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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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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Apple is reportedly set to speed past Dell and become the third-largest laptop vendor, thanks in part to the affordable MacBook Neo

Even we’ve been impressed by Apple’s MacBook Neo, and we’re called PC Gamer. It’s essentially an iPhone 16 Pro wearing a laptop suit, and makes for a pretty tempting lappy when you take into account the lovely chassis design, decent screen, and the fact it starts at $599. It’s a laptop that seems destined to…

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Resident Evil 9’s director reveals there was a ‘phantom Chapter 2’ that was cut ‘in the process of finalising the game’s structure’

Resident Evil Requiem managed to snag the spot of my favourite modern Resi game on release. At just 10 hours long it managed to have me hooked for every zombie jumpscare and complicated puzzle. I didn’t think it could get much better, but now I’m finding out that there was even more to it. “I’ve…

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State cybersecurity agencies around the world are advising extra care over home routers as they could be used in ‘China-nexus’ covert networks

Just a month after the FCC banned foreign consumer-grade routers that lack the special permissions to be sold, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) and other security orgs, has advised users of their risks. Compromised home routers, it seems, are the new cybersecurity bugbears. This is…

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‘Feel free to start a laptop company and see what suppliers quote you for GDDR7’: Framework vents frustration amid memory crisis

There’s a lot to like about Framework, from its modular approach to gaming laptop upgrades and hardware repairability, to the company’s candour regarding the memory supply crisis. Pre-orders for a 12 GB version of the Framework Laptop 16 graphics module recently went live. Powered by the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, it’s fair to expect this…

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