HyperX has broadened its streaming peripheral lineup with a new webcam, audio mixer, and spring-loaded mic arm. The Vision S webcam is the company’s first webcam and is designed to enhance the streaming and content creation experience.

HyperX is a well-known brand within the gaming and streaming world. Its Cloud headset has been a staple

Source: Hot Hardware – HyperX Unveils Its First Webcam, An Audio Mixer, And Spring-Loaded Mic Arm For Streamers

In early September, Valve received a radio certification in South Korea for an unknown model product listed as “1030.” At that time, it was unclear what exactly that product would be, though it was known that it would be a low-power wireless device of some sort. However, with a recent FCC listing, it is becoming clearer that Valve is working

Source: Hot Hardware – FCC Listing Hints A Steam Deck Refresh Is Inbound But With Possible Security Concerns

Coming almost out of left field, Amazon is generously offering a $1 million bounty for the next legit footage of extraterrestrials taken with a Ring device. I want to believe, but there’s something more than meets the eye here.

Ring recently announced a contest offering $1 million to anyone who submits any alien footage captured on their

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Puts Up Million Bounty For Alien Footage Captured On Ring Doorbells

Elon Musk says he believes Starship has a “decent” chance of reaching orbit during its upcoming second test flight. The first launch attempt ended with Starship ablaze on April 20, 2023.

On what would be a fitting day, Starship made its first launch attempt on 4/20/2023. Musk and SpaceX considered the launch a success, even after the spacecraft

Source: Hot Hardware – Musk Likes Odds Of SpaceX’s Starship To Reach Orbit If It Doesn’t Blow Itself Up

Silicon Power is getting ready to release the XPower XS80, a “groundbreaking” solid state drive (SSD) with a PCI Express 5.0 interface paving the way for incredibly fast sequential read and write speeds on supported platforms. Of course, it’s backwards compatible so you don’t necessarily need a PCIe 5-based system to run it, but you’ll certainly

Source: Hot Hardware – Silicon Power Teases A PCIe 5 XPower XS80 SSD That Can Rip 10GB/s Reads And Writes

For the most part, laptops are portable and desktops are stationary, right? Well, not so fast. PC makers have always pushed the boundaries of each respective form factor, including big and bulky laptops classified as desktop replacements, and compact desktops built for the LAN party goer. HP’s new Envy Move desktop, however, is more a hybrid

Source: Hot Hardware – HP Envy Move Battery-Powered Desktop PC Gets A Handle On Laptop-Like Portability

Intel’s next new processors will be the Meteor Lake chips coming to laptops and small-form-factor desktops by the end of the year and through the beginning of next year. After that, we’ll see Arrow Lake likely late next year, which is expected to replace both Meteor Lake in laptops as well as the Raptor Lake Refresh platform in desktops.

Intel’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Lunar Lake Prototype 8-Core CPU Looks Strong In Confusing Benchmark Cameo

A lot is happening in the world of entry-level GPUs right now. Intel is reportedly finally launching its Arc A580 graphics card despite announcing the model a year ago. The Arc A580 is expected to target RTX 3050 performance levels. Meanwhile, NVIDIA appears to be releasing a competitor to the Arc 580 in the form of an even less powerful RTX

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA May Counter Intel’s Arc A580 GPU With A Cut Down GeForce RTX 3050 6GB SKU

Historically, the socketed desktop AMD Ryzen processors have come in two basic forms: your standard CPUs that typically didn’t have graphics until the most recent Ryzen generation, and then your “APUs”, or processors with powerful graphics built-in. The Ryzen APUs from the 3000 and 5000 series were also monolithic, where the standard Ryzen

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD AGESA Code Hints At Ryzen 7000G Phoenix APUs Rising On The Desktop

The drama surrounding Google’s antitrust suit continues to escalate as unsealed testimony reveals Apple almost decided to buy Bing to compete with Google in the lucrative search engine market. The unsealed testimony came from Apple Senior Vice President John Giannandrea.

Apple lawyers had attempted to negate the need for Giannandrea to

Source: Hot Hardware – Wild Testimony Reveals Apple Mulled Buying Bing To Challenge Google

“It’s getting hot in here, so patch all of your phones” is not the line but is the case for iPhone 15, which was found to have an overheating problem. Users were finding that their phones would become nearly too hot to touch while charging or prolonged use. Since then, Apple has released a patch, which users should update to now, in an effort

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Releases iOS 17.0.3 Salve For iPhone 15’s Most Burning Issue

Axiom Space has partnered with an Italian luxury fashion house to design NASA’s lunar spacesuits for the Artemis III mission, and the devil is in the details. Axiom Space announced yesterday that it has partnered with none other than Prada to design the lunar spacesuits.

Artemis III is planned for 2025 and will place humans back on the

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Artemis 3 Astronauts Will Blast Off In Style With Spacesuits Designed By Prada

For such a fast gaming monitor, ASUS sure is taking its sweet time releasing its ROG Swift Pro PG248QP, which it unveiled at CES earlier this year. Now nine months later, ASUS has anointed the fastest gaming monitor it’s ever built with a product page, bringing the 540Hz display one step closer to an eventual launch. When will it release,

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS Details Its Blistering-Fast 540Hz ROG Swift Pro PG248QP Monitor For Pro Gamers

If you own an Intel Arc graphics card, congratulations, you’re about to receive a huge performance boost in a whole bunch of games. All you have to do is apply the latest Arc GPU driver, version 31.0.101.4885. According to the release notes, double-digit performance gains are there for the taking, culminating in over a 2X performance jump.

The

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arc GPU Driver Update Promises Massive FPS Gains In DX11/12 Games Up To 119%

EKWB has announced a new ultra premium case known as the Quantum Torson A60 that costs a whopping $2,600. To justify that price, the case is made entirely out of CnC-milled aluminum and is designed specifically for ultra-high-end water cooling setups. The A60 will come in black and silver flavors — with slight design alterations for each color

Source: Hot Hardware – EK Unveils A ,600 Limited Edition PC Case With Built-In Liquid Cooling

Samsung released its 2023 foldables just a couple of months ago, but already there’s a new raft of Samsung hardware. The Korean consumer electronics giant has revealed the Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy Tab S9 FE, and the Galaxy Buds FE. These mid-range devices undercut the mainline S-series on price, but you can still expect most of the same features.

In

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Unveils Galaxy S23 FE With Upgrade Path To Android 17, New Buds And Tablet Too

While Intel’s Arc Alchemist series is almost exclusively known for the Arc A750 and Arc A770, which are midrange gaming GPUs, there are several other members of the family, and now there’s another one you can get at retail: the Arc A310. The A310 technically launched late last year, right alongside the A750, but it was an OEM-only graphics

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arc A310 GPU Makes Its US Debut And Is Super Affordable, Should You Buy It?

One of the greatest games of 2010, Red Dead Redemption was stuck on the 7th-generation game consoles until very recently, when the game was re-released for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 consoles. The release was controversial for several reasons including its high price, but the biggest was likely that it has almost no improvements

Source: Hot Hardware – Red Dead Redemption Port Finally Gets A 60 FPS Toggle For This Game Console

Elon Musk went live to a massive audience as he tested X’s video game livestream capabilities. The X/Twitter CEO faced technical difficulties while playing Diablo IV’s most difficult Tier 100 Nightmare dungeon.

Musk took to X with a burner account, @cyb3rgam3r420, to test the waters with X’s streaming service for about an hour. He even

Source: Hot Hardware – Musk Tests Livestreaming Game Feature On X With Diablo IV As Millions Tune In

Any way you slice it, Starfield has been a big success for Bethesda. The company has announced that it reached over ten million players, the biggest-ever launch for a Bethesda game, and it peaked at just over one million concurrent players on Steam around its launch. Even if as many as half of those players are on Microsoft’s Game Pass service,

Source: Hot Hardware – Starfield Steals Away Fallout 76’s Most Notorious Achievement For Bethesda Games