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This was a quiet week for marquee launches and the review queue is starting to run dry as hardware review boffins recover from jet leag, so the Round Up leans on the long tail: a wave of LGA1851 refresh motherboards, high-speed DDR5, a 1600W PSU, a retro chassis, and a creator laptop...

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As was originally teased a few days ago, Guild Wars 3 has been announced by ArenaNet with a beta targeting fall 2027 with releases on both PC and Playstation 5. ArenaNet has confirmed what a lot of MMO players were hoping to hear. In an IGN Live interview, studio head Colin Johanson went on...

If you’ve been fighting phantom stutters and G-SYNC weirdness since updating to Game Ready 610.47, NVIDIA has an answer. The company pushed GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 610.52 live yesterday through its customer care portal, targeting a focused set of display-related bugs that have been...

Microsoft announced the Xbox Series X25 Limited Edition, a commemorative hardware release timed to the 25th anniversary of the Xbox platform. The console is scheduled for November 2026, placing it squarely in the holiday window alongside the broader Xbox Games Showcase narrative of renewed...

After five and a half years in Early Access, Valheim finally has a 1.0 release date. Iron Gate and Coffee Stain Publishing announced at the PC Gaming Show 2026 that Valheim exits Early Access on September 9, 2026, bringing with it the Deep North: the game’s final biome and the content players...

Geoff Keighley knows how to close a show. Summer Game Fest 2026 ran for roughly two hours on June 5 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and while the first two-thirds delivered a steady stream of announcements, the final minutes belonged to Square Enix. Final Fantasy VII Revelation, the third...

Valve published the May 2026 Steam Hardware Survey a few days late after brief server issues, but the data was worth waiting for. AMD has reached 44.97% CPU share on Windows gaming PCs, its highest figure yet on the platform. Intel sits at 55.02%, down 0.79 points from April. AMD has been...

Computex 2026 delivered a pile of hardware launches and announcements this week, but we still managed to find a few reviews that were likely queued up before all the tech sites packed up for the annual pilgrimage to Taipei. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE embargo lifted June 2, flooding the zone with...

Season 4 is live for Call of Duty, and as with every major season launch, Activision has published a full patch notes breakdown covering weapon balance, anti-cheat, and the structural changes rolling out with the new content. For PC players, the anti-cheat updates are the part worth reading...

Corsair tends to show up at Computex with a loaded hand, and this year is no exception. At the company’s Computex 2026 booth, the most talked-about piece is something nostalgic: the WARTHOG mid-tower case, a clear spiritual successor to the Corsair Vengeance C70 that a certain generation of...

Intel has been teasing its handheld gaming ambitions since CES in January, name-dropping partners and promising it would take AMD’s dominant Ryzen Z2 Extreme seriously. At Computex 2026, the company stopped teasing and started shipping: the Intel Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme are now official...

The Radeon RX 9070 GRE launched recently, and AMD shipped a matching driver to go with it. Adrenalin Edition 26.6.1 is out now, and while official RX 9070 GRE support is the headline addition, the bug fix list is where most existing RDNA 4 owners will want to pay attention. The driver adds...

The new God of War game is real, it looks impressive, and if you only game on PC, you will probably be waiting a long time, or indefinitely. Sony Santa Monica revealed God of War Laufey at PlayStation’s State of Play last night, showcasing 20 minutes of gameplay and confirming that Kratos is...

Computex 2026 is in full swing in Taipei this week, and MSI showed up with something to prove for its 40th anniversary. The company’s booth at Nangang Exhibition Center covers everything from a record-breaking AM5 flagship motherboard to a 31.5-inch QD-OLED panel that switches between 4K/360Hz...