Samsung just shattered the high-resolution vs. high-refresh-rate question any PC gamer asks themselves when they are deciding to upgrade their display.

However, Samsung now has something that is designed to hit the sweet spot, and that's its new QD-OLED panel, which is capable of hitting 360Hz at 4K natively and 680Hz in Dual Mode.

This marks the first time a monitor can deliver both 4K resolution at a 360Hz refresh rate, which has long become a strive point for gaming monitor development, especially with QD-OLED panel technology.

Computex 2026 is just days away. It's become tradition for the organizers to give out a series of Best Choice awards highlighting some of the more attention-grabbing products at the show. The GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Xtreme X3D AI TOP motherboard received an award in the Computer and System category. It's a gloriously ridiculous flagship board that I want, but at over $1,000, I can't afford.

The X870E AORUS Xtreme X3D AI TOP is an updated version of the AORUS Xtreme AI TOP that includes GIGABYTE's X3D Turbo Mode 2.0. It's an AI-powered enhancement that's designed to extract more performance from AMD's Ryzen X3D processors. That aside, the board has almost every conceivable feature you can get on a consumer motherboard.

It features an LCD screen, dual 10G LAN, loads of fast USB ports with 65W PD support, a strong VRM and five M.2 slots. The AORUS Xtreme X3D AI TOP packs in a huge amount of cooling capacity. Finned VRM heatsinks, a memory cooler, a large M.2 cooler and a rear backplate combine into what promises to be a board with one of the best cooling assemblies ever seen. I won't say for sure until I have tested it, but that's surely a safe assumption. I'll ask GIGABYTE for a review sample. This is one board I'll be happy to play with.

Valve has increased the price of its premium Steam Deck OLED duo, causing concerns about the company's upcoming Steam Machine.

Gaming systems are becoming more and more expensive as Valve makes a substantial price hike for its Steam Deck handhelds. The Steam Deck OLEDs went back into stock alongside the effective hike, with the 512GB OLED now at $789, up $200 and +34% from its previous price of $589, and the 1TB model is now an attention-getting $949, up a hefty $300 and +46% from its previous price of $649.

The new adjustment only reflects the OLED models--remember that the original LCD models are now out of production--and Valve offered a simple explanation: "Steam Deck OLED is back in stock, with a price increase for both models due to rising memory and storage costs."

CD Projekt was forced to pre-emptively announce new content for The Witcher 3, one of the most popular video games ever made, and it has caused some damage to the company's stock.

Today, CD Projekt made a surprise announcement that seemed to come out of nowhere: Witcher 3 is getting a new expansion, it's called Songs of the Past, and it's coming sometime in 2027. But there's a good reason this was a surprise--CD Projekt didn't originally plan to reveal the expansion this way, but instead during tomorrow's special Witcher 3 anniversary stream.

The Polish game devs accidentally uploaded Songs of the Past to the Red Launcher, and within minutes, news of the mysterious project spread all over the internet. So instead of just waiting, CD Projekt tried to get ahead of the leaks and just revealed Songs of the Past without any kind of fanfare or triumph--indicating that the group may have accidentally fouled the initial marketing strategy for the product.

The Witcher 3 is getting a new expansion, and CD Projekt is now refreshing the game's minimum spec requirements to reflect the upgrades from the fresh storyline.

Today, CD Projekt announced Songs of the Past, the third major expansion for The Witcher 3. The news confirmed earlier reports, however the rumors were wrong about the release date--Songs of the Past won't launch in 2026, and instead due out sometime next year.

Also included in the reveal was an update to The Witcher 3's main PC spec requirements. The game now requires 12GB of RAM, a graphics card with at least 6GB of VRAM with GPUs like NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1660 and AMD's Radeon RD 5500XT being examples, as well as incompatibility with HDDs and pushing users to move to SSDs. CD Projekt further confirms that gamers will need to play The Witcher 3 on Windows 11. Songs of the Past will probably work on Windows 10, yet CD Projekt says that it cannot ensure that it will.

Generative AI has been a polarizing topic in the video game industry ever since these tools became widely available. While many game developers have already issued statements against the use of generative AI, everyone's favorite usual suspect, Ubisoft, has gone the other way. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot previously praised AI as "revolutionary" for video game development, and we are starting to see its first steps in that direction.

Apparently, according to Tom Henderson from Insider Gaming, Ubisoft has been testing generative AI in future projects, including Far Cry 7. The specific project that Henderson mentioned was "Teammates," but Ubisoft is apparently also testing prompts in Far Cry 7 for research purposes. In a tweet that has since been deleted, Henderson went on to say that the Gen AI experiment "looks like s**t."

Ubisoft has been in troubled waters lately, as both Far Cry 7 and Assassin's Creed Hexe look to be in developmental limbo. In such a situation, generative AI seems like a low-cost tool to speed things up a bit, but at what cost? Ubisoft has also committed to accelerating its generative AI efforts on its FY2025-26 earnings call just a few days ago.

Dragon Quest XII has been rebooted, complete with a new theme and a new subtitle, Beyond Dreams.

Square Enix today announced that development of Dragon Quest XII has been restarted with a fresh new narrative, characters, and overall visual style. The game now better reflects the bright and colorful world of the Dragon Quest series as shown in the teaser trailer released today, also showing a first look at Beyond Dreams' protagonist along the way.

"The game has gone in a different direction to the one we originally announced, but I think you're going to love it," said Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams game designer Yuji Horii. The designer also confirmed that Beyond Dreams would also use Akira Toriyama's characters and Koichi Sugiyama's music, like every other Dragon Quest game before it.

COLORFUL has unveiled a new Limited Edition graphics card with a design inspired by the recent release of 007 First Light, the new James Bond action-adventure from the creators of the Hitman series, IO Interactive. The new, limited-edition COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 5070 Ultra OC x 007 First Light Edition features a black-and-gold look, with a custom backplate sporting the game's art, showcasing the titular character and the 007 logo.

This particular GPU design from the company is relatively new, as we recently reviewed the COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 5070 Ultra OC earlier this month. In our review, we highlighted the stylish design, excellent cooling, and impressive 1440p gaming performance. In 007 First Light form, the vibrant colors are replaced with darker tones and a more sophisticated look befitting the game and the character.

As an OC model, it ships with a Boost Clock speed of 2557 MHz, and even though it features a triple-fan cooler, the 314 x 135.2 x 50.4mm dimensions make it compact enough to fit in most cases and builds. COLORFUL hasn't confirmed availability or pricing for this new limited-edition graphics card, but it will be on display at the COLORFUL Showroom during Computex 2026.

The rumors were right: The Witcher 3 is officially getting a new expansion, and it's coming in 2027.

Today, CD Projekt confirmed recent reports by announcing Songs of the Past, the third major expansion for The Witcher 3 that's coming almost twelve years after the game's original launch in 2015.

Songs of the Past will launch in 2027 on current-gen PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC (no PS4, Xbox One, or Switch versions) and is being co-developed with collaborator studio Fool's Theory, a group who has frequently appeared in CD Projekt's earnings reports attached to a mystery project that hadn't been revealed until now.

COLORFUL, the gaming PC brand known for its various GPUs, motherboards, laptops, audio, and other hardware, is set to hit Computex 2026 next week in style. The company is prepping an off-site showroom at the Marriott Hotel in Taipei, which will feature four "uniquely themed zones" designed to showcase its ecosystem of gaming, lifestyle, and creator-focused hardware.

Naturally, this will be the place where it debuts its latest COLORFIRE MEOW gear, COLORFUL laptops, mechanical keyboards, custom PC concepts, and the latest in its iGame and Battle-Ax series hardware. COLORFUL always goes above and beyond at the show when it comes to its PC concepts and general booth design, so we're pretty keen to check out this custom showroom when we're in Taipei next week.

For PC gamers, COLORFUL will unveil its new Ultra Zero PC hardware set, as shown above. This is all about delivering a full "Zero Cable" look for a compact gaming PC, and in all-white, it definitely looks impressive. And for enthusiasts, there's the new iGame Ultra Series PC designed for the latest high-end GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards, in a sleek design that offers panoramic views.

If you ever wanted an AIO cooler with a screen large enough to casually watch YouTube on, Cooler Master is making that happen. The company has launched the B360 TV ARGB, a 360mm AIO liquid cooler that comes with a 6-inch screen that Cooler Master itself is calling a "TV."

The B360 TV ARGB is currently only listed on JD in China (per VideoCardz), so a global rollout has not been officially confirmed yet. According to the JD listing, it is available in black-and-white models, with the black variant confirming a 6-inch display, a rotatable screen base, ARGB Mobius fans, and a 6-year warranty. The listed price is ¥699, or around $103 before tax.

The screen is obviously the centerpiece here, so let's talk about that. Cooler Master went with a 6-inch TFT LCD with a 960x480 resolution and 300 nits of brightness. The display sits on a fully 360-degree adjustable base and is managed through Cooler Master's MasterCTRL software, giving you control over what's on screen without leaving your desktop.

NVIDIA has released GeForce Game Ready Driver 610.47, and buried inside it are the first signs of DLSS 5 making its way into the driver pipeline. User Warkratos discovered through the NVIDIA Profile Inspector that the new driver appears to add three new profile entries: DLSS-NR, DLSS-NR Streamline, and DLSS-NR Presets. The "NR" part almost certainly stands for Neural Rendering, which is how NVIDIA has been presenting DLSS 5 since its GTC 2026 reveal.

Before anyone gets too excited, these entries do not make DLSS 5 usable in any current games. Even if you enable the preset through the NVIDIA Profile Inspector, you will not get any DLSS 5 effects in existing titles. NVIDIA has not yet shipped any DLSS 5 files to go alongside these flags, so for most users, this is early groundwork rather than anything immediately useful.

For context, DLSS 5 introduces a real-time neural rendering model that takes a game's rendered 2D frame and motion vectors as input, then uses an AI model to infuse the scene with photoreal lighting and materials anchored to the source 3D content. NVIDIA's pitch is that it delivers a level of photorealistic computer graphics previously achievable only in Hollywood visual effects, running in real time at up to 4K resolution.

Computex 2026 kicks off next week. As has become tradition, the Computex Best Choice awards highlight some cool hardware to be shown off, and one of those new products is the ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro WiFi 8 router. It won in the Gaming and Immersive Tech category.

The ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro appears to be based on the WiFi 7 ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro with a few tweaks. The headline feature is its support for WiFi 8, adding Multi-AP coordination architecture, integrating intelligent path optimization, dynamic bandwidth management, and a patented thermal design. It includes 10Gbps ports and support for ASUS AiMesh systems. If it's anything like the GT-BE98 Pro, the GT-BN98 Pro is sure to take up a lot of desk space!

It's not the first WiFi 8 router to be shown by ASUS. It revealed its futuristic NeoCore concept router back at CES, complete with a live demonstration.

Sony has rotated most of Destiny 2's content library into PlayStation Plus as the game exits active development and enters virtual retirement.

The Destiny 2 Legacy Collection is coming to PlayStation's subscription service, with PS Plus Extra and Premium users getting an opportunity to jump into the game ahead of the space shooter's official retirement on June 9. After that date, Bungie will no longer release any new content updates for Destiny games, instead focusing on Marathon. The studio still intends to give Destiny 2 a good send off and is inviting PS Plus subscribers to try out nearly a decade of content in the process.

The PS Plus freebie version includes Lightfall, The Witch Queen, packs from Beyond Light, Shadowkeep, and Forsaken, three dungeons, the 30th anniversary pack, and the added bonus of The Final Shape expansion. The upfront value here is very high, especially for new players who were interested in trying out Destiny 2...yet the game does have a clear progression block once all of the endgame content is exhausted.

The new Halo 1 remake will make substantial enough changes to the campaign to make the game feel somewhat new, even to longtime fans.

Microsoft is celebrating 25 years of the Halo franchise with a big new release, but instead of a sequel, Xbox is reaching it Bungie's past and resurrecting one of the most iconic games of all time. The new Halo Campaign Evolved release aims to essentially revamp, upgrade, and in some cases, alter the Xbox original in order to achieve three major goals: 1) have a frontline, premium release to capitalize on Halo's anniversary, 2) provide a product that ties well into Xbox Game Pass, and 3) further progress in UE5 adoption.

As for content, Halo Studios is giving everyone a good reason for everyone try out the game. PlayStation users will try it because they may never have played a Halo game before, but Xbox gamers, even franchise die hards, will want to return in order to play the new missions. New reports from trusted games reporter Rebs Gaming indicate that Halo Studios has altered some Halo CE's campaign missions, including The Library, which has received significant adjustments.

The buzz around the upcoming Ryzen 7 7700X3D is ramping up, suggesting the launch is imminent. CPUID recently released CPU-Z version 2.20.1, and the changelog includes the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D, listed under the Raphael codename. This is the same platform codename as the rest of AMD's Ryzen 7000 desktop family.

It is worth noting that CPUID does not typically add processors to CPU-Z's detection database unless a launch is right around the corner. The same update also added support for a wide range of other processors, including the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition (Granite Ridge), several new Ryzen AI Max+ and Ryzen AI Max SKUs under the Gorgon Halo codename, a number of new PRO-tier Granite Ridge chips, Intel's new Wildcat Lake and Bartlett Lake families, and new Intel Arc Pro graphics solutions.

According to earlier leaks that have since been corroborated by multiple sources, the Ryzen 7 7700X3D will pack 8 cores and 16 threads on the Zen 4 architecture, with a total of 96MB of L3 cache. That breaks down to 32MB of native L3 on the CCD with an additional 64MB stacked on top via 3D V-Cache technology, which is identical to the 7800X3D's cache configuration.

Newegg's latest Deal of the Day is helping gamers buy Switch 2 consoles for little over $400 for the base console.

Gamers have an opportunity to beat the incoming Nintendo Switch 2 price hike with a well-timed deal. Newegg's current Deal of the Day discounts $200 worth of Nintendo eShop gift cards for $170. Gamers are buying 2x of these deals, redeeming the gift card balances into their Nintendo accounts, and then adding extra money to cover the full cost of a Switch 2 console.

In this way, users can attain a base Switch 2 console with no games for $390 pre-tax (little over $400 depending on state), or a pick-your-own-game bundle for $440.

Warhorse Studios aims to have the next Kingdom Come game out in the next few years, and if everything goes according to plan, the game could launch by April 2028.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 has become a big success for publisher Deep Silver with 5x the revenue than the first game in the US at launch, so it's no surprise that a new game is already in the works. The project was actually confirmed in Embracer Group's recent earnings report, where it also announced that Warhorse would now be joining Fellowship Entertainment, a new company spun off by Embracer that now leads IPs like Lord of the Rings, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and the aforementioned Kingdom Come.

Now we have comments from Warhorse on the timing of the next KC game. In a recent stream, studio communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling says the game will ideally be out by next fiscal year, which corresponds with the April 2027 - March 2028 timeframe. He also confirmed that KCD2 creative director Prokop Jirsa will lead the core team behind the new KC title.

Intel's Bartlett Lake lineup is one of the more interesting CPU families to come out of Intel in recent years. The chips are not available on consumer platforms and are instead targeted at embedded and edge computing applications. What makes them stand out is their pure P-core design, with no E-cores in sight. The flagship of the lineup is the Core 9 273PQE, which packs 12 P-cores running at up to 5.9 GHz, 36MB of cache, and a 125W TDP, all based on the same Raptor Cove architecture found in Raptor Lake.

Since Bartlett Lake chips are not supported on consumer motherboards, enthusiasts have had to get creative. We previously covered how a modder successfully booted the Core 9 273PQE into Windows on a standard Z790 motherboard, an impressive feat given the platform's limitations. Shortly after, we also covered benchmarks from German reviewer Zed Up Gaming, which showed the 273PQE outpacing the Core i9-14900K by up to 10% in gaming. That was a genuinely exciting result for a chip that Intel never intended for consumer desktops.

Now, PC Games Hardware has published a much more thorough set of gaming benchmarks, and the results tell a very different story. Using a proper Bartlett Lake-compatible workstation board, the ASRock IMB-X1714 with a W680 chipset, and DDR5-5600 C46 memory, the 273PQE was tested across roughly 15 games. Across those tests, the chip failed to pull ahead of the Core i9-13900K, a processor that is now over four years old.

Dragon Quest is getting a special hour-long showcase tomorrow, May 27, 2026 at 9AM EST to commemorate the franchise's 40th anniversary, and updates on the next mainline DQ game are expected at the show.

Square Enix is set to celebrate a major milestone in one of the most enduring video game franchises as its Dragon Quest RPG series turns 40 years old. The publisher is holding a Dragon Quest stream tomorrow on DQ Day that will highlight the last 4 decades of adventuring, leading to a hefty 95 million copies sold.

Specifics on what exactly will be shown during the event have not been revealed, and gamers are avidly looking forward to a myriad of projects, including remakes of Dragon Quest VIII and IX, and even Dragon Quest Builders 3. However, it's been more than four years since Square Enix revealed the teaser for Dragon Quest XII, so that game could be up next for a major showing.