YouTubers' 43-inch gaming laptop is powered by an Intel NUC
Not exactly portable at nearly 100 pounds
Half-Life mod adds real-time ray tracing to Valve's seminal first-person shooter
Half-Life with spruced up visuals
Mount & Blade II mod uses ChatGPT to procedurally generate dialogue
Generative AI combines with a custom story engine
The modders behind the excellent Half-Life 2 VR port reveal Episode One to arrive in Q1
Delve further into Half-Life 2's story in full VR in only a matter of weeks
Holographic side panel accessory adds a splash of color to your case
There are probably better ways to spend $200
Someone built a Commodore 64 from mostly new parts
Modder builds Commodore 64 almost from scratch
Modders discover Portal RTX files can make Half-Life 2 and some other games look stunning
WTF?! Modders are having a field day with Nvidia's RTX Remix tool, and they haven't even gotten their hands on it yet. Apparently, you can take the files that enable RTX Remix in the recent Portal remake and drop them into the .exe folder of other games to give them a less-than-flawless visual upgrade with no further modification. Copyright lawyers are already rolling over in their graves and they aren't even dead yet.
Huge Skyrim mod inspired by BioWare classics adds over 9,000 lines of dialogue
Skyrim, the gift that keeps on giving
Half-Life Alyx mod Levitation adds hours of must-play content to the VR staple
A free campaign mod for Valve's seminal VR experience
The Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs
#ThrowbackThursday Enthusiasts have been pushing the limits of silicon for as long as microprocessors have existed. These are but a few of the landmark processors revered for their overclocking prowess.
TikToker boosts CPU cooling performance by adding salt to thermal paste
Do not try this at home
Fan-made Mortal Kombat+ fixes bugs and adds new features to the original arcade trilogy
Fixing bugs that Midway never bothered to correct
Quake 1 receives a ray tracing mod
Cool stuff: After Nvidia added ray tracing to Quake II, many wondered why no one brought the feature to its predecessor. A prolific modder has now released a conversion to fill that gap, while asking fans to wait a little longer for another highly-anticipated project.
Half-Life 2: VR Mod is worth the ten-year wait it took to get it to beta
The core game is playable in VR beginning to end, but Episodes 1 and 2 need a bit more time
Modder jailbreaks PlayStation 5 using WebKit vulnerability
More of an entry point than a definitive jailbreak
Nvidia makes modding ray tracing into classic games easier with RTX Remix, starting with Portal
Something to look forward to: Recent mods and official re-releases show that the latest ray tracing techniques can fundamentally change the look of decades-old PC games. Nvidia's upcoming RTX Remix promises to help modders bring the technology to many more classics, beginning with a remastered version of Portal this fall.
Modder releases one-handed Nintendo Switch controller adapter
Another accessibility-minded Switch controller
This Doom mod converts old sprites to 3D voxels
A surprisingly subtle addition to the old school graphics
You can mod the Google Pixel 6a and bump the refresh rate up to 90Hz
Bring back the days of overclocking displays!
Half-Life 2 VR mod to enter public beta next month after five years in development
Fans have been waiting since 2017
A team of 'GoldenEye 007' fans are developing a full campaign mod modeled after 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
It looks to be a little less than halfway finished
Modder turns toilet into a fully functional gaming PC
This PC gaming toilet excels at Call of Doody
Modded Steam Deck "Ultimate" gets gobs of storage, enhanced cooling, upgraded thumbsticks and more
Cranking the Steam Deck to 11