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    ASUS ROG Turns 20 at Computex 2026: RTX 5090 Edition 20 GPU, X870E Motherboard, WiFi 8 Router, and More

    Twenty years in, ROG is still finding ways to make a motherboard with nine M.2 slots and an 800-watt graphics card feel like reasonable consumer products. ASUS dropped a significant haul of hardware at Computex 2026 under the “Edition 20” anniversary banner, and while a fair amount of it is...
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    GIGABYTE Goes Big at Computex 2026: RTX 50 INFINITY GPUs, 40th Anniversary Motherboards, AI Workstations, New Monitors, and More

    Forty years in, GIGABYTE is not exactly slowing down. The company used Computex 2026 to unload one of its largest single-show product dumps in recent memory, spanning graphics cards, flagship motherboards, a local AI computing platform, a pair of new monitor lines, and a full peripheral refresh...
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    StarCraft 2’s Biggest Balance Patch in 11 Years Just Hit the PTR and the Changes are Huge

    Six years into maintenance mode and eleven years removed from its last expansion, StarCraft 2 just received a PTR patch that has the community openly questioning whether they are playing the same game. Blizzard dropped the 5.0.16 PTR notes on May 29, and the changes are, by any reasonable...
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    ArenaNet Drops a Cryptic Summer Game Fest Teaser and Is Refusing to Deny It’s Guild Wars 3

    Something is coming from ArenaNet on June 5, and the studio is making absolutely no effort to calm the speculation down. Monday, the official Guild Wars social media accounts posted a short video alongside the message: “The wind stirs. The world shifts. Stand ready.” The clip features lightly...
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    Phanteks Computex 2026 Product Launches: The EX-Series Reimagines Case Airflow, Plus Budget ATX, Premium Fans and Workstation Iron

    Phanteks came to Computex 2026 with a full hand. Across four separate press releases, the company dropped new case architectures, budget gaming chassis, premium fan solutions, an LCD-equipped AIO, a GaN PSU, and a pair of workstation towers. EX-Series: A Different Take on Airflow The headline...
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    Origin Code and GIGABYTE Push 256 GB DDR5 to Just Two Slots with 4R CUDIMM DDR5-8000 CL42

    Getting 256 GB of DDR5 into a desktop has historically involved a four-slot compromise: fill every DIMM slot, watch your frequencies crater, and cross your fingers on platform stability. Origin Code, the memory brand from storage veteran Biwin, is making its case at Computex 2026 that the...
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    Carbice’s Carbon Nanotube Thermal Pad Lands in an AMD Retail Box for the First Time, Noctua to Distribute Standalone Pads This September

    Thermal paste has been a consumable since PC builders first started slathering it on heatspreaders in the 90s, but a company called Carbice wants to change that. Today, the Atlanta-based thermal interface material developer announced two retail partnerships that put its carbon nanotube pads...
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    The FPS Review Weekender – May 30, 2026

    Bond is back, and so is the weekly hardware avalanche. IO Interactive’s 007 First Light launched Tuesday and immediately spawned a wave of GPU and handheld benchmark coverage, giving us a fresh look at how the current card stack handles one of 2026’s most anticipated releases. GPU AIB review...
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    Intel ARC Graphics Driver 101.8824 Beta Released with 007 First Light Support and Multi-Game Bug Fixes

    Intel dropped a fresh beta driver for its Arc GPU lineup, and it’s a useful one for anyone planning to run 007 First Light on Arc hardware. Version 32.0.101.8824 adds Game On Driver support for the game across Arc B-series discrete GPUs, A-series discrete GPUs, and the integrated Arc graphics...
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    Helldivers 2 “Optimizing Liberty” Patch Arrives Today DLSS 4.5, FSR 4, XeSS 3.0, NVIDIA Reflex, and AMD Anti-Lag 2

    After more than two years of players asking for it, Helldivers 2 is getting proper upscaling support today. Arrowhead Game Studios has released the “Optimizing Liberty” patch on May 27, 2026, developed in collaboration with Sony’s Nixxes Software, the same studio responsible for the strong PC...
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    Diablo 4 Turns Three With Goblins, Double XP, and a Week of Free Cosmetics

    Diablo 4 turns three in June, and Blizzard is marking the occasion with the kind of event that actually gives you a reason to log back in. Running from June 1 through June 9, the anniversary celebration brings three stacked incentives: a Mother’s Blessing XP multiplier active in both seasonal...
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    Marathon Season 2 Goes Full Horror with “Nightfall” Trailer

    Bungie’s Marathon has had a rough go of it since launch, landing in the middle of what has been a fairly rough stretch for the studio more broadly. The extraction shooter made a real impression technically, but the community response has been mixed, and sentiment around Bungie has been soured...
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    007 First Light Is Out Today and Critics Love It — IO Interactive’s Best Work Since Hitman

    IO Interactive spent years after the Hitman trilogy quietly building what could be the best James Bond game in thirty years, and as of today, you can play it. 007 First Light is out now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, with the Nintendo Switch 2 version delayed to Q3 2026. Review embargoes...
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    AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Spotted with English Packaging, Global Launch Looking Very Likely

    The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE has been a China-only product since its regional debut last year, and for a while it looked like it might stay that way. VideoCardz has obtained images of Sapphire retail packaging for the card with full English branding on the Sapphire PULSE version, replacing the...
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    NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver 610.47 Is Here, and It Quietly Killed the Classic Control Panel

    There is a new GeForce Game Ready Driver out today, and on the surface it looks like a routine game-optimization release. Dig one line deeper, though, and you will find something a little more historic buried in the notes: the classic NVIDIA Control Panel is officially gone for GeForce users...
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    Rambus Announces Complete DDR5 9600 Client Chipset for CUDIMM and CSODIMM Modules

    The transition to clocked DDR5 modules has been underway for a while now, but having the chips to actually build those modules at the highest speeds is a different conversation. Rambus (Yes, that Rambus: the one that convinced Intel to bet the Pentium 4 platform on RDRAM, a memory standard so...
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    Most Bungie Employees Didn’t Know Destiny 2 Was Being Ended Until It Was Announced Publicly

    Bungie announced earlier this month that Destiny 2 would receive one final update, Monument of Triumph, on June 9, 2026, after which active development ends. The game will remain playable in maintenance mode, mirroring how the original Destiny has lingered on since its own support sunset. What...
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    Star Citizen Crosses $1 Billion in Crowdfunding After 14 Years, Still Has No Release Date

    It took 14 years, an alpha that refuses to end, and a $5,000 spaceship you cannot currently fly to get here, but Cloud Imperium Games has officially crossed the $1 billion crowdfunding milestone for Star Citizen. The funding tracker on Roberts Space Industries’ website ticked past $1 billion on...
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    NVIDIA Rolls GeForce Gaming Products into “Edge Computing” Category for Financials, Now Attributes to Less than 8% of Overall Revenue

    It also could be as simple as a matter of bean counting/disclosure guidelines. Given the ramp up of the data center/AI revenue, the gaming revenue might not be material (to the financials) anymore - which usually means it doesn't make sense to report on it separately....
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    The FPS Review Weekender Review Roundup – May 23, 2026

    It is the last week before Computex, which means the review pipeline has gone about as quiet as a stock Intel cooler at 100% load. (Ed: Are you saying they’re fanless now? Or they aren’t in the retail box anymore?) Manufacturers are saving their big announcements for the show floor, so what we...
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