AOC has officially expanded its B3 series lineup with two new QHD monitors: the 23.8-inch Q24B36X and the 27-inch Q27B36X. These displays bridge the gap between standard office work and gaming, ensuring that everyday tasks like scrolling through documents feel fluid, while gaming remains crisp.

Both monitors use IPS panels to provide accurate colour reproduction and wide 178-degree viewing angles, making them well-suited for professional multitasking and media consumption. In addition, both offer a 2560×1440 resolution at a 144 Hz refresh rate and a claimed 0.5 ms MPRT response time.

The 27-inch Q27B36X provides a pixel density of 109 ppi with wide colour coverage reaching 118.5% of the sRGB gamut, whereas the more compact 23.8-inch Q24B36X offers a sharper 123 ppi. Both models support Adaptive-Sync to eliminate screen tearing, while they accept HDR10 signals too. For long-term comfort, AOC has included Flicker-Free technology and a Low Blue Light mode to reduce eye strain.

Connectivity options include a single HDMI 2.0 port and a DisplayPort 1.4, ensuring compatibility with modern desktops, laptops, and consoles. These monitors are scheduled for release this month, with the Q24B36X priced at £109.00 and the Q27B36X at £129.00.

KitGuru says: AOC is making high-refresh QHD displays more accessible than ever with these new additions to the B3 series. By providing gaming-grade motion performance at an office-friendly price point, these monitors offer a compelling “all-in-one” solution for users who do not want to spend too much.

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The latest addition to Seagate's large range of external hard drives is the Astro Bot Limited Edition Game Drive, designed for use with PS5 (storage only), PS4 (playback) and PC. It's got a 5TB capacity and is priced at £150/$170. We find out if it's worth buying.

The limited-edition drive is covered in artwork inspired by Astro Bot, winner of the Game of the Year award at The Game Awards 2024.

Using the CrystalDiskInfo utility, we see that the drive inside the 21.5 x 81 x 122.5mm plastic enclosure is a 5TB Seagate Barracuda (ST5000LM-2U8170) 2.5in hard drive. The ST5000LM-2U8170 has a spin speed of 5,400rpm with 128MB of cache. The transfer rate for the drive is quoted as up to 140MB/s, and the drive uses a USB 3.0 Micro B interface.

Seagate backs the drive with a 3-year warranty.

Physical Specifications:

• Usable Capacities: 5TB.
• Interface: USB 3.0 Micro B.
• Form Factor: external.
• Dimensions: 21.5 x 81 x 122.5mm.
• Drive Weight: 266g.

Firmware Version: 0003

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AMD has introduced a major update to its software ecosystem with the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition AI Bundle, a new stack designed to remove the technical hurdles associated with setting up a local artificial intelligence environment. Historically, developers and creators have had to manually configure complex stacks involving graphics drivers, Python environments, and various frameworks. This new bundle integrates directly into the Adrenalin Edition application as an optional install, allowing users to deploy a fully functional AI development environment with a single click.

The bundle includes a selection of essential tools, most notably bringing PyTorch to Windows as a native part of the AMD software suite for the first time. It also features ComfyUI for visual image generation workflows, Ollama for running LLMs locally, and LM Studio for easy model parameter tuning. Additionally, the bundle includes Amuse, a text-to-image application optimised for AMD hardware. By hosting these workloads locally on the user's hardware, AMD is positioning it as a cost-efficient, privacy-focused alternative to subscription-based cloud AI services.

Hardware compatibility is centred on AMD's latest architectures to ensure optimal performance with the ROCm platform. The AI Bundle is supported on systems equipped with an AMD Radeon RX 7700 series graphics card or newer, as well as the latest generation of processors, including the Ryzen AI 300, 400, and AI Max series. By leveraging the dedicated AI accelerators found in these RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 GPUs, users can build, train, and run models without the latency or security concerns typically associated with off-system processing.

To begin using these tools, users need to download the latest version of AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition and select the AI Bundle option during installation (or update). Once installed, applications such as Ollama and PyTorch can be launched directly from the software interface.

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KitGuru says: Even if you're not that into AI, given how easy it is to set up a local environment using the new AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition AI bundle, it might be worth trying it out. That is, of course, if your system meets the requirements.

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Throughout 2025 we saw an increasing number of leaks and rumours surrounding Ubisoft’s long-awaited Prince of Persia The Sands of Time Remake, with recent reports claiming that the title is scheduled to launch as early as this month. While this may have been the case at one point, Ubisoft have now announced “a major organizational, operational and portfolio reset” which includes the cancellation of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake and 5 other projects.

Making the surprise announcement via a press release, Ubisoft unveiled the details of their “major organizational, operational and portfolio reset” designed “to reclaim creative leadership and restore sustainable growth.”

While there is of course plenty to dig into with this press release (including details on the publisher’s “accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI”) by far the most surprising part of the announcement was the fact that half a dozen in-development projects have now been cancelled as a result of this restructure, with them writing:

“Ubisoft has discontinued 6 games that do not meet the new enhanced quality as well as more selective portfolio prioritization criteria at Group level. These include Prince of Persia The Sands of Time remake as well as 4 unannounced titles, including 3 new IP’s, and a mobile title.”

As mentioned, many were expecting Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake to be released this month, with various leaks and rumours late last year indicating as much. Additionally, just last week the ESRB published a listing for the game alongside an official content rating; suggesting that its release was indeed imminent.

Given the fact that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake was delayed multiple times, changed studios and rebooted in order to ensure a quality product, the news of its sudden and unexpected cancellation is highly disappointing to see.

KitGuru says: Were you looking forward to The Sands of Time Remake? Did you have high hopes for the project? At this point, would you have rather the original remake been released back in 2021 when it was initially planned? Let us know down below.

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Fractal Design has officially unveiled the Pop 2 Air, the next generation in its Pop series. Engineered with a focus on high-performance cooling and modern aesthetics, the new chassis features an open-mesh front with a cubic pattern, a ventilated top, and an integrated GPU air guide that directs cool air to the centre of the main chamber.

Out of the box, the Pop 2 Air comes equipped with three swept-blade fans to ensure airflow through the interior. The exterior maintains a sleek profile, detailed with a fabric tab and decent front I/O, including USB-A/C (5 Gbps) and audio ports.

The case is built to accommodate modern enthusiast hardware, supporting graphics cards up to 416 mm long, PSUs up to 180 mm long, CPU towers up to 175 mm tall, and top-mounted radiators up to 360 mm. Motherboard support ranges from Mini ITX to ATX. Lastly, there's space for a 3.5-inch drive, up to 3x 2.5-inch drives, and 7x 120 mm fans.

The building experience has been further refined with tool-free panels, dedicated cable routing spaces, and bracket-free SSD mounts for a cleaner, more straightforward setup. Fractal is offering the Pop 2 Air in multiple variants, including solid, tempered glass (TG), and RGB models, the latter of which features dedicated on-case lighting control buttons in the front I/O.

We will have a review of the Pop 2 Air in the coming weeks so stay tuned for that.

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KitGuru says: The original Pop series was a standout for its value and unique features, such as the hidden storage drawer. With the Pop 2 Air, Fractal is improving upon its predecessor with some adjustments, improving a winning recipe with new features. Depending on its price point, it could easily become the new go-to for mid-range and high-end airflow builds.

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The Berlin administration is facing a fundamental change of course in its IT policy. With its newly presented open source strategy, the city-state is attempting to gradually break away from its decades-long dependence on proprietary software solutions from international technology corporations. What was long considered a pragmatic decision in favor of stable and feature-rich systems […]

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Asus will not be making any more smartphones for the time being. This was confirmed by CEO Jonney Shih at an event in Taiwan. Officially, the company is referring to a “break” rather than a permanent exit. In practice, however, this is exactly what it amounts to. A return is neither scheduled nor strategically plausible. […]

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There is no respite for AMD’s AM5 platform. After earlier Ryzen generations had already attracted attention due to voltage problems, there are now increasing reports of sudden total failures of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. After the phenomenon was initially observed mainly on motherboards from another manufacturer, AM5 boards from ASUS are now also in the […]

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Apple’s long-standing special status at TSMC could be at a turning point. The background to this is the changed revenue structure of the world’s largest contract manufacturer, which is increasingly benefiting from the boom in AI accelerators and data center chips. While Apple has been the most important single customer for many years and was […]

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With version 0.97.0, Microsoft is releasing another major update for PowerToys. The focus is clearly on productivity, improved usability, and greater integration between the individual modules. Particular attention is paid to a new mouse tool called CursorWrap and a comprehensively revised range of functions in the Command Palette. CursorWrap is primarily aimed at users with […]

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In 2026, companies will continue to face a tense and highly dynamic threat situation. Current evaluations by security researchers at Ontinue show that cybercriminals are evolving strategically and adapting their methods specifically to changing work environments and technical protection mechanisms. The analyses are based on observations from underground forums, criminal networks, and real attack scenarios, […]

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The Minisforum MS-R1 occupies a special place in the current mini PC market because it is the first commercially available system to use a Chinese ARM CPU called CIX P1 CP8180 that is explicitly not only aimed at the embedded or industrial sector. Right out of the box, the device differs significantly from well-known ARM […]

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Yesterday on X/Twitter, GameStop was forced to "gently remind everyone that our stores are not designed to function as infinite money printers." This statement was a response to a GameStop promotion that allowed shoppers to buy a Nintendo Switch 2, then trade it in for more than they paid, as long as they included a used game as well. If the

Who makes CPUs? Well, you've got AMD, Intel, Apple, Qualcomm, and Mediatek as the major players in consumer devices, with companies like Samsung, Broadcom, Google, Huawei, UNISOC, and Rockchip each making up smaller slices of the market (even if their portfolios are often much larger). NVIDIA's there too, though; while everyone knows about

Arc Raiders development studio Embark has big plans for the game in 2026, after upon realize it became a smash hit in 2025. And now the developer hopes to attain the success of long running online games such as Fortnite. This includes potentially making changes for players who join raids that are already underway, even though it notes these

Amidst rising AI discontent, some tech CEOs have formed somewhat of a united front insisting that critics of AI are somehow incorrect. In an interview on Decoder with Nilay Patel (a podcast produced by The Verge), Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan has chimed in with some curious, conflicting statements regarding generative AI. These statements particularly

Following a roughly 6 months delay, Bungie’s extraction shooter Marathon is finally set to officially launch on the 5th of March. While questions remain regarding how the live-service title will be received, PS5 Pro users are seemingly in for quite the visual treat, with Sony confirming that the PS5 Pro version of Marathon will run at an internal resolution of 5K.

Following the official announcement of Marathon’s new release date (that being the 5th of March), PlayStation have now started to share a bunch of ancillary details pertaining to the upcoming extraction shooter.

While some games struggle to render at a native 1080p even on the PS5 Pro, Marathon looks to be operating with plenty of spare power, with the team confirming via its store page that:

“PS5 Pro Enhanced PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) blends 5K internal rendering into a clean, stable 4K image so your Runner’s view stays sharp, even when the action gets hectic.”

Typically, PSSR is used to upscale games to a higher perceived resolution, but in this case, the technology is actually downsampling the internal resolution from 5K to 4K; which will make Marathon’s sleek visual design even cleaner looking.

Unfortunately, there has been no word on whether the game will offer a 120fps mode, with the store page only confirming “a sharp, smooth 60 FPS” for now.

Regardless, it is interesting to see PSSR used to downsample from higher resolutions, as opposed to being a bit of a clutch to eke out some extra frames. Hopefully Bungie has plans to introduce some sort of high framerate option.

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With Sony’s PlayStation Plus Extra / Premium titles for the month of January now out and available for subscribers to claim, the console maker has confirmed the list of games which will be removed from the service next month. Covering a wide spectrum of genres, February’s departees include the hit dungeon-crawling rogue-like Cult of the Lamb, Rez Infinite and WWE 2K25 among others.

In going to the last chance to play section on the PlayStation 5’s PS Plus tab, subscribers can find a list of 9 titles which are set to be removed from the service next month (likely mid-February):

• WWE 2k25
• New World Aeternum
• Saga Frontier Remastered
• Cult of the Lamb
• Super Neptunia RPG
• The Ascent
• Carto
• Rez Infinite
• Spirit of the North

While the likes of Cult of the Lamb and Rez Infinite being removed is sad to see, Amazon’s New World Aeternum was already being delisted from all storefronts as servers are being taken offline – and so its departure is not surprising. Regardless, you still have roughly a month to check out / complete the games above before they are removed from the service come mid-February.

In case you missed it, January’s PlayStation Plus Extra / Premium additions include the likes of Resident Evil Village, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Darkest Dungeon II. Full details on this month’s line-up can be found HERE.

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Prior to the game’s launch last year, the team at Gearbox confirmed that the then-upcoming Borderlands 4 would be landing on the Nintendo Switch 2 alongside all other platforms. Right at the last minute however, the Switch 2 version was delayed indefinitely citing the need for “additional development and polish time”. While we’ve yet to get an updated timeline, a Portuguese retailer seems to have confirmed Borderlands 4’s launch date prematurely.

As discovered by Reddit user ‘Venom_daemon', the Portuguese retailer GamingReplay recently went live with their listing for the Switch 2 version of Borderlands 4, with the title reportedly arriving on the 27th of February.

While this of course should be taken with a pinch of salt until confirmed by Gearbox themselves, Borderlands 4 over the past few months has made a bunch of strides when it comes to ensuring a more consistent and performant experience, meaning its arrival shouldn’t be too far away.

That said, early impressions of the Switch 2 version prior to release left plenty to be desired, and so it will be interesting to see exactly what changes/optimisations have been made to ensure a smooth experience.

Despite a solid start, Borderlands 4 sales have been lower than expected, with 2K blaming performance issues on PC for the “softer” reception. With a majority of these woes across PC and consoles now resolved, it will be interesting to see how the Switch 2 version performs – both in terms of stability and sales.

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IO Interactive has slowly but surely been transforming HITMAN: World of Assassination into the perfect stealth-assassination series, collating the recent trilogy into one neat package while adding new content; modes; features and more. 5 years on from the original launch of HITMAN 3, IOI have announced a highly-welcome update – with full cross-progression set to be added early next month.

Making the official announcement on their blog, the team at IO Interactive unveiled the next update coming to HITMAN: World of Assassination, writing: “On this day, exactly 5 years ago, HITMAN 3 launched worldwide for our players to experience, as the final chapter of the World of Assassination trilogy. As part of that special milestone, it was also important for HITMAN to equip its players with a sense of continuity by allowing everyone to bring forward their established progression from previous parts.”

In furthering these efforts, IOI have now confirmed that “Cross-Progression is coming to HITMAN World of Assassination” with the update set to go live on the 3rd of February. Unlike some games which use cross-progression, HITMAN: WOA will allow you to carry your progress over to all platforms which the game is available on – mobile and VR included.

Being tied to your IOI account, the following will be tracked and synced across devices:

• Experience 
• Player Level 
• Challenges 
• Location Mastery 
• Unlocks and Inventory 
• Achievements / Trophies 
• Freelancer Mode Progression 
• Campaign Story Progress 

Despite starting its life as a separate trilogy, IOI have successfully turned HITMAN into a highly-popular live-service adjacent experience; minus many of the downsides which such titles typically experience.

Considering the fact that the team are hard at work on the upcoming 007: First Light, it is encouraging to see them continue to support HITMAN: WOA in a bunch of consumer-friendly ways.

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Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor (U5226KW) MSRP $2899.99 (W/ Stand), $2799.99 (Without Stand)  The Dell UltraSharp 52 (U5226KW) is a massive, beautiful, gently curved Thunderbolt Hub-enabled monitor featuring a 6K2K resolution, 120Hz variable refresh rate and IPS Black panel technology. It's ideal for analysts, creators...

Forget Thing T. Thing from The Addams Family (yes, that's the full name); modern science has officially brought us a detachable robot hand that can actually skitter across the floor, grab you a beer, and creep the heck out of your guests. In an engineering development that straddles the line between revolutionary and nightmare fuel, researchers

New data and analysis are rewriting the biography of the Red Planet as evidences suggest that Mars could have held more water (and potential life) than previously thought, where it once hosted a vibrant, blue world dominated by a massive northern ocean. Delta deposits that appeared on the images of Mars with the coastline. (Credit: ESA/ExoMars,TGO/CaSSIS/Ignatius

ASUS is rolling out a new Wi-Fi 7 router with a comparatively subdued design aesthetic from past models we've seen, trading the aggressive headcrab design found on the ROG Rapture GT-AX11000 we reviewed (as well as some newer models) for more of a block-shaped profile. Make no mistake though, new ROG Strix GS-BE7200 still stands out for a