No, that headline isn’t clickbait: in the midst of a graphics card market that continues to be an absolute disaster, ASUS is out here pitching a four-year-old GPU as “the best budget graphics card we offer in 2025 for gamers who prefer NVIDIA GPUs.” That kind of statement would be a joke coming from a site like ours, but coming straight from

AI is being heralded as an important part of the future game development pipeline by the biggest players in the industry, with the latest push coming from Microsoft with the release of its Muse AI model. However, it seems as if the future is here, according to Call of Duty’s Steam page that now contains an AI generated content disclosure.

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Ubisoft can’t seem to catch a break. The last few months have seen the storied publisher shut down one of its live service game efforts, while its Star Wars game floundered despite the popularity of the franchise. The company needs a big win with its upcoming release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but things aren’t off to a great start with

Razer today unveiled the latest iteration of its big and beastly Blade 18 gaming laptop (an upgraded version of the one we reviewed last year), which it’s pitching as its most powerful Blade to date. According to Razer, the sharpened Blade 18 delivers a “premium desktop experience” in a mobile package with high-end hardware that creators and

Billions of years ago, Mars had beautiful golden beaches skirting oceans that covered almost half the entire planet. A Chinese-American research team, with the help of data from China’s Zhurong martian rover, have found pretty conclusive proof of vast, ancient oceans, although it’s probably safe to say that they wouldn’t have been the best

So you’ve gone and preordered Apple’s newest addition to the iPhone family, the iPhone 16e. With prices starting at $599, the iPhone 16e ascends past the budget category and into midrange territory. As such, it’s a good idea to protect your purchase (which is true even for budget phones), and you can do that by shopping an assortment of accessories

A new (reliable) leak is giving us a good look at the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, complete with rounded corners and—almost unsurprisingly—a much thinner profile than the Z Fold 6, which should make it better to hold and pocket. The leaked renders give us hope that Samsung is taking the competition seriously, although only the final

AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 XT is going to be officially announced on February 28th at 8 a.m EST time. It is slated for a release in early March, and we’re starting to see some more potential leaks as to what to expect with its first consumer-facing RDNA 4 hardware. According to X user @GawroskiT, a custom Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC is

Beats Powerbeats Pro 2: MSRP $249 Beats has made the Powerbeats Pro 2 much more competitive with current high-end wireless earbuds, but there are some serious caveats.. Clean and balanced sound Solid ANC and Transparency modes Better fit and comfort over originals Hands-free access with both Siri and Google Assistant Built-in heart rate…

Apple has announced plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, a commitment that came days after President Trump said the company was going to “build here because they don’t want to pay tariffs.” Part of Apple’s massive investment includes a new 250,000 square-foot manufacturing facility

If you are reading this, there’s a pretty good chance that you are already familiar with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon branding. Snapdragon is the dominant mobile chip platform in Android-based smartphones and Arm-based Copilot+ PCs, with solutions running the gamut from flagship silicon (we’re looking at you, Snapdragon 8 Elite) to entry-level chips,

It’s official—following the first user report of a GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition graphics card to display missing render operation pipeline (ROP) hardware in the popular GPU-Z utility, NVIDIA has confirmed that it too is affected by a rare “production anomaly” affecting half a percent (0.5%) of all GeForce RTX 50 series cards. The confirmation

Concerns have been raised about the effect of AI on critical thinking. In what appears to be the first case of its kind, a student has been expelled by the University of Minnesota for allegedly using AI. However, not only has Haishan Yang, the student who was the target of the expulsion, denied the allegations but he has also filed a lawsuit

Back in September, Intel launched the Xeon 6900 series, which represented the top end of the Granite Rapids family with up to 128 Redwood Cove P-cores. Now, the rest of the Xeon 6 series has officially arrived. These parts are likewise based around Redwood Cove P-cores, but scale things down a bit, with up to 86 cores per socket and only eight

NetherRealm is adding a new batch of characters to the already jam-packed Mortal Kombat 1 roster with Kombat Pack 2, which is part of the Khaos Reigns DLC. The headliner is the addition of one of the most iconic movie villains of all time, the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Although there are several other characters and new story

Presidents’ Day was exactly a week ago today, but Best Buy’s Presidents’ Day sale event is still going on with some pretty nice discounts. It won’t run too much longer (it goes through February 26), though like Amazon, sales have become a year-round thing. That said, there are some discounts that may not be in play when the event concludes.

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Security measures are constantly being improved to ensure updated protection for users. As a result, Google has now disclosed that it is making plans to phase out SMS security authentication for Gmail logins. No small deal, it’s estimated that there are close to 2 billion Gmail accounts.

As the threat of malicious actors grows, the tech

Stellantis, parent company of the likes of Jeep, Chrysler, RAM, Alfa Romeo, and Maserati, to name a few, has declared that it has developed an operational Level 3 hands-free self-driving system. For the moment, the system, called STLA (“stellar,” we get it) AutoDrive 1.0 is relegated to 37 mph or operation in dense urban areas. But don’t worry,

Have you ever tried remotely diagnosing and ultimately resolving a computer issue for a frantic friend or family member who’s having an issue, or a litany of PC-related issues? It’s no easy task. Now put yourself in the shoes of NVIDIA’s driver team, which is currently investigating a rash of stability issues across a variety of graphics card

The recent launch of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 series lineup has brought us the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, GeForce RTX 5080, and the mighty GeForce RTX 5090. While the launch has been stymied somewhat with low inventory and rapidly increasing prices, gamers have turned their attention to the upcoming GeForce RTX 5070 (non-Ti). While we wait, the first