2026

As it progressed, I increasingly came to think of 2025 as ‘the year of headlines you’d normally read in newspapers in Deus Ex’. “America is now one big bet on AI,” read a piece in the FT. “CoreWeave’s Staggering Fall From Market Grace Highlights AI Bubble Fears,” fretted the WSJ. “Google CEO’s warning about the…

AMD may bring back some older products to allow users to dodge the worst of the RAM crisis. In a roundtable discussion that our sister site, Tom’s Hardware, took part in, Ryzen chief David McAfee responded to a question about the difficulties facing PC builders in 2026. McAfee said that AMD is “certainly looking at…

Although AMD’s presentations and stands at this year’s CES event have been heavily focused on AI (to the point that it seems to have forgotten what the C in CES stands for), it hasn’t entirely left gaming out of the loop. At a discussion with press members and graphics wizards, the future of FSR 4…

27 inches is a tad small, and 1440p resolution is pretty much the minimum you want for an OLED panel, but the rest of the specs here are great. High refresh rate, snappy response time, and a super solid price. Key specs: 27-inch | 1440p | 240 Hz | 0.03 ms | QD-OLEDView Deal I…

When you have a product that’s generally deemed to be the best in its class, it can sometimes be hard to think of ways to make it better. But in the case of the Maxwell planar magnetic gaming headset, Audeze has given it 16 “community inspired” improvements and just as importantly, rolled out a fresh…

Final Fantasy 14’s North American servers have been hammered by DDoS attacks since the release of Patch 7.4—I’d know, I play on them—which has players starting to grind their teeth in frustration. Especially given the release of the latest Savage (high-difficulty) raid tier, and the race to world first that buoys it. Take a look…

Just when you think there are no worlds left for the first-person shooter to conquer, some mad lad goes and makes one where your health is literally your framerate. Spotted by PCGN, FPS Quest is an upcoming FPS that’s all about, uh, your FPS. That is to say, it’s an FPS where the framerate you…

The end of 2025 was absolutely stacked with brilliant games; we had Hollow Knight: Silksong, Hades 2, Battlefield 6, and, of course, Arc Raiders. There were almost too many great games to play them all, a problem that all studios releasing games at the time undoubtedly had to grapple with. Arc Raiders had the monumental…