Marvel Rivals is gearing up for season 9.5 with major Vanguard adjustments alongside a teaser for its next hero, The Hood

Marvel Rivals’ season 9.5 launches today, and it will be bringing with it magical supervillain and hooded cloak aficionado, The Hood, who’ll be appearing on August 7. Ahead of that, let’s dig into the patch notes. The gist of the season 9.5 adjustments is that most Vanguards have been buffed. Devil Dinosaur, Doctor Strange, Magneto,…

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Chinese memory maker CXMT mops up even more market share away from the likes of Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, giving me hope that competition is the way out of the memory crisis

It seems nearly every conversation about PC gaming hardware comes back to the memory crisis, and that’s because it’s such an all-encompassing problem for the industry. Though we don’t appear to have a way out for the next year (at least), we’ve seen memory competition coming out of China, with Chinese company CXMT appearing to…

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Pulsar to study how we all use our gaming mice to make them better, offering prizes to those who help them build the mouse of the future

How do you create a gaming mouse that sits comfortably in the palm of most gamers? With science, that’s how. As such, Pulsar Gaming is taking matters into its own hands with a research study—and nine survey participants will get a gaming mouse for their trouble. In collaboration with the High-Performance Human-Computer Interaction Lab at…

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‘AI PCs will become more important’: AMD’s Lisa Su remains optimistic about the market despite runaway pricing caused by *checks notes* the AI industry

PC gamers (and PC users as a whole) find themselves in an increasingly expensive landscape, in part due to the AI data centre industry’s apparently bottomless appetite for memory. And yet, AMD CEO Lisa Su reckons “AI PCs will become more important” for the average consumer. Lisa Su told investors during AMD’s most recent earnings…

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