Do you know what would have gotten my 15-year-old me totally jazzed? Having my own home arcade rather than lugging a fistful of quarters to the local co-op joint (RIP Malibu Grand Prix in Rowland Heights, CA). I’m a fistful of decades older now, but the concept of an in-home arcade still gets me jazzed. If it does you as well, then check out

Source: Hot Hardware – Save Your Quarters And Build The Ultimate Home Arcade With These Arcade1Up Deals

The budget gaming GPU space has been the last to add some interesting options this generation, with emphasis going towards the pricey high-end from manufacturers. Things are changing for the better, though, with the $179 MSRP Intel Arc A580 adding to the family line of the Arc A750 and A770. This new sub-$200 GPU promises to shake up the entry

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Unveils Arc A580 GPU For 9, A New Budget Gaming Champ?

It finally happened—Sony took the wraps off a new PlayStation console, though it’s not a more powerful PlayStation 5 Pro. Instead, Sony launched the inevitable PlayStation 5 Slim refresh in both Blu-ray and Digital (disc-less) form, both of which are built around a thinner and lighter form factor while retaining the same overall design language.

According

Source: Hot Hardware – Sony’s PS5 Slim Will Arrive In Time For Christmas With Some Key Changes

Long-lived system information and benchmark app AIDA64 just received a beta update featuring a plethora of new hardware support, ranging from new GPUs, motherboard sensors, and CPUs. One of the most noteworthy additions in the patch is preliminary support for Intel’s future CPU lineup codenamed Panther Lake.
AIDA64 is one of the first applications

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Panther Lake CPU Breaks Cover In App Update, What We Know So Far

Do play Counter-Strike? If you read this website regularly, there is a very good chance that, even if you don’t play CS anymore now, you probably did at some point. However, there’s a pretty low chance that you frequently played Counter-Strike in any of its incarnations on a Mac.

That’s the ultimate reason that CS2 is not going to be available

Source: Hot Hardware – Valve Shoots Down Hopes Of Playing Counter-Strike 2 On Mac, Here’s Why

Amazon Prime deals are out, and the company is bringing the rain across the board, especially in the electronics department. If you need a new TV for a den or living room, right now might be a great time to grab one at any size and price point.

55”-Class

Kicking things off in the 55” class of TVs we have the TCL 55-inch Class S4 4K at

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Prime Day TV Blowout Sale, Deals Up To 47% Off LG, Samsung, Sony And More

A lot of truly awesome PC games have come out over the last two years. Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, Baldur’s Gate 3, Lies of P, the System Shock remake, Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, the Dead Space remake, Elden Ring, Remnant 2, Street Fighter 6, Dying Light 2, Starfield,

Source: Hot Hardware – Build A Killer Gaming PC For Under 00 With These Amazon Prime Day Deals

Qualcomm is introducing a new naming convention under its Snapdragon brand, as it looks to make a more aggressive entrance into the intelligent PC space. It’s called Snapdragon X series and while details are light at the moment, we can expect new architectures and platforms geared towards always-connected (5G) mobile PC experiences. It also

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon X As It Preps Game-Changing CPUs To Challenge x86 And Mac

In a galaxy far, far away, a sale of immeasurable savings took place. Well, not so far away, but great savings during Amazon Prime Days can be had on Amazon Echo Dots, Fire tablets, and Kindle Readers.

Amazon Darth Vader Echo Dot Bundle
Star Wars fans will be enamored with this Darth Vader Echo Dot that has Vader’s eyes light up each time

Source: Hot Hardware – The Force Is Strong With This Darth Vader Echo Dot And Other Amazon Hardware Deals

In a galaxy far, far away, a sale of immeasurable savings took place. Well, not so far away, but great savings during Amazon Prime Days can be had on Amazon Echo Dots, Fire tablets, and Kindle Readers.

Amazon Darth Vader Echo Dot Bundle
Star Wars fans will be enamored with this Darth Vader Echo Dot that has Vader’s eyes light up each time

Source: Hot Hardware – The Force Is Strong With This Darth Vador Echo Dot And Other Amazon Hardware Deals

There’s nothing more exciting about PC building than when it’s time for the mighty graphics card. The last few years have certainly been a roller coaster ride of availability and pricing changes, however. These uncertainties can easily confuse even the most seasoned PC builders. As we approach the holiday shopping season, retailers are well…

Source: Hot Hardware – How To Find The Best Value In Gaming GPUs This Holiday Shopping Season

Google’s Pixel 8 phones with the latest Android 14 operating system might be receiving most of the attention right now, but it seems like the users of older Pixel devices might be reaping major benefits from the update as well. But of course, before we proceed, YMMV.

Mountain View’s recently released Android 14 brought with it some nice

Source: Hot Hardware – Android 14 Is Quietly Solving Overheating Issues For Some Pixel Phone Owners

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the blue spiral arms of a galaxy far, far away in stunning detail. NGC 6951, an intermediate spiral galaxy 78 million light-years away, was first discovered by French astronomer Jerome Coggia in 1887.

According to NASA, NGC 6951 is often classified as a Type II Seyfert galaxy, which is a type of active

Source: Hot Hardware – Hubble Captures Jaw-Dropping Image Of A Blue Spiral Galaxy Over 800M Years Old

Some of the latest and greatest phones from Apple, Samsung, and Google underwent a new round of Allstate Protection Plan’s breakability test. The results were not surprising, proving once more that glass is glass and users should always take precautions to protect their expensive investments.

Insurance provider Allstate has been doing its

Source: Hot Hardware – iPhone 15 Pro Max Battles Flagship Galaxy And Pixel Phones In Horrifying Breakability Test

Amazon’s second Prime Day sales event of 2023 has officially arrived and with it comes a whole lot of discounts across a wide range of products categories. We’ll be keeping a pulse on the situation over the course of today and tomorrow, highlighting some of the better bargains. To kick things off, Corsair sent us a long list of items it’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Corsair PC And Peripheral Deals Up To 48% Off To Level Up Your Gaming Battlestation

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su has been quite vocal about the company’s intention to aggressively focus on gaining AI compute market share moving forward. In recent weeks, Dr. Su noted that AI will be a part of every product at AMD in the next five years, and that she expects AI to be a significant growth driver. News also broke in September that LaminiAI

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Doubles Down On AI With Acquisition Of Open-Source Dev Nod.Ai

What do you get when you pair of the best gaming mice to one of the most beloved movie franchises of all time? Logitech just answered that question by launching the G502 X Plus Millennium Falcon Edition gaming mouse, a delightfully themed rodent honoring the 40th anniversary of War Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi, the third in the original

Source: Hot Hardware – Logitech G502 X Plus Millennium Falcon Is The Star Wars Gaming Mouse You’re Looking For

Late last year, sensing a market slowdown, memory manufacturers elected to cut production from earlier estimates. That has turned out to be a wise decision on their parts, as companies like Phison, Adata, Teamgroup, and Winbond all have reported spectacular financials in the most recent quarter.

This news comes to us via Taiwan’s United

Source: Hot Hardware – Why You May Soon Pay More To Upgrade Your PC’s RAM And SSD Storage

While Intel has confirmed its next-generation Meteor Lake chips will arrive just before the end of the year, a recent rumor suggests that the Core Ultra 9 flagships will only be available in 2024. This is according to respected Chinese leaker Golden Pig, who has a good track record when it comes to leaking upcoming Intel CPUs. Obviously, any

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Flagship Core Ultra 9 Meteor Lake CPU Launch Allegedly Slips Into Next Year

Every year, Mojang and Microsoft host Minecraft Live, a livestream dedicated to news and updates from Minecraft and Minecraft: Legends as well as a peek into the future of Minecraft in general. This is also accompanied by the now controversial Mob Vote, where players can cast a ballot to help pick a new mob to be added to the voxel-survival

Source: Hot Hardware – Minecraft Petition Already Has Over 180K Signatures, What Gamers Are Demanding