Have you read our review of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X? It's an interesting device, with a powerful AMD SoC that outstrips the one in the original ROG Xbox Ally X, and it also debuts a new "full screen experience" for Windows PC games through the Xbox App—a feature that we're currently working on additional testing for. If you picked up a ROG

Multiple game publishers are dipping into their back catalogs to breathe new life into fan favorites. EA is hoping to ride this wave of nostalgia with a modernized version of the tower defense classic Plants vs. Zombies that will be “packed with new secrets to uncover.” Plants vs. Zombies Replanted will bring several upgrades to freshen

Sometimes you just need to drown out the noise in life, am I right? That's easier said then done, though if you're looking to knock out two birds with one stone, a solid set of headphones with noise cancellation provides an escape to musical bliss while literally suppressing outside noise. Even better, Amazon is serving up hundreds of dollars

Amazon is serving up some big discounts on gaming mice from brands like ASUS, Logitech, Razer, and others, with some deals knocking more than half off the MSRP. The more interesting bargains apply to flash deals that will expire by the end of the day, and limited time markdowns where it is anyone's guess how long the reduced price will be

Memory performance is a critically overlooked part of system performance among client users, especially gamers, and the reason is because memory overclocking is both tedious and risky, as it can produce silent data corruption even if an overclock seems stable. That's why we require extensive validation before considering a memory overclock

Since Battlefield 6's wildly successful launch on PC, low-spec gamers everywhere have been eager to put it through its paces—and have come away pleasantly surprised at how well it performs on GPUs of yesteryear. One particular YouTuber whose tests we'll be highlighting today is RandomGamingInHD, an enthusiast known for producing low-spec PC

Windows updates usually bring security enhancements, bug fixes and new features. Sometimes, though, these updates can also break parts of the operating system. Unfortunately, some updates for September and October fall into the latter camp, and many users are now having issues using a key feature of Windows 11. After applying the October

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for the diffuse glow near the center of the Milky Way—colliding dark matter particles or rapidly spinning neutron stars—are, for the first time, equally viable. Researchers believe the glow coming from inside our own galaxy

Are you ready to take your gaming to another level of image quality with an OLED display? There are a lot more options now than just a relatively short time ago, and also a steady stream of deals. As such, you can score Acer's Predator X34 OLED monitor with a fast refresh and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certification for a great price right now. How

The United States Mint has unveiled the designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program, immortalizing key figures and machines that defined our modern digital age. Among the four coins to be released next year (with designs representing California, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota), two specifically honor pivotal parts in computing

No one would blame you if you decided to pick up the newly refreshed 14-inch MacBook Pro with Apple's fancy M5 silicon inside, though for those who can afford to wait, the next-generation model with an M6 chip may be a substantially bigger upgrade to the MacBook Pro family. Rumor has it the next-gen MacBook Pro will finally adopt a touchscreen

Teamgroup is targeting gamers with its new T-Force Z54E, a solid state drive (SSD) that leverages Phison's E28 controller to push write and especially read speeds pretty close to the theoretical limit for NVMe storage on the PCI Express 5.0 bus. According to Teamgroup, its latest high-performance SSD can achieve speeds of up to 14,000MB/s

ASUS is following up on its 2025 ROG NUC with an AMD-powered variation, but the new machine is a China exclusive and something of a mixed upgrade. The good news is that the new model of the 2025 ROG NUC -- dubbed the ROG NUC 9 Mini -- boasts AMD's impressive mobile flagship Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processor. Compared to the Intel Arrow Lake-HX-powered

We wanted to like the original Intel Arc GPUs, but Xe was honestly a bit of a downer. That's why we were so impressed with Xe2, both in the form of the Lunar Lake integrated GPU as well as in the Battlemage discrete GPUs. Is it possible that Intel has pulled off another giant leap in architectural efficiency with Xe3? Maybe, if this leaked

DirectTV will be partnering with Glance to deliver personalized ad experiences that are powered by AI. The companies are planning to leverage TVs that are idling, and replace the typical default artwork that is displayed in this mode with ads and other custom feeds. This new feature will roll out to DirectTV customers who access the service

Battlefield 6 has enjoyed a series-high reception in sales on PC, and reports now indicate that this has extended to consoles as well, with sales totaling over 7 million across platforms within just a week of its October 10th release. In fact, BF6 is outperforming every other premium game this year besides EA's own FC 26. In the same first

Looking like a cross between Wall-E and a gimbal action cam, the camera module on Honor's new Robot Phone prototype has definitely gotten our curiosity piqued. Unveiled at the recent launch event for the Magic 8 phones, the camera can supposedly autonomously look around, respond to the user, and show emotions. Robot Phone's camera is a

Skywatchers across North America should be on high alert as a rare train of four CMEs (coronal mass ejections) from the Sun is set to collide with Earth's magnetic field, promising a spectacular and widespread display of the Northern Lights. The show began earlier this week and is expected to culminate tomorrow night. The solar eruptions,

Now is your chance to score a GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card for its lowest price to date, with a killer deal on Amazon for a factory-overclocked model that is on sale for $50 below NVIDIA's baseline MSRP. To partially borrow a line from The Outer Limits, 'There is nothing wrong with your monitor. Do not attempt to adjust the picture'. When

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Apple dropped a triple-header announcement centered around its core pro devices powered by the all-new M5 chip. The Fall refresh of the 14-inch MacBook Pro, the iPad Pro, and the Vision Pro headset signals Apple's push to dominate not just the CPU performance totem pole (at least until the M5 Pro

Coming almost as a non-surprise, Samsung has reportedly canceled next year's Galaxy S26 Edge, effectively pulling the plug on plans to jump-start the ultra-slim flagship trend merely five months after the Galaxy S25 Edge purportedly failed to win over consumers. Sales figures are mediocre enough that the company is also talking about halting

After a picture popped up on Reddit showing several pallets of MSI-brand GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards in China, MSI responded with a statement vehemently denying it had any role in the apparent large-scale smuggling operation. The reason MSI felt compelled to comment on the situation is because the United States has banned the export of

Apple introduced the next iteration of its custom silicon called M5 with the promise of massive performance uplifts in artificial intelligence, CPU workloads, and GPU chores. Built on a 3-nanometer manufacturing process, the Arm-based chip designed in-house comes with a series of big claims. One of those is Apple touting the "world's fastest

ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X: $999.99 at Best Buy ASUS and Microsoft's new handheld PC gaming machine is a revised version of the original Ally X sporting a new Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, a new Windows gaming frontend, and even-more-premium pricing.   Excellent Handheld Performance Impressive Full Screen Experience Gains Amazing Video Battery Life...