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Thermal Grizzly has put a Noctua fan on its GPU power monitor and is charging 70 euros more for it. The WireView Pro II Noctua Edition arrived on September 27, 2026 with a suggested price of USD 219.90, or EUR 189.90, and its measurement hardware is identical to the standard model. The Current Monitor view gives each of the six 12V pins its own

505 Games has apologized for telling players to restart Nivalis Nights when its frame rate falls. The publisher posted that apology under a Steam user review on 29 September 2026, the day the cyberpunk life sim launched. A busy street-level plaza in Nivalis, where players report the sharpest frame rate drops. Image: ION LANDS The advice it was apologizing for had gone out as

A modder publishing as danielblnc has released a tool that runs DLSS 5 neural rendering on AMD Radeon graphics cards. Its release notes claim 75 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p on a Radeon RX 9070 XT, and that number means close to the opposite of what it sounds like. AMD's FSR upscaling, which the mod requires a game to have switched on before

A former EVGA sales manager has published a first-person account claiming the company kept at least one GeForce card on sale below cost to protect its supply of Nvidia GPUs. The claim is unverified, it covers a period that ended almost three years before EVGA left the graphics card business, and neither company has responded to it. The GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition, the

A WebAssembly build of a Halo: Combat Evolved decompilation now runs in a web browser, with the campaign and online rooms of up to 128 players. The part that matters most is what it leaves out, because the project distributes no Halo game data at all. Official Halo art from Xbox, showing a Warthog mid-flight in a coastal canyon with the arch of the

Capcom shipped an update for Devil May Cry HD Collection on September 28, 2026, and the collection has since been reported to run properly on SteamOS and Linux. Capcom's own patch notes do not mention either one. The style ranking during combat in Devil May Cry HD Collection. Image: Capcom Three separate things could sit behind a change like this. A publisher patch, a

Valve has not published a Steam Deck compatibility rating for Gears of War: E-Day. The compatibility report Valve returns for the game sits in the Unknown category, with no test results attached and no accompanying note. Valve rates the Steam Deck GPU at 8 RDNA 2 compute units and 1.6 TFLOPs. Image: Valve That is an absence rather than a verdict. The shooter entered

A toggle labelled "Enable Game Mode" has been found in Discord's desktop client settings. The X account Discord Previews published a screenshot of it on September 26, 2026, showing a panel with one line of description text. Header art from Discord's September 25, 2026 product update, the post that lists its latest client CPU usage figures. Image: Discord That line reads "Reduce Discord's CPU

Sony opened pre-orders for God of War Laufey on September 29, 2026, with two editions and nothing above them. The split is $69.99 for the Standard Edition and $79.99 for the Digital Deluxe Edition on the US PlayStation Store. Sony's breakdown of the God of War Laufey Digital Deluxe Edition contents. Image: Santa Monica Studio Santa Monica Studio set out the contents in a

A community project called TouchFrame is putting Quest 3 Touch Plus controllers on a standalone Steam Frame, and the code is public under an MIT licence. What it does not do yet is track those controllers with the Steam Frame’s own cameras. One of the Steam Frame's tracking cameras, which the community driver cannot yet use for third-party controllers. Image: Valve The project is

A leaked European price list for the Oppo Find X10 series puts the Find X10 Pro Max at €1,799 for its only configuration, 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. That is €500 more than the Find X9 Pro asked at its European launch, a rise of about 38 percent. The Find X9 series key visual from Oppo's own global product page, the generation

Discord started sorting every account into an age group on September 22, 2026, and most people will never be asked to prove anything at all. The company says more than 90 percent of users are placed automatically, which makes the ID scan an exception rather than the default. Discord's support documentation shows the ID Document Verification screen that appears before a government ID is

A GeForce RTX 5070 Ti that NVIDIA announced at $749 sells for $1,169.99 at Newegg. Across five current GeForce and Radeon cards checked on October 3, 2026, every one carries a price above the figure its maker published at launch. The Radeon RX 9070 XT, the card with the smallest gap to its suggested price. Image: AMD The narrowest gap was 34%, on a

4A Games confirmed on October 1 that both Metro 2033 Redux and Metro Last Light Redux are getting a free update for modern hardware. It reaches PC on October 22, 2026, and PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on October 29, 2026. Metro 2033 Redux on the Moscow surface. The update keeps the original art direction and raises texture and lighting quality. Image: 4A

Meta's Quest 3 is back at the top of Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey, taking 26.90% of surveyed Steam accounts with a VR headset in the September 2026 results. It finishes 1.10 percentage points ahead of the Oculus Quest 2, which slipped to 25.80%. Meta's own press image of a Quest 3 in standalone mixed-reality use, the kind of session Valve's Steam survey

Valve says the newest SteamOS beta for Steam Frame improves battery lifetime by up to 12 percent, in streaming and local play alike. That figure is a ceiling rather than a measured average, and Valve publishes no before-and-after runtime hours for the headset. The Steam Frame controllers, the only part of the kit Valve gives a runtime figure for at about 40 hours on

Xbox players have reported another round of notifications telling them their age verification status has been switched to verified without their completing any check. Microsoft has published nothing about the wave, and its own support pages still describe age verification as a step a player has to finish. The Xbox branding used on Microsoft's player safety and age verification announcements. Image: Xbox The notification

Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey for September 2026 lists the GeForce RTX 5070 as the most common graphics card among respondents, at 5.86% of systems. That is a gain of 2.30 percentage points in one month, the largest move anywhere in Valve's video card table. An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series desktop graphics card. Image: NVIDIA The "most popular" label holds on both

Sony has turned on AI upscaling for the standard PlayStation 5, and it did so without publishing a single number. The technology is called Quick Spectral Super Resolution, or QSSR, and it reached two games in patches on October 1, 2026. Ghost of Yotei was the other game patched for QSSR on October 1, 2026. Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment Sony Interactive Entertainment announced it

Sony is reportedly working on bringing Ape Escape back after a 16 year absence, potentially giving one of PlayStation's longest dormant franchises another chance on modern hardware. According to an industry insider familiar with the project, the revival is more than a general discussion about returning to older PlayStation properties. The wording used suggests that an actual Ape Escape project may already be in