Factorio basic screenshot with photo of Oppenheimer actor Cillian Murphy in front. Factorio’s God Factory was born on Sunday. Using more than 160 copies of the game running simultaneously, a group of players created a monster so large that it more than tripled the previous world record for most science produced per minute. Eternity Cluster, … Read more
Samsung transparent microLED. Andy Edser, hardware writer Andy Edser This month I tested: Laptops and flight sticks again, with an emphasis on a few RTX 4090 mobile beasts. I still think the RTX 4080 mobile is a much better call for a laptop GPU, but some will always prefer the biggest GPU you can buy, … Read more
Scientists have discovered that the target asteroid of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) may have been reshaped by the impact. A new study of the aftermath of the collision revealed that the asteroid, the smaller part of a binary asteroid system, exhibits a loose “mess” composition. On September 26, 2023, DART collided with the … Read more
OneXPlayer 2 Pro Portable Gaming PC. To be honest, the OneXPlayer 2 Pro is a lot of. Creating a complete PC undoubtedly goes further than many other dedicated portable gaming PCs, but probably too far in some ways, and not far enough in others. It’s marketed as a three-in-one device, although you’ll often only see … Read more
Baldur’s Gate 3’s Elminster. The average PC gamer may not be superstitious when it comes to walking under ladders or being cursed by black cats, but we have plenty of questionable rituals and myths that have built up over decades of message boards and Reddit threads. Established beliefs about mouse DPI, framerates, and thermal paste … Read more
The AceZone A-Spire gaming headset on a gray background. AceZone may not be a household name in gaming headsets, but the company has been building them for esports tournaments for a number of years. The A-Spire is the company’s attempt to establish itself in the home gaming market, but do its tournament-quality features make a … Read more
Sony InZone Buds on a desk with the packaging. It’s rare that I ever feel confused by gear, but the Sony Inzone earbuds have somehow managed to make me feel completely perplexed every day since I got them. There’s an overly ambitious 1990s quality to how many ideas are at play here and how many … Read more
The SteelSeries Alias Pro with Stream Mixer and included cable, on a table with the packaging. For some, audio quality matters little beyond something that isn’t objectively terrible to listen to. If you just want something that sounds good enough to pass without comment in your next Discord chat or remote meeting, then there are … Read more
The ZX Spectrum with a colorful background. Ray tracing has been around in computer graphics for a surprisingly long time. It was used to generate images in the 1960s, and by the 1980s new algorithms had been developed, including path tracing. Still, the “Holy Grail of Display” remained a distant dream for early home machines … Read more
Asus TUF Gaming RTX 4080 Super. Asus’s latest big boi GPU is the TUF Gaming RTX 4080 Super, a reference-priced, modestly overclocked card from classic Nvidia board partner. That makes it a $999 GPU, $200 less than the original RTX 4080, but with essentially the same performance. Job done. And if you can’t get your … Read more