Nearly all the games in Rockstar Games' PC portfolio are on sale on Steam right now. Some of these top-hit titles are even enjoying over a 70% discount than they usually go for.

In a new 3DMark Steel Nomad Light test, the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra has been shown to beat the iPhone 16 Pro Max. The Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy inside the flagship phone had a 36% lead over the Apple A18 Pro.

The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 exists two times: once with AMD Ryzen 8000, and once with Intel Core Ultra. Too bad that the Intel variant is much more interesting, as it features a stronger cooling system, bigger battery and a dedicated GPU.

The Minisforum UN150P has launched as an affordable mini PC with the newly introduced Intel Twin Lake CPU. As the Intel N150 is a low-power CPU, the system is mainly for relatively less demanding tasks, such as office and entertainment.

CheckMag For its first sale of the year, Steam has ‘strategically’ started with the Real Time Strategy Fest (January 20 to January 27). This genre is full of constant frenetic action, and while you may find yourself stressed to begin with, many of today’s RTS games give players the ability to learn on their own time.

Crime Simulator: Prologue, which is currently a free game on Steam with a 'Mostly Positive' player rating, will become paid. After the update, it will cost $4.99, and it will be renamed to Crime Simulator: Playgrounds.

The Doogee S200X is a durable Android phone featuring a large battery, 5G connectivity, and a secondary display on the back. It can now be easily ordered off Amazon.

Like last year's Galaxy S24 Ultra, Samsung ships the Galaxy S25 Ultra with an S Pen. However, unlike the stylus of its predecessor, this lacks Bluetooth and some associated features. Samsung has now revealed that people will be able to buy a Bluetooth-enabled S Pen for the Galaxy S25 Ultra.

Sony will shutter production of various physical media in February. This includes recordable Blu-ray discs, MiniDV tapes, and more. Sony also stated it will not produce anything to replace these forms of media storage.

Beelink has updated its SER9 mini-PC series with a cheaper option that should still be more powerful than many of its peers. Not only that, but the new Ryzen AI 9 365 version of the Beelink SER9 Pro is available with a healthy $250 launch discount.

Garmin has rolled out a new update for the Fenix 8 and its peers. Restricted to its Beta Program for the time being, the new update introduces roughly a dozen bug fixes while also adding new features ahead of a future stable rollout.

A new report has thrown water on earlier rumours about Apple adopting improved Dynamic Island hardware on the iPhone 17 Pro Max. In fact, the Dynamic Island may be an area of consistency between the iPhone 16 and iPhone 17 series.

The Galaxy S24 FE is down by 15% for a limited time and it is a good alternative for those who don't want the newer Galaxy S25. The more affordable model in the Galaxy S24 series has a good main camera, great build, and will receive software support for 7 years.

Making batteries from inexpensive and widely available materials is of particular interest for EV makers who are looking to reduce their production costs. This new energy storage could also contribute to the clean energy transition.

A developer by the name of Patrick Gillespie has developed what may be the smallest version of the classic game Snake ever made. Rather than displaying simple graphics, Gillespie's version of the game uses the individual subpixels of an LCD display.

The Galaxy A56 5G seems to be on track to launch soon, having secured approval for sale from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The new leak apparently confirms a number of details about the upcoming Android smartphone, its series-first charging upgrade included.

The Alldocube iPlay 60 OLED is a new tablet with Qualcomm SoC and aims to impress with a colorful AMOLED display. While the device supports dual SIM and 4G LTE, there’s conflicting information in regard to its Android version.

The Morefine S800 is a new mini PC with a quite striking exterior design. This computer also supports external GPUs and can be ordered in different configurations, including a budget-friendly barebone SKU.

Interview AMD announced several new Ryzen AI APUs across Strix Point, Kraken Point, Fire Range HX3D, and Strix Halo product lines at CES 2025. We sat down with AMD's Ben Conrad to discuss these APUs, what went into their design, and what they mean for AMD, OEM partners, and laptop buyers in 2025.

The Realme 14x has been unleashed on the Indian market with the same advanced durability ratings and battery size as a new Android flagship for a fraction of the price. Not so in Malaysia, however, where the same smartphone is now available with significant compromises on both of its class-leading selling points.

Phil Spencer, Microsoft's gaming CEO, has confirmed that the Nintendo Switch 2 will get support for first-party Xbox games. This corroborates some of the recent rumors about the handheld getting multiple AAA game ports.

Sharge has announced that the launch of its new ChatGPT-powered wearables via Kickstarter is now just a few days away. The brand has unveiled a Super Early Bird price for its first-gen loomos glasses in advance. They will be available alongside a accessory that might further boost their apparently class-leading battery life.

Oppo's impending Find X8 Ultra has been thought to challenge the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with the same top-end display as the pre-existing OnePlus 13. That is not exactly the case, according to the latest leak. It backs the X8 Ultra to blaze a trail for other super-premium Android handsets of the near future.

A reliable tipster has revealed what Samsung's upcoming Exynos 2500 has in store. It will feature a 10-core CPU, a 16 CU AMD RDNA 3 iGPU and LPDDR5x-9600 RAM. Rumours say it will debut alongside the Galaxy Z Flip 7 in August.

PlayStation's official launch in China has marked its 10th anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, Sony has collaborated with Xiaomi to launch a PlayStation-branded fitness tracker, which appears to be a customized Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Pro.

The Quinfall promised a vast open world and a thrilling combat system, sparking excitement among genre fans eager for a standout MMO. One day after its release, however, the average rating on Steam has already plummeted - and not just for technical reasons.

Loot, gather resources and stay alert for enemies, all from the perspective of a duck. If you enjoy looter shooters like Escape from Tarkov and appreciate a good dose of humor, this new demo on Steam is worth checking out.

The GeForce RTX 5080 has been benchmarked on Geekbench and Blender. While it is remarkably faster than the RTX 4080 in OpenCL, it is not replicated in Vulkan and Blender.

Samsung spoked about optical sensing of glucose levels, highlighting that such a monitoring technique could potentially benefit from AI and provide a huge relief for various groups of people in their everyday lives, for example diabetic patients, whilst significantly lowering costs in the medium term.

The Galaxy S25 series became official with some hardware upgrades, and the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy is one of them. As a teardown has revealed, Samsung has integrated a pretty large VC cooling setup in the Ultra to keep this customized SoC cool.

New 2025 Model Y Juniper review images and videos have appeared, demonstrating the responsiveness of the automated trunk gate if a human hand is detected, the work of the turn signals, and the Juniper light show.

While the Nintendo Switch 2 was fully showcased, its official price still remains a mystery. Ahead of any official words from the company, a lesser-known European retailer has revealed the pre-order price of the gaming handheld.

A slight but potentially significant rumor about the potential Sony Xperia 1 VII has turned up, and yet again it seems Xperia fans should hope for the best but expect the worst. Unofficial render videos of the Xperia 1 VII have been accompanied with sizzling specs, including the ever-present 3.5 mm audio jack and a return to 4K. A sketchy but not outlandish source says different though.

The security service MI5 is now accepting applications for individuals in London and commutable areas to develop gadgets and technology for its use. A wide range of unique thinking is required as some items may be used for the benefit of a large number of people or for bespoke mission-critical uses.

Aqara has released the Touchscreen Dial V1 in Europe. This new smart home product combines a rotary dial with a touchscreen, allowing you to control multiple connected devices individually or simultaneously. Also, the Touchscreen Dial V1 EU is equipped with a presence sensor and supports Matter.

Besides bringing some hardware changes, the Samsung Galaxy S25 series introduces many new features with One UI 7. Macworld argues that "over a dozen" of these have been copied from the iPhone.

Epic Games Store is adding around 20 third-party titles to its Android and iOS apps. It has also officially introduced the free games program to the mobile storefront and is working to bring the highest-grossing mobile game developers to its platform.

PEDOT is a conductive polymer that protects electronics from static discharges, but it can also store electricity. So much and so often that it could conceivably be used as an energy storage device.

The Ado Air 30 is a new electric bike that comes with an automatic gearshift, anti-theft GPS and an ultra-slim removable battery with an estimated 62 miles of range.

Xbox Game Pass and Steam provide very different experiences to Ninja Gaiden 2 Black players. The just-released remaster only offers DLSS on Steam, robbing other gamers of enhanced performance. Why do so many Xbox Game Pass and Steam versions of the same game differ so dramatically?

Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 Insider Build that brings small but significant changes to how battery information is displayed on PCs. These changes include colored battery icons that make it easier to know what is going on with a PC's battery.

The Epic Games Store will soon be offering another game for $0.00. Although the date of its 100% discount is not yet known, the storefront has already named the game in question.

LG has released a new 27-inch UltraGear gaming monitor in Japan before it reaches other markets. Not only does its Japanese release confirm all key specifications for the LG UltraGear 27G850A-B, but it also outlines how much it may cost in other markets.

The latest leaks about the OM System OM-3 indicate that the upcoming Micro Four Thirds camera will cost around $500 more than previously suspected. Along with the news of pricing, video of the new camera in the wild have surfaced, indicating that it may have some weather sealing, too.

CheckMag Laptop cooling solutions are slowly but surely becoming quieter, more compact and more effective. We may soon see cutting-edge solid-state technologies challenge traditional solutions in both think-and-light and high-performance systems.

An official launch and pre-order date has finally been set for the SuperStation One, an FPGA console that can run PlayStation 1 games without any software emulation. The gaming system is even compatible with original memory cards and controllers for the PS1. It further includes some modern features such as NFC, Wi-Fi, as well as Bluetooth and USB connectivity.

The F3A AI 370 is a new and apparently well-performing mini PC powered by a quick AMD chipset. Acemagic’s compact computer offers a bunch of connectivity options with some limitations, while the brand's promotional material focuses on the AI prowess.

Nvidia's latest flagship GPU, the RTX 5090, has a 28% higher TDP than its predecessor, the RTX 4090. This 28% increase in TDP, and a healthy increase in CUDA cores, makes the RTX 5090 around 27% faster vs the RTX 4090. However, the gain is much less when both cards use the same amount of power.