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Montclair State University cut the ribbon Tuesday on a 2,450-square-foot virtual reality lab inside its College of Communication and Media building, and the guest of honor wasn’t a university trustee or a tech executive — it was Hollywood producer Walter Parkes, the 75-year-old co-founder of Dreamscape Immersive who has produced more than 50 films, including…

Microsoft will begin enabling Windows 11 Memory Integrity on more eligible PCs through standard quality updates from October 2026. The security feature can affect gaming performance on some older processors, although systems where users have already switched it off will keep that choice, according to Microsoft and reporting from PCMag and BetaNews.

Since the dawn of the Steam Deck, we haven’t seen many handheld gaming PCs push the boat out in terms of different form factors. Sure, there was the Lenovo Legion Go, with its Nintendo Switch-like detachable controllers, but for the most part, a lot of the best Steam Deck alternatives look a lot like Valve’s…

Valve’s upcoming Steam Frame VR headset looks set to ship with a free copy of Half-Life: Alyx, if freshly datamined code strings are anything to go by. That’s the good news. The less exciting part? Alyx launched six years ago, and most VR enthusiasts already own it.

Fractal Design has made some of my favourite PC cases of the past few years. Combining Scandinaer thought I needed in my desktop, but after building rigs in the company’s cases and using them extensively, I have to say I am a convert. With its latest case, the Fractal Summit, the company may have delivered…