OLED monitors are the perfect match for any speedy gaming PC and if you’re eyeballing a new ultrawide, we’ve just crowned a new champion for you to consider

Even though OLED gaming monitors have been around for a good while now, I still get asked whether they’re really as good as everyone says they are and if they’re really worth buying. My basic answers to those questions are usually ‘Yes’ and ‘Yes’. Let me explain. For many years, my primary display was a…

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MSI denies selling selling the RTX 5090 in China after pictures surface showing giant pallets of the restricted GPUs in the country

an insane number of RTX 5090s spotted in China from r/pcmasterrace Current US export restrictions have it that the RTX 5090 isn’t allowed to be sold to Chinese customers, as this would be giving a competitor too much powerful tech. That’s why Nvidia makes and sells a cut-back version of the GPU to China—first the…

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Uh oh, it’s happening: ADATA chairman says the perfect storm of simultaneous DRAM, SSD and HDD shortages is already upon us and it looks like prices are only going in one direction

A couple of weeks ago I reported on the idea that the AI was going to cause a run on all kinds of memory and storage hardware. Well, it’s already happening according to no less an authority than the chairman of memory specialist ADATA. ADATA’s Chen Libai has said that supplies of all the major…

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Between mail delivery, minigames, and BMX tricks, the demo of Tanuki: Pon’s Summer feels like it was made specifically for me

Sometimes you come across a game that feels like it was made to cater specifically to your interests, and for me, that’s Tanuki: Pon’s Summer. Just seeing the trailer of this mail-delivering, BMX-riding life sim was enough to convince me to add it to my wishlist. To be honest, the tanuki alone was probably enough….

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It’s happened again—WoW Legion: Remix players have had their demi-godhood taken away after grinding elites for several hours, and at least I don’t have to talk about gulp frogs this time

In WoW: Mists of Pandaria Remix, players discovered ways to turbocharge their progression through its theoretically infinitely-scaling power system by killing lots and lots of gulp frogs, then had their ill-gotten gains nerfed. Now, in WoW: Legion Remix, players have discovered ways to turbocharge their progression through its—you get the point. In case you’re unfamiliar…

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Splinter Cell: Deathwatch director wishes he had ‘the security clearance’ to get us info about Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell remake

Guillaume Dousse, the director of Netflix’s animated series Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, can’t tell me anything about Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell remake. Sorry, guys. I asked. “I wish I had something to say, and the security clearance to get this kind of information,” Dousse said, laughing a little, when we talked last week about Splinter Cell: Deathwatch—and…

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