Samsung is expected to officially unleash its new Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone on December 5, and we've got some delicious new leaks to share with you.

The company teased its new Galaxy Z TriFold tri-fold smartphone in a limited unveiling at the "K-Tech Showcase" on October 28 in South Korea, but showgoers had to look at the triple-folding smartphone behind glass. Inside, we didn't know which specs Samsung would go with, and now we do thanks to some fresh leaks.

Mobile leaker Evan Blass shared some leaked specs on Samsung's new Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone on X, where we're hearing the tri-fold handset will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip -- probably the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5 -- and up to 2600 nits of brightness from the outer display.

AMD has dropped a surprise with the launch of the first feature from FSR Redstone, its suite of AI technologies for boosting game performance, announcing that Ray Generation is arriving with Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

As VideoCardz reports, Black Ops 7 is out tomorrow sporting the new tech which aims to deliver better ray tracing for RX 9000 graphics cards - yes, it's exclusive to the current-gen RDNA 4 models.

The central thrust with this is to "augment visual content before upscaling for sharper, more realistic gameplay" and to boost ray tracing in terms of the results, and impact on performance, by using machine learning.

Valve's new hardware lineup didn't include a Steam Deck 2, and that's because the tech doesn't really exist yet.

Valve is working on a next-gen Steam Deck. That's already been confirmed. What we don't know, however, is when the Steam Deck 2 will come out. Just yesterday, Valve announced a new fleet of hardware coming in 2026, including a new Steam Machine that packs PC power in a console box. The Steam Deck 2 was missing from the new announcements because Valve isn't satisfied with the chips that are currently available--they want more horsepower for a Steam Deck successor.

In a recent interview with IGN, Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais says that the company simply wants to make a true next-gen device that one-ups the Steam Deck. So far, no current chips or technologies have been able to make that happen, but that hasn't stopped Valve from experimenting to figure out what their targets are.

Sony didn't develop or publish the new MMORPG based on the Horizon franchise, Horizon: Steel Frontiers.

Today, South Korean developer NC Soft revealed Horizon: Steel Frontiers, a new free-to-play MMORPG set in PlayStation's best-selling Horizon game series. The game has proven to be significantly controversial because Steel Frontiers is skipping PS5, instead releasing on mobile and PC.

It further turns out that Sony didn't actually make the game. Sony did license the Horizon series to NC Soft, and Guerrilla Games did coordinate with the South Korean developer, but PlayStation did not actually make the project--nor did they publish it. And, of course, Sony signed the partnership deal, so they knew Steel Frontiers wasn't coming to PS5 at launch.

Following the unveiling of the Steam Machine, the new Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame, hope for Valve's highly anticipated - and at this point mythological - Half-Life 3 has reached new heights, especially since an unannounced Valve title has been discovered.

The evidence of an unannounced Valve game in the works comes from its own website, Steam, where users can simply search for any Valve game, click the company's name, then navigate to the company's "Upcoming Releases". From here, you can notice the column to the left states there are five upcoming products, but there are only four listings within the category, suggesting Valve is still sitting on the announcement.

Given that Valve just updated its store with marketing materials for the newly announced Valve hardware, it seems unlikely that a typo on its homepage was accidental, but these things do happen. Regardless of its legitimacy, the mysterious "5" has fuelled Half-Life 3 rumors, which follow previous speculation that Valve would unveil Half-Life 3 as a system-seller for the newly announced Steam Machine. Furthermore, rumors from industry insiders stated Half-Life 3 optimization is trucking along nicely.

Red Dead Redemption has been officially rated by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X, and the Nintendo Switch 2, sparking a new fire under the rumors of a remastered version of the iconic game.

Unsurprisingly, the ESRB rated Red Dead Redemption an M for Mature 17+, writing in its description that the title contains blood, gore, intense violence, nudity, strong language, strong sexual content, and the use of drugs. Additionally, the description states that players assume the role of a reformed criminal who combats a "zombie plague," which means the ESRB has also rated the Undead Nightmare expansion.

As for what this rating is for, rumors have been kicked around for quite some time about an official remaster for the original Red Dead Redemption game, which will include full optimizations for the current-gen consoles. Notably, Red Dead Redemption is available to play on the PlayStation 5, but it's the PS4 version.

Valve has unveiled the Steam Machine, a new dedicated PC system that looks and behaves like a console. Valve's announcement showcased a wide selection of features, along with a target release window, but didn't mention pricing.

However, Valve's Hardware Engineer, Yazan Aldehayyat, spoke to IGN about the upcoming PC/console hybrid and touched on what Valve is considering with price. According to the engineer, Valve believes this is the right time to release the Steam Machine, given how much it would cost someone to build a PC with similar performance and features to the hybrid device, and at the heart of the design is affordability.

Aldehayyat said that affordability is a factor Valve considers heavily every time it introduces a new piece of hardware. When it comes to the Steam Machine, it's planning to make it as affordable as possible.

One of the most iconic Valve series is undoubtedly Portal, and in an effort to pay homage to the franchise, Dbrand is releasing a skin for the newly announced Steam Machine. Introducing the Steam Machine Companion Cube.

Dbrand has announced with a new website listing the "Steam Machine Companion Cube," a new skin that is set to launch sometime in 2026 that buyers of the Valve Steam Machine can put onto their new Steam Machine.

The details for the upcoming Dbrand product are quite scarce, as the website doesn't reveal if the Companion Cube is going to be a skin or a shell. However, judging by the design, it appears to be a shell, as the above image shows two deep holes for the USB ports located on the front of the PC/console hybrid.

Valve has announced the Steam Machine, a new dedicated PC gaming rig that takes the form of a compact console and targets 4K 60FPS in most games. But how many games will this new device actually be able to play?

The Steam Machine runs Linux-based SteamOS, and with that comes a slew of great features pulled right from the Steam Deck and now available in a device that can be comfortably played in a living room on a TV or a gaming monitor. However, with SteamOS, there are also some limitations, and, unfortunately, these limitations - while hopefully temporary - will prevent many mainstream titles from being played on the Steam Machine. That limitation is the mandatory kernel-level anti-cheat for modern multiplayer titles.

At the moment, only a few kernel-level anti-cheat systems support Linux, while many extremely popular or mainstream games can't run on Linux, meaning they won't work on the Steam Machine unless the user manually installs Windows.

Valve has had a busy random day of the week between the announcement of three new products, the Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and the new Steam Frame VR headset... the perfect combination for a release of Half-Life 3, soon, hopefully.

The new Steam Frame is a standalone VR headset with a high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 processor, capable of playing regular flat-screen Windows-based games through the on-board storage, or from the built-in microSD card slot. However, Valve has a major trick up its sleeve, as the Steam Frame VR headset can stream games directly to the headset through a short-range, high-bandwidth wireless dongle that plugs into your gaming PC.

This means that either locally, or over streaming, you can play every single game on your Steam library wirelessly, without any cords attached to it. The dongle is included in the Steam Frame packaging, streaming your games over the 6GHz spectrum, with low latency and high bandwidth.

Valve has shaken up the gaming market with the unveiling of the Steam Machine, a dedicated PC gaming rig that is also a console.

The performance value offering of the Steam Machine is targeting the 4K 60FPS mark with FSR, and while that is very good depending on the price, we have learned the future of the Steam Machine is perhaps even more exciting. Speaking to Oliver MacKenzie from Digital Foundry, Valve software engineer on SteamOS, Pierre-Loup Griffais, said in the future we may see third-party SteamOS boxes, like the Steam Machine from different vendors with different AMD hardware inside.

This means, Valve could spawn an entire ecosystem of Steam Machines for OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) to take advantage of for customization purposes. An example would be MSI or ASUS releasing their own version of the Steam Machine that would feature a different AMD hardware specification, likely beefier hardware such as an RDNA 4 GPU and 16GB of VRAM. If this is the case, the Steam Machine could well and truly become a 4K 120Hz+ gaming PC/console hybrid, especially if the third-party models swap out the HDMI 2.0 port for HDMI 2.1.

Valve has unveiled the Steam Machine, a new PC gaming and console hybrid device that is expected to be released early next year. Valve says the console is targeting 4K at 60FPS, but we have learned that it is capable of 4K at 120Hz over HDMI, albeit with some pretty big sacrifices.

Valve has marketed the Steam Machine as a device targeting 4K 60FPS, but diving into the specifications and reports surrounding the upcoming hybrid device we have learned the Steam Machine is actually capable of 4K 120Hz, whether it will actually hit 4K at 120FPS in mainstream games is another thing entirely, but at least when it comes to output, it is capable of 4K 120Hz.

Firstly, the Steam Machine comes with DisplayPort 1.4, which is capable of up to 4K 240Hz / 8K 60Hz. The Steam Machine plugged into a 4K 240Hz monitor will output at 4K 240Hz, but TVs don't have DisplayPort connectivity; they use HDMI ports. One of the biggest glaring issues with the Steam Machine is the HDMI being limited to the 2.0 specification, which means it's limited to 4K 60Hz output. This is particularly annoying considering the hardware within the Steam Machine, an AMD RDNA 3 GPU, is technically capable of 4K 120Hz output, and many modern TVs are now capable of 120Hz over HDMI 2.1.

Microsoft's current Windows boss, Pavan Davuluri, recently took to the social media platform X to proclaim, "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere." Written to promote the upcoming Microsoft Ignite event, taking place in San Francisco and online later this month, this message also serves as a reminder that Windows is undergoing a fundamental transformation to become AI-powered.

If you're wondering what Pavan Davuluri means when he says "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS," this means that all significant parts of the operating system, including security, will involve users engaging with AI agents for tasks such as browsing, locating files, opening documents, and managing calendars and schedules. Instead of clicking on files and folders and menus, you'll instead talk to AI with natural language, and it will handle the rest.

Windows 11 and Windows 10 are currently the most popular operating systems among PC users. That said, when it comes to Windows 11, with or without AI features like Copilot, being popular in terms of the number of users is not the same thing as being likable. The consensus among PC enthusiasts is that Windows 11 is bloated, buggy, slow, and in need of a ground-up tune-up or redesign. So, the idea of it transforming into an "agentic OS" is not going down well.

DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation support for GeForce RTX graphics cards is coming to two PC game releases this week - Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Assetto Corsa Rally. The latest installment in the Call of Duty franchise is likely the biggest PC game launch this month, continuing its tradition of launching with support for the latest RTX technologies, including DLSS, Frame Generation, and NVIDIA Reflex, for low-latency performance.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is also optimized to run well on a wide range of GeForce RTX hardware, with the recommended GPU being the popular GeForce RTX 3060. Full DLSS 4 support is also coming to this week's Early Access launch of 505 Games and Supernova Games Studios' Assetto Corsa Rally. Built using the latest Unreal Engine 5 tech and sporting a realistic physics engine, this is a modern rally game for racing fans yearning to make a few "easy left into easy right and then hard left" turns.

The Early Access version of the game will arrive with 10 licensed cars, four real-world rally stages, and both offline and online game modes. As a realistic racing game, it's also built for racing rig setups with three screens, so having DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation support will be key for a lot of systems hitting over 60 FPS.

Valve has just shaken up the PC and console markets with the announcement of the Steam Machine, a dedicated PC gaming rig designed to look and feel like a console.

With the announcement of the Steam Machine and two other pieces of Steam hardware, it has been revealed that media were invited to Valve to get the rundown on the upcoming hardware and to gather more details about the device that wasn't explained in the above announcement video.

Digital Foundry's Oliver MacKenzie explained in a recent video posted to the Digital Foundry YouTube channel that the Steam Machine currently doesn't have media playback capabilities on par with current-gen consoles, as the device doesn't come with native media streaming apps such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, etc. Instead, users will access all of these streaming platforms through a web browser. MacKenzie reports the Steam Machine has HDR functionality through the web browser, but the quality of that experience may not be the greatest in comparison to natively built apps.

In our review of the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X, we praised its 1440p and 4K gaming performance, including full ray tracing or path tracing with DLSS 4. We said that it was "quite possibly the best value enthusiast-class GPU" in NVIDIA's GeForce RTX lineup. However, that was with the caveat that you could find one at the $750 MSRP.

Well, if you're currently eyeing Black Friday deals for graphics cards, there's some good news, as the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X is the first RTX 5070 Ti to become available at a price point lower than the MSRP set by NVIDIA. Yes, in a time when GPU and PC hardware prices are rising (and rising), this is an anomaly, with US retailer Newegg currently offering the MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X for $729.99 after a $20 rebate.

As one of the most powerful gaming GPUs on the market, in our own benchmark results, we found MSI's Ventus 3X model to be an impressive 28% faster, on average, for 4K gaming than the previous generation's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and 18% faster than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER refresh from 2024.

Valve's new Steam Controller, which will be paired with its upcoming Steam Machine PC-console hybrid, is set to launch in early 2026. At a glance, your initial reaction, like ours, will probably fall somewhere between "strange," "weird," or "cool." And that's because it doesn't resemble the current lineups of Xbox or PlayStation controllers used by PC gamers, with a design that is part 2015 Steam Controller (which failed to gain traction) and part modern gaming pad.

The big difference here is the addition of two trackpads with tactile haptic feedback located underneath the PlayStation-style symmetrical thumbsticks. These trackpads are similar to those found on the Steam Deck, offering precise mouse-like controls for Steam games that are built for mouse input and lack native controller support. It's a solution tailor-made for the Steam Machine as it brings controller and accessibility parity in line with the Steam Deck.

The new Steam Controller is designed with impressive technology throughout, featuring haptic motors in the grips for "HD game haptics" and rumble effects similar to those found in the PS5's DualSense controller. In addition, the thumbsticks are built with the latest next-gen TMR magnetic Hall Effect technology with "Capacitive touch" capabilities.

With Valve announcing a trio of new Steam-optimized hardware today, it's the upcoming Steam Machine set to launch in early 2026 that is garnering the most attention. The reason for this is simple: you're looking at a small, compact cube-sized console version of the Steam Deck that's six times more powerful and can easily slot underneath a modern 4K TV just like an Xbox or PlayStation.

In terms of hardware, the Steam Machine, like the Steam Deck, is powered by custom AMD hardware that includes a notably more powerful RDNA 3 GPU with 28 Compute Units (CUs) running at 2.45 GHz with a 110W TDP and 8GB of VRAM. From a spec-sheet perspective, this is the GPU equivalent of 87.5% of AMD's mainstream Radeon RX 7600 GPU from 2023, with a lower clock speed and power draw.

Valve states that with AMD FSR upscaling, the Steam Machine is capable of running every game on Steam in 4K at 60 FPS. For those who have experienced the Steam Machine firsthand, this translates to Cyberpunk 2077 running at a stable 4K60 with FSR, using Medium graphics settings, basic Ray Tracing, and upscaling from 1080p with FSR 3's Performance preset.

Xbox Gaming CEO Phil Spencer praises Valve's new Steam Machine hybrid console-PC, and what he has to say lends even more credence to a next-gen Xbox PC.

Today, Valve announced its new-and-improved Steam Machine, a hybrid device that packs in the power and utility of a PC with the plug-and-play convenience of a console. The Steam Machine runs SteamOS, plays Steam games at up to 4K 60FPS with FSR enabled, and is compatible with software and accessories just like a normal PC.

If you've been paying attention to the recent Xbox rumors, this might sound familiar. Microsoft is reportedly planning on doing something similar with the next-gen Xbox, merging the console and PC environments together using Windows 11. It just sounds like Valve beat Microsoft to the punch with the Steam Machine--Xbox has been following in Valve's wake for a while, first with its PC game sales ambitions, then with the Xbox Ally handhelds and now the Steam Machine hybrid PC-console.

Valve is entering the console market once more with its new Steam Machine PC-console hybrid.

Today, Valve announced its new hardware lineup including a revamp of its Steam Machines brand. The new Steam Machine is essentially a small form factor PC in a box that runs Steam games at console-level quality, complete with the plug-and-play convenience of a console. It also borrows major quality-of-life features from the Steam Deck, including suspend/resume and the features of the SteamOS environment.

The new Steam Machine is powered by a discrete semi-custom AMD GPU that Valve says can enable 4K 60FPS gaming with FSR enabled. The console PC is 6x more powerful than a Steam Deck, features an SD card slot, and also can run "whatever software you want, and works with all your favorite desktop accessories."