The AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 chip in the laptop I’ve been testing just scored over 1,000,000 in Cinebench, breaking space and time and sending me whirling around my room like a nut in a blender

Remember the Black Mesa Incident? Well that just happened in my room, thanks to a very sprightly little chip in the RTX 5060 laptop that I’m testing. The Asus TUF A14 (2025) in front of me has an Nvidia RTX 5060 and an AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 APU inside of it. You might expect…

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If you’d like to see Meta’s AI gunk purged from WhatsApp, a new antitrust investigation in Italy might just do the trick

Italy’s antitrust authority, AKA the body the looks into monopoly abuses by companies, has reportedly launched an investigation into Meta. According to Reuters, the Italian authority is considering, “allegations the company abused its dominant position by installing its artificial intelligence tool on messaging service WhatsApp.” The key detail, it seems, is that Meta foisted its…

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It’s the scantest of rumours but given AMD’s track record, I actually believe the claim that the Ryzen 9000G series will be nothing more than an 8000G refresh

Although they take a while to appear with each new generation of Ryzen processors, AMD always converts some of its laptop processors into desktop CPUs to give entry-level PC gamers an all-in-one option. But one rumour is to be believed, then the forthcoming Ryzen 9000G chips are unlikely to be well received because it’s being…

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I’ve just anointed the Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro as our new best gaming mouse because… well, it’s simply better than the rest in almost every conceivable way

The best gaming mouse is perhaps the most hotly debated topic in the PC Gamer office. We test fabulous offerings from all the biggest brands on a monthly, sometimes weekly basis, and then we have a good old scrap about why each is better than the other, or worse, or the same. It’s one long,…

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Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound review

Need to Know What is it? The first new 2D Ninja Gaiden in basically forever. Release date July 31, 2025Expect to pay TBCDeveloper The Game KitchenPublisher Dotemu, JoystickReviewed on ASUS ROG AllySteam Deck TBALink Official site Well, this is a nice surprise. Previous Ninja Gaiden games have been about as warm and welcoming as being…

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Oblivion Remastered lets you shatter whole buildings like Fabergé eggs with mod that resurrects spirit of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction

I bang this drum a lot, but what the world needs right now, more than anything, is a remaster (and PC release) of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, a game I mostly remember for letting me fly around in a helicopter and collapsing infrastructure. Would it hold up? Possibly not, but it’s one of very few…

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EA CEO taps into the great machine spirit of corpo-speak, says Battlefield 6 isn’t ‘just a product’, it’s a ‘platform’, and that EA’s ‘all in’ on making it massive

EA’s CEO, Andrew Wilson, has tapped masterfully into the greater machine spirit of corporate jargon to deliver news that’ll doubtlessly have you very excited about the future of Battlefield 6: “This isn’t just a product. We’re really building out Battlefield as a platform.” I’m salivating already. Alright, in fairness, Wilson was preaching the monetisation choir—delivering…

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‘They stuck to their convictions’: Astarion’s VA Neil Newbon is glad Larian stepped away from Baldur’s Gate 3 to follow their passions, since ‘It was absolutely the right call’

Baldur’s Gate 3 was one of the best RPGs of the decade, and it’s not getting a sequel—at least, not one made by Larian, anyway. That’s simply because the developer’s heart wasn’t in it, or the prospect of making DLC, either. I can’t quite blame them. If I spent close to 10 years doing anything,…

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