PC Gaming

The MacBook Neo is an impressive machine in many respects. Beyond the fact that it starts at $599 and makes for a very good productivity laptop (although not so much for gaming), the cheap-but-cheerful machine’s popularity appears to have taken even Apple by surprise. In the Q&A section of the company’s recent Q2 2026 earnings…

World of Warcraft’s player housing feature is great—the microtransactions involved? Not so much. To be clear: There’s a huge list of decor you can get in the game without paying anything other than your usual subscription, and the system has enough freedom that you can absolutely build your own treehouse, if you wanted. But it…

Although the AI-induced global memory crisis is currently doing its very best to wipe out the consumer PC market, that doesn’t mean system vendors are giving up on releasing new products. In fact, we’re just a month away from Computex, and you can be sure to see a whole raft of new desktops, laptops, and…

If someone told me two years back that Creative Assembly was actually going to make Total War: Warhammer 40k, I wouldn’t have believed them. It’s not that the studio isn’t a natural fit after all its work on Total War: Warhammer, it’s more that the universe of 40k is both absurdly massive and ill-defined—a big…

I’ve been a little enamoured with the GameSir G7 Pro ever since our review came out late last year. We’re firmly starting to get pro controllers without pro pricing, with rich feature sets, solid aesthetics, and even charging docks to boot. And, for the average gamer, you no longer have to go north of $150…

With the vast majority of PC components, laptops, handheld devices and full-blown consoles all made in China and various SE Asian countries, the fact that the biggest gaming vendors regularly import stuff is hardly newsworthy. But when the vendor in question is Valve, and the items being shipped over are registered as ‘games consoles’, that…

At its core, Battlefield 6 is a great multiplayer shooter. But EA has consistently fumbled it since an explosive launch that should have put the series back in the spotlight—it did for all of a month, give or take. Now BF6 is in its ‘we’ve heard your feedback era‘, adding seven maps this year (including…

It just so happens I’ve been daily driving an old school VA panel this week. It’s a budget 34-inch ultrawide and, funnily enough, it provides the perfect foil for Alienware’s new 27-inch QD-OLED monitor, the Alienware AW2726DM. This, too, is a budget offering, albeit in the loftier context of OLED gaming monitors. Yours for $349.99…

If there’s a-love-it-or-hate-it aesthetic for PC components, I’d say it’s probably Noctua’s traditionally beige fans. The company also makes black versions, but they often arrive far later than their pale brown counterparts. There are a lot of very good reasons for that, apparently, and the company has released a breakdown explaining the delay. In essence,…

Canonical, the company behind the most popular Linux distro, says its web infrastructure is currently under a “sustained, cross-border attack.” Affected sites and services seem to run across the entire Ubuntu gamut, from its website to its blog and even potentially its repos. According to what user reports I could gleam from online forums—given official…