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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT review: A good GPU that (understandably) costs too much
AMD's Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card is a good graphics card with a too-high price that makes a lot of business sense.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 review: It’s fine
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 is a competent graphics card in a time where being good enough is all it takes to sell out.
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Asus ROG Flow X13 Review: This laptop breaks all the rules
The Asus ROG Flow X13 is the most powerful tiny laptop you can buy, thanks to its companion eGPU that adds graphics performance. This modular setup has a few compromises, but it's still a great choice for highly mobile users.
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Acer Swift 3X review: This lightweight laptop shows Intel’s Xe Max magic
The Acer Swift 3X is a great laptop for creators, but its value depends on whether your workloads benefit from Intel's Deep Link capabilities for its Xe Max graphics.
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Gigabyte Aorus 17G Review: A real gaming laptop that’s amazingly quiet
The Gigabyte Aorus 17G gaming laptop looks like it should be loud, but it’s not. It brings awesome GeForce RTX 3080 performance with an arguably small sacrifice.
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EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra review: Speed and sensors
The EVGA FTW3 Ultra is the fastest GeForce RTX 3060 Ti we've tested, albeit by a slim margin.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 mobile review: The fastest laptop GPU just arrived
Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 30-series laptops offer very impressive graphics performance, even compared to some of the biggest and heaviest laptops around.
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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT review: Blisteringly fast, but very niche
The fantastic Radeon RX 6900 XT goes toe-to-toe with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3090 for $500 less, but it doesn't carve out a strong position for itself.
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Cyberpunk 2077 review impressions: Night City’s ray-traced neon streets feel alive
We've spent over a dozen hours with Cyberpunk 2077, and we're in love with Night City's ray-traced neon streets.
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Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 6800 XT review: Great hardware turbocharged by killer software
The Sapphire Nitro+'s spectacular Trixx Boost feature pushes the Radeon RX 6800 XT's performance even further, with potential to topple the RTX 3090.
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Asus TUF GeForce RTX 3060 Ti review: Stone cold, dead silent
The Asus TUF RTX 3060 Ti puts exceptional custom touches on an exceptional 1440p graphics card.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Founders Edition review: Spectacular 1440p gaming
This is the 1440p graphics card for most people. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is faster than last-generation's RTX 2080 Super for half the price.
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This Cyber Monday gaming PC sale helps you skip DIY headaches
Amazon's Cyber Monday sales include a collection of gaming systems and monitors.
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XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT Merc 319 review: Finally, an enthusiast option for AMD fans
The XFX Merc 319 marries heavy metal and AMD's Radeon RX 6800 XT with spectacular results.
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Up close with Nvidia’s Dynamic Boost feature for gaming laptops
Nvidia's Dynamic Boost can offer near double-digit performance gains by making the CPU and GPU get along
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Gateway GWTN156-3BK review: A gaming laptop that lives a bit too loud
Gateway's GWTN156-3BK squeezes advanced 10th-gen Core CPU and RTX GPU parts into its $999 shell, but the noisy fans and meager storage detract from the experience.
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AMD Radeon RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT review: A glorious return to high end gaming
AMD's Radeon RX 6800-series graphics cards deliver competitive performance and pricing against their Nvidia rivals, and offer vastly more memory, but GeForce holds the ray tracing advantage.
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Acer Nitro 5 review: This budget gaming laptop keeps getting better
The Acer Nitro 5 should delight budget-minded gamers wIth a Ryzen 4000-series CPU on board, plus a revamped cooling system and an affordable price.
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EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra review: Frigid, silent, and built to overclock
EVGA's GeForce RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra sports a phenomenal custom cooler and abundant overclocking-friendly features.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition review: Blistering performance gets $700 cheaper
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition graphics card delivers performance on par with last generation's flagship for $700 less, but compromises on memory capacity.
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RK2020 handheld emulator review: Dreamcast games in your pocket
The RK2020 is one of the best handheld gaming emulators you can buy right now, playing PS1 games with ease, and even working with some Dreamcast and PSP titles.
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EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra review: Built to push the bleeding edge of performance
EVGA's GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra packs a fantastic custom cooling system and all sorts of extras designed to push clock speeds to 11.
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MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio review: Big GPU, big cooler, big results
The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio puts its own touches and a mild overclock on Nvidia's fearsome "BFGPU," with mixed results.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition: It works hard, it plays hard
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition is the fastest graphics card in the world at gaming, but just barely. The real draw for this card is its 24GB of memory, and what that unlocks for prosumers.
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MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio review: A silent, face-melting behemoth
The MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio 10G slaps a monstrous cooler on Nvidia's monstrous new enthusiast-class GPU, with spectacular results.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080: 3440×1440 ultrawide benchmarks
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 may be built for 4K, but our benchmarks show it's (almost) just as ferocious on a 3440×1440 ultrawide monitor.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition review: Staggeringly powerful
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition graphics card is an absolute monster, delivering staggering performance gains and eradicating the biggest headaches of real-time ray tracing.
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Evercade review: A charming cartridge-based handheld for retro gaming enthusiasts
The Evercade is a quirky new handheld gaming console focused on fully licensed and curated retro gaming emulation experiences.
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Razer Blade Stealth (2020) review: A tiny gaming laptop with a big price
The 13-inch Razer Blade Stealth is both a fantastic work machine and a solid gaming machine—but it costs more than comparable models in both categories.
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Powkiddy Q90 review: A solid retro gaming option
The Q90 is a cheap handheld retro gaming emulator that has some nice features but falls short in key departments.
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Cherry DW 9000 Slim review: Eye-catching keyboard and mouse combo is pleasingly productive
Thin, durable, and customizable, the DW 9000 Slim is a worthy replacement for your daily driver.
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XPG Xenia 15: This Intel-designed laptop is light and fast
The impressively light Xenia 15 offers stellar performance despite older parts
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Townscaper impressions: Build picturesque fishing villages with no direction and no drama
Released in Early Access on Tuesday, Townscaper is a radical new "city" builder with no goals or objectives or limits. It merely asks you to build because you're passionate about building.
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Acer Predator Triton 500 review: A truly portable gaming powerhouse with 300Hz G-Sync
Portability, sleek design, overwhelming gaming power, a 300Hz G-Sync screen—you name it, and the Acer Predator Triton 500's got it. This laptop is something special.
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Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 GX550 review: Two screens and a whole lot of speed
The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 GX550 is a dual-screen gaming laptop that packs an overclockable 8-core Core i9-10980HK, GeForce RTX 2080 Super, and lots more.
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MSI GS66 Stealth Review: Thin and small, with a 300Hz screen
The MSI GS66 Stealth gaming laptop packs a 10th gen Core i9-10980HK, GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q, and 300Hz screen into a surprisingly thin and light body.
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HyperX Alloy Origins review: Same keyboard, new switches, new name
Another custom-built keyboard switch joins the fray. The HyperX Alloy Origins is near-identical to its Alloy FPS RGB sibling, but with HyperX's new Aqua and Red switches under the hood.
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Command & Conquer Remastered impressions: The roots of real-time strategy, resurrected
Petroglyph's remasters of the original Command & Conquer and follow-up Red Alert are loving and well-crafted, but very much products of their day, and are "missing" many of the improvements made by those that built on Westwood's foundations.
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Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath review: One of 2020’s best action films (and a pretty good fighting game)
Aftermath is like a three-hour after-credits stinger for Mortal Kombat 11, adding five new chapters to an already fantastic story—though it comes at a steep price.
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Intel 10th Gen Review: The Core i9-10900K is indeed the world’s fastest gaming CPU
Intel's 10th gen Comet Lake S CPUs don't take the crown in multi-core performance but they close the gap enough that you may want to actually consider them.
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Gears Tactics review impressions: A turn-based spinoff with shooter sensibilities
Gears Tactics is a fast-paced and satisfying spinoff, a little less thoughtful than its tactics peers but with plenty of big-budget spectacle and storytelling. It adds some smart tweaks to the underlying XCOM-like formula.
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XCOM meets SWAT: Chimera Squad’s radical tweaks make for a refreshing spinoff
XCOM: Chimera Squad tosses key XCOM design elements out the window to give the series a whole new, yet still familiar feel. It's great, especially for $20.
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Ancient Enemy review: Somehow ‘fancy solitaire’ is one of my favorite games of 2020
Ancient Enemy is a beer-and-pretzels adventure you can have by yourself, a solitaire-based battler that's the perfect sort-of mindless for these times.
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Fallout 76 re-review: The free Wastelanders expansion deserves a second trip into West Virginia
Hell, if you like Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Wastelanders is potentially a better follow-up than Fallout 4.
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Resident Evil 3 review-in-progress: It’s no Resident Evil 2
Linear levels, an abundance of shooting, and a plethora of cheap one-hit deaths make Resident Evil 3 a grind after last year's incredible RE2 remake.
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 review: Ryzen 4000 makes this thin, light laptop a winner
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is the world's first Ryzen 4000-based laptop. It offers stupidly good performance in a stupidly light chassis at a stupidly reasonable price.
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Half-Life: Alyx review: A great game burdened by astronomical expectations
Half-Life: Alyx isn't quite as revolutionary as you might hope, particularly if you're already well-versed in virtual reality, but it's undoubtedly one of the best games on the platform and hopefully the start of a resurgence for both the series and the hardware.
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Doom Eternal review: It’s the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
We've been to hell and back again, and you know what? It's actually pretty fun down there on the return trip, so long as you bring your own BFG 9000.
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The Zowie Mouse Fitting Kit is a try-before-you-buy option for gaming mice
On the hunt for a new gaming mouse? Zowie lets you try all 10 of its models in your very own home for just $10. Hopefully other companies follow suit.
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