Valve is launching three new Steam Hardware projects in 2026, and two of them are quite familiar. The Steam Frame is the newest of the bunch, intended as a lower cost alternative to the ultra-premium Valve Index, joining the likes of Meta Quest and other standalone VR headsets, powered by Snapdragon silicon, but now with SteamOS and a highly

During its State of Play Japan conference, Sony surprise-announced new PlayStation hardware—a PlayStation Gaming Monitor, specifically, which also includes a DualSense charging hook. While we don't know how much it will cost yet, the pricing of Sony's existing lineup of InZone gaming monitors raised a few eyebrows here in the HotHardware newsroom.

FromSoftware finally delivered the online co-op experience fans had been yearning for with the release of Elden Ring Nightreign earlier this year. And the game is about to get even better with the newly announced DLC, The Forsaken Hollows, which will bring new Nightfarers, new enemies to battle and a Shifting Earth. The Shifting Earth is

NVIDIA may garner the lion's share of AI news, but AMD has its own selection of extremely potent AI processors, and it has been making rapid progress on both the hardware and software fronts in recent years. It was just a few months ago back in June that the company launched its Instinct MI350 accelerator, and in September the company made

There is a lot of buzz around Apple's Mac mini devices (deservedly so), but if you're if you're a Windows person and are in the market for a potent mini PC, there is a heck of a good deal available on an AMD Ryzen-powered system right now. Combining the sale price with a coupon code, you can knock $136 off the MSRP. Just as importantly, the

Hyundai is sending out letters to potentially millions of drivers affected by a newly disclosed data breach that happened earlier this year. According to the letter, a "cyber incident" at Hyundai AutoEver America (HAEA), an IT solutions provider for the automotive industry, resulted in unauthorized access to systems starting on February 22

The shimmering Pleiades star cluster has just shed its millennia-old reputation as a collection of Seven Sisters. Thanks to new data gleaned from the TESS and Gaia star-tracking spacecrafts, astronomers have revealed that this iconic group is part of a diaspora up to 20 times larger than previously imagined. Published this week in The Astrophysical

During its State of Play event, Sony announced a PlayStation-branded gaming monitor that is coming to market next year. The display's specs are rather underwhelming compared to a litany of existing options on the market, though it does sport a clever feature that PS5 owners will appreciate—a built in charging hook for DualSense and DualSense

Lest there be any doubt, AMD is already working on what comes next after Zen 6, which an updated CPU roadmap revealed at its Financial Analyst Day event remains on track to launch next year. The event is focused more on the business side of the equation, but there are still some high level details to be gleaned, including that Zen 7 is official. We've

Android apps will soon be facing penalties for excess battery drain on the Play Store, but developers will be made aware of these issues and have time to fix them before they are penalized, per Google's latest Android Developers Blog post. This effort follows last year's addition of a beta metric to Android vitals dubbed "excessive partial

Speaking in an interview, Bethesda Softworks head Todd Howard confirmed that The Elder Scrolls VI is now in playtesting, but also that the full release of the game is still far off in the distance. Since the original Elder Scrolls VI trailer dropped in June of 2018 (nearly seven years after Skyrim's November 2011 release), it's been another

Google is bringing some holiday gifting cheer via the November Pixel Drop, which focuses heavily on infusing Gemini AI capabilities directly into Google Messages and Google Photos, along with expanding critical safety (such as Scam Detection for messages) and productivity features to a wider global audience. Update roll out begins this week

The iPhone Air is one of Apple’s most impressive designs, with the impossibly thin phone capable of going toe-to-toe with other slim phones on the market. However, indications are the new form factor has been unable to spur sales the way the company was hoping for. This has led to Apple rethinking its plans for what it wants to do with the

Steam might be the near default choice for finding and buying games on PC, but Valve isn’t resting on its laurels, as it’s implementing improvements to the user experience. Thanks to the insight the company gets from its user surveys, it knows that gamers have screens with plenty of pixels to spare, and this update takes advantage of that

That's right: another Windows feature update is coming, but don't worry, because you probably won't get this one. Windows 11 26H1 is actually already available to Windows 11 Insiders on the "Canary" channel, which is the most bleeding-edge release of Windows 11. What features does this update bring? A few fixes for issues that only exist in

Instead of a triumphant touchdown, China held its breath as the three-member crew of its latest long-duration Shenzhou-20 mission remained orbiting the Earth, their return indefinitely delayed by an unforeseen threat: a cloud of fast-moving orbital debris. After initial silence over the matter, state media has now declared that what was supposed

Who would have guessed that Apple would eventually become a strong value play in the laptop space? Sure, there are some decked-out MacBook Pro laptops that command a hefty premium, but there are also far more cheaper options that offer a lot of bang for your buck, especially as we head into the Black Friday shopping season. Just look at discounted

Leaked CAD renders, circulating after the apparent cancellation of the ultra-slim Galaxy S26 Edge, show Samsung returning to the stalwart Plus variant, this time sporting a different camera module design. For awhile now, Galaxy S phones have had an almost flush camera setup with individual lenses protruding from the backplate. Now, the Galaxy

Storage prices may be on the rise (boo!), but flagship solid state drives are also getting faster (hooray!). We've seen a handful of new SSDs push the envelope lately, and Silicon Power's new XPower XS90 Gen 5 SSD joins the bunch with blazing-fast sequential read speeds of up to 14,300MB/s (14.3GB/s) and sequential writes of up to 13,400MB/s

Apple is once again pitching a pricey slab of cloth for iPhone owners, this time in collaboration with ISSEY MIYAKE, a Japanese fashion brand. The new iPhone Pocket, as it's called, is "a piece of cloth" designed to fit any iPhone, though there's nothing stopping you from shoving a Samsung Galaxy phone or Google Pixel handset inside. Well,

Possibly the most absurd truth of modern computing is that, as far as the technology has evolved, we're fundamentally still doing the exact same thing we were doing decades ago: twiddling bits. The question, of course, has always been how fast we can twiddle those bits, and how many we can do at once. Because it's still the same work, though,

Security researchers have found several alarming security flaws in tooling used by containerization tool Docker that allows attackers to attack the host machine. The flaws specifically relate to runC, which Docker describes as the “infrastructure plumbing” that makes it such a useful tool for developers. RunC is a universal container runtime

The idea that AMD's Zen 6 would support AVX-512 in some fashion has never really been in question, to tell the truth. With native 512-bit vector datapaths and a nearly-complete AVX-512 implementation, AMD's Zen 5 already has the strongest AVX-512 support on client systems, but it does seem like Zen 6 is poised to expand that support considerably.

The compact PC world may just have been given a good shake up with Minisforum's new MS-R1, a mini workstation with server-grade Arm performance in an expandable desktop form factor. But hold up, the machine is also being hailed as the first of its kind in the world to support UEFI boot. With UEFI, the MS-R1 makes it as simple to install and