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Some of us have been waiting for a specific RTX Remix project since the platform launched, and it was never going to be Half-Life 2. It was going to be a game where the lighting was the atmosphere and the draw distance was the joke. NVIDIA confirmed at gamescom that The Elder Scrolls III...

Two years of early access ends on December 11, and the $30 entry fee ends with it. Grinding Gear Games used Opening Night Live to finally date Path of Exile 2’s 1.0 release, and the announcement came bundled with the two things the community has been asking about longest. The first is the...

Opening Night Live gets the headlines and the celebrity cameos. The Future Games Show is where the release dates live, and this year it delivered a wall of them. The main broadcast aired yesterday at 10 AM PDT, hosted by Nick Apostolides and Angela Sant’Albano, better known as Leon Kennedy and...

The last major piece of DLSS 4.5 has landed, and unlike the headline feature from January, this one is not gated behind Blackwell. DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction went live yesterday as part of NVIDIA’s GeForce On presentation opening Gamescom 2026, and it runs on every GeForce RTX GPU from the 20...

Two hours, roughly forty games, and not one of them a leak that had already been picked apart for a month. Opening Night Live has spent the last few years being accused of front-loading everything into press releases, and this year’s show in Cologne actually held a few things back. Geoff...

The reveals start a day before the doors do. Gamescom 2026 runs August 26 through 30 in Cologne, but Opening Night Live airs Tuesday, August 25, and that is where the year’s remaining announcements get made. Geoff Keighley and Eefje Depoortere host, with a 30-minute pre-show that has...

The culprit behind two weeks of Windows 11 game crashes turns out to be sitting inside your case, glowing. Microsoft has now named RGB peripherals and components as the trigger for the game failures that started after the August 11 Patch Tuesday rollup. In its Windows release health update, the...

Gamescom is usually a games show with a few peripherals bolted on the side, which makes ROG’s plan for this year a little unusual. ASUS is treating Cologne as a component launch venue, and the centerpiece is its 20th anniversary Edition 20 collection finally getting a public showing outside...

AMD spent the week trying to keep a graphics card away from reviewers, which is the surest possible signal that the graphics card is bad. It is, and the numbers are below. Elsewhere it was a storage and display week: Kioxia’s Gen 5 flagship finally got broad Western coverage, two 32-inch...

There is a rule of thumb in this business that has never once failed me: when a company works this hard to keep a product away from reviewers, the product is the reason. AMD launched the Radeon RX 9050 at the end of July with about as little fanfare as a graphics card launch can […] See full...

A week of players yelling into Discord finally moved the needle. Microsoft opened an investigation late on August 19 into reports that its August Patch Tuesday update is breaking PC games, after a studio publicly pinned the crashes on the patch and Microsoft spent several days saying nothing at...

The most useful GPU testing of the week did not involve a new graphics card, or even a benchmark run in the usual sense. ComputerBase strapped an LDAT light sensor to seven games and measured the full input to photon chain to find out whether NVIDIA Reflex, AMD Anti-Lag 2, and Intel XeLL...

If you’ve ever trusted a case manufacturer’s stated CPU cooler height clearance before ordering a large air cooler, Noctua has some uncomfortable news for you. The company has published a blog post detailing its internal compatibility team’s findings after physically measuring more than 100...

The monthly Steam Hardware Survey rarely delivers genuine milestones, but Valve’s July 2026 data contains two that have been building for most of this year: graphics cards with 16GB of VRAM now account for 25.9% of surveyed Steam systems, edging past 8GB cards at 25.32% to become the most common...

The most useful GPU review of the week is not a new graphics card, it is two old ones. ComputerBase went back and re-benchmarked the Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7600 with FSR Upscaling 4.1 in place of FSR 3.1, and the result is an answer to the question every RDNA 3 owner has […] See full article...

Rockstar Games has announced the first extended look at Grand Theft Auto 6, and it’s launching as a Netflix exclusive. “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look” premieres on Netflix on Thursday, August 27 at 3 PM ET. If you don’t have a Netflix subscription, you can watch the same content for free...

AMD pushed its July driver on July 28, and for once the headline addition is not a performance uplift but a welcome round of stability fixes alongside new hardware support. The Adrenalin Edition 26.7.1 WHQL release notes add official support for both the Radeon RX 9050 8GB and the just-announced...

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...