a mix and match approach is possible'
News And I'll take a side of pure raster, please.
New research says ChatGPT likely consumes '10 times less' energy than we initially thought, making it about the same as Google search
News It'd be nice to have some official numbers from OpenAI, though.
Here's Linux running inside a PDF, running inside a browser, running on a Windows PC
News Linux-ception.
