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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

addlink Technology has opened its 2026 Virtual Showcase, an online product preview covering the Taiwanese storage maker’s upcoming lineup across PCIe Gen5 SSDs, DDR5 CUDIMM memory, portable storage, and docking solutions. It’s not a physical show floor (Ed: This means they won’t be at Computex...

Firaxis dropped the “Test of Time” update for Civilization VII yesterday, and free-for-all owners of the game is an understatement for how significant this patch actually is. The official patch notes run long enough to require a coffee. This is the update the community has been waiting for since...

Plex really wants you to subscribe monthly. That’s the charitable read of the company’s announcement today that the Lifetime Plex Pass is jumping from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1, 2026, a 200% increase that follows a previous hike from $119.99 to $249.99 just over a year ago. In the span of...

SAMA has officially launched the S50, a compact ATX mid-tower that tries to solve the familiar problem of fitting enthusiast-grade hardware into a smaller chassis without carving out GPU or radiator clearance to get there. The trick is a front-mounted PSU compartment that shifts the power supply...

There’s a new brand making its presence known at Computex 2026. Levelplay, a PC cooling company positioning itself around builder-friendly design and modern aesthetics, is using the show as its coming-out party, and the lineup it’s bringing is more interesting than your typical OEM refresh...

It only took about five years, but Microsoft has finally relented. Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel can now move the Windows 11 taskbar to the top, bottom, left, or right of the screen, restoring a feature that Windows users had for decades before Windows 11 launched in October 2021...

Shader compilation stutter has been one of PC gaming’s most persistent annoyances for years, and Microsoft just took a meaningful swing at fixing it on AMD hardware. The AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.5.2 driver is now live, and it brings support for Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery...

Forza Horizon 6 launched its early access window this week, and the PC hardware world met it with a flood of GPU benchmarks. Elsewhere, ASUS dropped a 20th-anniversary ROG Crosshair motherboard that looks like it time-traveled from 2006 and Igor Wallossek spent 109 minutes tearing down a...

Supermassive Games has a new entry in the Dark Pictures Anthology out today, and on PC it happens to be one of the more technically demanding releases of the year. Directive 8020 launched today on PC via Steam alongside PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the PC version ships with path-traced global...

Three PC games are launching his week, and NVIDIA is ready for all of them. The company released GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.49 WHQL, covering Forza Horizon 6, Directive 8020, and Subnautica 2 (hitting Steam Early Access on May 14). The driver is available through the NVIDIA App and the...

Origin Code is bringing a new configuration to its Vortex DDR5 lineup at Computex 2026, and the headliner this time is a 48GB (two 24GB modules) kit running at 6200 MT/s with CL28 timings, in a new Meteorite Black finish. The company is also debuting a dedicated water block for the Vortex series...

Yesterday, Noctua posted a teaser image on X of a blacked-out 120mm fan alongside the caption “Blacked out. Dialled in.” — and given the company’s current roadmap, there’s only one product it can be (Ed: Did you ping them about using spellcheck?). The NF-A12x25 G2 chromax.black has been listed...