Hardware

The European rollout of ASUS's 20th-anniversary handheld has exposed a glaring regional pricing divide across the Eurozone. While official ASUS eShops in France and Germany offer the standalone machine for €1,399 following its October 15, 2026 release, Italian buyers are locked into a mandatory collector's bundle priced at €2,599. On the official Italian ASUS storefront, purchasing...

Open-source mod Oblivion Remastered Performance Fix by LTSharpe, engineered with Anthropic's Claude Code, eliminates Unreal Engine 5 traversal stutters and boosts frame rates by over 40% with zero visual downgrade.

The economic equation behind the tenth console generation is turning into an industrial minefield for Sony Interactive Entertainment. While the PlayStation 6 remains internally targeted for a late 2027 launch window, fresh semiconductor supply chain figures indicate that the hardware bill of materials is spiraling upward long before factoring in the main processor or the...

After sitting out Intel's Alchemist and consumer Battlemage GPU generations, ASUS unveils the UGen Intel Arc Pro B70 with a full BMG-G31 chip and 32GB GDDR6 ECC.

With the November 19, 2026 release date locked in on the calendar, hardware preparation is no longer a theoretical debate, especially given the brutal reality of 2026 console pricing. Because Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive are launching Grand Theft Auto VI exclusively on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S at day one, PC players and...

Catching your fingers in a spinning graphics card shroud is every PC builder's worst nightmare. Over on the r/gigabyte subreddit, user u/WholeFreedom3018 shared what happened when a troubleshooting session on a malfunctioning Gigabyte GPU went sideways. While inspecting the rig under load, the owner's fingers accidentally struck the spinning cooler, snapping multiple fan blades clean...

Ever since Windows 8 debuted in 2012, PC gamers have been stuck navigating two conflicting configuration worlds: the modern Settings app on one side, and the legacy Control Panel inherited from the 1990s on the other. This October 2026, Microsoft is pushing forward on two complementary fronts in Windows 11 to modernize its system menus...

Following their initial stateside rollout and this month's international retail expansion across Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and Italy, the Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses represent the biggest hardware leap yet for everyday eyewear. Priced at $799 USD ($1,149 CAD / €899 EUR), the package pairs a high-brightness monocular color screen embedded inside the right...

Small form factor builders and home theater PC enthusiasts have been waiting for AMD's RDNA 4 architecture to trickle down into truly compact dimensions. A new retail and distribution listing for an unannounced PowerColor RX9050 8GB LP graphics card has surfaced via hardware leaker @momomo_us on X. The model marks the very first known Low...

The industrial alliance forged under the Corsair umbrella is shifting into high gear this Friday, October 16, 2026, as doors open at the SimRacing Expo in Frankfurt. Sharing a massive presence at Messe Frankfurt, Fanatec and Trak Racer are rolling out their hardware roadmap for late 2026 and 2027: headlined by the first public prototype...