HP is always a major player at CES in Las Vegas, and it has announced a raft of HyperX-branded and OLED-equipped gaming laptops with next-gen Intel and AMD processors - including one it claims is the "world's most powerful gaming laptop with fully internal cooling". HP has also unveiled a series of (mostly) OLED gaming monitors, including a tantalising 34-inch 360Hz ultra-wide.
Luckey, who initially made his fortune in VR and now runs the defense contractor Anduril, and Ohanian both seemed to agree: Stuff was better in the old days.
The CES show floor officially closes its doors at the end of the day, but there's still a trickle of announcements and reveals coming out of Las Vegas. If you're struggling to stay on top of all the new tech, gadgets, concepts, and AI-powered devices as the final day of CES gets underway, we're still rounding up the best hardware and upgrades that have debuted so far so you can quickly get up to speed.
Every January, the world of consumer electronics heads to Las Vegas to spend the first full week of the year in the desert presenting, prodding, and gawking at all the new gadgets and gear debuting at CES. The show has once again delivered an avalanche of products, both innovative and vaporous, that will shape the industry in 2026.
The 29th annual DICE Awards are set for February 12, 2026, and the full list of nominees has been revealed, with an unsurprising list of games leading the way in nominations. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Ghost of Yotei lead the pack with eight nominations each, while Dispatch and ARC Raiders tie for second place with six nominations each. All four titles are also nominated for the big prize, Game of the Year. The DICE Awards are hosted every year by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, with the nominees and winners picked by an academy of more than […]
While each title in the original Halo trilogy has a small amount of exploration in it, the central storyline remains a linear experience. If we want to make progress, we must take on the missions and perform the actions that Master Chief has been assigned to do. Sure, we have the flexibility to either walk or pilot a vehicle to get to our destination and pick up a shotgun instead of a battle rifle, but at the end of the day we’re all still following the predetermined path John-117 was designed for. It may seem limiting that we don’t get to select what he says or how he saves the day, but that is kind of the point… this isn’t our story, it’s HIS. The fate of the universe is at stake, so the game doesn’t give us an option to do things our own way. The only question it allows us to answer is “What would the Master Chief do”?
The choice to accept the gift of Christ’s grace and follow Him places our feet on a path that is no longer about pursuing our own will, desires, or preferences. If truly we want to see His will done on this planet and experience the fullness of His blessings in our lives, we have to do it His way and live our lives on His terms. While it may feel reductive or simplistic to ask “What would Jesus do?” before each word we say or action we take, those are the guidelines for today’s missions… because there’s only one way to save the world.
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. John 15:4-5
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How the tables have turned... AMD, once the king of delivering the most powerful integrated graphics on its CPUs, has just had its derrière delivered to it by long-time rival Intel and its just-launched range of laptop chips. The Intel Core Ultra 300 series - based on the Panther Lake architecture - includes a GPU that's 50% faster than Intel's previous Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake chips and is far, far faster than AMD's current standard laptop chips, its Ryzen AI 300 range. Intel itself claims the new Arc B390 GPU inside its top-tier Panther Lake chips is 73% faster than the Radeon 890M used in the Ryzen AI 300 series, but new public testing has shown it can even surpass that, delivering 78% higher performance in Cyberpunk 2077 and consistently high frame rates in other games, too. Based on these early tests, these chips could soon completely change the face of our best gaming laptop guide and the overall laptop performance landscape.
I've certainly seen some outlandish graphics card cooler designs in my time, but few have evoked such nostalgia as this one. Maybe it's just me, but the Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5090 Infinity 32G immediately brought to mind 1986's movie masterpiece, Short Circuit, and its not-at-all-a-killer-robot hero, Johnny Five. Thankfully, while Nvidia continues to push its AI prowess on all fronts, there's little chance of its best graphics card suddenly becoming sentient, sporting a spiked metal mohawk, and making puns about recycling... unless Gigabyte has implemented some features it hasn't publicly mentioned.
Nvidia has just unveiled its latest G-Sync technology aimed at making gaming monitors as responsive and smooth-feeling as can be. Nvidia G-Sync Pulsar combines the refresh rate/frame rate-syncing tech of G-Sync with a new type of monitor backlight strobing, which works a bit like old CRT screens, to provide ultra-smooth, low-motion-blur gaming. I've long been a fan of G-Sync technology, even if few options on our best gaming monitor guide still use an official G-Sync module. Unlike some Nvidia tech, such as DLSS upscaling, frame gen, and RTX, which have not always had the most obvious beneficial impact, G-Sync just worked. Every single game running on your monitor immediately looked better if you had a G-Sync monitor and an Nvidia graphics card. Now, G-Sync and its free equivalents - adaptive sync and Freesync - are effectively ubiquitous, but with Nvidia Pulsar, the company has come up with a new reason to make you consider buying a proper G-Sync Pulsar-certified display.
With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) currently underway in Las Vegas, hundreds of the biggest tech companies in the world are busy showcasing their latest gear, from massive TVs, to the latest CPUs and GPUs, and, of course, some seriously lavish laptops. However, the one gaming laptop that I'm most excited about so far is perhaps the most boring. Meet the new Asus TUF Gaming A14. What makes this potentially one of the best gaming laptop options of this year isn't its styling or an incredible new type of screen. It's not a new top-tier gaming GPU or its ability to last a week on one battery charge. No, what makes this Asus laptop stand out is that it uses AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo processors.
Asus has long produced some of the best-built laptops in the business, with its first-gen Zenbook still being among my favorite ever laptops. Now the company's back with yet another absolute stunner, the Asus ExpertBook Ultra, and even though it's aimed at high-flying business types, it's sure to be a tempting option for anyone seeking a serious yet slick portable PC. So, it might not be one of the best gaming laptops, but with this new Asus machine packing the latest Intel Core Ultra X9 Panther Lake CPUs, it's still surprisingly capable. What's more, a 3K tandem OLED display able to hit 1400nits of brightness, a battery that'll last 24 hours, and even a six-driver speaker system mean this laptop is incredibly capable across the board.
AI might well be invading every aspect of our lives in ways that many of us are not keen on, but despite initial appearances, Razer's new AI gaming headset actually seems like one of the more sensible AI hardware solutions we've seen in a while. Currently just a prototype called Razer Project Motoko, this "AI-native wireless headset concept" adds cameras and internal processing to a gaming headset, to bring world-interpeting Ai assistance without the awkwardness of badly-fitting glasses like Meta AI Glasses. While it probably won't be finding its way onto our best gaming headset guide any time soon, Razer might well be on to something, based on what we've seen so far.
The Corsair Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight Wireless is one of my favorite gaming mice, combining a brilliant shape with an incredibly light weight of just 36g. Now the company's back with a new addition to the Sabre lineup, and instead of boring old plastic, this one's made from carbon fiber, which is legendarily light and strong. Which is, of course, why the Corsair Sabre v2 Pro Wireless CF weighs 55g. Huh? With the Sabre V2 Pro Ultralight destined to be on our best gaming mouse guide - I'm still finishing off my review - this new addition seems like a strange one, but at 55g, it's still a light mouse and Corsair points out the mouse will benefit from "enhanced strength and rigidity." What's more, real carbon fiber does just look undeniably cool, especially when matched with the clean, simple lines of this mouse.
Nvidia DLSS 4.5 is here, and it brings some surprisingly significant changes, for a tech that you might have thought was already close to being as good as it can get. A new second-gen transformer model greatly improves upscaling image quality, according to Nvidia, while frame gen has seen the addition of both up to 6x multi-frame gen and the option to have frame generation work dynamically, only adding AI-generated frames when frame rate drops demand it. With AMD FSR having only recently caught up with DLSS, thanks to FSR Redstone, it looks like Nvidia is about to stretch its 'fake frame' and 'fake resolution' advantage even further. What's more, the new upscaling is also available for all RTX GPU owners, so most Nvidia gamers will be able to experience the improved image quality, not just those with the latest and best graphics cards.
No, I'm not joking. This new Asus G1000 gaming PC really does have holograph 'fans,' a scoop-like cooling structure on its top, and a super-thick side panel that combine to make this one of the largest pre-built gaming PCs I've ever seen. Asus could hardly have picked a worse time to drop a super-luxury, outlandish gaming PC, what with graphics card and memory prices going sky-high and the gaming industry in something of a lull. However, if you do fancy a seriously swish upgrade this year, you might want to keep your eyes peeled for the release of this beast that is sure to be one of the best gaming PCs around.
In one of the least well-kept secrets of recent PC tech times, today marks the official unveiling of what is effectively a nailed-on guarantee of being the new fastest gaming CPU in the world, the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Sporting a slight clock speed bump over the current champion, the 9800X3D, the new chip is set to continue the dominance of AMD's X3D chips when it comes to maximizing your frame rate in games. With AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D specs and release date details long having been leaked, the arrival of AMD's latest brings no surprises, but if you're seeking simply the best gaming CPU for your new rig, this will be the one to buy.
AMD has just lifted the lid on a couple of new laptop CPUs that, on the surface, might appear to be a fairly boring addition to its existing range of chips, given that they're based on an existing design. However, the devil's in the details, and one of these new AMD laptop CPUs in particular could usher in a new era of gaming laptops, if it delivers on its performance promise and it hits the right price. The new chips that are being announced today are based on AMD's existing Strix Point architecture, which we've already seen powering one of the best gaming laptops around, the ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet. However, the initial run of Strix Point chips saw them boasting either a stupendously powerful integrated GPU, but with unnecessarily high CPU core counts that made them expensive, or the versions with lower CPU core counts had less powerful GPUs. These new chips redress that balance.
