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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

It does seem that motherboard review traffic has taken a bit of a hit this year....

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...