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    RPCS3 Crosses 75% PS3 Compatibility: Three-Quarters of the Entire PlayStation 3 Library Now Playable on PC

    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...
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    The Blood of Dawnwalker Goes Gold: September 3 Launch Is Locked

    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...
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    NVIDIA and SEGA Reunite After 30 Years, Bringing Classic Franchises to RTX Spark

    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...
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    Intel Ships Chips with First High-Volume High-NA EUV Production

    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...
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    Plug In an LG Monitor, Get McAfee Ads: Windows Is Auto-Installing Manufacturer Bloatware

    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...
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    Palworld is Finally Done with Early Access and Its 1.0 Update is a Monster

    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...
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    SK Hynix CEO Says 2027 Will Be Memory’s Worst Year Ever, And It Will Not Get Better Before 2030

    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 […]...
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    Nearly Half of Playstation’s Most Loyal Fans are Eyeing a Switch to PC After the Disc Debacle

    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...
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    Intel’s Core Ultra 5 245K is down to $179.99 on Amazon, 42% off its $310 launch price: a 14-core Arrow Lake chip at its lowest price in over a year.

    Processors have been one of the few PC component categories sitting out the current price surge, and the latest Intel deal makes that clearer than ever. Amazon is currently selling the Intel Core Ultra 5 245K for $179.99, a 42% discount from its original $310 launch MSRP, and very close to its...
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    The FPS Review Weekender: Air Cooling’s Biggest Week in Years — Noctua’s First AIO and a Reinvented Heatpipe, Plus 7 More Reviews

    Noctua spent 25 years perfecting air cooling before touching liquid, and this week the reviews are in on whether the wait was worth it (spoiler: the quietest AIOs reviewers have ever tested). It says something about the week that this only narrowly beats Cooler Master’s trident-shaped 3DHP...
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    DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations is Now Live: Six New Levels, The Chain Spear, and a Trip to Classic Doom

    After months of anticipation and a confirmation at the Xbox Games Showcase in June, id Software’s first major expansion for DOOM: The Dark Ages has arrived. DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations launched yesterday, July 7, 2026, priced at $19.99 as a standalone purchase and included at no additional...
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    Arc Raiders Finally Ships the Matchmaking Fix Players Have Been Begging For

    Arc Raiders has quietly become one of the more consistently well-managed live-service launches of the year, and its latest update is another point in that column. Embark Studios has shipped a matchmaking update addressing one of the community’s longest-standing requests, giving players more...
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    Microsoft Confirms a Windows 11 Bug That Can Quietly Eat Over 500GB of Your Storage

    If your Windows 11 machine has been mysteriously running out of drive space and you haven’t been able to figure out why, you may not be imagining things, and it may not be your fault. Microsoft has confirmed a storage bug tied to Windows 11’s Capability Access Manager, the system service that...
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    NVIDIA’s New 610.74 Driver Gets DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Ready for Launch

    The new GeForce 610.74 WHQL Game Ready Driver, released July 7, is built specifically around two launches: id Software’s DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations DLC, out today, and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, arriving Thursday. According to the official release notes, the driver enables full...
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    NVIDIA’s RTX 50 Super Lineup Might Finally Be Real: RTX 5080 Super Spotted With a 415W TDP

    Just when it looked like the memory crisis had quietly killed NVIDIA’s Super refresh, the RTX 5080 Super showed up where these things always seem to show up first: a power supply calculator. Seasonic has added the RTX 5080 Super to its PSU wattage calculator, listing a 415W TDP, 15% higher than...
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    Steam Hardware Survey June 2026: A Laptop GPU Just Topped the Chart for the First Time

    Valve published the June 2026 Steam Hardware Survey on July 1, and three headline figures immediately stand out: Windows 11 has cleared 70% for the first time, AMD has narrowed the CPU gap with Intel to under nine percentage points, and for the first time in the survey’s history, a laptop...
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    Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Launch Confirmed This Week, Steam Deck Verified

    Ubisoft has locked in the release schedule for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, and it comes with welcome news for handheld PC owners: the remaster has been awarded Steam Deck Verified status ahead of launch, and by extension is confirmed compatible with the Steam Machine platform...
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    Intel Officially Raises Prices on Its Best Recent Desktop CPUs

    Intel has made an unpleasant mid-year announcement: it is raising the suggested retail pricing on select Core Ultra 200S Plus desktop processors, citing rising supply chain costs. The chips affected include the Core Ultra 9 270K Plus and Core Ultra 7 250K Plus, two of the better-received desktop...
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    The FPS Review Weekender – July 4, 2026

    This week’s review circuit is anchored by one those things we’ve been tapping our foot while awaiting its arrival: AMD’s FSR 4.1 driver for the RX 7000 series landed ahead of schedule, and the major outlets have now weighed in on whether the 15-month wait delivered. Alongside that, the first...
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    The FPS Review Weekender – June 27, 2026

    The biggest hardware story of the week is one that barely involves a graphics card: Valve’s Steam Machine finally shipped to reviewers and the verdict from every major outlet landed within 24 hours. The cooling segment also stays active, with a new post-launch look at Noctua’s debut AIO and a...
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