Vulkan ray tracing support is finally official, starting with Quake II RTX
After a slow start, ray tracing continues to spread its wings. What started as a geeky Windows 10 feature now finds a home in the next-gen Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 […]
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Windows 11: Hands on with the official preview build
About two weeks ago, we went hands on with an unofficial leaked build of Windows 11. Now, Microsoft has officially released Windows 11 to Windows Insiders, with many brand new features we […]
Windows 11 video: First official beta hands-on
What are the new features of Windows 11, and what does it look like? We’ve already spent many days working with the first official build of Windows 11 (10.0.22000.51). Now, we have the video […]
Nvidia makes the 12GB GeForce RTX 2060 unofficially official
How hard is it to get a new graphics card right now? Hard enough that Nvidia is sending its product line almost literally backward. After weeks of rumors, a new version of […]
Will your games work on the Steam Deck? This official tool tells you
Valve’s portable PC gaming machine, the Steam Deck, is gaining a lot of attention as its official release date draws near. But between its Linux-based Steam OS operating system and its power-efficient […]
EVE Online’s ‘spreadsheets in space’ are getting official Excel love
The incredible complexity managing CCP Games’ massively multiplayer EVE Online space sim has drawn comparisons to “spreadsheets in space’ for much of its two decades. Now, it’s a reality. Microsoft and CCP […]
Official Steam Deck repair centers are now open
Portable devices tend to break a lot, if only because people are lugging them around whenever they go. Valve, now both a PC manufacturer and portable game console maker, is taking the […]
Chrome is finally getting an official reading mode, but it’s weird
Among the most well-known browsers, Chrome’s held out on offering a proper reader mode. Firefox, Edge, and others have long included an official way of displaying webpages as basic, easy-to-read text and […]
Intel’s new Core CPU branding is official: “i” is out, Ultra is in
Last month we heard that Intel was planning on shaking up the branding for its long-running series of Core i3, i5, i7, and i9 CPUs. Not a huge shake-up — in fact […]
Microsoft now sells official Xbox controller repair parts
Modern game controllers are pretty robust, at least as long as you go with a first-party option. But they’re also expensive, so when one breaks, it’s a deep reach for seventy bucks […]
