Australia may be the next country to take legislative action against loot boxes in videogames, as MP Andrew Wilkie has introduced a bill calling for a mandatory adult classification for any game that contains a “gambling-type feature.” Introduced on

For decades Intel’s relationship with chipmaking rivals such as AMD and Nvidia has been a feisty one, often seeking to exploit its domination at all costs. In 1999 for example, the company got into a tangle with America’s Federal Trade Commission ove

Shaun is an Australian editor for PC Gamer, GamesRadar and PLAY, and writes for APC, TechRadar and more. When Deliveroo announced it was exiting the Australian market in November, it was difficult for critics to resist a smirk. Part of the ever-expan

BEN MANSILL can no longer tell when one year ends and another begins. Well, I hope you made it through December with few party after effects, your budgets unbruised and at least a few days of down time, with perhaps more to come. My December is just

Joel is one of the senior journalists on APC magazine and apart from being the resident laptop, monitor and fitness tech geek, he’s also pretty into surfing his local Sydney beach breaks when he’s not in front of a screen. As someone who has to set u

Chris has been elbow deep in PCs since before the turn of the millennium, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. When we judge a PC, laptop or component, we obviously rely on benchmarks. Other than price, it’s the primary differentiating factor betwe

Jarrod Walton Jarrod can barely contain his excitement with all these big launches. Last month, we finally got a taste of what Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture and the RTX 4090 GPU have to offer. Yet already there are reports of failing cards, whic

Jeremy Laird Six raw 4K panels forbreakfast, laced with extract of x86... Jeremy Laird eats and breathes PC technology. Roughly a year ago, I predicted 18 months of awesomeness for the PC. “A rapid-fire product assault is coming from AMD, Intel, and

Jon Honeyball Jon would love to receive junk email about this subject. Simply send it to billg@microsoft.com. How much is too much? Obviously, I’m not referring to gin. Or a nice wine. Or even the smile of someone you have helped. No, I am referring

WE EXPLORE THE TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE SET TO SHAPE THE FUTURE Spurs had two goals disallowed by VAR in their match against Fulham. Tottenham’s Son Heung-Min’s cross - with the slightest brush of a teammate’s head – swung into the goal ten m

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THE HOTTEST GEAR LABS TESTED • $4,499 | razer.com/au-en The Razer Blade 15 really isn’t just one device. You have a choice between four processors (spanning three generations), five graphics cards, four gaming screens, two RAM configurations, and two

• $3,397.90 | dell.com/en-au There’s often many ways to frame a laptop, depending on what you compare it to. From one perspective, the Dell Inspiron 16 Plus 7620 is a heavy 2,188g alternative to the 1,480g LG Gram 2-in-1 16. From another it’s a much

• $2,699 | hp.com/au-en The HP Envy x360 13 2-in-1 is a little late to the 12th Gen party, launching a good four months after market leaders like the Dell XPS 13 – but HP has used this extra time well, tweaking this 2-in-1 into a product that consume

• $2,899 | intel.com.au Sitting somewhere in between a DIY build and a ready-to-go prefabricated gaming rig, Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) Extreme devices are designed to showcase what’s possible with the latest gaming-PC components. The NUC 1

• $2,599 | www.msi.com Hot on the heels of the monstrous RTX 4090 comes the RTX 4080. Though it should be a much more affordable option, at this early stage RTX 4080’s carry prices that wouldn’t have been out of place during the height of the crypto

$2,59• 9 | www.asus.com Any discussion involving high end GPUs typically includes Asus ROG Strix and TUF models. The RTX 4080 delivers on performance and power efficiency, but it’s still a 320W card, and that means you need a beefy cooler to keep it

• $1,834 | lg.com/au LG is pitching its UltraGear 48-inch UHD OLED TV as the company’s first OLED gaming monitor … but instead of aiming for the super enthusiast as Samsung has with the Odyssey range, LG is hoping to make a more approachable product.

• $1,099 | https://www.benq.com Early last year we reviewed a 24.5-inch Full HD gaming monitor with an old-school TN-technology panel replete with its poor viewing angles, mediocre colour reproduction, modest brightness, mediocre contrast and eye-wat

• $219 | nzxt.com Nzxt’s latest H7 line-up of cases consists of three new models, the H7, the H7 Flow, and the H7 Elite. The Elite was an impressive and handsome chassis and, as the most expensive option, we’d naturally assumed that it would be the b

• 128GB, $999 | store.google.com The Pixel 7 brings much of the same goodness as the Pixel 7 Pro (APC 514, score 5/5) – in a cheaper package. Costing a very reasonable $999 with 128GB of storage, it has the same Tensor G2 chipset and the same Android

• $TBA | corsair.com This Elite variant is the latest and most premium offering in Corsair’s Katar mouse lineup. The design doesn’t stray far from the range’s format, so is this new entrant the best Katar mouse of all? In the box, there’s a USB Type-

• $59 | www.microsoft.com This mouse is probably about as small as a controlling device can get before it becomes unusable. It measures 26x60x107mm (HxWxD) and weighs 78g, which makes it small, squat and light enough to slide into your trouser pocket

• $700 | www.draytek.com.au The Vigor2865 series includes a range of small to medium business routers, with VDSL2 model, WAN port and a top notch Wi-Fi. We are testing the higher end, Wi-Fi 6 equipped Vigor2865ax, but there are also models without wi

Windows 7, 8.1, 10 or 11, macOS or Linux | Free | www.virtualbox.org VirtualBox provides a free way to try different operating systems within your current OS by running them in a virtual PC (VM). It’s the most popular tool of its kind, and this new v

Australians have long been technology pioneers and this year, we celebrate the official centenary of public radio broadcasting in Australia, when radio station 2SB – better known today as ‘ABC Radio Sydney’ – notches up a century of continuous broadc

macOS 10.1 | $17.95 | coconut-flavour.com MacOS provides some detail on the health of the battery in your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro, including usage history and an indication of overall health. But it’s pretty basic. To find out more about the state

Various licences available | https://ubuntu.com The latest Ubuntu (22.10) has made its customary October appearance with the colourful code name of Kinetic Kudu. As it’s not an LTS (Long Term Support) release, it will have to be upgraded in nine mont

Just seven or eight years ago, it was multiple generations behind Intel in chip production technology. 15 years ago, it was a bulk producer of cheap commodity chips with no track record in high-performance silicon, and 30 years ago, it barely existed

When we see a string of numbers such as “192.168.0.1”, most of us know that we’re looking at an IP address. But what exactly is an IP address, and why does it take that form? These are things you might not know – and that’s fine, because you don’t ne

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns t

Part of what’s great about Google Docs is its familiarity. It looks and feels so similar to Microsoft Office, LibreOffice and other offline word processors that you can jump in and start working with very little culture shock. Similarly, Google Sheet

Mark Williams Mark is an IT professional with a strong interest in voiding warranties. With so many CPU and GPU product launches in the last few months and more still to come into next year, we’ve never had so much choice when buying or building a n

A perfect balance between price and peformance. With the release of the latest generation of processors and GPUs, we were expecting a fall in the price of components this timv e around, especially in the budget department. Yet, here we are, scanning

I’ve got a couple of dead spots in my home network. The obvious solution would appear to be a mesh network, but there’s so much choice – even from the same manufacturer sometimes. What sort of things should I be looking for when shopping for a mesh n

Most virtualisers can still boot floppy images. In VirtualBox, go to the Storage tab within the settings for a virtual machine and add a new controller of type floppy. Then, add a floppy image in the same way that you do an ISO image. Having a day wh

• $109.95 | PC, PS4/5, XBS/X | callofduty.com Modern Warfare II’s greatest strength is that it doesn’t have a gimmick. And that it doesn’t need one to stand out. All Modern Warfare II needs to be is a great shooter, and here it delivers. It is the Ca

• Raspberry Pi • Latest Pi OS • Arduino Uno (or compatible) • Breadboard • 10K potentio-meter • LED • 330-Ohm resistor (orange-orange-brown-gold) • 5x M2M jumper wires • Code: https://git hub.com/lesp/ LXF-pyFirmata The Arduino and the Raspberry Pi b

IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN How to see world times, set alarms, and use the stopwatch and timer YOU’LL NEED macOS 13 The Clock app does more than tell the time. It offers world time clocks so you can see what time it is elsewhere; you

• $7.49 | PC, XB1/S/X, Mac, Linux | store.steampowered.com Vampire Survivors is built around a horde mode in simple, sprawling maps. You pick a character from a selection of Belmont-alikes then try to outlast a horde of ghoulies and ghosties, growing

Release: 2010 Developer: Double Fine Publisher: In-house Link:bit.ly/3fcCQas Costume Quest is a tradition I wish I had. Every time October sneaks back up on me, I get the urge to replay one of my favourite little RPGs. It’s a small-scale spooky adven

Over the years I’ve used many word processors, from Protext on the Amstrad CPC and Pages on the Mac to iA Writer on the iPad and Word on a PC. I’ve inputted many paragraphs into Google Docs and enjoyed writing books using Scrivener. Yet I invariably

• $25.95 | PC | thegoldenidol.com A woman lies dead on a sofa, her mouth open in shock. A few members of the dinner party she was attending stare in horror at the scene while others level angry accusations at each other. There’s only one person smili

JOEL BURGESS REPORTS ON THE UNUSUAL SIDE OF TECH NEWS The 40th anniversary update of the most recent iteration of Microsoft Flight Simulator includes a throwback easter egg that allows you to play the first four versions of the game from a cockpit co

• $399 | www.steelseries.com Among the three-strong Nova lineup from SteelSeries, the Nova 7 sits right in the middle. The three different variants include the Nova 7, the PC-optimised version we have on test here, the Nova 7P optimised for PlayStati