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Here are the two things I enjoyed most about visiting Istanbul a few years ago. One: the comingling of millennia of history and a patchwork of cultures at the meeting point between Asia and Europe, a city that has more compacted history in a square metre than most places do in a square mile, an…
In a move that caught us somewhat off guard, Nvidia has just announced its series of GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs for laptops and desktop graphics cards. The former was certainly expected, and while the latter has been rumoured for a while, we had expected more of a heads-up about it. Anyway, so what have we…
Asus had a clean sweep of the most important categories in our best gaming laptop lineup of the last generation. The ROG Zephyrus G16 was the outright best machine we’d used, and the 2024 forerunner to this ROG Zephyrus G14 was the absolute best compact gaming laptop you could buy. With this new generation of…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, life moves pretty… no, wait, that was someone else… ah yeah, that was it: 14-inch laptops are my jam. They are the best form factor for a gaming laptop, being an actually portable scale for a normal human, yet still able to deliver a large enough…
Bad news: after over six years in development, Nightdive’s remaster of System Shock 2 has been hit by one last delay, for old times’ sake. Good news: since you’re reading about it on this website, it almost certainly doesn’t matter to you. System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster has been pushed back from June 26…
Cronos: The New Dawn is Bloober Team’s next step after a successful Silent Hill 2 remake, and it’s all on them this time. While there may be no original source material to work off, the devs aren’t straying too far. Cronos is set to be a survival horror game; an incredibly gruelling one by the…
With a background of teaching engineering for many years, I love watching videos about manufacturing, especially those that involve complex robotics. But one video I stumbled across this morning reminded me just how much of a modern gaming PC is still handmade, and it also just happens to be a very relaxing watch. It’s one…
If you thought the challenge of Peak comes exclusively from climbing, you could not be more mistaken. Although the majority of your time will be spent scaling cliff faces, if you stray from the pack, there’s a high chance you will end up learning how to summon the Scoutmaster. This is where Peak stops being…
The Intel Core 9 Ultra 285K. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it, immediately and intuitively communicating the varied and undeniable virtues of Intel’s latest top-rung PC processor. Well, perhaps not for much longer. According to a report on Oregon Live, Intel is about to defenestrate an undisclosed number of marketing employees in favour of…
In the world of science, SI prefixes are sacrosanct. Well, unless you happen to be a computing scientist, in which case the choice of prefix—mega vs mebi—can be a little controversial. It turns out that one programmer at Valve fell on the wrong side of the prefix war when showing your CPU clocks in the…