Zak Killian

Monster Hunter Wilds isn’t perfect, but it is excellent—I spent about twelve hours playing it yesterday. It’s a new main-line Monster Hunter game, with all that entails, including peak development expenditure from CAPCOM on one of its biggest properties to produce a detailed, high-effort monster slaying experience. Despite that, the game is currently sitting at “Mixed” reviews on Steam, and that’s largely down to its PC performance. Put simply, the game is just very demanding.

When you hear “Framework”, if you’re familiar with the laptop vendor, you probably think of modular components and repairable PCs. Indeed, the company allowed popular repair guide website iFixit early access to the very exciting Framework Desktop, and the machine is as easy as expected to tear down given that it is, of course, a desktop PC. The RAM remains soldered, though, and it seems like that’s simply going to be the case for the

The latest entry in the venerable Monster Hunter game series is set to launch tomorrow. Known as Monster Hunter Wilds, it’s the next mainline title and marks the beginning of the sixth generation of Monster Hunter games. Wilds brings a great many innovations to the storied franchise, including a persistent mount, the ability to equip two weapons at once, open-world exploration, a real time of day system, weather effects, and much more. Monster Hunter Wilds

Micron’s memory technology is taking another step forward with the launch of its new 1γ (1-gamma) DRAM, pushing DDR5 speeds to 9200 MT/s and LPDDR5X to an impressive 9600 MT/s. This marks the latest step in the company’s longstanding race to shrink DRAM nodes while improving both power efficiency and performance. Compared to its last-generation 1-beta (1β) DRAM, the 1-gamma node offers a 15% speed boost and over 20% power reduction—improvements made possible due to

One of the controversies surrounding the ongoing launch of the GeForce RTX 50 series concerns the fact that it has dropped hardware acceleration for PhysX effects in 32-bit games. This affects the majority of titles using PhysX, particularly those from its halcyon days as NVIDIA’s exclusive technology. Well, you can work around this, it turns out, by simply slapping in a previous-generation GPU alongside your shiny new Blackwell part. To explain, a great many classic

Ever since we first saw the rumored specifications for AMD’s Ryzen AI MAX processors—back when they were simply known by the code name “Strix Halo”—the first thought we had was “this thing would make an awesome living-room PC.” Framework apparently had the exact same thought upon hearing about these chips, because the company just unveiled its first desktop: a Mini-ITX micro-PC that packs the full 120W Strix Halo experience. As a refresher, Ryzen AI MAX

No, that headline isn’t clickbait: in the midst of a graphics card market that continues to be an absolute disaster, ASUS is out here pitching a four-year-old GPU as “the best budget graphics card we offer in 2025 for gamers who prefer NVIDIA GPUs.” That kind of statement would be a joke coming from a site like ours, but coming straight from ASUS? It’s just another chalk mark in the “clown world” column. So why