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Black Friday gaming laptop deals 2023
Black Friday has been and gone, but we'll keep the deals up here for now.
Black Friday gaming monitor deals 2023
Cyber Monday is taking over the Black Friday deals, but there are still serious price drops on everything from 4K gaming monitors to budget panels.
Black Friday SSD deals 2023
Wave goodbye to Black Friday but say hello to all the great deals on SSDs still around.
Black Friday gaming PC deals 2023
Black Friday itself may be over, but competition between retailers is still breeding some great PC deals.
Nvidia RTX 4060 vs RTX 3060 and its 7 other biggest rival GPUs
Head-to-head Here's how the GeForce RTX 4060 stacks up against the previous generation, its Ada compatriots, and its AMD rivals in our tests.
This is the spiritual successor to the best graphics card ever made
News Galax has listed a single slot beauty on its China pages, and I really want to get my hands on one.
'The next thing we're working on moving forward is Steam Deck 2,' but Valve has yet to see silicon offering the leap it's looking for
News "That's not going to happen next year or the year after that. It's probably going to be more than that."
SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck'
News "Oh, man, it's very high on our list."
Valve knows people will jam the shiny new OLED panel into old Steam Decks 'but it's probably not going to go well'
news It says Steam Deck OLED "parts are not swappable" with the original LCD version.
Valve is committed to bringing Steam Deck OLED 'battery life improvements to the LCD models as well'
news A post-launch BIOS update will see all the firmware and software improvements of the new version brought to the original Steam Deck.
Steam Deck OLED vs Steam Deck LCD: what's inside
Innards We've cracked open both the new Steam Deck OLED and its OG LCD version to see what's change. Spoiler, it's a lot.
Valve just unveiled 'the definitive first generation Steam Deck' with an OLED screen and new Sephiroth APU
news The more efficient HDR panel, bigger battery, and 6nm APU all add up to between 30 - 50% longer game time.
Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 gaming laptop review
LOQ'd not loaded Lenovo's budget-oriented LOQ feels like a rare miss from the company's laptop makers.
Yaaas, AMD's FSR 2.2 has finally been patched into Baldur's Gate 3
news I am in handheld gaming PC heaven right now.
Amazon Big Deal Days gaming laptop deals
Prime Day Deals The full Big Deal Days schtick over, but there are still a surprising number of laptop deals across all the big retailers.
Amazon UK Big Deal Days PC gaming deals
Prime Day Deals As the second of Amazon's Big Deal Days kicks off it's worth remembering there are a whole bunch of other places with even bigger discounts...
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2023 PC Gamer's annual list of the best games you can play on PC.
Framework 13 (2023) AMD mainboard review
It works First you get style, then you get the customisation, then you get the gaming power.
You can already hack Ray Reconstruction into Cyberpunk 2077 without the path tracing limitation, but Nvidia promises to open it up officially soon
News Ray Reconstruction makes Cyberpunk 2077 look absolutely stunning, but it can only be enabled with path tracing, or via some hacks.
The best settings for Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 and Phantom Liberty
tested We've tested Cyberpunk 2077's latest update to determine which settings do and don't matter, with benchmarks and image quality comparisons to help you tune your experience.
Kerbal Space Program 2 has been spamming your Windows registry with junk since launch, but a fix is being tested right now
news The developer is now aware of the issue and is currently testing a fix it will release as a hotfix update.
Samsung's new low power, high performance memory range could be a serious boon for compact gaming laptops
News The ickle upgradeable memory modules offer higher performance than traditional SO-DIMMS with most of the benefits of soldered-on memory.
I've tested Nvidia's latest ray tracing magic in Cyberpunk 2077 and it's a no-brainer: at worst it's just better-looking, at best it's that and a whole lot more performance
Nvidia's DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction feature fits perfectly with Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0 added realism.
