Alan Wake 2 has been impressing gamers since its release, with its gripping story and visuals. PC gamers had to rummage through a rough year of gnarly, unoptimized titles such as Arkane Studio’s Redfall. The subsequent release of patches and apologies seemed to follow an alarmingly familiar pattern after a few duds came to market. Alan Wake

Source: Hot Hardware – Huge Alan Wake 2 Patch Brings Over 200 Improvements And Fixes A Really Annoying Bug

When NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs first launched, power draw and size of their coolers made a big splash. With the GeForce RTX 4090 smacking your power supply with 450W of oomph, gamers were worried their systems wouldn’t handle it. Fast forward a year, and we’re looking straight down the barrel of a new NVIDIA graphics card refresh.

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 4080, 4070 Ti And 4070 Super Refresh Power Draws Allegedly Revealed

Bolt on your metal armor and pull out your automatic Beretta, because Robocop: Rogue City releases today. This new title from the developers of sleeper hit Terminator: Resistance has had almost no marketing, yet its extremely faithful adaptation of the film and Unreal Engine 5-powered graphics managed to garner the game a surprising amount

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Latest Arc GPU Driver Claims Massive FPS Improvements Up To A Staggering 750%

Microsoft halted all of its AI-generated polls on news articles after the tech company caught heat for having a poll appear beside a story about a woman’s death. The poll ran within Microsoft’s curated news aggregator platform Microsoft Start, and asked readers what they thought of the woman’s death.

Artificial intelligence has been the

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft’s AI Catches Heat For Tone Deaf Poll On Woman’s Tragic Death

NASA’s Lucy probe cuts its teeth with its first up-close encounter with an asteroid named Dinkinesh before moving on to observe 10 other asteroids on its 12-year journey. Lucy had been tracking the asteroid since September 3, 2023.

According to NASA, the encounter was the first time that Lucy got a close look at an object that, up to this

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Lucy Probe Calls An Audible And Rushes A Dark And Mysterious Asteroid

Believe it or not, it’s already been over a year since AMD released its desktop Ryzen 7000 series processors based on Zen 4, along with its socket AM5 platform that it plans to support through at least 2026 (AMD initially said through 2025, then later extended its commitment). What that all means is it’s not too early to talk about Zen 5.

Source: Hot Hardware – What AMD Said About Zen 5 Will Have You Excited For Its Next-Gen CPUs

Over the past few years, there has been quite a concern regarding Chinese-manufactured Internet of Things devices that could be spying on unwitting American consumers. This was the impetus behind a 2022 Federal Communications Commission ban on telecommunications and video surveillance equipment that was deemed a national security threat. While

Source: Hot Hardware – Lawmakers Rake Costco Over The Coals For Selling Government-Banned Chinese Spy Gear

If you pay attention to hardware news websites like ours, then AMD’s Phoenix 2 processor may not need any introduction at all. The chip has already quietly made its debut in the ASUS ROG Ally’s cheaper “non-Extreme” edition, and we’ve talked about it quite a bit elsewhere, as well.

Today, AMD is giving Phoenix 2 a proper introduction with

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Brings Zen 4c To Laptops With The Hybrid Ryzen 5 7545U, Based on Phoenix 2

Sega revealed that it’s releasing a new 3D adventure game starring none other than the world’s most famous hedgehog, Sonic, but there’s only one place you’ll be able to play it—on Apple Arcade. The game, Sonic Dream Team, is one of an overflowing handful of titles headed to Apple’s subscription gaming service this holiday season.

“The thrilling

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Arcade: Sonic Dream Team And Every Other Game Coming This Holiday Season

Mini-PC manufacturer AceMagic has unveiled a new cube-shaped gaming PC with military-inspired aesthetics, dubbed the Tank 03. The system features high-end mobile-class hardware, including an Intel Core i9-12900H CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, and sports a unique rugged-looking, cubed chassis with a multifunction RGB-illuminated knob

Source: Hot Hardware – Acemagic’s Funky Tank 03 Mini PC Rocks A Core i9-12900H And Mobile GeForce RTX 3080

Ransomware has become one of the most prevalent means by which threat actors generate revenue, creating a billion-dollar underground industry. Given this financial reality, ransomware gangs are working constantly to outsmart the authorities trying to stop them, though that has not seemed to work. Now, the Biden administration is moving to

Source: Hot Hardware – US Spearheads Alliance With 40 Countries To Never Pay Ransomware Gangs Again

If you read that headline and thought, “why would I want my gaming PC to be a showpiece?”, this new PC case might not be for you. However, most DIY PCs these days are gaming PCs, and gaming PCs tend to be slick or showy and harness powerful hardware. In addition, since Moore’s Law has slowed, powerful hardware is literally powerful—as in hot

Source: Hot Hardware – Adata’s XPG Invader X Case Is Here To Turn Your Gaming PC Into A Showpiece

Customizing and modifying your smartphone can be fun, but it can also leave you open to security threats. Samsung hopes to ameliorate that risk, however, with a new suite of optional features in its One UI 6 Android skin. A feature, known as Auto Blocker, will lock down your phone to lessen the risk of malware and hacking with the flick of

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Beefs Up Galaxy Device Security With One UI 6 Auto Blocker Tool

Performance is one of the most important considerations for many people buying or building a desktop PC. Faster CPUs and GPUs can hit higher framerates with better image quality settings, a speedy SSD can launch apps quicker, and more memory can keep a system humming along while multi-tasking with nary a hiccup. But high performance PC hardware

Source: Hot Hardware – A Guide To Building A Power-Efficient Gaming PC For Under 00

AI processing is a super heavy computing task that requires tens of thousands of dollars of graphics cards, right? Well, no, actually. AI tools come in all kinds of forms and sizes, and there are plenty that can run in real-time on a phone SoC. One of the most popular client applications of generative AI is local image generation, frequently

Source: Hot Hardware – This Clever Trick Turns A AMD Ryzen APU Into A 16GB AI Accelerator

Anyone who wants to use a Nintendo Switch to watch their favorite streamer on Twitch will want to grab the app before it disappears from the Nintendo eShop. The streaming service has reported that it will be ending its support for the Twitch app on the Switch early next year.

Twitch is still the number one platform for watching content

Source: Hot Hardware – Twitch Is Getting Ready To Kick The Nintendo Switch To The Curb

Apple has given its ‘Revolutionary’ Touch Bar its walking papers. The iconic Touch Bar debuted to much hype on the 13-inch MacBook Pro during the company’s 25th anniversary of Apple’s first notebook.

During Apple’s Scary Fast event on Monday, the company unveiled its new M3 lineup of chips. It then announced the release of 14 and 16-inch

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Sticks A Fork In MacBook Pro’s ‘Revolutionary’ Touch Bar

Back in the old days, solid state drive (SSD) storage was mostly relegated to the PC platform. That changed with the introduction of the PlayStation 5 (and new PS5 Slim) and Xbox Series X, both of which shed spinning platters in favor of NAND flash memory, and gamers are better off for it. So it’s no surprise that Crucial is pitching its new

Source: Hot Hardware – Crucial Unveils T500 SSD With Blistering Speeds And PS5 Gamers Can Come To Play

The OnePlus 12 will come with a newfangled Sony LYTIA image sensor that’s expected to move the needle beyond the already fantastic camera on the OnePlus 11. Do the Pixel 8 Pro or Galaxy S23 Ultra have anything to worry about?

Last year’s OnePlus 11 brought the company back into the flagship game with plenty of power, efficiency, and class-leading

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12 Breaks Ground As First Phone To Use Sony’s LYTIA Camera Sensor

We might be in the midst of a lingering PC sales slump but you wouldn’t necessarily know it by looking at AMD’s latest earnings report. AMD posted financial results for its third quarter of 2023, which reflected a 4% year-over-year and 8% quarterly gain in revenue to $5.8 billion. This pushed its profit to $299 million for the quarter, which

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Rides Skyrocketing Ryzen 7000 Sales And Record EPYC Orders To Beat Earnings Estimates