Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best gaming laptops 2026: We've reviewed the best gaming laptops of this generation and these are our favorites
Portable powerhouses From our own extensive testing, rigorously benchmarking 60+ machines over the past two years, these are the best gaming laptops you can buy today.
AMD is said to be holding talks with Samsung about making some of its future chips to offset TSMC's constrained supply of cutting-edge wafers
News If true, my money would be on low-end laptop APUs or Ryzen IO chiplets.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.
Amazon Prime Day graphics card deals
Prime Day 2026 Amazon's big sales bonanza is only a few days away but we're already hunting down the best GPU deals for you.
Amazon Prime Day SSD deals
Prime Day 2026 We're looking for the best SSD deals to weather the memory crisis.
Best cheap SSD deals today
Deals Add more storage space to your PC for less with one of the deals I've spotted.
I've just finished reviewing this great office chair and—oh, hey look, there's $50 knocked off the price right now
Deal Free shipping, too. Bargain.
My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under
Lite rays With studios being closed down faster than you can blink, every coder is going to be using one-click fixes.
This 4 TB NVMe SSD is the only one I've seen below $400 and going big is the best way to survive the memory chip crisis
Deal It's only a cent under but it's still cheaper than every other 4 TB drive out there.
'[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6
News When two become one.
Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems
News Plus a whole heap more stuff that's genuinely useful for all kinds of devs.
Autonomous ErgoChair Ultra 2 review
Score: 82% The makers might be heavily into AI, but its chair design is all about humans.
Consumer rights champion and tech-whizz Louis Rossman is taking Samsung to court over a failed 990 Pro SSD it says it can't replace, even though Amazon has plenty of them in stock
News The fact that they now cost $949 instead of $300 surely has nothing to do with it, right?
Possibly the first instance of Asus' anti-melting 12V-2x6 power cable…err…melting shows up, adding more fuel to the fire that is Nvidia's connector
News Normally I'd suggest burning such things to the ground but they're doing that themselves.
Arm's ray-traced demo of its neural technologies for mobile phone gaming proves that there's an alternate chip for handheld gaming PCs to use outside of AMD or Intel
News After all, the hardware inside your phone is rather wasted, so let's stick it in something better.
SK hynix claims it will be able to triple its memory chip output by 2034, roughly 10 years sooner than first projected
News Just in time to solve the current crisis, right?
There's one AI machine that doesn't need a nuclear power station to run, and it points to a potential way forward in the memory crisis
News You, a box, and a crank.
Thanks to a substantial 27% discount, this ROG Falchion gaming keyboard is a seriously tempting deal for anyone aiming for an all-white theme
Deal It's wired-only, but don't let that put you off.
Linux driver for vintage AMD GPUs gets an update with a helping hand from Copilot AI, keeping old hardware alive and kicking
News Today, just refactoring. Tomorrow, the whole driver set?
Microsoft rolls out Windows Low Latency Profile, giving older PCs a bit more snap when opening the Start Menu and apps
News Every little helps, even if it really is very little.
Tech leaker claims that the RTX 50 Super refresh is still on, despite the RAMpocalypse, and it'll be joined by a 12 GB RTX 5060
News Gotta use all them Blackwell dies somehow.
Intel adds 7 more games to its IBOT-boosted list, though few of them stand out as being in dire need of more CPU horsepower
News If you have a 270K Plus and an RTX 5090, you could see up to 27% more performance in Silksong…at 1080p High, that is.
Apple's virtual Siri-ball is a glowing reminder to Google and Microsoft that user interfaces really matter in software
News I'll take environmental lighting over a cell-blocking button any day of the week.
