Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Meta may be ramping up internal testing for its own first-party cloud gaming service which could let its latest standalone VR headset, Quest 2, play PC VR games without needing your own VR-ready ...

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Equipped with AMD's first Ryzen mobile processor using advanced V-Cache technology, the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 excelled in certain edge cases in our first benchmark tests. I’ve been a consumer PC ...

With prices now significantly lower than at launch, the Ryzen 5 9600X has settled into a much more appealing position for budget-minded gaming builds. The ...

Despite having specs that look significantly weaker than the competition, the Steam Deck OLED remains the best handheld on the market. That's for several reasons but the main one is that it doesn't ...

Gaming laptop battery life is, by and large, rubbish. Or rather, trying to use a gaming-capable machine for a full day of ...

Microsoft has been testing its ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming service over the past few months, as I exclusively revealed in ...

Gamers tend to place a lot of emphasis on their PC’s hardware to get an edge in games, but the right gaming peripherals can be just as critical to performance outcomes. That’s why at PCWorld we review ...