The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 might not be the most popular choice when it comes to graphics cards for this generation. But it's a good option if you're upgrading from something older, or just want something current that's not going to leave a huge dent in your bank account.

I've been a Spotify user for years. It was convenient, had everything I wanted to listen to, and worked seamlessly across all my devices. But somewhere along the way, things changed. The free tier became nearly unusable due to constant ads interrupting every few songs. Then came the price increases. And the more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I became with handing over data about every single song I played. So a few weeks ago, I decided to try something different. I built my own music streaming server using Navidrome, and honestly, I'm not going back.

As PC users, each of us has a lot to say about the best PC building tips, the best PC practices everyone should follow, or even the PC maintenance tasks a PC user should perform regularly. Still, when it comes to following our own advice, many of us bend or break the rules, doing what we please. This includes some persistent habits that seem absurd to a sane person, but feel normal to PC users. Deep down, we know we can't justify them, but we can't seem to let go. If you see yourself in one or more of these senseless PC habits, take comfort in the fact that you're not alone.

The Switch 2 console has now surpassed 10 million sales. The Switch 2’s popularity has exceeded even Nintendo’s anticipations, with the company raising its sales forecast for the console by more than 25 percent. In its latest earnings release, covering April 1st to September 30th, Nintendo now predicts that it’ll sell 19 million Switch 2 units by March 2026, compared to its previous forecast of 15 million.The Japanese gaming giant reports that 10.36 million Switch 2 consoles have been sold so far following its launch in June, with 4.54 million sales falling under its latest earnings period. 20.62 million Switch 2 games have also been sold since launch, though Nintendo has only raised its Switch 2 game forecast from 45 million to 48 million.The combined hardware and software sales are driving a 110 percent surge in revenue, which increased to ¥1,099.5 billion (around $7.1 billion) between April and September, compared to ¥523.2 billion (around $3.4 billion) for the same period last year. Nintendo also increased its end-of-year sales forecast to ¥2,250 billion (around $14.6 billion), and said it’s taken US tariff measures into consideration for these revisions.While the Switch 2 is the fastest-selling game console of all time, the first Switch console is also still creeping up in sales. The Switch has now hit 154.01 million lifetime sales, just shy of the 154.02 million total units sold for the DS, which still reigns as Nintendo’s most successful console. After dethroning the DS, the Switch then just needs to surpass 160 million sales to become the best-selling console of all time — a record set by Sony’s PlayStation 2 last year. By comparison, the Wii U sold just 13.7 million units over its entire lifetime, a figure that the Switch 2 is pretty much guaranteed to surpass before its first birthday.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (Intel) is a thin and light business laptop that rounds out the T14s lineup with Intel's efficient Lunar Lake chipset. We've already taken a look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon and AMD versions of the T14s Gen 6, so the biggest change here is the silicon under the hood.

In 2010, when Microsoft unveiled the Kinect, it pitched the camera as a revolutionary new gaming device. Swing an imaginary lightsaber and that would be translated onscreen. Throw a football and it would be caught on your TV. Fifteen years later, we know the Kinect as an expensive failure. Microsoft overestimated the demand for playing games with your body. But the Kinect did still turn out to be revolutionary - just not for gaming.Now, we understand the Kinect is anything but a gaming device. It became a robotics game changer, enjoyed a brief dalliance with pornography, and is now upsold as a ghost hunting toy. None of which would have be …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've been using Ubuntu for a long time, from when I installed it for the first time in my college days to learn programming. It gives me the stability and open-source freedom that's not possible on Windows or macOS. Also, it's one of the distros that runs well on my older laptop, gives me total control over what gets installed, and doesn't force me with unnecessary prompts (also, it's free).

Do you fancy making your own game, but don't want to go through the pains of, you know, actually making a game? Well, I have some good news for you. Not only does Game Dev Tycoon let you design your ideal game in a safe sim environment, but it also puts you in charge of running an entire business based around producing top hits and sequels for your best-sellers. Best of all, you can do all that for the low, low price of $2 as part of a Steam sale.

As someone who has never been fond of extraction shooters, I've had plenty of reasons. First, there's no 'real' sense of progression — drop in, do some looting and raiding, engage in fights, and repeat. Second, the plot is seldom fleshed out, especially when the bar for narratives in gaming is set so high. Still, it's also been easy to see why others like the genre, and why this space in gaming has blown up so much ever since Tarkov birthed it.

Model Context Protocol enables a Large Language Model (LLM) to do a lot more than just answer questions. Acting as a translator between the model and the digital world, it can abstract data from a particular service by exposing "tools" that the LLM can use. Instead of manually pasting snippets from another application, the model can choose to access that information if required. SearXNG is one such MCP server that enables a model to browse the web, but Context7 is another, fantastic MCP server that enables your model to access up to date documentation.

In all the time I've been a PC gamer, I never felt the need to check out Steam's remote play features like Steam Link. All my gaming happened on my PC, and my TV and phone were reserved for streaming and doomscrolling, respectively. Lately, however, I wanted to introduce my partner to co-op gaming, and since we now had the Apple TV 4K (3rd Gen) for the TV, I hoped the performance would be up to the mark. Little did I know I would be spending more time troubleshooting the Steam Link app than actually playing games with my partner.

Home labs have plenty of neat perks, but being able to use any old PC, laptop, or other gizmos as servers is one of my favorites. Plus, there’s a lot of versatility in the OS you can choose for your experimental workstation, as you can pick anything from the all-powerful Proxmox to the somewhat frowned upon (but still fairly useful) Windows Server 2019.