Corsair’s range-topping AX1600i power supply gets some much-needed upgrades, including pin monitoring, proper GPU power sockets, and a reduction in size

If there’s one component in your beloved gaming PC that you should never cheap out on, it’s the power supply unit, especially if you’re using a high-end CPU and graphics card. Corsair’s AX1600i has been the PSU of choice for many enthusiasts, but its design is somewhat lacking these days. Well, good news: it’s been…

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This skyscraper-shaped custom PC at Computex has a food stall out the front selling ‘Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice’ and a rock climber free soloing up the side

My hardware happy place is cool people making cool things. A case in point would be this custom build that leverages an already very nice touchscreen PC into a Taipei night market diorama scene. The headline act is the light-up, 3D printed recreation of the Taipei 101 building, complete with an itty bitty Alex Honnold…

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The excess of Computex feels a little more tone deaf than usual this year, as the pricing elephant in the room becomes harder to ignore

Computex is, to a degree, always about excess. It’s a tech show, after all. All the big names are fighting for coverage of their latest products, and as a result, we always see outrageous graphics cards covered in exotic materials, some eye-wateringly expensive gaming rigs, and enough RGB lighting to sink a battleship. I know…

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The follow-up to one of my favorite RPGs of the 2020s finally has a demo, and it does not disappoint: Bat people, a mushroom hellscape, and funky JRPG combat from bizarro world 2005

Entropy, the JRPG-style game from Dread Delusion developer Lovely Hellplace, has gotten a playable demo on Steam and an early access release date of August 18. I checked out that demo for myself, and things are looking great for the studio’s extremely divergent sophomore effort. It’s wild how different Entropy is from Dread Delusion on…

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Ace Combat director says ‘I’ve been doing this for 30 years, so I know exactly how hard we’re going’—and after playing it, I can confirm Ace Combat 8 goes extremely hard

Remember the first five minutes of Top Gun: Maverick where Tom Cruise dies in a tragic crash, but not before magically passing his pilot’s spirit and innate talent to the young hotshot who becomes the new Maverick? No? You’re telling me that I just made that up? Well, look: That might be true. But I…

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