PC Gaming
I’ve just wrapped up my benchmarking of the Intel Core Ultra X9 388H, or more commonly-known to most of you at this point, the top-end Intel Panther Lake mobile chip. It’s a feisty little beast, with iGPU performance that feels very close to what you might expect from an entry-level, discrete GPU-equipped gaming laptop—and that…
Leon Kennedy has a chainsaw. I’m three minutes into Resident Evil Requiem, and my first fight with a crowded hospital hall full of zombies is already shouting what seems to be the game’s guiding principle: the stuff you love in old Resident Evil, plus the stuff you love in new Resident Evil, smashed together into…
You’ve read my breakdown on the architecture behind Intel’s new Panther Lake processors. You’ve gone through every graphics benchmark that Andy has done with the range-topping Core Ultra X9 388H. Between the two of them, you’ve now decided that your next gaming laptop is going to be Panther Lake-powered and sport a big GPU from…
The European Commission has announced it is investigating Elon Musk’s X and Grok, its AI generation tool, for “manipulated sexually explicit images, including content that may amount to child sexual abuse material.” In December 2025, the social media site was hit with deepfake sexual imagery, where users could request Grok to generate pictures by simply…
Gaming laptop battery life is, by and large, rubbish. Or rather, trying to use a gaming-capable machine for a full day of work without charging it is, err, rubbish. I’ve hauled many discrete GPU-equipped lappys into the office for a spot of real-world testing, and most of them are usually begging to be plugged into…
Panther Lake has finally arrived on my test bench. Well, the chip “formerly codenamed” Panther Lake, anyway. Intel would much prefer we refer to its new chip generation as the Intel Core Ultra Series 3—which is the name you’ll find emblazoned on the specs sheet of many thin and light laptops in the next few…
If you have downloaded January’s KB5074109 Windows update and can’t seem to get past boot, you aren’t alone. As reported by Windows Latest, Microsoft has updated users in a support document that it is “investigating customer reports of device boot failures following the January 2026 update and later updates.” The document is only accessible by…
We all loved Vampire Survivors, sure. But you know what that game was missing? An adorable little Tamagotchi fella who you could feed and fuss over ahead of every level, before grabbing it like the fat little rodent it is and unleashing it as a weapon of mass destruction. Mochi-O’s demo is criminally short—clocking in…
Despite the fact that AMD’s next-gen desktop CPU architecture, Zen 6, isn’t expected to appear until towards the end of this year, we were expecting at least two new desktop chips to arrive at CES this month. But no, all we got was a single Ryzen 7 9850X3D announcement and no mention whatsoever of the…
Highguard, the new PvP raid shooter by the minds behind Titanfall 2 and Apex Legends, has been embroiled in controversy since it was announced at The Game Awards. Some even want to see it fail on principle alone, which is a bit harsh if you ask me. With limited marketing (non-existent, really), we’ll need to…