05 · Tech · Tuesday 20 October 2026
Consoles,cards and chips.
The Tech desk. PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and PC hardware: graphics cards, CPUs, RAM, storage, monitors and handhelds, plus firmware, prices and launches.
New today
Fresh from the Tech desk.
The latest consoles, graphics cards, handhelds and PC parts.
- 1
Xbox's new Nano controller is its smallest yet
US$49.99, a built-in battery and a programmable button. It ships in November, with Australia and New Zealand in the first wave.
Read · 2 min - 2
NVIDIA's RTX Spark laptops are on sale, from US$2,599
One chip with an Arm CPU, a Blackwell GPU and up to 128GB of shared memory. Early testing likes the speed, not the price.
Read · 3 min - 3
Sony is releasing a Midnight Black PS5 Digital Edition in Japan
¥55,000 incl. tax, Japanese-language only, out 19 November with a matching disc drive. Pre-orders open today.
Read · 2 min
New Tech stories each morning, Brisbane time.
Archive