GameSir G7 Pro 8K Aimlabs Edition review

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…

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Steam Deck restocks or a pile of Steam Frames and Machines? Either way, Valve’s been importing a whole heap of ‘game consoles’

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…

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Alienware AW2726DM review

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…

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Making black versions of Noctua’s beige fans is ‘less like painting a wooden fence… and more like changing the colour of a carbon-fibre Formula 1 part’

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,…

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Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a ‘sustained, cross-border attack’

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…

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