PC & Laptops

Square Enix game director and producer Yoshinori Kitase has detailed the new features that the Final Fantasy VIII Remaster will be receiving, including features exclusive to the PC version. The remaster for PC, PS4, Xbox One and the Nintendo Switch was announced at this year’s E3 event, and now we …

Laptops are expensive devices, but they’re ones a lot of us depend on every day and occasionally need replacing. Regardless of how you feel about the increasing tension in Trump’s trade war, US consumers are about to feel the effects of it in a big way. American tech players from …

Grim city-building survival game Frostpunk, which we named 2018’s best sim, is 50% off on Steam right now. It’s $15/£12.50—its lowest ever price, according to deal site IsThereAnyDeal. In Frostpunk, you slowly build a city in a frozen world that offers very few resources. It’s tough, and miserable at times: …

Our favorite affordable gaming line, the Dell G-Series, is back, and it’s more stylish than ever. Although we reviewed the Dell G5 15 SE ($1,068) and the Dell G7 15 ($1,778) at wildly different prices, they’re seemingly identical, especially when it comes to design and configurations. What divides them is that the G7 15 …

Great moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories.   Borderlands 2 Developer: GearboxYear: 2012 Plenty of videogame villains bother you by rambling over the radio or whatever its fantasy equivalent is. The Guardian in Ultima 7, Sander Cohen in Bioshock, Frank Fontaine in …

Sarah Tew/CNET Dell is slinging some deals on its high-end laptops that make them more approachable. If you’ve been pining for a huge, high-power gaming laptop, there are discounts worth investigating on Dell’s site for two of its own Dell-branded units along with an Alienware model. All three are large, …

When Apple unveiled the new MacBook Air, it seemed to signal the death of its aging predecessor. But even today, Apple sells the old MacBook Air, despite the laptop’s outdated design and ancient components. Yes, right on Apple’s website is a MacBook Air powered by a processor first released in …

Having launched their gaming-focused Mek Mini, Mek Ultra, and VR Go 2.0 computers over the past year, ZOTAC can now address virtually all segments of gaming PC market. But even with their current lineup, there are customers that require something that looks uncommon and exclusive. To that end, ZOTAC is …

The One Mix Yoga 3 is a small laptop that features an 8.4 inch touchscreen display and a convertible tablet-style design. It ships with Windows 10, but one of the first things I tried doing with the tablet was to boot a GNU/Linux distribution. I posted some notes about what …

The first beta test for Halo: Reach on PC will begin next week, Halo developer 343 Industries has confirmed. It’s not locked down, however, as plans could change. Still, next week is when the studio is looking to release the first beta test on PC. The beta test, or “flight,” …