Hardware

We can talk until we’re blue in the face about the actual effects of software piracy, but it’s not hard to understand why companies like Electronic Arts and Nintendo get up in arms about it. Nintendo in particular has been highly aggressive in its efforts to scourge the web of unofficial ways to acquire and play its games, and it has just won a major court battle in France toward that end. The Judicial Court

The gaming world might be scouring for clues about Grand Theft Auto 6 and speculating about its price, but Rockstar hasn’t forgotten about GTA V. It recently released a massive update for the PC version of the game. It’s supposed to be the definitive way to play GTA V, bringing over upgrades the console version got a few years ago, alongside some PC specific bells and whistles. Unfortunately, it has fallen short of expectations for some

One of the challenges with our digital era is the burden of remembering a great number of passwords. While some try to memorize and remember their passwords, others have opted for password-managing apps. 1Password, a popular password-managing service, however, has gone beyond simply saving passwords and has recently added a feature that enables users to add specific location ranges to passwords. 1Password claims that with this feature, users can assign locations to passwords. Hence, as

It seems like there’s always some kind of sales event going on, and that’s because their usually is. Such is the case right now at Best Buy, which has pivoted from Presidents Day bargains last month to a weekend-long ‘Apple Sales Event’ with some deep discounts in effect from now until Sunday. One of them is a huge discount on a decked out iPad. That would be the 11-inch iPad Pro (4th Generation) that’s on

It appears that Google is unmoved by recent allegations that its AI Overview feature has negatively impacted web publishers’ traffic. In a recent update, Google announced that its AI overview feature will now be powered by Gemini 2.0. Google has introduced its new, “future-looking” AI search mode, which is meant to help users find answers to queries that need more “exploration, comparison and reasoning”. According to the demo on its blog, the update will also

Update: 3/6/25 – 5:24 PM: We have just received an official statement from representatives at AMD on this matter, and it appears there’s more to this story for sure. We have left the entirety of our previous coverage in tact below, however…  “It is inaccurate that $549/$599 MSRP is launch-only pricing. We expect cards to be available from multiple vendors at $549/$599 (excluding region specific tariffs and/or taxes) based on the work we have done with our

Even with games like Monster Hunter Wilds achieving impressive success, the gaming community can’t go long before mentioning Grand Theft Auto VI. Gamers are sifting through every detail just to figure out when the next trailer will drop, while analysts speculate about pricing and what it means for the larger industry. Michael Pachter, managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities, has made a prediction for how much the highly anticipated game might cost when it is released.

MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio: MSRP $599 The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio packs a massive cooler and takes NVIDIA’s reference specs and kicks them up a couple of notches to boost performance. Latest Architecture And Feature Set Good Overclocker Power Friendly Cool And Quiet DLSS 4 + RTX Neural Rendering Upgraded Media Engine Radeon RX 9070 Usually Faster In Games Small Upgrade Over The RTX 4070 GeForce RTX 5070 series cards from

Few topics can be as divisive as PC versus console gaming, kind of like Ford versus Chevy or Coke versus Pepsi (or politics, if things get really heated). Not without irony, PCs and consoles are more alike than ever these days. Even so, a new report on projected game sales in the coming years is not going to do anything settle the debate. According to the report, the console gaming market is on pace to

Yesterday, during his address to the US Congress, President Trump called for the revocation of the CHIPS Act, arguing that it is a waste of money and not an effective way of securing investment into the country. The CHIPS Act sought to promote domestic research and semiconductor manufacturing through a program that gave subsidies of $52 billion to leading semiconductor companies like Intel, Samsung, Micron Technology and TSMC, among others. Intel, especially, was a big