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    Path of Exile 2’s 1.0 Launch Won’t Be Timed Around Other Games, Director Says

    The Path of Exile 2 community has been quietly anxious about the 1.0 full launch timeline, particularly given the game’s already lengthy Early Access period and the crowded second half of 2026 release calendar. Director Jonathan Rogers addressed that concern directly in a recent interview: the...
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    Intel’s Razor Lake-AX Reportedly Brings Back On-Package Memory to Take On AMD Medusa Halo

    Intel appears to be bringing back one of the more interesting design decisions from its Lunar Lake architecture: on-package memory. According to leaker Haze2K1 on X, the upcoming Razor Lake-AX platform will integrate memory directly onto the chip package, a configuration that shortens the...
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    Discord Nitro Subscribers Now Get Xbox Game Pass for Free with New Nitro Rewards Program

    Discord (Ed: what abou Datcord?) and Xbox have taken their existing partnership to a new level: as of today, Discord Nitro subscribers get a bundled tier of Xbox Game Pass at no extra charge. The new Game Pass Starter Edition, announced today alongside Discord’s Nitro Rewards program, includes...
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    Nintendo Switch 2 Is Getting a $50 Price Hike to $499.99 in September — Memory Shortage Blamed

    Consoles getting cheaper over time used to be one of the reliable constants in consumer electronics. Nintendo just made it official that this generation, that’s not happening: the Switch 2 is going up $50 in the United States, from $449.99 to $499.99 effective September 1, 2026. Canada, Europe...
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    Path of Exile 2’s Biggest Update Ever Lands May 29: Return of the Ancients Fully Revealed

    Grinding Gear Games just held its GGG Live stream, and the scope of what is coming on May 29 is staggering. Path of Exile 2: Return of the Ancients, patch 0.5.0, is the largest update in the game’s early access run and the final major content expansion before 1.0. Game director Jonathan Rogers...
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    Intel’s Computex Keynote is June 2 and “Silicon Innovation” is On The Agenda

    Intel has confirmed the details of its Computex 2026 presence, and one phrase in the official announcement is doing a lot of work. CEO Lip-Bu Tan will deliver Intel’s Computex keynote on June 2 at 1:30 PM (Ed: Shouldn’t you tell the readers that’s 1:30AM Eastern US time?) Taiwan local time, with...
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    The FPS Review Weekender Review Roundup – May 9, 2026

    This week’s review landscape is unusually diverse: a forgotten Arrow Lake CPU finally getting its day of reckoning, a wave of Z890 motherboards hitting landing to support the Plus series refresh, and the launch review landslide for Valve’s long-awaited Steam Controller. Fractal’s new Pop 2...
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    PCIe 8.0 Draft 0.5 is Out: 1 TB/s Bandwidth, New Connectors, and a 2028 Finish Line

    The PCI-SIG has reached a meaningful milestone in the development of the next major PCIe generation. The organization released draft 0.5 of the PCIe 8.0 specification to its members on May 6, marking the first full official draft of the standard and incorporating feedback from the draft 0.3...
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    AMD Adrenalin 26.5.1 is Out, and Radeon Users Waited Six Weeks for This

    Six weeks is a long time to wait for a Radeon driver, and 26.5.1 is not the kind of release that makes up for the gap. AMD dropped Adrenalin Edition 26.5.1 on May 6, the first public Adrenalin update since 26.3.1 landed on March 20. The previous release brought FSR 4.1 and Ray Regeneration 1.1...
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    AMD Launches Instinct MI350P: CDNA 4 AI Muscle in a Standard PCIe Slot

    Getting CDNA 4 AI compute into a standard rack-mount server has been harder than it should be — until today. AMD has officially launched the Instinct MI350P, a PCIe add-in card based on its CDNA 4 architecture, and it’s the first Instinct GPU in this form factor in roughly four years. The pitch...
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    A New Report Reveals That Motherboard Sales Have Plummeted amid Chip Shortages and the Absence of New Consumer GPU Releases

    It does seem that motherboard review traffic has taken a bit of a hit this year....
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    Lian Li DK-07 WOOD Launches Today with Real Walnut Tabletop at $1,399.99

    I've had the DK-05 as my daily driver for a pair of systems for over 5 years at this this point. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the approach. The wood variant seems interesting - I just don't know what I'd do with the current desk....
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    Valve Releases Steam Controller CAD Files Under Creative Commons — Let the Modding Begin

    The Steam Controller launched on May 4, sold out in roughly 30 minutes, and immediately started showing up on eBay at two to three times retail. Valve, meanwhile, is already thinking three steps ahead. The company has released official CAD files for the external shell of the Steam Controller and...
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    Lian Li DK-07 WOOD Launches Today with Real Walnut Tabletop at $1,399.99

    Lian Li has been refining its desk-as-PC-case concept for years, and the latest iteration keeps the hardware the same while upgrading what you actually rest your arms on. The DK-07 WOOD launches today with a real walnut wood tabletop in place of the standard brushed aluminum lid, and it hits...
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    be quiet! Launches Dark Rock Pro 6 and Dark Rock 6 on May 19 — Semi-Passive Mode Comes to the Legendary Air Cooler Line

    The Dark Rock series has been a benchmark for premium air cooling since the Dark Rock Pro 2 earned a reputation for combining serious thermal performance with genuinely quiet operation. be quiet! is now ready with the sixth generation: the Dark Rock Pro 6 and Dark Rock 6, both scheduled to hit...
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    Biostar Confirms Next-Gen AMD Motherboards for Computex; Leaker Points to X970E Reusing PROM21 Chipset with Full CUDIMM/CAMM Support

    Computex 2026 runs June 2 to 5 in Taipei, and the pre-show teases have already started (Ed: My Whatsapp has been lighting up lately….). Biostar issued a press release yesterday confirming it will showcase “next-generation AMD” motherboards at its booth, alongside Intel 800-series boards, its...
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    Ed Boon Confirms Netherrealm is “Definitely Pursuing” a New Mortal Kombat Game

    Mortal Kombat’s next chapter is coming, eventually — Ed Boon just won’t tell you anything else about it. In a new interview with Collider, the NetherRealm Studios co-creator confirmed the studio is “definitely pursuing another Mortal Kombat game,” while making clear he can’t elaborate without...
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    Nintendo Drops a Surprise Star Fox Direct: SF64 Remake and New Game Announced for Switch 2

    Nintendo has a long and proud tradition of announcing Star Fox games and then leaving the franchise to slowly rot on the vine for a decade. After Star Fox Zero on Wii U didn’t exactly set the world on fire, the series has been dormant long enough that a new announcement now lands as a […] See...
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    AMD Posts Record $10.3B Q1 Revenue But Warns Gaming Will Drop More Than 20% in H2 as Memory Costs Bite

    AMD had a lot to like in its Q1 2026 earnings report, and one uncomfortable thing to say out loud: the memory crunch is coming for gaming revenue, and it is coming hard. The company posted record first-quarter revenue of $10.3 billion, beating analyst estimates of $9.84 billion. Non-GAAP...
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    Trends from the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey

    I would say the population of LTT (or TPU) readers is not a population that is representative of all steam users...
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