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Ikea and Xbox have launched a new gaming focused furniture and home decor collection called YXSTABY, bringing nine products to stores with prices starting at $17.99. The collection became available in Ikea stores on October 1, while online orders are scheduled to open on November 30. The products are planned for a worldwide rollout, although local pricing may differ depending on the market. Rather

Sea of Thieves is getting a major storage optimization that will substantially reduce how much space the game occupies on PCs and consoles. The biggest improvement will apply to versions containing 4K assets, where the installation size is expected to fall by at least 50 percent. The game currently requires more than 130 GB of storage on PC and Xbox. Its size has steadily

Sony's new QSSR upscaling technology for the standard PlayStation 5 could be relatively easy for developers to add to games that already support PSSR on PlayStation 5 Pro. Daniel Craig, Principal Engineer for Graphics R&D at Sony Interactive Entertainment, says QSSR is fundamentally designed as a direct replacement for PSSR in supported games. Developers would still need some additional tuning, but the work may

An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition owner says part of the graphics card’s heatsink unexpectedly detached after the PC was moved, leaving the cooling assembly partially exposed. The GPU was reportedly purchased in August 2023 and had apparently been operating normally before the incident. According to the owner, one section of the heatsink near the PCIe connector separated from the rest of the

A German PC gamer says a second hand AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D caused an immediate Valorant ban because the processor had allegedly been blacklisted by Riot Games' Vanguard anti cheat system under its previous owner. The CPU itself reportedly worked without any problems. The issue appeared only after the buyer launched Valorant, which had worked normally with the system's previous processor. According to the

Microsoft is expanding its Advanced Shader Delivery technology across Windows 11, with Gears of War: E Day becoming the first game to support the feature across a broad range of AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, and Qualcomm hardware. Advanced Shader Delivery, or ASD, is designed to reduce one of the more frustrating problems in modern PC gaming: long shader compilation times and the stutter that can

A rare engineering sample of AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 9 5900X3D has appeared online with a different cache configuration than the version previously shown by AMD. The processor reportedly features 12 cores, 24 threads, and 128MB of total L3 cache. That is lower than the 192MB configuration associated with earlier Ryzen 9 5900X3D samples, but the newly surfaced chip also appears to run at noticeably

CD Projekt Red has published a full set of PC system requirements for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, and one row stands apart. The Path Tracing tier is the only configuration in the chart that names a 3D V-Cache processor. Geralt inside a cathedral in Remastered, showing the reworked lighting. Image: CD PROJEKT RED That part is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Every other

EmuDeck pushed version 2.7.1 of its app to the public channel on September 29, 2026, and attached no release notes to it. The GitHub release body is empty. EmuDeck's own controls and hotkeys reference, showing a mapped handheld controller layout. Image: EmuDeck The actual 2.7 changelog sits in a separate early access repository, where 2.7.0 was published on September 14, 15 days earlier. That

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is listed at $349.00 at Amazon, which names itself as the shipper and seller. The figure is not a markdown, because $349 is the suggested etail price AMD set for this version of the chip. Front of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition retail box, with the AM4 anniversary mark. Image: AMD AMD sells the identical part through

Acer's Predator Atlas 7 handheld has reached pre-order, and the number that matters most is missing. Acer's own UK product page lists the handheld with no price and points buyers to select retailers instead of to Acer. Acer's press image of the Predator Atlas 7 being played away from a desk. Image: Acer The Atlas 7 runs Windows 11 Home. That makes it a

Amazon has the AOC C27G4H2 27-inch curved gaming monitor at $99.99, and that price is reserved for Prime members. The buy box labels it a deal price and states that the offer is exclusively for Amazon Prime members. The C27G4H2 stand offers tilt, swivel and 120mm of height adjustment, but no portrait pivot. Image: AOC Anyone without Prime sees a second row in the

Samsung's 990 PRO 2TB is $389.99 at Amazon, or $250 below the $639.99 that Samsung's own store charges for it. The catch is useful rather than fatal, because Samsung's newer PCIe 5.0 drive in the same 2TB size sits only $10 above it at the same retailer. The 990 PRO 2TB is a bare M.2 2280 stick with no heatsink in the box. Image:

Amazon has the black Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 at $119.99, a $30 cut from the $149.99 Elgato charges on its own store. The discount is not tied to one finish, because the white model and the scissor-key model sit at the same $119.99. The box holds the Stream Deck MK.2, the removable magnetic stand, a USB-C to USB-C cable and a quick start guide.

Samsung's 27-inch Odyssey OLED G5 is $328.99 at Amazon, and the $171 cut is measured against a price Samsung itself is still charging. Samsung's own store lists the same G50SF at $499.99, so the discount is not anchored to a number nobody asks for. The back of the G50SF, with the cooling housing and the single DisplayPort and HDMI inputs under the stand neck.

A string buried in an AMD graphics driver has restarted the Steam Deck 2 conversation. The codename "Gainsborough" appeared in files shipping with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.9.2, a driver released on September 29. Steam Deck OLED with the back cover removed, showing the mainboard, fan and battery around the custom APU. Image: Valve A forum user posting as SixPie spotted the entry and

Microsoft has moved Xbox disc to digital licensing out of the Xbox Insider Program, and the feature now sits on the public Xbox Support site with no preview wording attached. The trade is printed in the fine print of Microsoft's own announcement art, which promises "One revokable digital license per game disc". Disc to digital licensing needs a console with an optical drive, such

Valve rebuilt Deadlock's version of New York and announced six new heroes in an update it posted on September 29. In the same post it set out, in its own words, how much of the game it still considers unfinished. The new Chinatown district, one of four side areas added in the update. Image: Valve The update is called City Never Sleeps. Valve published

Steam Frame buyers spent the end of September comparing the same email. Dated September 30, it told people who had been waitlisted that they were “officially in the reservation queue”. The two Steam Frame controllers, included in both the 256GB and 1TB kits. Image: Valve The obvious reading is that Valve had a fresh batch of headsets to hand out. Valve has not said

AGON by AOC has announced the AGON PRO AGP257FT, a 24.5-inch esports monitor that runs at 1,000Hz natively at 1920 x 1080. The detail that decides how much the announcement is worth sits at the bottom of the press release, where AOC says it expects availability from Q1 2027 and gives no price. The back of the AGP257FT, with the chevron Light FX lighting,