Deal | The Last Campfire, an adventure game with a deeply thought-provoking narrative, is now on sale on Steam at its record-low price. Retailing for only $1.49, the game can be finished in two sittings and can be run on modest hardware.
Deal | The Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16 Gen 10 gaming laptop with the AMD Ryzen 7 8745HX CPU, an RTX 5060 latpop GPU, 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD is now down by more than $500 vs list price at Best Buy. The resulting price makes the Legion Pro 5 16 a good value.
Intel Arc B580 and Arc A770 have been tested with XeSS 3 Multi-Frame Generation. Using 4x MFG, the Intel Arc B580 and Arc A770 show strong performance gains, achieving over 200% better FPS in some games. Intel has also reportedly done a good job with managing latency through XeLL.
Deal | The powerful Lenovo Legion Tab Gen 3 Android gaming tablet has dropped below $350 on Lenovo's official store, thanks to some handy coupon codes. The tablet packs a flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, 12 GB of LPDDR5X memory, 256 GB of storage, and an 8.8-inch 2.5K display.
The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D reportedly outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D to become the best gaming CPU money can buy. This also means that Intel's Core i9-14900K and the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K also don't stand a chance against the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. However, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D consumes a lot of power.
The DRAM shortage has also hit gaming consoles, raising concerns that the next-gen gaming consoles like the PS6 could be more expensive. Possibly to keep costs down, the Sony PlayStation 6 is rumored not to use the full RDNA 5 GPU architecture. Reliable leaker KeplerL2 mentions on NeoGaf forums that the PS6 GPU will pack some but not all RDNA 5 features.
The supply crunch affecting the RTX 5070 Ti has resulted in the price of the GPU rising by 25% in the US. The GPU now costs $1,000 on average. The RX 9070 XT, AMD's value-oriented answer to the RTX 5070 Ti, has also suffered a 21% price hike. The GPU now reportedly sits at $700 in North America.
A complete table showing the PL1, PL2, PL3, and PL4 power limits of Intel Nova Lake has leaked online. The figures leaked show a PL2 of close to 500 W for the dual-compute-tile high-end/flagship Nova Lake CPUs.
The latest Amazon US CPU sales data for January 2026 shows a concerning trend. Many consumers are not buying new CPUs, as CPU sales have seen an enormous 51% decline from January 2025 to January 2026. The relative position of AMD Ryzen and Intel Core processors has remained unchanged, as AMD CPUs remain at the top of the sales chart.
The latest Dell XPS 14 thin-and-light Windows laptop is a success from almost all angles. However, the Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra X7 358H powering the laptop is the true star of the show with fast GPU performance and excellent power efficiency. In fact, the Dell XPS 14 has incredible battery life.
Deal | The LG C5 4K OLED TV is now available on eBay at up to 65% lower than the list price. Available in 42, 48, 55, and 65-inch screen sizes, the LG C5 OLED on sale offers tremendous value for money, courtesy of its high-refresh-rate WOLED panel, excellent brightness, and incredible color performance.
It is now reported that the price of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB has increased quite a lot in Germany. The GPU is now much closer in price to the RTX 5070 than at launch. The RTX 5070 has reportedly also seen a sharp price hike.
High-end Intel Nova Lake-S desktop CPUs are shaping up to be quite power hungry. According to recent reports, the flagship 52-core Intel Core Ultra 400 Nova Lake CPU could have power consumption in line with HEDT processors. However, even with an enforced PL2, Intel Nova Lake might still consume considerably more than Arrow Lake.
Deal | The 65-inch Hisense U8 Mini-LED TV has slid down to its lowest price ever on Amazon. Now less than $900, the 43% discount has made the Hisense U8 an excellent value, since the TV is highly rated. However, the discount is only available for a limited time.
Hardware Canucks has tested the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite, and the resulting performance is quite impressive. Not only has Qualcomm reportedly managed to increase multi-core performance by quite a large margin, but the Snapdragon X2 Elite is also much faster in gaming.
Intel's next-generation Nova Lake desktop CPUs are expected to land by the end of 2026. When the Core Ultra 400 desktop processors do release, the flagship 52-core CPU is reported to consume an absurd amount of power under full load.