Riot Games says a security flaw in many recent motherboards could be exploited by cheaters undetected, and now companies including Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI have released BIOS updates to address the issue. According to Riot, “had this issue gone unnoticed, it would have completely nullified all existing DMA detection and prevention tech currently on […]
Micron, one of the three biggest memory suppliers in the world, forecasts rough months ahead for the global RAM supply. As part of its earnings report released on Wednesday, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said “tight industry conditions” across DRAM and NAND flash memory are expected to “persist through and beyond” 2026 as AI drives up […]
My favorite kind of update is the one that gives my gadgets entirely new features and specs for free – and Microsoft is unleashing one of those today by bringing Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio to its 2024 Xbox Wireless Headset, which unlocks a lot of those new features! It could bring better battery life, […]
Retro Games, a company known for its upgraded revivals of iconic ’80s and ’90s era computers, including the Commodore 64 and Amiga, has announced that it’s bringing back another accessory from the same era. If you grew up gaming before the NES hit the US, you were probably using (or drooling over) the Quickshot II. […]
I still wouldn’t buy an Xbox Ally, and I still don’t think the tweaked version of Windows that shipped with it is ready for primetime. The Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) needs work. But two months after I panned the cheaper $600 white Xbox Ally and wasn’t quite sold on the $1,000 black one, one […]
December 31st, 2025 is the deadline to save the Google Stadia controller. That’s less than three weeks from today – but there’s never been a better time. Last month, I discovered the controller is finally a first-class citizen in Steam and SteamOS. The Stadia controller was originally designed to connect to your Wi-Fi network and […]
Razer is returning to its roots and relaunching the world’s first gaming mouse that debuted over 25 years ago before there was even a gaming peripheral industry. The original Kärna Razer Boomslang was best known for its encoding wheel that could more accurately track a mouse’s movements at 2,000 DPI. The new Razer Boomslang 20th […]
Today, AMD is soft-launching its latest suite of graphics and performance-enhancing tech, FSR Redstone – and it might take a second to wrap your head around. It certainly did for me. The good news is that in just three months, AMD has more than doubled the number of games that support the flagship machine-learning version […]
Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the servers in their massive data centers. Now, the world’s biggest memory makers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — are taking […]
Memory suppliers just blew a hole in the PC gaming industry – and they’re about to do the same to everything else. For weeks, PC enthusiasts have borne the brunt of skyrocketing memory prices, but the shockwaves will soon impact a wider range of products as suppliers pour resources into a far bigger and more […]