Latest articles by Jacob Fox
AMD claims it's 'taking a little extra time' to get 'maximum performance' out of the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT before the GPUs launch in March
News Makes sense, but this still doesn't scream confidence in the product.
'Black smoke filled the room': Reddit user says their Gigabyte mouse spontaneously combusted 'with large flames' and now the manufacturer is taking a look
News Yikes.
Microsoft Edge Game Assist hits Stable release so you can now use it to pin videos in-game without setting it as your default browser
news But can it convince me to use Game Bar?
Latest Windows 11 Insider Build fixes 24H2 update's most annoying issues, including Auto HDR bugs and mouse stuttering
News Better three months late than never.
Best mouse pads for gaming in 2025: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on
Slick The best mouse pads offer slick mouse movement and awesome aesthetics, no matter what surface you prefer.
Crucial X9 2 TB external SSD review
Puck A smart, surprisingly performant portable USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 drive.
Looks like the Nintendo Switch 2's Joy-Cons double as gaming mice, which is neat but I can't help think about how I basically never use the Legion Go's same feature
News And is that a trackpad nub I see?
The Nintendo Switch 2 has just been announced and it looks a lot more like a handheld gaming PC than a console to me
News I admit it, I'm excited for a console.
If AMD isn't spilling the beans on the RX 9070 and 9070 XT at least online retailers are, but a release isn't imminent
News Just give us the scoop, already!
8BitDo Ultimate 2C wireless controller review
Cheap sticks The gorgeous and premium-feeling 8BitDo Ultimate 2C could rule the budget controller roost.
It's time for me to admit that AI-accelerated frame generation might actually be the way of the future and that's a good thing
DLS-yes It pains me to say it, but maybe we should focus less on traditional rendering.
Best capture cards for PC gaming in 2025: whether it's streaming, recording, 1080p or the big 4K, these cards have you covered
Broadcast Show off your greatest gaming moments with the best capture cards.
The Freewrite Wordrunner with a built-in word counter might be the keyboard to look out for if you want to improve your writing process
News Much will depend on typing feel, though.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang's simple reminder that useful quantum computing is a long way off has somehow caused industry stocks to plummet
News I don't think it'll matter, though. Quantum computing progress will continue.
Nvidia seems to have just confirmed upcoming Arm and Blackwell laptop chips based on its new GB10 processor in collaboration with MediaTek
news This is the more exciting than Project Digits itself, at least for us PC gamers.
AIB vendors getting the RTX 5080's memory config wrong could mean 50-series Super cards have more and faster VRAM
News Yeah, it's a little early to be talking Supers, but just call me an optimist.
AMD says there are no technical reasons for not having an X3D processor with 3D V-Cache on both CCDs, but we probably won't see such a dual-stacked chip anyway
News Doubling the cache, in this case, probably wouldn't improve gaming performance.
The RTX 5090 might make triple-fan cards look light on cooling if these four-fan and five-fan versions from Gigabyte and MSI are anything to go by
News Can we make it to six?
AMD might have told us little about its RDNA 4 graphics cards but at least we know the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT have 16 GB of VRAM
News It looks like Asus has actually told us more than AMD did.
With its Prime and TUF Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards, Asus is ditching thermal paste for a thermal pad that melts when hot
news This should really make the TUF cards tough over the long-term (sorry).
Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I'm not sure whether using it should be considered cheating or not
News Will it be the "ultimate gaming copilot" like Razer says, or more like an annoying sibling shouting over your shoulder?
AMD Ryzen AI Max is finally here: 'the most advanced mobile x86 processor ever created' with 40 RDNA 3.5 CUs and 16 Zen 5 cores
News Strix Halo has finally arrived.
AMD has just announced the two new 9000-series X3D chips we were hoping for, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D
News But both have the same amount of 3D V-Cache as the 9800X3D.
