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As anyone who sim races on a regular desk setup will tell you, compromises must be made. While most of the best racing wheels will come with desk clamps for the wheelbase, what you won't realise until you use one for yourself is the amount of self-adjustment you'll need to perform on the regular to keep yourself in an optimum position.
Proper sim racing gear can become very expensive, very quickly. While beginners can be perfectly well-served by something cheap and cheerful like the Logitech G923, what you're getting there is a gear drive system, which, while capable of delivering a lot of hoots, tends to get a little bit, well, gear-y. The next stage up is hybrid drive that makes use of both gears and a belt, then belt drive systems, and finally you arrive at the top method for delivering virtual car feedback to your fingertips, direct drive.
Back in the days of my youth, by which I mean 1983, literally four years before I was born, BBC's Newsnight released a short report detailing the habits of a new type of person entirely, what it then classified as «computer addicts».
AI has its uses. While it's tempting to think of AI in terms of chatbots, image -generators and perhaps the thing that might end us all if we're not careful, major tech companies have been busy implementing AI and machine learning optimisation into multiple aspects of their business, in a quest to integrate what used to be a fringe concept into the processes that create the products you may already own.
Anyone doing a bit of SSD shopping recently will likely have noticed that the deals have not been as bountiful as they once were, and prices seem to be on the rise. According to a newly-discovered letter from Western Digital to its partners, price rises for its entire flash and hard drive portfolio are set to continue to increase, due to higher than expected demand and supply chain «challenges».
Let's kick off with some terminology: Blockchain. Bitcoin. NFT. Web3 gaming. Provided your eyes haven't rolled so far into the back of your head you're still able to read the rest of this article, I have some terrible news for you—two new handhelds are aiming to corner the market once more on blockchain-based gaming, only this time, it's mobile.
Nvidia's next-generation consumer GPUs, reportedly named Blackwell, are a hotly debated topic, especially now we seem to be inching ever closer to a likely release date. While Nvidia remains tight-lipped about its latest crop of graphics cards, the rumour mill does seem to be getting closer to a consensus with a report suggesting that board manufacturers are anticipating a launch in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The sound of a crunching floppy disk drive may well be the soundtrack to a large part of my misspent youth. Please insert disk four of five. Oh you've lost it? No games for you, little Andy. No games for you.