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This week the biggest story in the review landscape is not a new GPU or a new CPU — it is a game. Halo: Campaign Evolved launched on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation this week in Unreal Engine 5, and TechPowerUp’s 35-GPU benchmark is essential reading for anyone who wants to know whether their card can...

Six years is a long time to wait for a new Gears title. Today, Xbox finally showed what E-Day’s multiplayer looks like. In a deep dive published this morning on Xbox Wire, The Coalition confirmed two modes for the game’s online component: Horde Siege and Versus. The open beta early access window...

Three big titles needed day-one driver attention this week, and NVIDIA delivered with the 610.88 WHQL Game Ready driver released on July 28. It is the full production follow-up to last week’s 610.82 beta, which was a targeted emergency fix for a crash affecting RTX 50-series cards specifically...

This week’s review landscape is anchored by the ASUS ProArt GeForce RTX 5080 OC, a 2.5-slot Blackwell card with a wood-grain trim panel and USB-C display output that looks more like studio equipment than a gaming GPU, and Guru3D put it through 32 pages of testing to find out if the...

Battlefield 6’s first naval season is live as of yesterday, and most of the news is genuinely good: a major new map, boats, waves that actually affect gameplay, and a roadmap that carries through September. The less welcome news landed today, and it lands squarely on GeForce RTX 50-series owners...

NVIDIA dropped a hotfix driver today, and if your GeForce RTX 50-series card has been causing trouble in Halo: Campaign Evolved or locking up Path of Exile 2 after long sessions, this is the one to install. GeForce Hotfix Display Driver 610.82 was released this morning, built on the July 7 Game...

Conker: Live and Reloaded is playable on a Windows PC yesterday for the first time in more than two decades, and that is not a sentence anyone was expecting to type in July of 2026. Microsoft’s Jason Ronald, VP of Next Generation at Xbox, published the announcement this morning on Xbox Wire...

The annual Call of Duty beta calendar is set. Activision confirmed the Modern Warfare 4 (Ed: Hasn’t this game already been released a couple times?) beta schedule on Monday via the official Call of Duty blog, anchoring the multiplayer test to the Call of Duty: NEXT event on August 21 and running...

Twenty-five years after the original Halo: Combat Evolved launched alongside the first Xbox, the remake arrives on PC this Thursday. Halo: Campaign Evolved, developed by Halo Studios in Unreal Engine 5, begins early access on July 23 at 8 AM PDT for Premium Edition and Collector’s Edition...

The Ryzen 7 7700X3D embargo lifted Wednesday and immediately generated the most contested CPU verdict of the year, with gaming-focused outlets largely positive and everyone running a price calculator pointing at the 7800X3D sitting $20 higher on the shelf. Rick Patterson also dropped a full...

AMD lifted the review embargo on the Ryzen 7 7700X3D on Wednesday, and the resulting nine-outlet wave has produced one of the more divided CPU receptions this year. The disagreement is not really about the chip: It is about whether anyone should buy it. The Ryzen 7 7700X3D is a downclocked...

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The RPCS3 emulator team announced on July 14 that 75% of all PlayStation 3 games are now classified as PLAYABLE on PC (Ed: Are the allc caps on playable really needed?), meaning they can be completed with playable performance and no game-breaking glitches. That is a significant preservation...

It is happening. Rebel Wolves confirmed today via the game’s official X account that The Blood of Dawnwalker has gone gold, with the post reading simply: “The Blood of Dawnwalker has gone gold! Vale Sangora awaits.” Going gold means the master build is finalized, physical discs are in...

Thirty years ago, SEGA wrote NVIDIA a $5 million check and saved the company from going under. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to say thank you in person, and the two companies announced that SEGA’s game lineup is coming to NVIDIA RTX Spark. The first confirmed title is Virtua Fighter Crossroads, the...

ASML announced that Intel Foundry is using its High-NA EUV lithography tools in high-volume production on select layers of its Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors, making Intel the first company anywhere to ship a commercial logic product built with the technology. The disclosure came...

Somewhere between connecting a new LG UltraGear monitor and opening a game, Windows apparently decided the customer also needed a McAfee advertisement. A Reddit user posting as Mags_Smash on r/pcmasterrace documented this earlier this week: after connecting three LG UltraGear displays, a...

Two and a half years after one of the most explosive Early Access launches in Steam’s history, Palworld is done with Early Access. Version 1.0 went live on July 10, simultaneously across Steam, the Microsoft Store, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and Game Pass. Pocketpair did not raise the...

If you were hoping the current DDR5 price situation would stabilize in the near term, the CEO of one of the world’s largest memory producers has a message for you: it is about to get worse. SK Hynix Chief Executive Kwak Noh-jung told Reuters on July 10 that 2027 will be the worst year in […]...

Sony’s decision to end physical disc manufacturing for PlayStation by 2028 has triggered something the company probably did not anticipate: a serious reconsideration among its most engaged fans, and those fans are looking at PC. A Push Square community poll drawing more than 6,500 votes found...