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June 2026
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- June 2
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- Corsair's new 'Nightsword' gaming mouse has a dedicated Stream Deck button, and I'm deciding if I'd accidentally press it too much
- Fallout 76's latest Infestations update will be 'one of the easiest ways to get a four star' legendary as new type of hostile encounter spreads through Appalachia
- Gabe Newell reportedly snapped 'What the f*** do I pay you for if that's your opinion?' at Valve lawyer pushing for more content moderation on Steam
- Next-gen GPUs aren't around at Computex, but MSI's got a taste of what they might look like
- Intel targets India for a new $3.3 billion factory that will make the base substrates for its next generation of chips
- Subnautica 2's no-killing policy isn't because it's 'a game about pacifism', says design lead, but because players would 'master the crappy combat' over anything else
- Tryx claims 'world's first holographic liquid cooler' at Computex but I doubt it was much of a contest
- Crimson Desert takes around 250 hours to complete, and if that's not meaty enough for you, good news: DLC is coming
- Pearl Abyss heard you didn't like Crimson Desert's story, so it's fixing it to 'strengthen the narrative flow of Kliff's journey'
- MSI's Maestro 900R case is almost here. Tremble in fear, poor wallet
- Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards
- Corsair has shown off a military-themed PC case with fighter jet controls, and it's still not as over the top as its see-through PSU
- Nvidia may have announced the RTX Spark, but the first true Nvidia CPU for the PC is coming in 2028
- Noctua's pumpless liquid cooler prototype is now 'neck and neck' with a normal AIO: successfully cools Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 230 W
- Asus is releasing 'mystery' mini loot boxes with the most peculiar little keycaps I've ever seen
- June 1
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- The League of Legends MMO adds another World of Warcraft vet to its team
- In 1997, Warren Spector told us the upcoming PC classic Deus Ex was inspired by Final Fantasy, Miyamoto, and 'the console guys'
- Guild Wars teaser has fans hyped up about a potential Guild Wars 3 announcement, and ArenaNet isn't outright denying it
- Marathon's first 'PvP-lite' experimental mode sounds like a delightfully terrifying alternative
- Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games
- A Minecraft Movie Squared will explore 'new biomes, new characters, and new mobs' and confirms Matt Berry for a mystery role
- Asus has announced a gold-plated 82 g version of its Harpe II mouse with a 65K DPI, but price rumours make me think it's way out of my budget
- Intel's attempting to break into the AI market once more, but this time avoiding Nvidia's dominance in training by going for inference
- Yet another rad gaming tool parts ways with Microsoft
- Acer tries to dodge the RAMpocalypse with its Nitro Blaze Link by making it streaming only
- As if ROG Astral 50-series graphics cards could get any beefier, Asus has just announced a CHONKY anniversary update
- MSI's new skinny two-in-one laptop has an Nvidia RTX Spark chip, which could make for some impressive gaming chops
- The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X has just received an upgraded OLED model in a bundle with AR glasses, and my wallet is thoroughly braced
- Patient gamers unite, as 25% of you only buy your games during Steam sales
- Former BioWare producer says we could be saved from a world where there's 'no AAA games that aren't live services' by looking to movies
- Tekken's game director follows in Harada's footsteps by saying sayonara to Bandai Namco, causing fans to worry about the game's future
- AMD confirms that AM5 will continue to be supported by new processors through to 2029, and drop the deets on a forthcoming EXPO update
- Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets
- 'Return of the king': AMD is bringing back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for DDR4 platforms, launching it alongside the mid-range AM5 Ryzen 7 7700X3D
- A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning
- MSI announces the MEG Vision X2 AI Plus, a gaming desktop with an AI agent and a 'cylindrical display interface' built in
- After being shut down by Blizzard, one of WoW's biggest private servers is saying screw it, we'll make our own MMO
- AMD announces global rollout of the RX 9070 GRE, which is slower than the standard model for the same original MSRP
- Nvidia announces that a DLSS 4.5 update for Ray Reconstruction is finally on its way, promising better ray-traced and path-traced graphics for 'similar performance' as the old model
- Minecraft's 3rd game drop of 2026 has been revealed, and its new biome automatically makes it the best one yet
- This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast
- Computex 2026 Live: The biggest PC gaming hardware announcements at this year's show
- Extrapolation is the future of frame generation without the latency hit… and it's not far off
- Nvidia RTX Spark's gaming battery life will be 'better than anything you've seen before on RTX laptops'
- Nvidia's working with all the anti-cheat vendors to make competive games work on RTX Spark and WoA… just when gaming on Linux was looking good
- Nvidia sets out roadmap for RTX Spark, its new PC platform, which also gives us a better idea of when to expect next-gen RTX GPUs
- Developers are creating Arm game ports, wholly Arm-native versions, and Prism-optimised updates for Nvidia's RTX Spark
- The new animation for Warhammer 40,000's upcoming 11th edition goes incredibly hard
- Not just for AI agents: Nvidia's RTX Spark means Arm-powered laptops for gamers, too, promising 100 fps at 1440p in the latest games
