Apart from a wonderfully curvaceous 30th anniversary RTX 5090, the product that I saw get probably the most attention at Asus ROG's event earlier was the ROG Swift OLED PG27AQWP-W. Asus is calling this the "fastest OLED monitor in the market", and for good reason.We've seen plenty of fast monitors over the past few months, but I've not seen anything come close to this for OLED. It's 540 Hz at...

OLED monitors are an envy of mine. That's why it comes naturally for me to sit behind my IPS screen and point out some of the still-remaining flaws of the tech, namely burn-in and low brightness. But on this front, Asus might have an answer in the form of tandem WOLED monitors such as in the just-announced ROG Strix OLED XG27AQWMG.Asus explains that this technology "splits the light emitting layers...

A group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as members of the Seattle community and pro-Palestinian protesters, set up a "Liberated Zone" encampment in Microsoft's East Campus Plaza earlier today, which they renamed to "The Martyred Palestinian Children's Plaza."An announcement shared by No Azure for Apartheid, an organization calling for Microsoft to end "its direct and indirect complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide," said the move came in...

Though it doesn't hold up particularly well, Star Wars: Dark Forces was a pretty big deal back in 1996. Outlaws, on the other hand, wasn't: it was LucasArts' second attempt at a first-person shooter using its own Jedi Engine, and few people I talk to about '90s FPS games ever seem to remember it. Which makes the 1997 wild west shooter a perfect candidate for the Nightdive remaster treatment.Outlaws +...

Those aren't mountains, they're waves. Among all the cool near-future operators and wall jumps seen in the big Black Ops 7 reveal today, one detail from Activision's extensive blog post loomed large: Black Ops 7 will carry forward all weapons and cosmetics from last year's game, setting the stage for a tidal wave of tacky skins to hit the new game all at once.Starting in Season 1, which will begin...

NCSoft's Cinder City (technically CINDER CITY, but our style guide forbids such a loud use of caps) has been announced, and I feel like I've either been transported back in time, or just watched a clueless time traveller step out of a portal.Details are slim, bar a website and a trailer, but the game's X account promises it'll be "an MMO Tactical Shooter set in a dystopian world, with the...

Every developer handles leaks a little differently. Some might ignore them outright, while others quietly confirm the legitimacy before trying very hard to pretend it never happened. Infinity Nikki developer Infold, on the other hand, has gone for quite a different tactic: a dramatic plea paired with gifting all its players a mildly threatening hammer.The cosy dress-up gacha has been dealing with leaks pretty much since it launched—Infold keeps its...

The Beyerdynamic MMX 330 Pro is our favourite wireless audiophile gaming headset, and I should know, I'm the one who reviewed it. As I tested it, however, I came up with a couple of drawbacks—it's wired only, and you can't detach the mic. It seems like Beyerdynamic may have been listening, as it's just announced two new wireless models with removable microphones. But should you be a US resident, I...

Is a Windows 11 24H2 update nuking SSDs and HDDs? That's the startling claim reported by Neowin. Specifically, it's the KB5063878 update that's said to be to blame for "storage failures that cause drives to disappear, making them and their corresponding SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) unreadable by the OS."The report, based on a post by X user Necoru_cat, claims that "Phison NAND controllers are relatively prone to issues,...

While this is nothing more than a guess, I'm pretty sure that the average Alienware buyer isn't interested in a gaming laptop that's discreet, understated, or like any other model they could buy. They want that alien logo glowing away, promising unearthly performance, and getting exactly that when they flip the lid open and fire up a game.Well, that's certainly what you're getting with the new Alienware 18 Area-51 gaming...