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STALKER 2: Cost of Hope has received a new story trailer ahead of its planned summer 2026 launch, giving players a closer look at the paid expansion’s tense campaign, new areas, and faction conflict. The DLC will expand STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl with a new journey through the Zone, while a separate free update called Sealed Truth will also bring more story content

Nintendo has temporarily tightened sales of the multi language Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan after detecting orders suspected of bulk buying and scalping. The restriction does not affect every Switch 2 model in Japan. It mainly targets the multi language version, while the Japan only model remains the main option available for local buyers. The move is meant to stop resellers from buying large

Ubisoft’s next Ghost Recon game is reportedly struggling in development, with staff said to be worried that the project could be rebooted or even canceled. The game, reportedly codenamed Project OVR, is said to have missed internal alpha phase goals, forcing Ubisoft to bring new leadership closer to the project as the company continues its wider restructuring. The report comes during a difficult year

CI Games is changing the Umbral realm in Lords of the Fallen 2 after early feedback said the world felt too static. The studio now wants Umbral to feel more dynamic, reactive, and varied while still keeping its dead, decaying identity. The update comes as the team continues to present the sequel as a bigger and more responsive Soulslike than the 2023 game. Lords

Microsoft reportedly wants to move faster on Fallout, and Obsidian Entertainment may be the most obvious studio to help make that happen. With Xbox under pressure to become a healthier business, the company appears to be shifting more money toward major franchises that can drive real demand. Fallout is clearly one of those franchises, and Obsidian already has the history, talent, and design style

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says Xbox now has to become a sustainable business after 25 years of heavy investment, making it clear that the gaming division is entering a more disciplined phase. His comments add more weight to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s wider reset plan, which appears focused on improving margins, rethinking hardware, and putting more resources behind games that can generate stronger returns.

Nintendo’s lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair is reportedly nearing its final stage, and a new report suggests the company may have little chance of securing the kind of win many expected when the case began. The case is now said to be focused only on older versions of Palworld, meaning even a ruling in Nintendo’s favor may not remove the game from sale or

Microsoft is reportedly considering major structural changes for Xbox, including a possible spinoff, sale path, or joint venture, while also planning to spend more on major first party franchises such as Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Halo. The report suggests Xbox is under growing pressure to improve margins and reshape its business after years of expensive acquisitions, uneven hardware performance, and rising development costs. No

PELADN has introduced the HO5 Mini PC with AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 470, giving compact PC buyers a new option for AI workloads, software development, content creation, remote work, and gaming. The system combines a 12 core Zen 5 processor, Radeon 890M integrated graphics, 80 TOPS of AI performance, and OCuLink support for external graphics cards. The HO5 is positioned as PELADN’s flagship

ASUS has launched the TUF Gaming 7X desktop in China with a much larger 47 liter chassis, an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card. The new system marks a clear shift from ASUS’s usual compact TUF Gaming desktops, giving buyers more room for cooling, upgrades, and larger components. Most TUF Gaming desktops use smaller cases

The ASUS Zenbook A14 with Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme delivers very strong CPU performance in an extremely light 14 inch design, making it one of the more interesting Windows on Arm laptops of 2026. The laptop combines Qualcomm’s 18 core Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip, a thin 0.99 kg chassis, OLED display options, long battery life, and modern ports at a starting price of

Intel’s Project Firefly is a new laptop design effort built around Wildcat Lake processors, with the goal of bringing thinner, cleaner, and more premium looking notebooks to lower price segments. Instead of focusing only on the processor, Intel is trying to standardize a full device recipe that includes the chassis, display, keyboard, memory, ports, and internal layout. The idea is simple. A budget laptop

Nvidia has added day one support for Google DeepMind’s DiffusionGemma open model across its RTX and DGX platforms, giving developers a fast local option for text generation on consumer GPUs, professional workstations, and deskside AI systems. The model is built for faster output than traditional autoregressive models, and Nvidia says its own hardware and software stack can push performance even further. DiffusionGemma is an

The PC hardware market slowed in the first quarter of 2026, with both discrete GPU and desktop CPU shipments declining as rising component prices began to weigh on demand. New market data shows add in board GPU shipments reached 11.8 million units, while desktop CPU shipments fell to 15.7 million units during the quarter. The GPU decline was small but still important. Discrete graphics

Nvidia’s first co packaged optics switch has reached Lambda, giving the AI infrastructure company an early look at Quantum X InfiniBand hardware built to reduce networking power and improve data movement inside large GPU clusters. The switch is designed for GB300 NVL72 scale systems, where networking is no longer a background component but a key part of how fast an AI cluster can operate.

ZOTAC has reportedly raised prices on several GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards in China, with the RTX 5090D V2 seeing the sharpest jump. The move appears to be linked to rising VRAM costs and could signal more price increases from other board partners if memory prices keep climbing. The biggest reported increase affects the RTX 5090D V2, which has gone up by 2,000

Montage Technology has started sampling a new DDR5 registered clock driver that supports speeds of up to 9200 MT/s, giving memory makers another option for faster RDIMM modules aimed at next generation data centers. The new RCD06 chip is designed for server memory, where bandwidth demand is rising because of AI, cloud computing, databases, and other memory heavy workloads. The launch matters because RDIMMs

TensorWave is raising $350 million to expand its AMD based AI infrastructure, with new deployments focused on AMD Instinct MI355X accelerators. The investment will help the company add more compute capacity for memory heavy AI workloads such as LLM training, high throughput inference, and generative AI production systems. The move gives AMD another visible win in the AI infrastructure market, where Nvidia still dominates

Nvidia’s future Feynman AI chip could become one of the first major products to use TSMC’s next generation CoPoS packaging technology, according to analyst Ming Chi Kuo. The new packaging method is expected to enter mass production in the second half of 2028 and is designed to support much larger AI chip packages than today’s CoWoS technology can handle. The report matters because advanced

AAEON has introduced new edge systems and developer boards powered by Intel Wildcat Lake processors, giving embedded developers more options for compact systems built around Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 platform. The new lineup includes UP WCL Edge, UP Nexus WCL Edge, and matching developer boards with up to 48GB of LPDDR5 memory. Intel Wildcat Lake is designed as a flexible SoC platform for