2025

If there’s one thing I’ve discovered through years of playing—and now writing—about videogames, it’s that players love a little guy. They just adore having darling underdogs that are on their side, as long as they’re unobtrusive and perhaps minimally helpful. So it goes with Helldivers 2’s latest update, Heart of Democracy, which has introduced the…

There’s something to be said for a company that knows its lane, stays in it, and seriously dominates it. That describes Noctua in the fan lane: Big fans, small fans, quiet fans, brown fans, cream fans, more brown fans, you name it. So it both is and isn’t a surprise that Noctua is working on…

Noctua, purveyor of ultra-quiet brown/beige fans and massive CPU coolers for twenty long years, has resolutely stayed away from one specific medium, when it comes to keeping chips cool: water. However, at this year’s Computex 2025, Noctua showed the progress it’s making with its liquid thermosiphon system, but that won’t be the first to market:…

It’s a known issue right now that Large Language Model-powered AI chatbots do not always deliver factually correct answers to posed questions. In fact, not only do AI chatbots sometimes not deliver factually correct information, but they have a nasty habit of confidently presenting factually incorrect information, with answers to questions that are just fabricated,…

You can always count on InWin to bring its most head-turning A-game to every Computex. To celebrate its 40th birthday this year, the company presented a commemorative blue PC chassis that certainly has my attention—though I don’t think I quite share InWin’s creative vision. The special edition case in question has been dubbed ChronoMancy, and…

It seems hard to conceive now, given we’ve had three games (and some assorted DLC) with Doug Cockle’s dulcet tones behind the deadpan features of Geralt of Rivia, but there was a time where CDPR was struggling to find out what everyone’s favourite witcher would sound like in The Witcher trilogy. The Witcher 3 at…