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We May Finally Know Who’s Playing Ganondorf in ‘The Legend of Zelda’

Uli Latukefu, star of 'Black Adam' and 'Young Rock,' is reportedly playing the villain in the 2027 Nintendo adaptation.

Gizmodo·

Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve

Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year

The Register·

PC gamer vibe-codes a safeguard against RTX 5090 power connector failures — monitors per-pin power draw, shuts down system if it exceeds 9.5A for more than 15 seconds

The 35MB application forcibly shuts the machine down if power exceeds configurable limits for too long.

Tom's Hardware·

Sandisk Optimus GX 7100M 2TB SSD review: The best 2230 drive you can buy for the Steam Deck

The Sandisk Optimus GX 7100M is the pinnacle of M.2 2230 SSD goodness. High performance, great power efficiency, and a well-supported drive up to 2TB.

Tom's Hardware·

$200 slashed off Gigabyte's 4th-Gen WOLED gaming monitor — 280Hz beast also packs a KVM and tactical gaming switch for just $399

Save $200 on this gorgeous 27-inch WOLED gaming monitor from Gigabyte, and upgrade your gaming experience for less.

Tom's Hardware·

Microsoft wants the next-gen Xbox Helix to play every Xbox game ever made as it urges publishers to opt in — New report also claims Xbox 360 games coming to PC soon

The upcoming Xbox Helix is starting to feel more like a PC than any console before, and Microsoft's latest efforts to unite all Xbox generations under one roof, according to a new leaked memo, seem to signal that very…

Tom's Hardware·

Glorious Wireless InfinitePlay Gaming Headset Review

The Glorious Wireless InfinitePlay offers solid sound, quality comms, and never-ending uptime at a reduced price. There’s a handful of trade-offs, but this headset has more wins than losses and is definitely worth…

Tom's Hardware·

Crazed modder turns NAS into a gaming PC with RTX 5060 hanging from the side, boosts frame rate by 828% — Frankenstein rig hides dedicated PSU in drive bay, breaks Time Spy world record for the onboard CPU

A modder has attached a full-sized RTX 5060 graphics card to a ZimaCube 2 NAS server and achieved up to 8x faster performance in games. The jerry-rigged setup doesn't look the most polished, and the CPU is heavily…

Tom's Hardware·

16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming's growing hunger for more resources

For the first time in Steam history, 8-core CPUs have overtaken 6-core CPUs and GPUs with 16GB of VRAM have overtaken 8GB GPUs. Even though the hardware survey doesn't represent everyone, it still indicates a paradigm…

Tom's Hardware·

Microsoft raises European Xbox prices by up to £200 — RAMpocalypse and component shortages force major console markups

Xbox price increases across the UK and Europe have been revealed, with prices upped by as much as £170 or €200.

Tom's Hardware·