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Colorful has introduced two new Battle-AX motherboards aimed at budget PC builders who want modern features without jumping straight to expensive high-end boards. The new models are the Battle-AX B860M-Plus S WiFi7 and the Battle-AX B760M-Plus S WiFi7. One is built for Intel’s newer Core Ultra 200S processors, while the other supports older 12th, 13th, and 14th Gen Intel chips. The timing is important

Saros opens with a brutal boss fight against the Consort, and most players are expected to lose. The game throws you into this battle before you have many of the abilities that make later fights easier, including Parry, Power Weapons, and Second Chance. Still, the boss is not impossible. With careful movement, smart shielding, and a lot of patience, players can defeat the Consort

Samsung’s decision to move away from lower-end memory products is starting to reshape parts of the NAND market. The company has reportedly exited the MLC NAND business and has also reduced focus on older LPDDR4 and LPDDR4X memory, choosing instead to put more attention on higher-end products tied to AI demand. That shift has created space for smaller suppliers, especially in Taiwan and China.

PlayStation 6 is still not officially revealed, but the early technical discussion around Sony’s next console is already getting interesting. A new report says the system’s AMD RDNA 5 graphics architecture could make path tracing much more realistic on console hardware, possibly even at 60 FPS in some games. Path tracing is one of the most demanding graphics techniques used in modern games. It

A new memory technology called HBF, or High-Bandwidth Flash, is starting to attract attention in the AI hardware world. It promises much higher capacity than today’s HBM memory, but NVIDIA reportedly is not planning to use it yet. Instead, Google is said to be one of the early major customers as sampling begins later this year. HBF is being developed as a way to

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S on June 3, but players do not have to wait until launch day to try it. Square Enix has released a free demo for both platforms, giving new players a large early look at the second part of the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy. The demo is larger than the

Resident Evil Requiem players may not have to wait much longer for the game’s first free post-launch mini-game. Capcom has already said the mode is planned for May, and new comments from director Koshi Nakanishi and producer Masato Kumazawa suggest it could arrive very soon after Japan’s Golden Week holiday period. The hint came from an interview with Denfaminicogamer. Nakanishi said the mini-game is

CPU makers are trying to increase production as demand grows across AI servers, notebooks, desktops, and Chromebooks. But the extra output may not be enough to quickly fix the shortage, and prices could continue rising in the near term. The pressure is coming mainly from AI. Earlier in the AI boom, most attention went to GPUs, but CPUs are becoming more important again as

Microsoft is expanding Azure Local so organizations can run much larger sovereign private cloud deployments on hardware they own and control. The company says the platform can now support environments that scale from a single edge node to thousands of servers, while still giving customers Azure-style management and local control. The move is aimed at governments, telecom companies, regulated industries, and other organizations that

Microsoft has released Shader Model 6.10 and AgilitySDK 1.720 in preview, giving DirectX 12 developers a new set of tools for modern graphics, machine learning, and heavier GPU workloads. The update also arrives with DXC 1.10.2605.2, the latest DirectX Shader Compiler preview needed for these new shader features. This release is not aimed at everyday Windows users. It is mainly for game engine teams,

ARC Raiders is getting a major update, and PS5 Pro players are receiving one of its most important technical upgrades. Embark Studios has confirmed that update 1.26, called Riven Tides, adds support for the upgraded version of PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution, also known as PSSR. The update is available from April 28. PSSR is Sony’s machine-learning upscaling technology for PS5 Pro. In simple terms,

China has announced a major new supercomputer project called LineShine, and the goal is clear: build an exascale system without depending on foreign chips. The system was unveiled at a conference at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen and is expected to target more than 2 exaFLOPS of sustained performance. That number would put LineShine in the same broad performance class as the fastest

Kingston has launched a new 30.72TB version of its DC3000ME enterprise SSD, giving data centers a much larger storage option in the company’s PCIe 5.0 U.2 lineup. The drive is aimed at AI, high-performance computing, cloud, database, and edge computing workloads where companies need fast access to very large amounts of data. The new model expands the DC3000ME family, which also includes 3.84TB, 7.68TB,

People Can Fly is expanding its business with the acquisition of Cooldown Games, a move that will help the studio create its own publishing division. The studio, known for Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders, is also currently co-developing Gears of War: E-Day. The deal covers the Cooldown Games brand and its publishing rights. Under People Can Fly, Cooldown will operate as an

People Can Fly is making a new move to control more of its own future. The studio has acquired the Cooldown Games brand, team, and publishing rights for an undisclosed amount, and it will use the deal to build a dedicated publishing division inside the company. The deal comes at an important time for People Can Fly. The studio is known for games like

MotoGP 26 is launching later this week on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2, and Milestone says this year’s game is not just a small update. The studio has rebuilt one of the most important parts of the experience: how the bikes handle. The biggest change is called Rider-Based Handling. In older MotoGP games, the player’s input was

Samsung’s first Galaxy Glasses may be taking shape as a lighter and more practical smart glasses product, rather than a full AR headset for your face. New renders shared by OnLeaks and Android Headlines show a display-less pair of smart glasses that look closer to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses than a bulky mixed-reality device. The leaked model is reportedly codenamed Jinju. According to the

Noctua has made 3D CAD models for its fans publicly available, giving PC builders, engineers, case designers, and modders an easier way to plan projects around its cooling products. The files are available through Noctua’s official website and are meant for mechanical design, renderings, and animations. This is a useful move for anyone designing a PC case, custom bracket, workstation enclosure, or industrial system.

Nioh 3 has received update 1.05, and it may be the most important patch the game has received since launch. The update adds new content, balance changes, bug fixes, and a major new feature called Stone of Penance. For many players, that last addition is the real headline because it directly answers one of the biggest complaints about Nioh 3: the game was not

Assassin’s Creed Hexe may be further away than fans expected. A new report claims Ubisoft has moved around 50 developers off the project, while the game is now targeting a June 2027 release window. The report comes from Insider Gaming’s Tom Henderson, who says the developers were moved to Ubisoft’s Interproject team as part of wider changes under the series’ new leadership. The report