Fresh developments from the gaming industry are generating attention among PC and console players after new details emerged regarding one of the latest discussed titles, updates or hardware shifts.
Home Features I tested the MSI Cyborg 14 gaming laptop by carrying it for 105 miles through the mountains of Wales A decent budget option but no substitute for an emergency foil blanket Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun Feature by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell News Editor Published on May 2, 2026 27 comments A little while ago our deputy editor James 'RAM-bo' Archer said he wanted us all to get more involved with hardware criticism, because we all appear to think that videogames are powered by telluric currents and swearing. He offered me specifically the chance to write about a laptop – the relatively affordable (I stress, "relatively") MSI Cyborg 14, loaned to RPS for a few weeks by Swipe Right PR. It was a grievous imposition, dealt out by somebody I had thought a friend. I do need a gaming laptop, and I am interested in the monstrous convolutions of the hardware industry, but I'm not really your guy for hot chat about keyboard depth and graphics card benchmarking. I care about that stuff a lot less than, to pick an example at random, climbing mountains. By happy coincidence, when James came knocking I was about to go on a 105 mile hike through the Eryri national park in Wales, including an ascent of Yr Wyddffa, Britain's second highest peak. The compromise was as obvious as it was irresistable: I would attempt to review the MSI Cyborg 14 while hiking up Welsh mountains. Quick disclaimer: I am not a professional mountaineer and none of the below should be construed as practical insight or advice. Also, Swipe Right only supplied the laptop – I paid for the rest of it. Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun Day 1 – A Worrying Sense Of Calm The clouds are massing overhead like sleepy hecklers as I quest boldly forth from Machynlleth, a few miles from the southern border of Eryri. Aside from the MSI Cyborg 14, now ceremonially entombed in about nine days of underwear, my trusty
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