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Nintendo is launching a new Nintendo Switch 2 bundle on October 22, 2026, pairing the console with Nintendo Switch Sports Resort and a three month Nintendo Switch Online membership. The bundle will arrive on the same day as Nintendo Switch Sports Resort, which is being released exclusively for Nintendo Switch 2. The package is priced at $529.99 and includes a digital copy of the

The global video game market is forecast to reach $213.9 billion in 2026, representing 6.1% year over year growth as mobile, console and PC spending all increase. Mobile remains the largest segment by a wide margin, with projected revenue of $121.1 billion, up 6.8%. Console revenue is expected to reach $46.9 billion with 5.1% growth, while PC is forecast at $45.9 billion, up 5.3%.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on PC is set to receive another major visual upgrade through the unofficial Shader Injector mod, with version 3.0 now in development. The upcoming update will introduce a dynamic sky and an experimental time of day system, two features that are not available in the original game. The mod is being developed by David Mathos, who has already used earlier

Gamescom 2026 is set to become the largest edition in the event’s history, with every exhibition hall fully booked for the first time and more than 1,600 exhibitors preparing to attend in Cologne. Around 70% of those exhibitors are coming from outside Germany, while the indie area has grown to 420 studios, an increase of 16% compared with the previous year. Beyond the record

LG has officially opened preorders for its UltraGear 25G590B-B, a 25 inch gaming monitor capable of reaching a native 1000 Hz refresh rate at 1920 × 1080 resolution. The monitor is priced at $999.99 and is aimed primarily at competitive players and enthusiasts who want one of the fastest displays currently available. Unlike several other 1000 Hz monitors that rely on lower resolutions such

A Western Digital customer says the company extended the warranty on an expired SSD and then replaced the defective 480GB drive with a much larger 2TB model at no extra cost. The case involves an older WD Green 480GB SATA SSD that had stopped working. According to the customer, the warranty had expired only about a month before they contacted support, which would normally

A GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4090 owner says the company has refused to replace a graphics card showing signs of VRAM degradation, even though several diagnostics reportedly indicate uncorrectable memory errors. The affected WINDFORCE V2 model was purchased from an authorized retailer in Romania in November 2023. According to the owner, the card has progressively developed memory problems that have reduced its usable VRAM by

AMD’s demand for TSMC’s advanced CoWoS packaging is expected to rise sharply in 2027, driven by growing shipments of EPYC Venice processors and next generation Instinct accelerators. According to estimates cited in the report, AMD could require around 530,000 CoWoS wafers in 2027, up from approximately 130,000 wafers in 2026. That would represent growth of about 308% in one year. The increase would also

An older Lenovo laptop owner has shown that a desktop GPU can still turn aging hardware into a capable local AI machine, even without Thunderbolt or a built in discrete GPU. The setup uses the laptop’s only M.2 slot to connect an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT through an ADT Link PCIe riser. Because that same M.2 slot would normally be used for internal

To get the best performance in The Sinking City 2 on PC, use DLSS Super Resolution if you have a GeForce RTX GPU, keep View Distance, Textures, Post Processing, and Foliage at Ultra, lower Effects and Global Illumination to Medium, and set Reflections, Shading, and Hair to High. This optimized combination improved average performance by 18% in testing while keeping the game visually close

Intel has detailed how its Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 processors reduce cost compared with Panther Lake, with one of the biggest changes being the move away from Foveros packaging to a simpler organic multi chip package connected through UCIe. Wildcat Lake is designed for more affordable PCs and other mainstream systems while keeping modern features such as Thunderbolt 4, Wi Fi 7 and

Intel’s share of the x86 CPU market has fallen below 70% for the first time in 31 years, according to new market data, while AMD continues to gain ground across servers, desktops and laptops. Intel reportedly held 69.3% of the x86 CPU market in the second quarter of 2026, down 6.5 percentage points from a year earlier and about one point from the previous

NVIDIA says its Vera Rubin NVL72 platform can deliver up to 30 times higher throughput per megawatt than Grace Blackwell NVL72 in demanding agentic AI workloads, while also reducing the cost per million tokens by as much as 35 times. The results come from NVIDIA’s latest on silicon testing using the SemiAnalysis AgentX benchmark, which measures real world agentic coding inference across models including

Microsoft has confirmed a new Windows 11 issue affecting some Windows Presentation Foundation applications after installation of the August 2026 .NET Framework cumulative update. The problem can prevent WPF applications from printing documents or generating PDF and XPS files when certain fonts are used. Calibri is among the affected fonts, along with Cambria, Constantia and Corbel. When the issue occurs, applications may fail with

ASRock’s Phantom Gaming PGO27QSA series has dropped below $300, bringing a 27 inch QD OLED gaming monitor with a 2560 × 1440 resolution and 240 Hz refresh rate down to $299. The deal applies to both black and white versions of the monitor and represents the lowest reported price for the model so far. At this price, the display is competing directly with many

ASRock has expanded its liquid cooler lineup with the new Rock series, introducing eight AIO models across 240mm and 360mm radiator sizes. The lineup is aimed at mainstream PC builds and comes in both black and white finishes. You can choose between Digital models with a small display on the CPU block and simpler ARGB versions with an illuminated strip. Pricing and availability have

SpaceXAI is expanding its use of NVIDIA hardware with plans to deploy Vera CPUs and Vera Rubin systems across its next generation agentic AI infrastructure. The company says Vera CPUs will support workloads that depend heavily on orchestration, code execution, data processing and simulations, while Vera Rubin servers will be used to expand compute capacity for Grok. SpaceXAI is also working with NVIDIA on

Colorful has launched the iGame X870E Vulcan W OC, a new flagship AM5 motherboard designed for enthusiasts and memory overclockers. The board uses AMD’s X870E chipset and follows the earlier iGame X870E Vulcan OC, but this version adopts a white design and adds a feature set focused heavily on overclocking, high speed DDR5 memory and premium connectivity. It has already attracted attention after running

Intel has detailed Crescent Island, a new AI inference accelerator built around its Xe3P architecture and designed specifically for agentic AI workloads. The accelerator combines up to 32 Xe3P cores with as much as 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, giving Intel a different approach from competing data center GPUs that rely heavily on HBM. The company is targeting lower cost, reduced power consumption and large

NVIDIA has moved its Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator into full production, adding a dedicated low latency decode engine to its broader Vera Rubin AI platform. The company says Groq 3 LPX is designed to accelerate token generation for agentic AI workloads, where a single task may involve hundreds or thousands of inference steps and fast response times can be as important as total