Razer and Amazon have sold out, but Best Buy still has stock at the same price.

Your ears deserve some love this Black Friday, and there’s no better way to treat them than with a new headset. I know wireless is all the rage these days, but don’t overlook a great deal on the Razer BlackShark V2 wired gaming headset. Not only do we recommend it, it’s our number one pick for best overall wired gaming headset, bar none. 

Best of all, for Black Friday you can nab them for a full 40% off. Typically it’s priced at $99.99, and it does pretty frequently drop to $79.99—but only once before has it dropped to $59.99 on Amazon, so if you’ve had your eye on them it’s a great time to buy.

“The 50mm TriForce Titanium drivers are designed with discrete…

Riot has tried its hand at a lot of things to bring its already massively-popular MOBA League of Legends to a wider audience, from spinoff games to animated series and even some high-profile musical crossovers. But one area it’s not interested in venturing into, for the core game at least, is the realm of user-generated content: UGC has been a massive boon for some games, but Riot doesn’t see it as a good fit for League.

Riot’s head of League Studio Andrei van Roon said in a recent Q&A session that while the studio might be interested in pursuing UGC in other projects, League of Legends itself isn’t really built for that sort of thing.

“We feel a lot of what we’ve built on League, where we have strengths, what players are looking for, for us are are less about sort of bu…

The Palit GeForce RTX 4090 Neptunus. A suitably weird name for a sufficiently weird graphics card. This is a hybrid GPU. It’s both air-cooled and liquid-cooled, and it combines both to offer absolutely stellar thermal performance.

Palit has the Neptunus up-and-running over at its Computex 2024 booth. The card is enormous, obviously, and comes with a traditional shroud with three fans. Its special skill, however, comes from the liquid cooling connectors on the exterior edge of the card.

These connectors hook up to a channel, a channel which loops around the GPU component on the card. The standard shroud cold plate surrounds it on all sides, the AquaFusion copper base, which also makes sure the 24GB of GDDR6X on the RTX 4090 doesn’t get too toasty.

“It’s better running a…

The second largest chip manufacturer in the world, Samsung, has announced its forecast for the company’s first quarter results of 2024. While it’s only expecting a reasonable 8% increase in sales, compared to this time last year, operating profits are expected to improve by more than 900%—from a mere half a billion dollars up to an enormous $4.9 billion.

Unfortunately, the forecast doesn’t go into any details as to why Samsung’s fortunes have dramatically changed, but its financial report for 2023 gives some clues. A sizable portion of its sales income is down to the success of Samsung’s memory division, accounting for roughly one third of all sales.

Peel apart the innards of a typical gaming PC and you’ll stand a good chance of seeing Samsung memory chips plastered al…

Thanks to AI-generated content the internet sure has been showing me some weird stuff lately. That includes the obvious things like images with far too many fingers and teeth, but also uncanny valley horrors like the recurring face of Loab. This time, AI has delivered us a pizza commercial that might just be more terrifying and hilarious than anything Loab could offer.

Tom’s Hardware spotted the video on Pizza Later’s YouTube showcasing this wonderful effort in AI. The video is an absolutel smorgasbord of uncanny treats as it advertises the hippest new pizza place around: Pepperoni Hug Spot. I don’t want to ruin the experience too much, but get ready to see people eat pizza in a totally normal and cool way.

Over on Twitter, Pizza Later explains a little about the process beh…

When I was a kid, I used to boot-up multiplayer maps in games like Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament and wander around them alone. I loved exploring the design of spaces like Facing Worlds and de_dust2, but was less enthused by the other people trying to kill me in them. I like my FPS enemies to be distinctly non-human, able to blast me into a quivering chunk of meat, but unable to call me “n00b” afterwards.

So it was with considerable joy that I learned about the Remix Jam map pack. It’s the result of a recent level design jam, whereby Quake mappers have taken iconic multiplayer maps, and redesigned them to work as single-player levels. The result is a 30-map Quake episode that takes you on a whistle-stop tour of multiplayer shooter history, with dozens of enemies to …

Wave goodbye to GeForce Experience, the new Nvidia App is set to replace it once it’s out of beta. The new desktop application for GeForce graphics cards features an updated look and feel, new features, and no login requirement, and it’s expected to eventually consume the Nvidia Control Panel, too.

The Nvidia App launches in beta today, February 22, and will replace GeForce Experience. Here’s what’s new:

• Overhauled UI
• No login requirement
• New in-game overlay
• Shadowplay 120fps support
• Per-game profile settings from the Nvidia Control Panel
• RTX HDR support
• RTX Dynamic Vibrance filter

Open the app up and you’ll find five new tabs available to you on the left-hand side of the screen: Home, Drivers, Graphics, Redeem…

You’d be forgiven for not remembering that a new BioShock sequel is still in the works, given it was first announced all the way back in 2019. Since then, both publisher 2K Games and developer Cloud Chamber (a newly formed studio built for this game specifically) have stayed surprisingly quiet about it. 

That doesn’t mean we’ve heard nothing, however. Like Rapture’s ceilings, the project has supposedly sprung a few leaks over the years, with one rumour claiming it’s set in 1960s Antarctica. Now it looks like we may even have an actual screenshot of it.

The image has been revealed by games site MP1ST, who claim it originates with a visual effects artist at 2K. According to them, it’s from “a demo featured in a 2021 reel” (presumably included in their portfolio). It inclu…

• LG C3 OLED | 42-inch | $1,296.99 $896.99
• LG C3 OLED | 48-inch | $1,396.99 $1,046.99
• LG C3 OLED | 55-inch | $1,796.99 $1,296.99
• Samsung S90C | 55-inch | $1,897.99 $1,297.99

The old TV-as-PC-monitor thing used to come with a whole hill of compromises. These days, any self-respecting TV does 4K at 120Hz, variable refresh, low latency, the works. Which makes it all the harder to ignore some of the best Cyber Monday deals on OLED TVs right now. One thing’s for sure, they make OLED PC monitors seem hideously overpriced.

How so? Well, you can have the 42-inch version of …