Latest articles by Jeremy Laird
Xbox handheld rumoured to be 'essentially cancelled' but the new Asus Xbox Ally is actually a preview of all future Xbox consoles, not just handhelds
News No more dedicated Xbox consoles built by Microsoft, so the story goes...
Alienware 34 AW3425DW review
Deja jeu Alienware's ultrawide OLED has a new look, but the gaming experience is mostly familiar.
Intel's mythical Big Battlemage GPU pops up in the MESA Linux driver making a launch later this year that little bit more likely
News An RTX 4070 or 5070 beater for a bit less money?
AMD stealth launches the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, a cheaper downclocked version of its oldest 3D V-Cache U architecture
news AM4 forever.
OpenAI head Sam Altman claims a single ChatGPT query uses ‘one 15th of a teaspoon’ of water but that doesn't put AI's environmental impact in the clear
News But is water usage actually the worry?
Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest U in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts
News AheadComputing reckons the future of U performance is all about instructions per clock, not GHz or a zillion cores.
Microsoft previews new super-sized Start menu for Windows 11
news More of your apps and files just a couple of clicks away...
US peripheral maker cites 'global supply chain issues' as the reason for releasing its new gaming mouse everywhere except the US
news Locally global issues, or should that be globally local...?
After 15 months and 3,800 hours of 'worst case' usage, one independent test finds OLED burn-in is now almost a non-issue
news That pretty much correlates with our experiences...
Best gaming monitors in 2025: the pixel-perfect s I'd buy myself
Eye candy The best gaming monitors balance price with quality, resolution and refresh rate.
This M.2 adapter for the new Switch 2 is pretty nifty and has me wondering if you could do an eGPU next (you can't)
news It definitely doesn't look like it'll snap off in the MicroSD slot...
Great, so now farms are going to be crawling with giant robobugs like something straight out of Horizon Zero Dawn
News How long before the 'derangement' occurs?
Best OLED gaming monitors in 2025: I can't keep my eyes off these vivid displays
Eye candy The best OLED gaming monitors deliver awesome speed and eye-popping HDR performance.
MSI MPG 322URX review
4K QD-OLED redux MSI's refreshed 4K QD-OLED monitor doesn't move the game on.
AMD's baffling 'new' Ryzen Z2 APUs for handheld gaming PCs include a 'AI' model with an NPU and seemingly the ancient chip from Valve's Steam Deck
news The Z2 family now includes fully four different generations of AMD APU. Seriously?
A new report indicates Intel's latest Battlemage GPUs are a total failure and AMD's gaming graphics market share fell to just 8% but overall graphics cards sales are up
news The figures aren't quite recent enough to show the impact of AMD's latest GPUs...
Asus ROG Strix XG27UCG review
Dual-mode monitor Does two modes in one monitor make for a singularly compelling gaming experience?
Sneeze and this incredibly tiny postage-stamp-sized Atari computer recreation is a goner
News A tiny but timely reminder of a more optimistic era of computing...
CD Projekt Red and Epic claim Witcher 4 development 'ramped up dramatically' Unreal Engine's open world game capabilities
News It's going to be a long wait until 2027...
Google search's AI overviews are awful, but here's a browser extension that gets rid of them
News The beautiful irony of idiotic AI.
DeepMind boss 'would pay thousands of dollars per month' to get rid of his email, so Google is working on a next-gen Gmail AI that will answer them in 'your style—and maybe make some of the easier decisions' for you
News Inevitably creating the potential for bots emailing other bots and absolutely nothing else to worry about.
This incredible truly wireless desktop PC build even keeps your coffee hot forever
News Is 3D wireless power the future?
The 'main goal' for Epic Games' new Unreal 5.6 engine is more performance on the PS5 and that should be good news for gaming on affordable PC hardware
News A game designed to run fast on PS5 should absolutely fly on modest PC hardware.
