Gamer Fridge

Put down the frog: There’s no need to do anything rash. That’ll apply to you, reader of a very specific age, if you were thinking of throwing out your old Webkinz—the toys-to-life plushie that was springing into browsers circa 2005—because the classic version of the game hasn’t been playable on browsers in ages. Last week,…

AMD has just posted its latest financial results and the message is clear: Things are good. Things are very good. Indeed, CEO Lisa Su summed it all up succinctly: “We delivered an outstanding quarter with record revenue and profitability.” Overall revenue was up 36% to $9.2 billion, while profits grew by 31% to $2.2 billion….

Another bottleneck bites the dust Out with the old and in with the new, or in this case, MSI is anxious to bid a fond farewell to the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) and get cooking with Non-Volatile Media Express (NVMe). To get the party started, MSI issued a round of BIOS updates for a…

In procuring any new piece of tech, my first question has always been “Can it run DOOM?” It’s a query that becomes all the more far-fetched as the game storms through its countless evolutions away from the initial mishmash of bloody pixels on a CRT TV. Thankfully, GPUs are keeping up with the current graphical…

I’ve been enjoying some quality time with the office Steam Deck. It’s an impressive bit of kit for sure, though I’m hardly putting it through its paces by catching up on Mouthwashing and replaying 1000xResist for the nth time. With a year full of anticipated RPGs ahead, I’m wondering how Valve’s handheld will fare playing…

Intel’s long awaited Panther Lake CPU has made an appearance in the Geekbench results browser (via Videocardz). And the early numbers look, well, kind of okay. According to the Geekbench entry, we’re talking 2,849 single-core points and 15,434 multi-core points. Arguably, it’s the single-core result that’s most interesting as it theoretically allows for a direct…