Microsoft prepares for “the return of Xbox” Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s recently installed CEO of Xbox, has unveiled this year’s Xbox Games Showcase. This year’s Xbox Games Showcase will be presented on Sunday, June 7th, followed by Gears of War: E-Day Direct. Gears of War: E-Day will be shown in detail after Microsoft’s main Xbox showcase. […]

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Death Stranding 2’s PC launch has been a huge success After almost a year of PlayStation 5 exclusivity, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has arrived on PC, and it’s selling well. To date, Death Stranding 2 has generated over 2 million sales across PC and PlayStation 5. According to Alinea Analytics, Death Stranding 2 […]

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Micron plans to stack GDDR memory to create higher bandwidth/capacity modules Micron has reportedly begun developing a new form of GDDR memory, hoping to gain an edge over rivals. With its new stacked GDDR modules, Micron hopes to create a product that sits between HBM and GDDR memory, offering users more bandwidth and capacity per […]

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NVIDIA users received a graphics boost in Crimson Desert with the game’s new DLSS and Ray Reconstruction Hotfix Pearl Abyss has just released a new PC hotfix for Crimson Desert on Steam, giving Nvidia users an image quality boost. How? Improvements to Nvidia’s DLSS and Ray Reconstruction technologies have boosted image quality when these features […]

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Halo Campaign Evolved is getting new content that the original lacked It will be a while before gamers see an all-new Halo game. That said, a remake of the first Halo game is coming, featuring new missions/content for gamers to enjoy. With Halo Campaign Evolved, gamers will be able to play three new story missions […]

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Sony halts CFexpress and SD memory card orders in Japan over global memory shortages Sony has apologised to its customers in Japan, confirming that it has temporarily suspended orders for several of its CFexpress and SD memory cards. The company has stated that supply will not meet demand for the foreseeable future. As such, the […]

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DLSS 4.5 Dynamic and 6x Frame Generation are launching this week Nvidia’s new DLSS 4.5 Dynamic and 6x Frame Generation features will become available to RTX 50 series GPU owners on March 31st. This support will arrive through DLSS Overrides as part of an opt-in Nvidia App beta update. DLSS 6x Frame Generation increases Nvidia’s […]

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Counter-Strike 2 now has a lot fewer farmer bots Valve has confirmed that it has completed a new bot ban wave in Counter-Strike 2, banning 960,000 farmer bots. This was due to an internal Valve investigation that utilised data from user reports, highlighting the importance of community engagement. With many Counter-Strike 2 items holding significant […]

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AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500X3D is now available to pre-order in the UK AMD’s socket AM4 isn’t dead, it’s alive! For the first time, AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500X3D has become available to purchase in the UK. Pre-orders are now open at £179.99 on the retailer PC Tec UK, as spotted by Computerbase.de. This six-core Zen 3 […]

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How good is Intel’s “Big Battlemage” GPU at gaming? Level1Techs answers Wendell at Level1Techs has tested Intel’s newly released ARC Pro B70 graphics card in gaming workloads, showcasing what Intel’s “Big Battlemage” silicon can do. While this GPU isn’t a gaming product, it uses the same silicon as Intel’s long-rumoured ARC B770 graphics card. While […]

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Google may have saved everyone from the RAMpocalypse Finally, we have some good news from the AI space. Google has announced new tech that has sent the stock prices of memory companies lower. Why? Google’s new “TurboQuant” tech promises to reduce AI’s memory usage by 6x. This tech could cause the AI industry’s demand for […]

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PlayStation 5 console prices are rising, and Sony blames the “global economic landscape” Sony has officially confirmed that its PlayStation 5 consoles are set to receive a price hike. All PlayStation 5 console models are affected, including the PlayStation 5 Pro. Baseline consoles will see their prices increase by $100, while the Pro will see […]

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The Apple Mac Pro is dead, the Mac Studio is now king Apple has officially discontinued its Mac Pro lineup, removing the product from its webstore entirely. The product has not been updated since 2023, and that model has been removed from sale. This version of the Mac Pro had a starting price of $6,999 […]

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War Thunder proves that supporting the latest version of DLSS is a tricky proposition Update 2.55.0.35 has arrived for War Thunder, adding support for Nvidia DLSS 4.5. DLSS 4.5 is Nvidia’s newest AI upscaler, and it boasts improved image quality over all prior versions of DLSS. With this change, Nvidia users should be able to […]

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PC Patch 1.1 has landed for Death Stranding 2 Death Stranding 2: On the Beach has received PC patch 1.1, which adds new performance optimisations and fixes to the game. This includes a bug that prevented PC gamers from accessing Death Stranding 2’s VR Training Missions, and another that prevented Steam Friends from loading in […]

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It looks like Nvidia’s RTX 60 series doubles down on path tracing A new leak has unveiled alleged specifications for Nvidia’s RTX 60-series GPUs, along with performance targets. If these rumours are correct, Nvidia’s next-generation RTX graphics cards will use GR20x “Rubin” series silicon with TSMC 3nm silicon. According to Red Gaming Tech, Nvidia’s RTX […]

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Intel confirms that it’s never going to release its Core Ultra 9 290K PLUS CPU When Intel released its Core Ultra 5 250K PLUS and Core Ultra 7 270K PLUS CPUs (see our review here), a lot of people had a simple question: Where’s the Core Ultra 9 290K PLUS? The simple answer is that […]

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