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Wizards of the Coast has canceled a planned single player Dungeons and Dragons action adventure game from Giant Skull, the studio founded by Stig Asmussen, who previously directed God of War III and worked on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The project had been announced less than a year ago, but it has now been dropped after an internal

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has received a major visual upgrade on PC through the Community Shaders mod, which now adds true HDR support to Bethesda’s 2011 RPG. The update is aimed at players with HDR compatible displays and should help the game show brighter highlights, richer lighting, and better detail in scenes that were previously clipped. The feature took almost two years of

Hasbro has spent about $1 billion over the past eight years building its video game business, but the company is not putting its first major push behind live service games. CEO Chris Cocks says Hasbro wants to prove it can make strong PC and console games before trying to chase the larger but riskier Games as a Service market. The company owns major brands

Microsoft has revealed the second batch of Xbox Game Pass titles for May 2026, with Forza Horizon 6 leading the month’s lineup. The new additions also include Luna Abyss, Remnant 2, Jurassic World Evolution 3, Final Fantasy VI, and The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition. The lineup covers several genres, from racing and shooters to management games and classic RPGs. Forza Horizon 6 is

In LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, your first Waynetech chips should go toward Batman’s gadget upgrades, especially his Batarang upgrades. Batman is always part of your active team, so upgrading him first gives you the most value across story missions, exploration, and combat. The game lets you unlock skills through the shared skill tree, but gadget upgrades work differently. They are tied

Nintendo, Konami, and Bandai Namco have all seen their shares rise as some Japanese investors move money away from AI focused stocks and back toward more established gaming companies. According to the report, Nintendo jumped 6.8 percent on Tuesday, while Bandai Namco and Konami each gained around 9 percent. The rebound is useful for Nintendo after a rough stretch. Earlier in the month, the

Outward 2 will launch in Steam Early Access on July 7, 2026, for Windows PC through Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG. A closed beta is scheduled to begin on May 26, 2026. The game will be PC exclusive during Early Access, with console versions planned after the full 1.0 release. Nine Dots Studio is keeping the core idea that made the first Outward

Xbox fans are using Microsoft’s new Player Voice feedback system to send a clear message. Many want the company to bring back stronger console exclusives, especially for major franchises such as Halo, Gears of War, Forza, and Fable. The most supported post on the service asks Xbox to bring exclusives back, arguing that consoles need clear reasons for people to buy them. At the

AMD has introduced its Ryzen AI MAX 400 family, also known as Gorgon Halo, with a major focus on local AI workloads. The new chips support up to 192GB of unified memory, which AMD says allows a single x86 client processor to run AI models with more than 300 billion parameters locally. The new lineup keeps the same main architecture as Ryzen AI MAX

Lisuan Tech has launched its 7G100 Extreme Founders Edition graphics card in China, marking one of the country’s first serious attempts at a domestic gaming GPU. The card is priced at 3,299 RMB, or about $500, which puts it close to RTX 5060 Ti territory. The 7G100 is based on Lisuan’s 6nm 7G106 GPU and comes with 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192

AMD has launched its EPYC 8005 Sorano server processor family, bringing Zen 5 cores to systems built for edge, telecom, vRAN, cloud storage, and other space constrained deployments. The new lineup scales from 8 cores to 84 cores and is designed for single socket servers that need strong I/O, memory support, and lower platform power. The biggest change is that EPYC 8005 uses full

Samsung has expanded its Odyssey G8 gaming monitor lineup with three new high end OLED models, including what it calls the world’s first 6K OLED gaming monitor. The new range includes 6K at 165Hz, 5K at 180Hz, and 4K at 240Hz options, all using Samsung’s fourth generation OLED Penta Tandem panel technology. The headline model is the Odyssey G8 G80HS, a 6K monitor with

NVIDIA’s AI chips still hold a strong position in the data center market, but Evercore ISI analysts say some AI engineers are paying closer attention to the full cost of using them. The concern is not only chip performance, but also power use, cooling needs, utilization, and cost per token. NVIDIA has often argued that its AI platforms offer better total cost of ownership

AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D has appeared again at an Indian retailer, suggesting the discontinued AM4 gaming processor may be making a limited comeback. The chip was spotted on 99deals.in at ₹30,000, which is about $310, with only a small number of units listed in stock at the time of the report. The listing is for the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition. Earlier reports

Intel’s work on glass core substrates is moving closer to real hardware, with early prototypes shown at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2026. The prototypes included co packaged optics, giving an early look at how advanced AI and HPC chips could be built near the end of this decade. The prototypes were spotted by Dr. Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. They are described

Alibaba has introduced its Zhenwu M890 AI chip as China’s AI hardware market continues to grow under pressure from US restrictions on advanced Nvidia GPUs. The new chip is built on Alibaba’s in house Parallel Processing Unit architecture and is designed for agentic AI workloads, including training and inference. The Zhenwu M890 targets Nvidia’s Hopper based H20 chip, with Alibaba claiming around three times

AMD has shared pricing and availability details for its Ryzen AI Halo developer platform, with preorders set to begin in June 2026 at $3,999. The compact system is designed for developers who want to build, test, and run agentic AI workloads locally instead of relying fully on cloud services. The platform is powered by AMD’s Ryzen AI Max Plus 395 chip, part of the

NVIDIA has confirmed that its next generation Vera Rubin AI platform is scheduled to begin initial shipments in the third quarter of 2026, with volume ramp expected in the fourth quarter. The company also expects shipments to grow further through the first half of 2027 as demand for AI infrastructure continues to rise. This is related to the earlier Vera CPU and Vera Rubin

NVIDIA expects its Vera CPU business to become a major new revenue source as AI companies build larger systems for agentic AI and inference workloads. The company says Vera is already in full production, and early CPU racks have been delivered to firms including OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, and Oracle. Vera is NVIDIA’s first custom CPU platform for this market. It is based on Arm

NVIDIA’s upcoming Vera Rubin NVL72 rack is expected to carry a much higher bill of materials as memory prices rise sharply across the AI hardware market. According to Morgan Stanley Research estimates cited in the reference, the rack’s total cost could reach about $7.8 million, with memory alone making up around 26 percent of the full system cost. The Vera Rubin platform is already