Best gifts for PC gamers: Gaming mice, keyboards, more

Best gifts for PC gamers: Gaming mice, keyboards, more

Shopping for the holidays can be challenging, especially when you’re shopping for something or someone you don’t know much about. If you’re looking for some gifts for PC gamers, you’ve come to the right place. From the best gaming PC deals to the best deals on peripherals and accessories, we’ve compiled a huge list of … Read more

Steam Winter Sale 2023: best deals, how long is the sale, and more

Steam Winter Sale 2023: best deals, how long is the sale, and more

Prepare your wallets, because the Steam Winter Sale 2023 is here to drain whatever cash you have leftover from any holiday spending. Thankfully, you don’t have to have a lot left in your bank account since Steam consistently offers some of the steepest discounts on the platform’s biggest titles for these sales. From award-winning AAA … Read more

LG’s new 480Hz gaming monitor just changed the game

LG’s new 480Hz gaming monitor just changed the game

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends LG isn’t waiting for January to launch its next generation of OLED gaming monitors. The company revealed three new displays joining its lineup, as well as updates to the OLED gaming monitors it already offers. One of them, in particular, standards out due to a dual refresh rate feature that … Read more

This was the most exciting gaming laptop I reviewed in 2023

This was the most exciting gaming laptop I reviewed in 2023

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I’ve never used a laptop quite like the Lenovo Legion 9i. It’s the only laptop I’ve given a perfect score, which you can read about in my Lenovo Legion 9i review, and it puts many of the best gaming laptops to shame. It’s out of reach for most people — … Read more

The first Core Ultra handheld gaming PC is already coming

The first Core Ultra handheld gaming PC is already coming

Intel just launched its Core Ultra CPUs, and we’re already hearing about a handheld gaming PC packing one of the latest chips. OneXPlayer teased its X1 handheld, which it says is powered by one of Intel’s new Meteor Lake CPUs. We saw this coming. Meteor Lake is a new generation for Intel, and our hands-on … Read more

Intel is cooking up an exciting DLSS 3 rival

Intel is cooking up an exciting DLSS 3 rival

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Intel is working on a rival to Nvidia’s DLSS 3. Intel and researchers from the University of California published a paper detailing the tech, currently dubbed ExtraSS, at Siggraph Asia 2023 (spotted by Wccftech). It accomplishes the same goal as DLSS 3 by generating new frames to improve performance. Unlike … Read more

Why shouldn’t I smell my Steam Deck vents?

Why shouldn’t I smell my Steam Deck vents?

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends Candles? No. Potpourri? Not for me. Essential oils? They aren’t that essential. The only thing that can soothe my olfaction is the sweet smell of the Steam Deck vents. It’s the smell of burning plastic, the sweet and honey-like aroma of ozone, and the sense of dead brain cells. But … Read more

Here are the best (and worst) PC games I tested in 2023

Here are the best (and worst) PC games I tested in 2023

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I test the performance and features of dozens of new PC games every year. It’s usually just a way to round up some optimized settings for the latest games, but 2023 challenged that approach. It was a notoriously troublesome year for PC releases, but for as many busted ports that … Read more

This was the most disappointing GPU I reviewed this year

This was the most disappointing GPU I reviewed this year

Jacob Roach / Digital Trends I’m not mad, just disappointed. Nvidia’s RTX 4060 Ti has aged like milk, and it just released in May. The card was disappointing when it first released, hamstrung by a memory interface that held it back in games released this year. But it has grown even more stale over the … Read more

AMD’s new Ryzen 8040 CPUs aren’t all that new

AMD’s new Ryzen 8040 CPUs aren’t all that new

AMD AMD new Ryzen 8040 CPUs aren’t as new as they seem. During its Advancing AI event, AMD announced that Ryzen 8040 chips are coming to laptops, and you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a new generation of processors. AMD doesn’t call them next-gen CPUs, rather referring to them as “the next step in … Read more