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Father's Day is fast approaching, so I've picked out 12 awesome gift ideas for gaming dads without a single pair of socks to be found
50+ min ago (197+ words) Dad does not need more socks. Dad needs PC gaming gear. Father's Day is on Sunday, June 21 this year, and if you're anything like me, you're already scrambling to think of something to buy. I've got good news for gaming…...
Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (529+ words) If you have a 270 K Plus and an RTX 5090, you could see up to 27% more performance in Silksong'at 1080p High, that is. For the launch of its Core Ultra 200 S Plus processors, Intel released a software package called Binary Optimization Tool…...
After 3, 000 hours spent in Total War: Warhammer, 40k's gameplay reveal has me convinced this one might genuinely end me
2+ hour ago (341+ words) Damn good way to go, though. I immediately knew that this genre was made for me, and turns out I was right; over 6, 000 hours and many years (and games) later, Total War remains my favorite. After 25 years, its longevity as…...
HP and Ferrari are charging $5, 999 for this laptop, and it doesn't even have a discrete GPU
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (240+ words) It wouldn't be a Ferrari collab if it had a decent engine in it. HP has just announced a collaboration with luxury sports car maker Ferrari, right before the Monaco Grand Prix. Does the subject of this collab boast blistering…...
Thermal Grizzly testing diamonds on a direct-die CPU block: '3-4 times better' than most
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (649+ words) It's just a pet project, I'm told. Thermal Grizzly has some products in the works that will make any custom loop aficionado salivate. Though there's one that stood out to me while visiting its Computex 2026 booth: an experimental direct-die block…...
MSI's new skinny two-in-one laptop has an Nvidia RTX Spark chip, which could make for some impressive gaming chops
1+ week, 1+ day ago (347+ words) I'm just bracing myself for the price tag. It's been a long time coming, but we finally have sight of Nvidia's very own Arm-based CPU. And as if to remind us it's not all a fever dream, we have sight…...
Mass Effect and Metal Gear actor Jennifer Hale calls on studios to take responsibility for their AI use: 'Ain't nobody making you do it"
1+ week, 2+ day ago (267+ words) "The tool does what the human holding the tool tells it to." As part of an interview sampled in the 2026 GDC Trends Report, prolific voice actor Jennifer Hale once again spoke on the subject of generative AI and its effect…...
After more than two decades, the creator of Paint. NET finally owns the domain paint. net, and it's all thanks to a 'slam dunk case of trademark infringement"
1+ week, 2+ day ago (310+ words) "I've been trying to get this domain for 22 years." Despite the program's suggestive name, you couldn't actually download Paint. NET via the domain paint. net. Since its launch in 2004, Paint. NET has been hosted on a different site, getpaint. net....
Marathon season 2 is kicking off with a free week so new players can try Bungie's extraction shooter out on a 'clean slate"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (215+ words) I might just join for that suppressed SMG. Marathon's second season is just days away from kicking off, and amid all the changes and hype its devs are spreading the word that its first week will be free to play…...
'People want MMOs', says veteran designer Jack Emmert, it's the publishers chasing Wo W-level scope that are the problem
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (594+ words) "You see games that are basically features without any soul." The MMO is in dire straits at the moment. Don't get me wrong, it's popular'but it's an aging genre, to the point where we even didn't have a single MMO…...