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1 week ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
Good news: AMD has finally announced the specs of the much-rumoured RX 9070 GRE. The bad news? It appears to be a China-only card for now, leaving those of us in the rest of the world to stare in wonder. Or at the very least, mild interest. Not that this is a particularly big surprise, given the RX 7900 GRE was also a China-exclusive card to start with, although it did become available in limited quantities to the rest of the world eventually.
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1 week ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
Comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI back in 2023, alleging pirated versions of their works were used without permission to train AI language models.
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1 week ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
Intel gave the world its first look at the upcoming 14A and 14A-E node technology at the Intel Foundry Direct 2025 event in San Jose, California earlier this week, and one term in particular stood out: Turbo Cells. Intel says that Turbo Cell technology can improve the maximum frequency and performance per watt of chips built on the new processes, thanks to some clever library-stacking tech. Intel's 14A process has three : tall, mid-size, and short (via Hardware Luxx).
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1 week ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
Today's best Thrustmaster T.Flight Hotas One Microsoft Flight Simulator Edition dealsDuring my time at PC Gamer, I've had the pleasure of testing some very expensive flight sim gear. That's not to start off this review with a brag, more to say that it's generally a pretty pricey hobby. A satisfying one, no doubt, but I wouldn't blame you if you looked at some of the full-on sim setups on the market and baulked at the astonishing prices.
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1 week ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
Given the state of hardware prices so far in 2025, I wouldn't blame you if you were thinking of putting off potential gaming PC upgrades until things calm down. The good news, however, is that Amazon and Newegg Gaming Week deals are running from April 28 to May 4 , which means it's currently possible to find some excellent upgrades for your gaming PC for very reasonable amounts of cash.
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1 week ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
「自走式ファスナー」遠隔操作で開け閉めできるファスナー!?【5 メートルの膜ver.】 - YouTubeWatch On Look, I'm not even going to mess around with a creative intro on this one. The world's largest zip manufacturer, YKK, has made a remote-controlled, motorised, self-propelled zip, and it's glorious. See how it connects a pair of 16-foot membrane sheets together in seconds (via The Verge). Marvel at it zipping up two halves of an industrial-sized tent.
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1 week ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
If the concept of CPU delidding fills you with dread, I think you might also be a little squeamish about this one. A modder has created a functional liquid cooling system by machining straight into an Intel CPU heat spreader—and, with the help of a plastic panel and a handy bucket, it actually works. To a fashion, at least. On the surface, the idea actually makes a whole lot of sense (via Wccftech).
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1 week ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
I'm not normally one for game-themed graphics cards, but in this case I'll make an exception. Asus has announced the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 OC Doom Edition graphics card, just in time for the launch of Doom: The Dark Ages on May 13, and I reckon it's a bit of a looker. Asus has partnered with Bethesda and id Software to celebrate not just the "legendary tenure of Doom" but also the 30-year anniversary of Asus designing and manufacturing graphics cards.
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1 week ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
Ah, it feels good to be writing about some fresh GPU rumours again, rather than opining on the prices of the ones we already know about. Known leaker All the Watts has posted a rundown of what is rumoured to be the AMD mobile GPU lineup for this generation on X—starting out with the RX 9080M, said to be a 64 Compute Unit mobile GPU with what looks to be 16 GB of VRAM and 64 MB of L3 cache. Or it could have 64 lollipops, 16 ice creams, and 64 jelly sweets (via Videocardz).
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2 weeks ago | 
pcgamer.com | Andy Edser
The European Commission has found that both Apple and Meta have breached the Digital Markets Act, and have received fines totalling €700,000,000. In Apple's case, the breach was related to a violation of anti-steering rules, and the associated fine was set at €500 million—whereas Meta was found in breach of an obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data, resulting in a €200 million fine.
