LG unveiled a whole new line of gaming monitors ahead of CES on Friday. The UltraGear evo line are all high-end monitors covering a range of technologies, but united by 5K resolution and AI upscaling.The three flagships under the new branding are the 39GX950B, the 27GM950B, and the 52G930B. The first number in the model name indicates the size. The rest of the letters and numbers, well, I'm sure they mean something to someone. The 39-inch GX9 is an ultrawide 21:9 5K2K dual-mode OLED screen. It can run at its full resolution at 165Hz, or jump to 330Hz for fast-twitch games at WFHD. The 27-inch GM9 uses "New" MiniLEDs, which promise to del …Read the full story at The Verge.

Modern PC enthusiasts might make you feel as if your rig doesn't have a glowing 360mm radiator with an LCD screen that you can put a GIF of a dancing anime girl on; it'll feel unfinished. Liquid cooling has become a fashion statement, and for the vast majority of CPUs, whether it is Ryzen or Intel, a massive radiator is overkill that adds complexity, costs a lot, and does little to your overall performance.

I’ve been using VS Code for as long as I can remember, but more recently, I started experimenting with other tools. I spent a considerable amount of time with Cursor, especially after Anysphere rolled out V2. VS Code has remained solid as a rock, and I don’t recall a single instance where it got in my way. That said, it’s also not keeping up with how modern code editors are evolving. Cursor, for instance, is packed with AI features, and they’re not just there for show. I’ve found them genuinely useful, something VS Code still lacks at a deeper level of integration.

There's a very specific kind of magic that only a handful of games manage to capture — the kind that survives hardware generations, shifting tastes, and sadly, our own growing cynicism as players. In the video game space, fifteen years is an eternity. It's almost two whole console generations, where engines evolve, genres mutate, studios collapse, and mechanics that we once considered revolutionary become nothing but muscle memory.

The Nintendo Power Glove was not good. It's important that you know that. The Power Glove was ambitious, impressive, even important - one of the very first mainstream devices that let you control a game using your body instead of just your thumbs - but it was not good. In some ways, its not-good-ness is a key part of the story.The Power Glove showed up in the late 1980s, at a complicated time for the gaming industry, when Nintendo was a hugely powerful force for the future of fun. But the Power Glove wasn't really even a Nintendo product. It started as a research lark, became a toy, and only wound up with Nintendo's name on it after a part …Read the full story at The Verge.

The motherboard is the body of your PC. It might be easy for you to feel like you have to opt for the best option on the market in order to achieve the best quality build that you can. However, the reality is that a motherboard is a secondary performance component, and a mid-range B-series board is the actual optimal pro-choice if you're looking for a balanced system and don't want to break the bank.

In this new era of console… inclusivity? driven by Sony and mostly Microsoft bringing their exclusives to other platforms, it's getting harder to highlight games that make a singular console shine. Indeed, the top-performing games year after year on both PlayStation and Xbox are multiplatform releases, and often the best games of the year, like 2025 GOTY winner Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, similarly launch on most everything. (Once again, like in all things, Nintendo is the exception.)But while lists like this will probably disappear as we get deeper into the era of everything being an Xbox, Sony still seems committed to high-quality exclu …Read the full story at The Verge.

Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game's servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control over a significant chunk of the game's systems, including the ability to ban and unban users, sending custom messages to ban ticker, unlocking all in-game items, and granting every player 2 billion R6 Credits and Renown. Ubisoft sells R6 credits in its store, pricing 15,000 of them at $99.99. That means the actual cash value of 2 billion R6 credits is about $13.33 million. Ubisoft made it clear that nobody would be punished for spending any c …Read the full story at The Verge.

Windows 11 is not a perfect operating system by any means, but it is the most popular one out there, so while I would love to recommend everyone switch to Linux, I know that can be hard. But even if you have to stay on Windows 11, there are parts of the experience that are just too annoying by default, but they can thankfully be fixed... as long as you have the right edition of Windows, that is.

Things that HP Lovecraft was good at: Creating a mythos. Building atmosphere.Things that HP Lovecraft was bad at: Writing dialog. Creating compelling characters. Not being a racist.As a fan of horror in general, I can't pretend that Lovecraft isn't an important touchstone. But the man's blatant racism is also impossible to ignore, especially since it often finds its way onto the pages of his stories. One of the most notorious is The Horror at Red Hook, which follows Detective Thomas Malone as he uncovers a sinister cult in the titular Brooklyn neighborhood. The Ballad of Black Tom is a retelling of that story, but from the perspective …Read the full story at The Verge.

When you treat a Raspberry Pi 5 as a serious home server, the board itself is only the starting point. The difference between a cute experiment and something you can trust with your data comes down to the supporting cast. The right storage, cooling, power, networking, and mounting can turn this little board into a box you forget about because it simply keeps working. These accessories make that kind of reliability possible.

Capcom fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Resident Evil Requiem in 2026. It's the ninth mainline entry of the ongoing horror series, which has seen many changes over the years. While some Resident Evil games have often edged closer to action gameplay over their survival horror roots, the main elements of horror are still a core part of the series. Many of the most popular entries have continued to find ways to scare players, while continuously build upon the lore that Resident Evil fans have followed for a long time. And Resident Evil Requiem is looking to give long-time fans more to be thrilled about, with returning characters and new horrors to encounter.