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A white desk mat though? That's a dangerous game there.

Game developer Hideo Kojima is partnering with Asus for a new, branded line of ASUS ROG PC gear. Well, Kojima himself isn't directly partnering with Asus. His studio, Kojima Productions, is partnering with Asus. Also, the gear from Asus won't feature Kojima's face but will instead incorporate the "Ludens" design that Kojima Productions is kind of known for (the skeleton man in the space suit).

At CES 2026,...

Prices have gone up globally.

Effectively immediately, the pricing on all Xbox consoles, controllers, headsets, and other peripherals have been increased. In an announcement made today, Xbox says that the price increase on consoles and accessories begins May 1 with pricing on some Xbox games going up to $79.99 for the holiday season.

These price increases are global, with just one exception: Headsets. Headset prices are going up only in the United States and Canada....

New desktop and laptop GPUs will begin releasing this month.

Nvidia officially revealed their newest lineup of consumer graphics cards yesterday at CES 2025. Built on their new Blackwell architecture, the GeForce RTX 50 Series of GPUs start at just $549 for the RTX 5070.

In addition to the RTX 5070 at $549, Nvidia announced the RTX 5070 Ti at $749, RTX 5080 at $999, and the RTX 5090 at $1,999. Both the 5080 and 5090 will be out starting January 30th. The 5070 and 5070...

After over three decades, the XPS series is no more.

Dell announces that they are killing off their long-running "XPS" branding. Not only is Dell getting rid of the XPS branding but they're also killing off their Inspiron, Latitude, and Precision branding. In place of these unique words will be Apple-inspired branding such as Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max.

Dell describes their low-end "Dell" brand as being "designed for play, school, and work."...

The first new keyboard key in about 30 years.

About 30 years ago, Microsoft added the Windows key to keyboards. Chances are extremely high that the keyboard you're using on your computer has that Windows key on it. Hell, it might even have two Windows keys on it like mine does. Sorry Mac users with your Options key, this news does not apply to you.

Microsoft is apparently not satisfied with the classic keyboard anymore, because they are about to introduce a new key dedicated...

The 5800X3D was just the start.

Those still on AMD Socket AM4 motherboards probably have no reason to make a major upgrade to AM5 hardware just yet. This is especially true with how AMD keeps offering new Zen 3 models in its X3D series. According to a reliable leaker chi11eddog and relayed by TechPowerUp, AMD will soon release the Ryzen 7 5700X3D and the Ryzen 5 5500X3D.

These new X3D processors, though built on the older Zen 3 microarchitecture, feature the newer 3D...

A new ultra-lightweight gaming mouse just hit the market.

A new ultralight mouse from gaming peripheral manufacturer Pwnage has just hit the market. The company just released StormBreaker, a gaming mouse that is built using a magnesium alloy and several speed holes weight-reducing cutouts.

Starting at $169 (USD), the StreamBreaker boasts a total weight of just 51g. This seems to be a reduction of 2 grams compared to when the mouse was first announced back in March. Will...

The issues may be tied to excess voltage from overclocking.

Some users on AMD's new AM5 platform have started to report that their new Ryzen processors have burnt out. Users across Reddit and other social media sites have shared their stories showing visible damage to both their Ryzen 7000 CPUs and to the motherboard socket. These issues have not been limited to any single motherboard vendor.

The burnout issue seems to be most common on AMD's Ryzen 7000X3D processors,...

If you have an RTX 3080 Ti, you may want to be careful.

PC Gamer yesterday reported on an issue impacting those with Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards trying to run the now open Diablo 4 beta. Beginning last weekend with the closed beta, owners of the RTX 3080 Ti have taken to the Blizzard forums and Reddit to report that Diablo 4 killed their graphics cards.

According to what users are reporting, at a random point when playing the Diablo 4 beta, their monitors will go...

The new mouse boasts a total weight of just 53g.

If you're into having an ultra-light mouse for your gaming rig, you may be interested in checking out the upcoming StormBreaker mouse from Pwnage. Clocking in at a total weight of just 53g, this mouse uses a body made out magnesium to achieve that lighter weight. They also cut a bunch of holes in where having a solid piece of material really isn't necessary, like a lot of these ultra-light mice are doing these days to help keep the weight...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is partly to blame.

MSI Afterburner has been one of the more popular tools used by users looking to overclock graphics cards. Despite being under the MSI branding, Afterburner was free to be used across all makes and models of GPUs, and helped everyone from gamers to professionals dial in the perfect overclock on cards from Nvidia and AMD.

MSI Afterburner was developed by Alexey Nicolaychuk, a Russian that is perhaps better known by his...

If you want a PlayStation 5, you can probably find one to buy.

Sony says that their PlayStation 5 console sales have surpassed 30 million units. They also say that the console shortage, at least for them, is essentially done and over with.

This news come via Sony Interactive Entertainment president Jim Ryan and Sony's CES conference. The 30 million units sold figure is an increase of 5 million from the last time Sony shared sales data back on November 1, 2022. Ryan says...

Remember the 12GB RTX 4080? It's back!

Nvidia held their GeForce Beyond stream earlier today as part of CES 2023. During the presentation the company announced the fourth RTX 40-series desktop GPU, which will be the third 40-series card released.

Today, the "unlaunched" 12GB RTX 4080 was brought back as the newly announced 12GB RTX 4070 Ti. This card is again built on the new Ada Lovelace architecture. The RTX 4070 Ti ships with 7,680 CUDA cores, a 2.61GHz clock,...

The announcement comes just a day after AMD released their new processors.

During their Intel Vision Event, Intel announced that their 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" CPUs will be released starting on October 20, 2022. Much like 2021's Alder Lake (12th Gen), Raptor Lake will again utilize a blend of performance (P-Cores) and efficiency (E-Cores) cores. Raptor Lake will make use of the new Z790 chipset, but it seems as though those with Z690 boards will still be fine to upgrade....