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Kojima makes Death Stranding 2 PC port official in new trailer, and it's coming pretty darn soon
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (215+ words) The PC port will have widescreen support, an unlocked framerate, and frame generation. Death Stranding 2 is the best game I've played on my dusty PS5, and soon it'll be one of the best games I've played on PC. That's assuming the…...
MSI's new Lightning Z RTX 5090 is power-thirsty, seeing over 1000 W in tests
6+ hour, 37+ min ago (436+ words) MSI's Lighting Z RTX 5090 is seemingly very impressive. With AIO liquid cooling and a huge screen, MSI says it is "Built to sustain 1000W loads with absolute stability." I wouldn't know personally, as I'm a mere mortal and not one of…...
Samsung's new 'Penta Tandem' QD-OLED monitor tech is brighter and more durable, but utterly confusing
7+ hour, 12+ min ago (921+ words) Five times two is 10? Apparently jealous of AMD and Intel's god-awful CPU branding, Samsung has cooked up a doozy for its latest QD-OLED panel tech for PC gaming monitors. We give you Samsung QD-OLED Penta Tandem, a brighter, more durable…...
$600 is far too much for a gaming headset, SteelSeries—even one with fancy carbon fiber drivers
7+ hour, 13+ min ago (1638+ words) The Arctis Nova Elite has some undoubtedly impressive drivers, and that's a very fine achievement. But its prohibitive price tag, in combination with a firm fit and a "see what sticks" approach to its feature set, fails to butter my…...
The headroom on the Asus RTX 5080 Noctua Edition has me stunned, as does its price tag
9+ hour, 11+ min ago (753+ words) Though its powerful look is a limit on what you can pair with it. It's very easy to clash given it's sporting Noctua's telltale brown, unless you pair it with more Noctua brown. So that's what I did. I paired the…...
Best Buy posts an RTX 5090 for $5090 and starts probably the worst pricing trend ever
11+ hour, 6+ min ago (335+ words) This is definitely not a trend we want to see develop: graphics cards with pricing to match their model numbers. But it's happened, all the same. The MSI Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z Liquid Cooled Graphics Card is up on…...
You'll soon need to have more hardware security features enabled just to play Fortnite
11+ hour, 24+ min ago (508+ words) Most modern motherboards should support these features. Come February 19, Epic Games says Fortnite will require additional hardware features to help prevent cheating. Two of these you probably already know about, these being Secure Boot and TPM, but the third you…...
Terrifying clip shows gamer's new RTX 5090 GPU sparking and igniting
11+ hour, 35+ min ago (308+ words) This could've been so much worse. It's every PC tinkerer's worst nightmare: an electrical fire. One unlucky Chinese gamer recorded the moment they first powered on their rig with a freshly plugged-in Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090, only to capture the card…...
The Steam Deck is sold out, but is that down to the memory crisis, tariffs, panic buying or no real reason at all?
12+ hour, 8+ min ago (448+ words) This isn't getting any more fun. We already know for sure that the memory crisis has messed up Valve's original plans to price up and launch its upcoming Steam Machine. Now the Steam Deck has sold out online in the…...
MSI Afterburner and some PSUs offer more peace of mind for dodgy power connectors
12+ hour, 12+ min ago (461+ words) More peace of mind, if you're willing to pay for the PSU. If you've kept up with hardware news in recent years, you'll likely have seen reports of graphics card power connectors melting or similar. It happens enough as to…...