This web tool now lets you compare gaming mouse shapes in full 3D and let this mouse nerd tell you why that’s important

Hearken, fellow gaming mouse nerds. Tighten your suspenders, strap in, and feast your eyes on the glory that is 3D mouse shape comparisons. We’ve been graced by the existence of EloShapes for some time, but previously it only let you visually compare 2D mouse outlines—now we get it in three dimensions. Apart from just being…

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Valve rolls out the red carpet for its new Steam controller with battery warnings, gamepad quick-chat and—bonus!—remote download controls

It’s that magical time of the month when Valve collates all the various drips and drops of updates it’s put out as Steam client betas, and packages them into a great, honking, 100% official Steam client update. And a Steam Deck client update. Don’t forget that. As you might expect, there’s a good amount of…

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Despite recent reports Galax reassures customers that it has not pulled an EVGA and exited the graphics card market

Galax has been around for as long as I have—literally, as it was founded in 1994, the same year I was founded—and its Nvidia graphics cards, often under their European KFA2 branding, have often tempted me with their typically budget-oriented price tags. So, I was very saddened to hear, ealier today, that apparently the company…

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Interview: “You’d Probably End Up In A Nasty Lawsuit” – ‘Aliens: The Video Games’ Uncovers The Interactive History Of The Series

“Studios [were] seeing what they [could] get away with”. Last year, we reported on the news that video game journalist and all-round good egg Mike Diver was writing a book about all of the lovely video games the Aliens film series has inspired. Fast forward to the present day, and said book – entitled Aliens:…

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Modder upgrades their supposedly ‘vintage’ 2008 ThinkPad with an RTX 4070 Super and I can feel myself crumbling to dust

I can definitely understand the cult following Lenovo ThinkPads have garnered over almost two decades of robust laptops. But as a PC gamer, I am perhaps less convinced by external graphics cards, i.e. eGPUs. Still, I’ve stumbled across a modding project combining the two things that I simply can’t look away from. It turns out…

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