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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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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