The Steam Deck just got a smart quality-of-life update that allows it to stretch further into the realm of proper dedicated gaming devices. Valve has added a new display-off, low-power mode that lets the handheld finish downloading games or updates before it goes fully to sleep—perfect for queueing up those big game installs overnight. The

When AMD revealed the Ryzen AI Max 300 series, also known by its codename "Strix Halo", there were only three models: the eight-core 385, the twelve-core 390, and the 16-core "Max+ 395". That plus sign on the "Max" in the product name is meaningful; it indicates that the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 has the complete GPU, with no less than 20 RDNA 3.5

Tonight will host what scientists have confirmed to the biggest, brightest full moon of the entire year. Some know it better as a supermoon, which is a full moon near its perigee (or closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit). This closeness means that the lunar disc will be visually stunning, shining up to 30% brighter and presenting

More Black Friday discounts are appearing by the day. Earlier this week, we highlighted a fantastic early Black Friday deal on a premium Samsung wireless soundbar system (as well as several other soundbars), and now we're turning our attention to a batch of discounted gaming laptops rocking GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs. Game on, folks! Gigabyte

Murmurs of Apple releasing a lower-cost MacBook to compete in the budget laptop segment are growing louder. If such a device comes to fruition, Apple would find itself competing with the likes of cheaper Chromebooks and entry-level Windows PCs, whereas traditionally the company has primarily focused its efforts on more premium categories. It's

OnePlus has unveiled an all-encompassing solution to mobile gaming called OnePlus Gaming Technology. This holistic system, debuting on the upcoming OnePlus 15 series, combines software, hardware, and chip-level innovations under three key pillars: OnePlus Gaming Core, Performance Tri-Chip, and OnePlus FPS Max. The company is taking its signature

AMD's latest earnings are in and they reflect another record quarter with revenue boosting to $9.2 billion on strong gains across the board, including client and gaming products (think: Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs). That figure represents a 20% sequential increase from AMD's previous record high, and is up 36% year-over-year. To put it in AMD

A huge part of the draw of social online games like Fortnite is purchasing and showing off fun in-game cosmetic items, like character skins, accessories, animated emotes, and more. It’s a way for players to express themselves while spending time in the vast game world. However, it seems that Epic might’ve misread the room with its latest additions,

If you were ordered to pick a random number and guess "zero", it may be a great choice—but not if it's what you pick every time you're asked, as current AMD Zen 5 CPUs are prone to do in certain conditions. Specifically, AMD has confirmed that in very specific circumstances, the RDSEED CPU instruction is returns a value of 0 "at a rate inconsistent

Have you ever heard of a company called Adeia? We haven't either. Founded in 2022, Adeia was originally the IP licensing arm of Xperi, which was formerly known as Tessera. What IP, you might ask? Well, a large portfolio of patents, arguably of questionable breadth, that it uses to extract revenue from companies it accuses of infringing on

The Stop Killing Games movement, which ramped up after Ubisoft shut down The Crew, has been steadily gaining support, with its petition garnering over a million signatures from citizens throughout the European Union. There are similar efforts happening in individual countries as well, including the United Kingdom, which officially brought

Apple iPhone Air (starts at $999, as reviewed $1,199) The iPhone Air is Apple’s new ultra thin smartphone and despite making compromises in camera versatility and battery life, this phone is a design masterpiece that’s simply greater than the sum of its parts. Ultra slick design Gorgeous display Excellent cameras Solid performance...

The United States of America is a uniquely beautiful, chaotic landscape of a country—and a setting apparently inseparable from the likes of Grand Theft Auto, according to Rockstar Games co-founder and now-independent GTA/Red Dead Redemption writer Dan Houser. Speaking in a two-hour interview on the Lex Fridman podcast, Dan Houser discusses

We're only a few days into November but it's not too early to jam out to big savings on Black Friday tier discounts. Quite literally - the annual sales frenzy has already begun at Best Buy with deals on a wide assortment items, including a monster discount on a high-end wireless soundbar system with a subwoofer and Dolby Atmos support. Samsung

The AI arms race is afoot and in a bid to stay in front of the 8-ball, OpenAI is forming a multi-year partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to rapidly scale agentic workloads. As part of the massive $38 billion deal, OpenAI will have access to AWS compute comprising hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, and potentially tens of millions

Nintendo is raising its Switch 2 sales forecast by millions of units after the second-generation handheld set an historic pace in console sales with 10.36 million systems sold in the first four months. For context, the first generation Switch, which ranks as a massive success in its own right, sold less than half as many units in its first

ARC Raiders has been one of the surprising hits of this year, with a player count that swelled well past 250 thousand over the weekend. Its success was unexpected because it’s an extraction shooter, which is a punishing genre that often keeps more casual players at bay. It can be especially frustrating if players run into cheaters and lose

Most PC users have experienced this problem first-hand: Windows performs updates, and your "Restart" and "Shut down" options get replaced by "Update and restart" and "Update and shut down." Only, in reality, these are actually the same option, because on virtually all systems, "Update and shut down" actually results in the machine rebooting

Marking a major win for Linux gaming initiatives, Steam's latest hardware survey has revealed that Linux adoption on the platform has finally risen to and above 3%, three years and six months after the launch of the original Steam Deck LCD. As one would expect, the majority of this adoption is in the form of SteamOS, which now comprises

The perpetually delayed second-generation Tesla Roadster, first unveiled in 2017 with a promise of 0-to-60 mph in (a not-that-special-anymore) 1.9 seconds, is now being teased by the CEO as perhaps possessing capabilities that defy the very definition of a car. Speaking on a recent episode of Joe Rogan's podcast, Musk declared that the

Blink and you might mistake Toyota's Tacoma H2-Overland Concept as a regular butched-up offroad Tacoma. Shown at SEMA in Las Vegas all of this week, the truck quietly hides some cool tech at a show that is typically dominated by V8s, flashing RGBs, and blinding chrome. Developed by Toyota Racing Development (TRD) teams from California and

Gadgets like ASUS ROG Phones and Nubia Red Magics already blur the line between flagship smartphones and dedicated gaming handhelds (in that order). However, Ayaneo, the company best known for handheld gaming consoles, intends on dropping a device that is basically a gaming handheld in a smartphone shell. In a teaser video, Ayaneo hints

It took a lot longer than we would have liked, but AMD's flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT is up for grabs at its baseline MSRP. Same goes for the Radeon RX 9070 (read: non-XT model). We won't go so far as to call this a deal in the true sense of the word, but it's noteworthy, given that add-in board (AIB) partners have routinely sold these cards

Intel is kicking off a new holiday promotion that rewards gamers who purchase select Core Ultra CPUs and systems with a choice of a free game, plus a collection of bonus software. One of the game choices is Battlefield 6 valued at $69.99, which debuted last month to rave reviews and quickly became Electronic Arts' most-played title on Steam. Pick