PC vs console gaming in 2026: performance, cost, mods, and ecosystems compared to help you decide the best gaming platform for your setup.

Especially if you don’t already have a gaming PC.

The Shield Extreme is an impressively compact gaming tower. As someone who has spent the last year reviewing some exceptionally large PC gaming cases, the Shield Extreme’s relatively small footprint ...

PCWorld observes that Xbox appears to be losing ground as gaming shifts toward PC-based living room experiences, with ...

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I’ve spent the better part of a decade preaching the gospel of “build, don’t buy,” but looking at the current state of ...

The ceiling will always be "console-like." ...

Imad is a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

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