Latest articles by Dave James
Valve knows people will jam the shiny new OLED panel into old Steam Decks 'but it's probably not going to go well'
news It says Steam Deck OLED "parts are not swappable" with the original LCD version.
Valve is committed to bringing Steam Deck OLED 'battery life improvements to the LCD models as well'
news A post-launch BIOS update will see all the firmware and software improvements of the new version brought to the original Steam Deck.
Steam Deck OLED vs Steam Deck LCD: what's inside
Innards We've cracked open both the new Steam Deck OLED and its OG LCD version to see what's change. Spoiler, it's a lot.
Valve just unveiled 'the definitive first generation Steam Deck' with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU
news The more efficient HDR panel, bigger battery, and 6nm APU all add up to between 30 - 50% longer game time.
Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 gaming laptop review
LOQ'd not loaded Lenovo's budget-oriented LOQ feels like a rare miss from the company's laptop makers.
Yaaas, AMD's FSR 2.2 has finally been patched into Baldur's Gate 3
news I am in handheld gaming PC heaven right now.
Framework 13 (2023) AMD mainboard review
It works First you get style, then you get the customisation, then you get the gaming power.
You can already hack Ray Reconstruction into Cyberpunk 2077 without the path tracing limitation, but Nvidia promises to open it up officially soon
News Ray Reconstruction makes Cyberpunk 2077 look absolutely stunning, but it can only be enabled with path tracing, or via some hacks.
The best settings for Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 and Phantom Liberty
tested We've tested Cyberpunk 2077's latest update to determine which settings do and don't matter, with benchmarks and image quality comparisons to help you tune your experience.
Kerbal Space Program 2 has been spamming your Windows registry with junk since launch, but a fix is being tested right now
news The developer is now aware of the issue and is currently testing a fix it will release as a hotfix update.
Samsung's new low power, high performance memory range could be a serious boon for compact gaming laptops
News The ickle upgradeable memory modules offer higher performance than traditional SO-DIMMS with most of the benefits of soldered-on memory.
I've tested Nvidia's latest ray tracing magic in Cyberpunk 2077 and it's a no-brainer: at worst it's just better-looking, at best it's that and a whole lot more performance
Nvidia's DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction feature fits perfectly with Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 added realism.
Whether or not Nvidia really has a chiplet-based RTX 5090 'under investigation' its GPU future has to be multi-chip
News Rumours suggest it hasn't yet approved a GB101 chiplet version, but that the bulk of Nvidia's next-gen gaming cards will still be monolithic GPUs.
The ROG Ally gets a new Zen 4c chip and a worrying price tag
News That's effectively half the Steam Deck's GPU for near twice the price.
Looks like Nvidia has effectively cut the RTX 4070 price to $550 in response to the RX 7800 XT
news With so many retailers and manufacturers suddenly dropping the card to $550 it's hard to believe it's not somehow incentivised by Nvidia.
Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill
News "Since Right to Repair can pass here, expect it to be on its way to a backyard near you," says iFixit CEO.
Bethesda says Nvidia DLSS support will come to Starfield in a 'regular interval of updates that have top community requested features'
News Included in the patch notes of today's "small hotfix" is a list of top community requested features.
AMD says it's aware of Starfield's Ain't No Sunshine bug but currently has no timeline for a fix
news But is also keen to point out that older GeForce GPUs, from at least the GTX 10-series down, are also suffering.
Intel predicts 'a resurgence' of external GPUs because of Thunderbolt 5's huge bandwidth increase
news It's being classed as "the best version for creators and gamers."
I never wanted the RTX 3090 Super but I'm gutted to miss out on the cancelled prototype's stealthy all-black aesthetic
news The 'Super' tag was too on the nose, but this sleek shroud has got to be revisited.
Kurt Cobain's $20 headphones have been bought for $70,000
news It's more about history than audio quality.
Got a weird PC project in mind? Framework uncovered a hoard of old mainboards in an old factory and is selling them off cheap
news The perfect base for any weird and/or wonderful custom PC build.
