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A developer known as Gezine has discovered a new userland exploit that reportedly works on both the original Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 without requiring an internet connection. The breakthrough is notable because it avoids two limitations affecting earlier entry points. It does not rely on WebKit, and it does not require a modified save file to be transferred through Nintendo Switch Online.

Graphics card prices have increased sharply across China as higher GDDR6 and GDDR7 memory costs reach products from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. The changes affect nearly every part of the market, from flagship RTX 5090 models to older cards such as the RTX 3050 and GT 1030. Some retailers and distributors are also reportedly withholding stock because they expect further increases later in 2026.

A Grand Theft Auto modder has combined the entire PlayStation 2 era trilogy into one unusual PC project, allowing GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas to run at the same time inside a single game process. Created by modder Dryxio, the project places the reverse-engineered re3 and reVC engines inside Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Players can switch between Claude, Tommy Vercetti and

Microsoft says it still plans to release selected Xbox games as console exclusives, although the rules behind those decisions may not always be clear to players. Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty explained that Microsoft manages more than 20 franchises that have each generated at least $1 billion over their lifetimes. Because those series serve different business goals, the company does not apply one

GIGABYTE has added support for DDR5 memory modules built with CXMT chips across a wide range of Intel and AMD motherboards, expanding the number of platforms that can use memory from the Chinese manufacturer. The update covers GIGABYTE AM5 motherboards based on AMD’s 600 and 800 series chipsets, along with Intel 700 and 800 series boards. On AMD systems, support arrives through a new

Some leaders at Microsoft-owned game studios reportedly believe Xbox Game Pass has damaged the commercial value of their releases by teaching customers to wait for subscription access instead of paying full price. The criticism comes as Microsoft reviews the future of Game Pass following major layoffs across Xbox and reported pressure on the division’s financial performance. Industry reporter Jason Schreier said during a podcast

CONTROL Resonant will launch on September 24, 2026, for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, marking a major shift for Remedy Entertainment’s supernatural action series. Instead of continuing Jesse Faden’s story as another third-person shooter, the sequel puts her brother Dylan in the lead role and rebuilds the experience as an action RPG focused on close-range combat. The setting also moves

A high-performance PC setup is usually judged by its processor, graphics card, monitor and peripherals, but the chair can have just as much impact on long sessions. The Sihoo Doro C300 Pro V2 is designed for gamers, developers, content creators and professionals who spend several hours at a desk. Its main focus is adaptive support, allowing the chair to respond to changes in posture

God of War Laufey will launch for PlayStation 5 on February 16, 2027, while Santa Monica Studio has also confirmed that another game featuring Kratos is already in development. The announcements were made during a San Diego Comic-Con panel focused on Laufey. The release date settles earlier reports that placed the game somewhere between February and March 2027. Cory Barlog also confirmed that the

Former Rockstar Games creative director Dan Houser says companies should continue offering physical game releases while there is still meaningful demand, even though he personally has little concern about PlayStation’s reported move away from discs. Houser discussed the future of physical media during a live interview alongside longtime Rockstar collaborator Lazlow Jones. The conversation followed reports that PlayStation plans to stop manufacturing new physical

Square Enix is expanding Final Fantasy VII Revelation with a new class-based customisation system and a less restrictive approach to open-world exploration. The third and final game in the Final Fantasy VII remake project is scheduled to launch in spring 2027 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch 2. Director Naoki Hamaguchi said the development team considered the hybrid

Grand Theft Auto VI download codes will work differently on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S, with Rockstar Games confirming that PlayStation codes are tied to specific regions while Xbox codes are not. The difference could create problems for people who import physical retail copies from another country. GTA 6 retail editions are expected to contain download codes rather than discs at

Square Enix producer Naoki Yoshida believes full remakes of Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VIII or Final Fantasy IX could require four or five separate instalments if they followed the same production approach as the Final Fantasy VII Remake series. Yoshida discussed the subject during Final Fantasy XIV Fest in Berlin, where he addressed continued requests for modern remakes of other classic entries. He

Ubisoft has reportedly cancelled Maverick, a multiplayer extraction shooter set in the Far Cry universe, while moving another spin-off project into full development. The cancelled game was said to take place in the Alaskan wilderness, where players would have faced rival survivors, dangerous animals and severe weather. Its extraction structure would have marked a major change from the traditional open-world format associated with Far

DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng has argued that Huawei’s latest AI systems can replace NVIDIA’s GB200 and GB300 rack-scale platforms, even though the Chinese hardware reportedly requires four accelerators to match the performance of one NVIDIA GPU. The comments came during an investor call in which Wenfeng discussed China’s shortage of advanced computing resources, DeepSeek’s own infrastructure limits and the company’s plans to expand its

AMD has confirmed that its EPYC Verano and EPYC Venice-X server processors will launch in 2027, expanding the company’s Zen 6 portfolio for agentic AI, high-performance computing and memory-intensive workloads. The two product families are designed for different parts of the data centre market. Venice-X will focus on technical computing and HPC through very large 3D V-Cache capacity, while Verano will combine high clock

AMD says it now controls 46% of data centre CPU revenue, marking a major shift in a market that was once dominated almost entirely by Intel. The company shared the figure during its Advancing AI 2026 event, where it also raised its long term expectations for the wider compute market. AMD now estimates that its total addressable market across processors, accelerators and complete AI

AMD has officially introduced its sixth-generation EPYC Venice processor family, bringing Zen 6 cores, TSMC’s 2nm process technology and configurations reaching 256 cores and 512 threads. The new EPYC 9006 lineup covers several server markets, including dense agentic AI systems, general-purpose enterprise servers, high-frequency workloads and technical computing. AMD is also positioning Venice as a direct competitor to NVIDIA’s Vera CPU, claiming up to

AMD has introduced the Instinct MI455X, a new data centre accelerator designed for frontier AI training, large scale inference and future AI factory deployments. The MI455X will power AMD’s Helios rack scale platform and forms part of the wider Instinct MI400 family. It uses the CDNA 5 architecture, combines TSMC 2nm and 3nm process technologies and contains around 320 billion transistors. AMD is positioning

AMD is partnering with Cerebras to combine its Helios rack scale AI platform with the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine, creating a system designed for high throughput and low latency inference. The companies say the integrated platform can deliver up to five times more tokens per second per watt than Cerebras hardware operating alone. The goal is to divide AI workloads between two specialised systems