GeForce Now is a pretty good solution for PC gaming if you’ve got a big game library, but want to access it remotely, or just without high-powered hardware. But the system is, of course, heavily reliant upon Nvidia — they built the service and the servers, after all. But what if you want to access it without giving Nvidia control of every part of the experience? Say hi to OpenNow, an open…
A casual glance at the Asus TUF Gaming A14 might have you think it’s a mid-range gaming laptop built for gamers on a budget. That’s not quite right. In fact, the laptop doesn’t even have Nvidia discrete graphics and instead relies on AMD’s Radeon 8060S, a powerful…
HP came to CES 2026 with a major announcement about its approach to PC gaming hardware. Going forward, the company’s PC gaming hardware—including monitors and even laptops—will be sold under the HyperX brand name, not HP. The HyperX Omen OLED 27q is the first such…
When you think about the graphics card in your gaming laptop or desktop, the first thought is probably about performance, maybe power draw or efficiency. It probably isn’t whether or not it’s a security risk. But a newly developed attack uses the super-fast memory in a GPU as a means of gaining elevated privileges in Windows.
Security researchers at the University of Toronto were exploring the…
Almost any browser is at a fundamental disadvantage in terms of users and influence (that is, unless you’re Google or Microsoft). But that hasn’t stopped Mozilla, which is reshaping its Firefox browser in a “Project Nova” overhaul, while threading the needle between…
If you own a home Wi-Fi router (and who doesn’t?) you might be in a pinch: you own an aging, insecure gateway, but the government isn’t going to allow you to easily upgrade it.
The FCC’s March decision to block Wi-Fi consumer routers made or designed on foreign soil…
PC gamers face an ongoing problem: more powerful games demand more powerful resources, all in the service of games that deliver more realistic experiences and graphics. But can gamers avoid paying out outrageous sums of money to keep up?
Texture compression might be an answer, shrinking down the size of games as well as allowing them to fit into the limited video memory of older, cheaper cards.
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PCWorld reports on Micro Center’s testing of single versus dual-channel RAM configurations using AMD Ryzen 9 8950X3D and Radeon RX 7970 XT hardware.
Gaming performance varies dramatically between configurations, with some…
An important new feature has been in the works for Windows 11 for some time now: the ability to freely reposition the taskbar. On April 1st, a Microsoft developer then published a video for the first time showing the freely movable taskbar—only to delete it again shortly…
‘AI’ is coming for your online gaming servers next
April 3, 2026
You can’t find RAM, you can’t find storage, you can’t find a GPU. But at least you can play the PC games you already own, right? Well, maybe not. Consumer PC parts aren’t the only things being gobbled up by the “AI” industry. A Starcraft-inspired strategy game is shutting down its multiplayer servers because the hosting company got bought out for “AI.”
The game in question is…
