PC Gaming

The United States’ Defense Department has announced the award of a $200 million contract to xAI’s Grok, the chatbot most recently in the news for declaring itself “MechaHitler” and going on bizarre rants about anti-White oppression. What could go wrong! The news came alongside xAI’s announcement of “Grok for Government,” a toolset that lets agencies…

While better known for making some of the best gaming keyboards around, Keychron has also been steadily moving up the charts with its mice, such as its excellent M5 vertical or its gaming-focused Lemokey G1. For the past few weeks, I’ve been heavily using the 8K polling rate version of the Keychron M7 Wireless, and…

As Europe’s summer heatwave smolders on, a novel way of tracking the record-breaking temps has emerged, namely crashing Intel Raptor Lake CPUs. That’s according to a Firefox developer at Mozilla (via Techspot). The implication is that the exceptionally high ambient heat currently hitting parts of Europe is enough to push 13th and 14th Gen Intel…

To celebrate Frostpunk 2’s budding modding scene, 11 Bit Studios is hosting a contest to find the best mod around, alongside mod.io. There are a bunch of prizes and a ton of time for contestants to make something really special, as the submission deadline is August 22, and the winners will be announced on September…

Oblivion Remastered’s first couple of patches have been, shall we say, a little underwhelming. Some bugbears have been tinkered with, but player performance woes still abound and players (and most importantly, I personally) still have a bunch of quality-of-life fixes they’d like to see implemented, even if they’re running the game’s 1.2 patch, currently in…

Xbox controllers are still some of the most-used gamepads for PC gaming, and for good reason. They’re affordable and the quality is pretty great for the price. So this one will likely apply to more than a fair few of you: Microsoft has shared that some people on the latest Windows 11 Insider build “are…

For a decade or more now, it hasn’t been the big names driving big changes in the PC peripherals market, but the disruptive enthusiast outfits. The likes of Ducky and Wooting managed to land on what gamers genuinely want from an enthusiast mechanical keyboard before Corsair, Razer et al did—compact size, high quality switches, custom…

If you’re using an older Gigabyte motherboard with an Intel CPU—up to and including a Z590/B560 chipset—you should probably update your BIOS. Some “legacy” chipsets are apparently vulnerable to memory corruption in the System Management Module (SMM), and the company is releasing BIOS updates to patch the vulnerabilities. In a security update, Gigabyte explains it…

The Legion Go S (SteamOS version) is the best handheld gaming PC on the market right now, but it’s not without its issues. As I found out when I tested and reviewed it, there are some issues that make it feel like somewhat of an incomplete port over the operating system. One of those issues…

With its Core Ultra 200S range of processors, Intel became the first CPU manufacturer to support CUDIMMs (Clocked Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory Modules). Essentially just standard RAM sticks, each one sports a tiny module called a client clock driver (CKD for short) that boosts the signal to ensure it remains stable at very high clock…