PC Gaming
I’m not exactly jazzed about our current AI moment, where machine learning major players seem to want to inject LLMs into everything. Well, during this year’s Computex, MSI unveiled the MEG Vision X2 AI⁺, a gaming desktop that features “a first-of-its-kind AI Holostage” built in. Excuse me while I attempt to contain my excitement. In…
The saga of TurtleWoW was perhaps inevitable—operating pretty brazenly under the nose of Blizzard, the World of Warcraft private server featured bespoke content for its own vision of the game, and advertised itself as an actual game might. It also featured in-game microtransactions, and while some private servers for other MMOs (like City of Heroes)…
With Computex 2026 in full swing, we’ve already been hit by many stark reminders that the memory crisis is upon us. None more so than AMD announcing the RX 9070 GRE, a less powerful (previously China-exclusive) version of the RX 9070 for the 9070’s original MSRP (the 9070 moves up to $619 after launch) The…
At this year’s Computex event, Nvidia announced something that many PC enthusiasts have been waiting for. No, not its Arm-powered RTX Spark laptop chip, but a forthcoming update for DLSS Ray Reconstruction, one that brings it on par with the rest of the DLSS 4.5 package. Back in January, Nvidia launched DLSS 4.5, with a…
Minecraft has shared the first features of its third game drop of 2026 at TwitchCon, and while we still have a lot to learn, we do know it’ll feature an entirely new forest biome: the dappled forest. After the Chaos Cubed update focused on bringing a new and exciting biome to the underground, I for…
Last year at Gamescom, I got to feast my greedy little eyes on a 540 Hz monitor from Asus ROG (pictured above) and was mighty impressed. That one is a 26.5-inch 1440p/720p dual-mode deal, though, so not necessarily for esports. As I’ve argued before, 720p is a bit low even for esports. And 26.5 inches…
Computex 2026 officially begins on June 2, but we’re already swimming in PC gaming hardware announcements. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed the RTX Spark SOC for laptops, desktops and more, Intel has taken the wraps off its G-Series Panther Lake-based gaming handheld chips, and… gosh, this’ll be a long intro if I write them…
Computex has not even really started yet and already I’ve seen the two most exciting gaming developments I’ll see this week. One is the new Nvidia RTX Spark Arm-based hardware, and the other is Intel’s G3 family of handheld processors. It’s a game-changing bit of hardware that is delivering on the twin pillars of gaming…
The new Nvidia RTX Spark is an Arm-powered system-on-chip (SoC) set to be the heart of new super thin-and-light gaming laptops and mini PCs. It comes packing up to 20 Grace CPU cores and up to 6188 CUDA cores in its GPU, alongside up to 128 GB unified LPDDR5x memory. And one of the most…
One of the issues that gaming on Linux has right now, and one of the main reasons why Windows is still the dominant platform for gaming, is because there are still games that resolutely will not work on SteamOS or any other Linux-based distro. And one of the main reasons for that is a lack…