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GTA 6 still does not have an official price, but Bank of America believes Take Two should sell it for $80. The argument is not only about GTA 6 making more money. The bank suggests that a higher price for Rockstar’s game could help the wider game industry move beyond the $70 standard. The idea came from an investor note after the iicon Video

Bungie is trying to reassure players that Marathon is not a short term project. The studio says it has plans for the game’s story over the next few years, even as the new extraction shooter continues to find its place in a crowded multiplayer market. That message matters because players have become more cautious with live service games. Many multiplayer titles launch with strong

Forza Horizon 6 has gone gold ahead of its May 19 launch, and Playground Games has confirmed several final details, including preload sizes, console graphics modes, and the game’s radio lineup. The biggest music news is that Forza Horizon 6 will have the largest soundtrack in the series so far. Preloading is already available on Xbox Series X|S and through the Xbox app on

Valve’s new Steam Controller has officially launched, but many people could not buy one before it disappeared from stock. The controller went live on Steam and sold out in about 30 minutes, while also jumping to the top of Steam’s best selling charts. That is a strong start for Valve’s new hardware push. The controller is the first of Valve’s recently announced products to

Mundfish is not ready to confirm DLSS 5 support for its next games. CEO Robert Bagratuni called NVIDIA’s new technology “highly promising,” but said the studio is still monitoring its development and will decide later whether it makes sense for future releases. That means Atomic Heart 2 and The Cube are not confirmed for DLSS 5 right now. Atomic Heart already supports NVIDIA features

GTA 6 will launch first on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with PC coming later. Take Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has now given a clearer reason for that choice: Rockstar starts with consoles because that is where it believes its core audience is. Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg, Zelnick said Rockstar is judged by how well it serves its core audience. In

Activision has denied a rumor that the next Call of Duty is being developed for PS4. The company responded through the official Call of Duty account, saying the claim is not true and that the next entry is not being made for Sony’s last gen console. That likely means the next Call of Duty will be built for current generation hardware only. Activision did

Intel’s Core 9 273PQE has appeared in gaming tests, and the results are interesting because this is not a normal consumer CPU. It belongs to Intel’s Bartlett Lake lineup for embedded systems, but it still uses the LGA 1700 socket and the same Raptor Cove performance core family found in Raptor Lake Refresh chips. The unusual part is the core layout. The Core 9

NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Super has taken the top spot in the open source model leaderboard for EnterpriseOps Gym, beating models such as Kimi K2.5, DeepSeek v3.2, and GPT OSS 120B. The result shows that NVIDIA is not only competing in AI hardware. It is also pushing hard on the software and model side. Nemotron 3 Super is a 120B parameter model with 12B active

Toto is best known for toilets and bathroom products, but the Japanese company is now getting attention for a very different reason: AI chips. The company’s shares reportedly jumped 18% after it announced plans to increase production of semiconductor components, including parts used in AI chip manufacturing. The link may sound strange at first, but it comes down to ceramics. Toto’s ceramics expertise has

Samsung’s chip making business may be getting a boost from the same AI memory wave that is pressuring the rest of the industry. A new report says Samsung Foundry is seeing strong demand for its 4nm process, with orders extending into 2027. The report says Samsung’s 4nm process has become more stable, which appears to be helping the company win more orders from global

AMD appears to be working on a new Ryzen PRO desktop CPU that could bring 16 cores and 3D V Cache to its business focused lineup for the first time. The chip, listed as Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D, has appeared in a PassMark entry, though the details should still be treated as early and unconfirmed. Ryzen PRO chips are made for professional systems, office

Micron says the AI boom is still in its early stage, and memory demand may keep rising as inference workloads grow. CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said AI is in the “first innings,” with faster and denser memory becoming a strategic requirement for companies building large AI systems. The reason is simple. AI models need compute, but that compute depends heavily on memory. GPUs need HBM,

ASUS marketed its ROG Equalizer 12V 2x6 cable as a better solution for balancing power across high end GPUs, but new testing from Der8auer suggests the cable may perform worse than expected. The test used an RTX 5090 and WireView Pro II to monitor current distribution across the connector pins. Instead of showing cleaner balance, the ROG Equalizer showed uneven current loads. In some

xAI may have one of the largest AI GPU fleets in the industry, but a new report claims it is using only a small share of that hardware effectively. The company reportedly has around 550,000 NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs across its Memphis and Colossus clusters, but its current utilization is said to be only around 11%. That would mean xAI is effectively using

Intel’s Arc Pro B70 has been tested in games, and the results give a useful look at what a gaming focused Big Battlemage graphics card might have delivered. The Arc Pro B70 is not sold as a normal gaming GPU. It is a professional card with 32GB of GDDR6 memory, a full BMG G31 Battlemage chip, 32 Xe2 HPG cores, 32 ray tracing units,

Intel and SoftBank are working on a new memory technology called ZAM, or Z Angle Memory, and the early claims are ambitious. The goal is to offer a high bandwidth, high capacity, lower power memory option for AI accelerators, with up to twice the bandwidth of HBM4. HBM is currently the key memory technology for high end AI GPUs, but it has limits. As

AMD’s next high end Halo APU has appeared in leaked benchmark results, and it looks like a clear step above the current Ryzen AI MAX Plus 395. The chip is listed as Ryzen AI MAX Plus PRO 495, part of AMD’s upcoming Gorgon Halo family. The leak shows 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, 32 threads, Radeon 8065S graphics, and support for up to 192GB

NVIDIA’s RTX 5050 has finally shown up in Steam’s hardware survey, months after its mid 2025 launch. That means every RTX 50 series GPU now appears in Steam’s database, although the RTX 5050 is still one of the weakest performers in terms of adoption. The desktop RTX 5050 currently sits at only 0.17% share. Its laptop version is more popular, which makes sense because

NVIDIA is reportedly moving faster than expected on co packaged optics, with the technology now planned for its Feynman data center GPUs in 2028. Earlier timelines had placed broader commercialization closer to 2033, so this would bring the shift forward by about five years. Co packaged optics, also called CPO or silicon photonics, replaces more copper based data movement with optical links. The goal