Ubisoft's 2017 E3 press conference was packed to the brim with exciting surprise announcements and new IPs.

At the surprising E3 press conference, Ubisoft finally showed users gameplay video from Hope County, Montana, the home of Far Cry 5.

Bethesda's E3 press conference was heavily influenced by existing projects, but that didn't stop the team from updating old favorites.

Monitor makers continue to impress us with big, beautiful, high-resolution panels, and Samsung's new CHG90 once again pushes the boundaries.

On this week's Close to the Metal, we're talking Apple's MacOS and iMac announcements from WWDC, and wonder whether the Mac has a future.

HTC Vive owners have looked on with jealousy at the Oculus Rift’s built-in headphone, but no longer. HTC’s easy-to-use upgrade sets the bar high for comfort and usability.

New 2-in-1s are rolling out, including the long-awaited update to Microsoft's Surface Pro. Are any of these products ready for the spotlight?

It might not surprise many people to find out Google is rolling out a version of Chrome built for VR, but the rich feature set may.

Leveraging a slew of Google projects, the Visual Positioning System can help you navigate a store, or show kids a new way to learn.

On this week's Close to the Metal we take a look back at Build and decide whether anything coming out of it is worth holding your breath for.

Computer docks have never been terribly exciting. Despite a wealth of inputs and outputs, Dell’s TB16 doesn’t do much to spice up the category, particularly for those who use something other than a Dell laptop.

With guns dominating every stage at E3 this year, we took some time to play a melee fighting game that specifically leaves them out.

This week, we're talking recent turbulence in the cyber security landscape, and what you can do to protect yourself from bad actors.

Consoles are inexpensive, but gaming PCs can deliver superior performance for just a few bucks more. Here are 5 budget PC gaming builds that can slay a PS4.

Overwatch is one of the most attractive games to come out of Blizzard for quite some time, but that means it's also one of the most challenging to run.

Microsoft continues to swell into new areas, with Windows 10 for Students and a new mid-range Surface Laptop. Is it a bold new direction?

Acer's massive Predator 21 X laptop is massive, incredible, and completely impractical. It's a concept computer come to life.

Intel's Optane Memory will start arriving in systems this week, so on Close to the Metal, we'll let you know who it's a good fit for.

This year's Acer event was full of announcements spanning several major product categories, with a few that pair up interesting features.

Join us on this week's Close to the Metal as we breakdown performance and price on the new AMD Radeon RX 570.

The Ryzen 5 chips offer an interesting performance proposition that’s impossible to ignore. We’ll talk over the whole series thus far and let you know where the best chips lie.

Whether you're in the fast ring, or hanging back in the slow ring, there are lots of new features in Microsoft's new Windows 10 beta update.

Ready or not, the Windows 10 Creators Update is rolling out to systems. On this week's Close to the Metal, we'll dig in and assess the damage.

Intel Optane Memory is right around the corner, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding its release.

While some of the landmark upgrades in the Windows 10 Creators Update may not have made it in time, there are still great new features to get excited for, from privacy updates to new Edge improvements.

There’s a lot of promise in Microsoft’s redesigned Paint 3D, but taking the complexity out of 3D modeling may have rendered pipe-dreams of mixed reality fun and 3D printed toys unable to hold water.

Intel's Optane Memory is finally here, complementing older HDDs with lightning-fast performance. But is it trying to solve a problem that SSDs are already the answer to?

We've heard a lot about Intel's new Optane drives based on XPoint technology, but they're finally here -- sort of.

Steam is ditching Greenlight in favor of a more direct-to-consumer approach. How will that change affect developers?

This week on Close to the Metal, we'll ask why PC games are so much harder to run, and see if Microsoft has a potential solution.

As an alleged Ryzen launch inches ever closer, more technical details have come to light regarding AMD's upcoming processors.

Nintendo has spent 40 years building an army of loyal players, and among them are PC gaming enthusiasts looking for something distinctly different - which they often find in the dungeons of Hyrule.

After a busy year, packed full of serious product updates and releases, Razer is diving into 2017 with a three-screen concept laptop that falls somewhere between genius and madness.

Cooler Master's 1,200 watt PSU isn't for everyone -- literally, there will only be a few thousand of the MasterWatt Maker MIJ.