AMD has confirmed that Valve will be using one of its new handheld gaming PC processors, the Ryzen Z2 Series, inside a future model of Steam Deck. During a CES 2025 call, an AMD spokesperson said: “You’ll see this [Z2 Series] coming to market from a number of partners, the Legion Go, the ROG Ally,…
AMD’s X3D chips have long been some of the best for gaming because they stack tons of 3D V-Cache either on top of or underneath the processor, and games absolutely love all that cache. We had the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D launch late last year, this being the current best CPU for gaming, and now,…
As part of the AMD announcement today at CES 2025, AMD has taken the lid off the latest version of its upscaling tech, FSR 4. Non-Nvidia GPU users have long lusted after an upscaler that can compete with DLSS, and according to AMD, there are significant improvements here that may do just that. The bad…
AMD isn’t pulling any punches in gaming laptops. The company’s latest plan announced over at CES 2025 is to take its beefiest 16-core/32-thread processor, whack loads more cache on the top, and run it at a laptop-friendly TDP of 54 W. It’s called the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D. It comes with a max boost clock…
Intel has announced the final wave of updates aimed at its latest 200S Series processors and improving performance for these chips, which faced a rocky start and mixed results. Intel’s VP Client Computing Group and general technical spokesperson, Robert Hallock, has outlined what the second wave of updates (the first came back in November) for…
The Fantastic Four will take their place in Marvel Rivals on January 10, to fight for truth, justice, and extreme stretches against the diabolical duo of Doctor Doom and Dracula. Yes, I’m talking about that Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, who has a long-standing if relatively low-key history as a Marvel Comics villain. In season 1…
New year, same tiers. The new year is finally upon us, and it’s time to see how the charts are shaping up for their first appearance in 2025. Overall, it’s much as you might expect. The usual suspects of Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC 25 sit at the top of the table, though Elden…
2007 shooter and part-time meme Crysis is the subject of an in-depth retrospective in the latest issue of PC Gamer magazine, in which Rick Lane sits down with Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli to go over the game’s development. Coming off the back of Far Cry, the studio’s ambition for what its next game would deliver…
Expect lots of PS4 ports. The tech experts over at Digital Foundry have weighed in on the recent ‘Switch 2’ motherboard leak, presenting their views on what the apparent compenents included mean for the power and performance of the upcoming console. If you’ve been following along with the Switch 2 rumours for some time now,…
Intel has announced the new Core Ultra 200HX and 200H laptop chips here at CES 2025. The HX parts are the most interesting to PC gamers, as the chips most likely to power your next gaming laptop, so let’s get into those first. There are six new HX models, with the top Intel Core Ultra…