2025

Streamlabs, the Logitech-owned streaming software for live streamers is implementing generative AI-driven recommendations and conversation, ranging from troubleshooting to giving insight on why your chat has suddenly gone quiet. Announced in a press release, the “intelligent streaming assistant” is made up of three central functions. The first is as a ‘3D Sidekick’. This AI functions…

At risk of giving away too much, too soon, it’s CES right now and exhibition halls are alive with the sound of OLED TVs. Or at the very least bathed in their wide-gamut glow. Anyway, among the various highlights, one development stands out. Both LG and Samsung, the two big noises of OLED panel manufacturing,…

Tencent, one of the world’s largest videogame publishers, is also a Chinese military company, the US Department of Defense claims. Which has come as something of a surprise to the conglomerate, which has called the designation a “misunderstanding”. The DoD’s list of Chinese military companies is updated annually, and Tencent is among the new batch…

If you tell someone you’ve been invited into a private suite in Vegas, they may well raise their eyebrows. It is the city of sin, after all, and the imagination can run wild. However, Razer gave me me an experience to remember before CES 2025 kicked off in earnest—although thankfully all of it was gaming…

Almost 14 months ago, Intel launched its first multi-tile processor, codenamed Meteor Lake, for laptop PCs. Just nine months later, it was joined by the much-improved Lunar Lake chip, for the ultra-low power market and at this year’s CES event, Intel briefly demonstrated its successor, Panther Lake. As this is the first processor to be…

I’ve been enjoying some quality time with the office Steam Deck. It’s an impressive bit of kit for sure, though I’m hardly putting it through its paces by catching up on Mouthwashing and replaying 1000xResist for the nth time. With a year full of anticipated RPGs ahead, I’m wondering how Valve’s handheld will fare playing…

AMD hasn’t given us much information about the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT this CES 2025, but that hasn’t stopped Asus from giving us a peek at its own versions of the new graphics cards. The company has just announced its TUF Gaming OC and Prime OC versions of the next-gen AMD cards…

Well, we all knew CES 2025 was going to be chock full of AI, didn’t we? So it’s not too surprising that we’re seeing it rammed into every proverbial nook and cranny, even those that surely nobody could want. Razer’s “Project Ava” is one such AI implementation that, at first glance, boggles and baffles. That’s…