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COLORFUL's latest flagship AM5 motherboard for Ryzen CPUs is built for extreme overclockers and features a stylish all-white design with an iridescent finish that produces subtle, rainbow-like reflections, plus an integrated 268x800 pixel onboard display for real-time monitoring.

According to COLORFUL, its engineers spent well over six months designing the iGame X870E VULCAN W OC to "unlock the full potential" of AMD Ryzen processors. This is paired with high-speed memory support and advanced connectivity that includes five onboard M.2 slots, with two supporting PCIe 5.0 SSDs and two USB4 Type-C ports with 40Gbps bandwidth to support 4K display output on the rear I/O panel. Plus, as an OC board you've got an old-school PS/2 interface for peripherals.

Underneath the sleek design, you'll find a premium 18+2+2-phase 110A DrMOS power design, a 10-layer server-grade PCB, and a heat-pipe and fin cooling system inspired by the company's premium graphics card coolers for efficient VRM cooling. Built for CPU and memory overclocking, the two DDR5 slots support up to DDR5-8800+ MT/s speeds with Ryzen 9000 processors, DDR5-10600+ MT/s with Ryzen 8000, and DDR5-8000+ MT/s with Ryzen 700 Series processors.

Samsung appears to be preparing its biggest design shift in years for the Galaxy S27 series, according to a wave of leaks. The changes reportedly centre on the Galaxy S27 Ultra. Samsung is said to be moving away from its long-running vertical, individually cut camera lens layout in favour of a raised horizontal camera plateau that spans the width of the device. The new design would closely resemble the approach Apple introduced with the iPhone 17 Pro lineup.

Leaked CAD renders show two large circular lenses grouped on the left side, alongside a separate pill-shaped section that appears to house a third lens and the LED flash. The setup suggests Samsung could be dropping the Ultra's secondary telephoto lens this generation in favour of an upgraded 50MP 5x periscope module. If true, that would trim the rear camera array from four sensors down to three.

Notably, this same camera bar design was previously rumoured for the cancelled Galaxy S26 Edge, suggesting Samsung may be reviving an existing design rather than starting from scratch. Beyond aesthetics, the raised camera module could also bring some practical benefits.

007 First Light has made another milestone, this time with the game now reaching 4 million copies sold.

IO Interactive has seen big multi-platinum sales success from its new big-budget James Bond game. The developer, who has been aspiring to make a 007 game for decades, recently shared that First Light has hit 4 million sales in a little less than 3 months. Those are stellar sales for a full-priced $70 game, and IO is keen on keeping the momentum going with a bevy of year-one updates to the game, including NewGame+ to keep players in the action, as well as new missions and content.

The biggest boost will come from 007 First Light's release on the Nintendo Switch 2, which is happening in the middle of September. This sets 007 up for the holiday season, primed on the Switch 2 and possibly even with sales and discounts on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC to attract new users. This is the typical post-release cadence for multi-platform AAA games, and the staggered approach gives IO more chances of capitalizing on each platform in a scheduled way.

As Rockstar and parent company Take-Two scramble to identify the leaker behind a string of unauthorised GTA 6 gameplay videos, a former Rockstar developer says the fallout will be minimal.

Obbe Vermeij, who spent nearly 14 years at Rockstar North as technical director on every mainline GTA release from GTA 3 through Ballad of Gay Tony, took to social media over the weekend urging people to relax, describing the situation as "a nothing burger."

Vermeij argued that most players simply won't seek out the footage ahead of launch, while any short-term irritation among Rockstar's teams is unlikely to have much impact. He pointed to the game's likely decade-plus commercial lifespan, similar to GTA 5's, as reason enough not to worry.

Sony has re-confirmed a handful of its first-party titles will stay exclusive to the PS5 and won't release on PC.

Following earlier reports, Sony is indeed pulling away from its previous strategy to release PS5 games on PC. Following this new shift, Sony now wants to withhold its premium, first-party singleplayer games from PC. A new PlayStation promo spells things out quite clearly. Six games will stay exclusive to PlayStation 5 and not make the leap over to Steam or the Epic Store, including games that were released across the last four years or so, ranging from Gran Turismo 7 all the way to next-year titles like God of War Laufey.

The move coincides with Sony's need to boost PlayStation's profitability as it leads up to the PlayStation 6. This new console won't be cheap or easy to make, and Sony will need to rack up a kind of safety net of profits to help offset disruptions and unforeseen events, including the possibility of more tariffs and/or further component cost adjustments.

NVIDIA is preparing to raise prices across its AI server lineup, according to a Bloomberg report. Some of the company's largest customers have reportedly been told that prices for servers built around NVIDIA's AI chips will climb by more than 15% in many cases, driven largely by soaring memory costs.

The increases are set to take effect for systems shipped starting early next year and will affect products built around NVIDIA's flagship Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell platforms. How much any given system's price rises will reportedly depend on the chip generation involved and its memory configuration.

The companies that assemble these servers under contract for major data centre operators, including Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, have already begun notifying their customers of the coming increases. NVIDIA has not commented on the report.

Rockstar Games is expanding its Creator Platform, an infrastructure designed to serve both Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption with custom, player-made content.

It appears Rockstar might have big plans for the future of GTA and Red Dead Online. To make this happen, the publisher bought CFX.re, the community team behind GTA and Red Dead roleplay servers FiveM and RedM. These servers, which are only on PC, have custom content that gamers can buy a-la-carte. It's possible that this user-generated content (UGC) framework could come to console in some way.

In previous articles I discussed how this could work--possibly a Roblox-style UI with downloadable creations. Nothing has been confirmed so far, but new job listings reveal that the studio is currently hiring for six roles related to the Creator Platform system. Two of them are for code design, and the other four seem to be just two job listings that are duplicated across Rockstar's London and New York offices.

Rebel Wolves has reversed course on console performance for The Blood of Dawnwalker, confirming a 60 FPS Performance Mode will now arrive on PS5, PS5 Pro, and Xbox Series X through the game's Day 1 patch.

The studio shared the update through the game's official X account. Apparently, a 60 FPS performance mode was already in the works, but it was still being tested. Rebel Wolves weren't ready to promise it yet; however, that has now reversed.

That Friday reveal is what sparked the backlash in the first place. Rebel Wolves had confirmed the console versions would ship with only Quality and Balanced modes, targeting 30 FPS and 40 FPS respectively, with no 60 FPS option even on PS5 Pro. Fans pushed back hard in the replies and across social media, and the studio addressed it directly.

Michal Nowakowski wants Witcher fans to let the team cook. The CD Projekt Red joint CEO used a short video posted to The Witcher's official X account to confirm the studio is now targeting a 2028 release window for The Witcher 4, even though the game itself won't appear at Gamescom this week.

Nowakowski said the studio isn't ready to share an exact date, but confirmed 2028 as the current target. He added that the team has "more than 500 incredibly talented developers" working on the project and called it CD Projekt Red's "biggest, boldest, and most ambitious game to date."

Gamescom itself will still carry some Witcher content, however. CD Projekt Red plans to show off The Witcher 3's upcoming expansion, Songs of the Past, on the show floor and during livestreams running from August 25 through 30. Songs of the Past is currently set to launch in 2027, a year ahead of The Witcher 4.

A user on Reddit has seemingly picked up a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti for just $242 at a Walmart clearance section, which is well under half of what the card typically costs at other retailers right now.

The buyer, going by u/enigmussnake, posted the crazy find on r/gpu after spotting an MSI RTX 5060 Ti 8GB sitting in Walmart's clearance cage. With tax, the total came to close to $266, still a steep discount from the nearly $500 the card is currently going for elsewhere.

NVIDIA launched the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB at $379 last year, so even against the original MSRP, this is a solid deal. Against today's prices, driven up by ongoing memory shortages, it's an even better one. Retailers like Newegg currently list various RTX 5060 Ti 8GB models between $499 and $540, so this Walmart find represents a discount of well over 50%.

After the disappointing launch of Black Ops 7, Activision's latest shooter had a lot to redeem. The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta went live on August 21 and started strong, peaking at 115,145 concurrent players on Steam as players jumped in to see what's new.

However, that momentum didn't last long, and once again, Activision and Infinity Ward are getting the reaction they probably didn't want, with the player count dropping by more than half within 24 hours.

As of writing, it is sitting at around 28,730 players, with no signs of recovering. This is the early access phase, meaning the people currently playing aren't casual browsers who stumbled in. They pre-ordered the game or specifically sought out a beta key. You would expect that crowd to be the most engaged and the ones most likely to stick around.

Brazilian modder Paulo Gomes and his team, known for their GPU experiments, have doubled the VRAM on a GALAX RTX 2080 SUPER HOF from 8GB to 16GB. Testing in Resident Evil Requiem shows a real gain in scenarios where the card was running out of memory.

According to YouTuber Paolo Gomes, via Videocardz, the team says they couldn't find an earlier example of this exact mod being done on a 2080 SUPER. The process involved desoldering all eight original 1GB Samsung GDDR6 modules and replacing them with 2GB chips, then adjusting the card's memory strap configuration so the GPU would correctly report the new 16GB capacity.

In Resident Evil Requiem, memory allocation on the 16GB card rose to roughly 11GB in a VRAM-heavy section. Frame rates went from around 25 FPS on the stock 8GB card to somewhere between 32 and 34 FPS after the mod, which the team calculates as close to a 28% improvement.

When LinkedIn launched its "Seems like AI slop" report button at the end of July, it was hard to know whether users would actually engage with it or simply scroll past. We don't have to guess anymore. According to LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan, more than one million people have clicked the button in less than a month.

Users who copy-paste AI-generated posts are also seeing around 40% fewer views compared to before the button launched, with LinkedIn's classifiers and user reports working together to limit how widely that content spreads. As we covered when the feature launched, the button hides flagged posts from the reporting user's feed and privately notifies the poster through their Post Analytics dashboard that their content came across as inauthentic.

LinkedIn is now adding another layer to that notification. If a post receives enough community flags, the author will see a message in their Post Analytics reading, "Some members told us this post seems like AI." Srinivasan framed it as constructive feedback. "We approached this assuming good intent. I know I'm increasingly conscious of how to not sound like AI, and the goal is to provide helpful feedback," he said.

The Radeon Pro WX5100 from 2016 is not what most people would think of as a capable gaming graphics card to play modern titles, but a YouTuber has found that this single-slot professional card paired with a beefy BIOS mod can turn this card into a capable gaming graphics card in 2026. Budget-Builds Official on YouTube published a video showcasing the gaming performance of the WX5100 in several modern titles, including Cyberpunk 2077 and Arc Raiders.

Out of the box, the WX5100 had very mediocre performance, achieving just above 30 FPS in Cyberpunk 2077's benchmark. However, BIOS modding the card with a boosted power limit, higher memory clock speeds, and tighter memory timings changed the card's performance significantly. With the BIOS mod, the performance of the WX5100 doubled, with Cyberpunk 2077's benchmark run achieving nearly 60 FPS.

The YouTuber tested the WX5100 in a multitude of titles with the BIOS mod, featuring GTA: V Enhanced, GTA: V, Cyberpunk 2077, Oblivion: Remastered, Samson, BeamNG, Red Dead Redemption 2, M&B Bannerlord, Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2, Arc Raiders, PUBG, Paralives, and Crysis Remastered.

GIGABYTE's next-generation AORUS ELITE FO32U24G gaming monitor is a new 32-inch OLED offering that will feature LG's latest Tandem WOLED panel. With its stacked-layer structure, it's set to deliver improved brightness and responsiveness, along with better efficiency, when it launches sometime in Q4 2026.

The 32-inch AORUS ELITE FO32U24G will feature a native 4K resolution, with dual-mode support for 4K 240Hz and FHD 480Hz. With the latest Tandem WOLED panel, GIGABYTE notes that the new display delivers an HDR peak brightness of up to 1,500 nits, with 99.5% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage, and VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification. Thanks to the continued advances in OLED technology, this latest GIGABYTE display will be brighter and more vibrant than current or older-gen models.

HDR brightness will also improve with GIGABYTE HyperNits, which increases brightness while preserving detail through optimized tuning. The display will also launch with the company's latest AI OLED Care Pro suite, which includes several notable features.

Ever since Sony announced that it was going to cease production of discs, i.e., physical games, for PlayStation consoles, the response from the community has been almost uniformly negative. And vocal. With Sony confirming that January 2028 will be the last time it makes physical games for the PlayStation 5, it also confirms that Sony's gaming future, including the upcoming PlayStation 6, will be entirely digital.

With negative backlash showing up in every official PlayStation-related announcement or story, even when it has nothing to do with the end of PlayStation disc production, it's also led to a community-led blackout and protest. Beyond effectively killing the physical game market for PlayStation, the move also highlights that when it comes to digital libraries and purchases, you don't actually "own" what you buy.

With the discourse around Sony's discless future showing no signs of slowing down, it doesn't look good when PlayStation starts sending notices to millions of gamers reminding them of the current PlayStation 'Terms.' Terms that confirm that buying a digital game on the PlayStation Network grants you a "limited" license to play the game.

Grand Theft Auto 6's big official gameplay debut on Netflix is happening later this week. For developer Rockstar Games and publisher Take-Two, the run-up to the event has been plagued by multiple leaks. Basically, a leaker or group called Cyberleek has been posting gameplay footage from GTA 6, prompting a flurry of DMCA takedown notices to accounts sharing the material, as well as a formal legal investigation requesting data from companies like Microsoft and Google.

With the leaks showcasing and detailing gameplay across a variety of aspects of the game, the current consensus is that Cyberleek has a working build of Grand Theft Auto 6, with the footage captured on PC. This isn't gameplay footage from the upcoming deep-dive video, but actual gameplay captured by hackers playing the game.

Naturally, with the game's official November release exclusive to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles, the idea of a working PC build of GTA 6 has got a lot of people excited, regardless of the source. With that, a supposed 113GB build of Grand Theft Auto 6 for PC has been appearing online this past weekend on multiple torrent sites. So, is this the version of the game Cyberleek is currently playing? No, and it's reportedly full of malware.

A recent Windows 11 update (version 25H2, KB5121003) has been causing issues for some PC gamers playing multiplayer titles like Arc Raiders, The Finals, and Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. In addition to PCs becoming unresponsive and games crashing to the desktop without warning, some users are also reporting blue screen "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" errors causing their systems to restart.

Microsoft is actively investigating the issue, noting that it's most likely related to "peripherals or internal device components which have RGB lighting features." For a desktop PC gaming build, that covers most rigs, and Microsoft adds that devices with RGB often install drivers or code with file names similar to the low-level "inpoutx64" driver, which accesses hardware ports.

Until a proper fix is available, a workaround that reportedly resolves the issue is disabling the 'inpoutx64' driver in the Windows registry. Microsoft's support page on the issue provides steps for how to do this but notes that it can cause unintended behavior with RGB features on devices, as well as with third-party software used to control and configure lighting.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey has climbed to the top of its own franchise on Steam. The 2018 title now sits at 89% positive reviews, edging past Assassin's Creed 2's longstanding 86%, and this boost lines up almost exactly with the release of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster "The Odyssey."

It's a strange twist for a game that had a rocky launch reputation. We've been tracking this trend since July, when Steam concurrent players first jumped from around 4,000 to a peak of 8,522 shortly after the film hit theaters. That number has only grown since. According to a follow-up analysis from Alinea Analytics, combined daily active users across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation went from roughly 122,000 on the day the movie released to 233,000 just ten days later, a 90% increase.

It seems like a big chunk of that audience is new. Reports suggest around 250,000 new players picked up the game specifically because of the movie, drawn in by wanting a more hands-on look at ancient Greece after watching Nolan's take on Homer's epic. Odyssey's open world, built around exploring the Aegean and fighting through the Peloponnesian War, apparently gave people exactly that.

The #PSBlackout is officially underway. Starting today, PlayStation fans who announced the protest last month are asking users to power down their consoles entirely through August 30, avoiding logins, purchases, and play sessions across all of Sony's platforms.

The action is a response to Sony's decision to end physical PlayStation disc production starting January 2028. Organizers say the goal is simple: hit Sony's active user numbers hard enough that the company notices, while giving developers and publishers minimal disruption during the process. It follows a string of other pushback moments, including a "Don't Kill the Disc" petition that gathered over 345,000 verified signatures and a nearly $500 million lawsuit filed in the Netherlands.

Not everyone thinks the timing works in the protest's favor, though. Critics have pointed out that the blackout overlaps with Gamescom week, when a huge chunk of the PlayStation community is likely occupied elsewhere anyway. Moreover, this protest isn't tied to a major release like GTA 6 or Marvel's Wolverine, which probably would have applied more pressure. Some players have already said online that they plan to do the opposite and play more during the week just to counter the effort.