Sony gets people scratching their heads after region-locking purchases of Horizon Forbidden West, 10 entire months after its initial release

Despite it being a move that’s ‘almost tank your only real live-service success of the year’ unpopular, Sony has region-locked another game a staggering 10 months after its initial release. Picked up by a ResetEra user, Horizon Forbidden West, as per SteamDB, is now unable to be purchased in a list of countries—a list that’s…

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Glorious Series 2 Pro wireless mouse review

You could be forgiven for thinking that most gaming mice are much of a muchness. After all, other than the occasional dash of colour and the odd extra button, the design of many squeakers has become something of a homogenous thing—with some notable exceptions, of course. Yes, there’s the occasional porker with trick side panels…

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AMD claims it’s ‘taking a little extra time’ to get ‘maximum performance’ out of the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT before the GPUs launch in March

Eyes and ears might be turned towards Nvidia’s impending RTX 50-series graphics cards right now, but don’t forget that AMD’s next-gen cards, the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, aren’t far off, either. At least not in the grand scheme of things, but they’re certainly further off than we originally expected. Now, AMD is…

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE review

There is an alternative 2025 where you get the Nvidia RTX 5090 of your dreams. That’s a timeline where Nvidia has busted Apple’s grip on TSMC’s most advanced process nodes, managed to negotiate an unprecedented deal on silicon production, and worked some magic to deliver the same sort of generational rendering performance increases we’ve become…

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Overclockers UK say they have a ‘single digit’ number of Nvidia’s RTX 5090 cards a week before launch

In my calendar, January 30 is circled many times over in sparkly gel pen. For what reason? A birthday? An anniversary? No, two hotly anticipated hardware launches of course—specifically from Nvidia’s RTX 50-series. However, word from a UK-based retailer suggests I shouldn’t get my hopes up of actually getting hold of one. Amid rumours aplenty,…

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‘Black smoke filled the room’: Reddit user says their Gigabyte mouse spontaneously combusted ‘with large flames’ and now the manufacturer is taking a look

There are few things scarier for a PC gamer than the possibility of one of your peripherals spontaneously combusting and scorching your furniture. Thankfully combustion isn’t a common issue in the community, but if Reddit user lommelinn’s recent experience is anything to go by, it’s not completely unheard of, either. According to lommelinn, they found…

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Pokémon TCG Prismatic Evolution scalpers are starting to hurt, thanks to the promise of reprints despite the current lack of supply

The last few weeks have been pretty chaotic for Pokémon TCG fans and collectors. Prismatic Evolutions and Blooming Waters were released, and preorders for the next set, Journey Together, were taken. Unfortunately, due to limited supply and scalpers, not everyone has been able to enjoy these new sets. Pre-orders for the upcoming Journey Together set—which…

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