It's been a wild, news-packed week so far, with lots of announcements coming out of the 2026 Game Developers Conference (GDC). Besides NVIDIA's news yesterday and Intel's new CPUs today, Microsoft's new Xbox CEO, Asha Sharma, officially laid out the roadmap for the future, and that future is codenamed "Project Helix." At the same time, we

Comet 3I/ATLAS has once again found its way into headlines as astronomers are astounded to learn the famous space rock is emitting large amounts of organic methanol in its coma. The group of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, also known as ALMA, to make the discovery. Late last year astronomers and other scientists debated

Roblox isn't just a game, it's a game development platform in every sense of the term. A recent Bloomberg story helped expose just how profitable that platform can be for its contributors, with developers like Nate Colley, developer of the popular game Fisch, able to make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month by selling microtransactions

Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division has been in a bit of freefall as of late, with its longtime CEO Phil Spencer departing the company alongside heir apparent Sarah Bond. New CEO Asha Sharma is quickly trying to steady the ship, having unveiled the gaming brand's upcoming console last week, dubbed Project Helix. Now, Xbox is giving gamers a sneak

It's already been four months since Valve announced a series of new hardware products that are coming out this year, including a modern reincarnation of the Steam Machine, the Steam Frame for VR gaming, and a retooled Steam Controller. The Steam Machine is the most interesting product of the bunch, and we now have more details about the validation

Sony isn’t just having to deal with the headwinds of higher component costs and an increasingly competitive gaming landscape where a game can get shut down if it isn’t an immediate hit, it’s now also having to contend with a hefty lawsuit filed in the UK. The case against the company has been brought to London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal,

Apple is poised to disrupt the lower-cost laptop market with the launch of its MacBook Neo, a $599 notebook that is the cheapest MacBook ever released. It will take some time to gauge the full impact of Apple's foray into more budget laptop territory, but here in the early going, the aggressive price point is drawing attention by Apple's competitors

If you don't have an Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra desktop system, it may be because you opted to skip that generation due to Arrow Lake not showing a big enough gaming performance lift compared to Intel's previous generation chips. Well, fair enough, but Intel's new Core Ultra 200S Plus series processors have just arrived, and they may indeed

Today marks the retail launch of Samsung's Galaxy S26 series, and there is reason to believe the latest flagship lineup will sell like gangbusters.  Ahead of the launch, Samsung and its retail partners were accepting preorders, which skyrocketed nearly 25% across all channels, according to Samsung. That includes preorder sales direct from

It has only been a week since the National Consumers League shared its annual report detailing how phishing is one the most common forms of fraud reported by Americans, and now the FBI has issued a warning regarding a new phishing tactic. The agency says that criminals are leveraging publicly available information to fool victims into paying

Glasses-free 3D has a long, surprisingly storied history across PC hardware and gaming, and Samsung is looking to be the latest torchbearer. At GDC 2026, it announced that over 120 games will support its glasses-free 3D games by the end of the year. Samsung is highlighting the feature for its 27-inch Odyssey 3D 960XF monitor, which will

Resident Evil Requiem, the ninth mainline installment in the franchise, has proven to be a hit for Capcom as it has become the fastest-selling game in the series. The publisher is hoping to keep the momentum and strong sales figures going by revealing that there are several updates in the pipeline. These include fixes for an improved experience

One of the best headphones for music lovers who need premium active noise cancellation (ANC) is down to its lowest price ever right now. That would be Sony's WH-1000XM6, the newest model in its popular WH-1000X series that released in May 2025, though don't fret about a newer model being imminent. While possible, it's unlikely. How so?

In case you haven't heard, this week is GDC, the Game Developers Conference, not to be confused with GTC, the Graphics Technology Conference—that one is next week. Naturally, NVIDIA's present at GDC in a big way, and the company has some pretty significant announcements to make. We're going to go over everything NVIDIA is launching and promising

Initial CAD renders of the Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold have surfaced online, offering an early glimpse at a device that prioritizes subtle refinement over a radical hardware overhaul. In other words, unless there are drastic and meaningful changes that we don't see, the next Google foldable looks to be a little bit muted as a design upgrade.  Thanks

A bright meteoric fireball streaked across the European sky this week, providing a rare and dramatic six-second-long display for onlookers with their phones and cameras. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), however, at least one German home was struck by smaller pieces of the meteorite.  According to the ESA and the European AllSky7

The doom and gloom forecasts are ramping up as the memory and storage supply crunch continues to be analyzed, and today we get a two-for-one special courtesy of fresh reports by Omdia (formerly IHS Markit) and Trendforce. Together, they paint a pretty bleak picture of the PC landscape, with a modest decline in shipments expected as well as

Well, shiver me timbers, the pricing of Ford's 2026 Mustang Dark Horse SC has just been announced and it's not for the meek of heart. Starting at $108k, the new supercharged Mustang is roughly $15k more than the Shelby GT500 (adjusted for inflation). Additional packages and/or accessories can bump the final ticket north of $175k. Homina, homina. It

ASUS is expanding its sleek and stylish (in a business casual way) ExpertCenter desktop lineup with the launch of the ExpertCenter P700 Mini Tower (PM700MG) powered by AMD's latest-generation Ryzen AI 400 series Gorgon Point processors revealed at CES. According to ASUS, the refreshed design extends past the core hardware, resulting in a "whisper-quiet"

Xbox emulation is now available on Android, albeit in a limited and somewhat controversial form. The app is called X1 Box and it is available in Google's Play Store for $7.99, as of this writing. Eagle-eyed users, however, have noticed that X1 Box is a fork of the free, open-source Xemu emulator, and the developer has already posted the source

Xbox has been in tumultuous times as of late. Within a week of the retirement of Phil Spencer, and passing of the torch to former Windows AI head Asha Sharma, Microsoft announced its new Project Helix console. As we've covered previously, Project Helix is a high-end console-PC hybrid capable of running both Xbox-exclusive titles and PC games,

If I'm offering to sell you a laptop, and I tell you that the laptop has 1.1 TB of storage, you would likely expect that it has a 1TB SSD and perhaps another, smaller SSD. Well, don't get tricked by sketchy listings like this one that Redditor /u/bmr99 spotted on Amazon, which say "1.1TB storage," but are actually referring to a 1TB OneDrive

Apple delivered several new products during its days-long event last week, including the entry-level cost MacBook Neo and updated MacBook and iPad Airs. Apple fans may have more to look forward to this year though, because the much discussed foldable iPhone appears imminent. Long time Apple leaker Sonny Dickson took to X to share a purported

Back in 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully smashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, a kinetic impact experiment to see if we could knock a lethal space rock off course. New analysis this week reveals that the impact did make a difference and that DART altered the entire binary asteroid’s path