The worldwide video games industry is expected to make $197 billion in 2025, a new all-time high that's driven in part by recent software and hardware price increases.

The global video games market will generate $197 billion throughout this year, analyst firm Newzoo predicts. 2025's revenue figures represent a significant 7.5% year-over-year increase, which can be attributed to a number of factors, including higher prices, wider content availability, and other things like accounting and revenue recognition practices.

The platform breakdown also underlines why Microsoft is pushing so hard into the PC space. According to Newzoo's estimates, mobile will lead the charge this year with a megaton $108 billion in revenue, representing more than half of the total--55%. What's interesting is just how close PC and console are to each other; console is to make $45 billion revenue, up 4.2% and representing 23%, where PC is close behind with $43 billion, making up 22% of the total.

Larian boss Swen Vincke issues multiple statements on the heels of a recent Bloomberg report, which says that Vincke is pushing the use of generative AI in future games.

Controversy has struck indie darling Larian, a studio that garnered tremendous goodwill with fan favorite RPG Baldur's Gate 3. The game creators are apparently using generative AI to make their next game, Divinity, which is said to be the group's most ambitious project to date.

Now studio head Swen Vincke has clarified Larian's position on generative AI, even going so far as to promise an AMA where users can directly ask questions to the team. Vincke tells IGN that Larian won't "trim down teams and replace them with AI."

This week we've got a new NVIDIA TITAN Ada prototype GPU reveal, after a new model appeared in China, in a cleaner condition than the recent teardown treatment overclocker "der8auer" performed. Check it out

The sample that der8auer had in his hands wasn't a one-off GPU, as there is now another NVIDIA TITAN Ada prototype GPU in the wild, with the two retail-style boards and coolers in the wild. Both of them look more like finished graphics cards rather than prototype lab-bound hardware.

The GPUs have been praised for their mechanical details and regular driver behavior, which is something you don't normally see from engineering samples that have exposed test boards and debug switches, but in a parallel universe I'm sure these 900W GPU beasts exist, and I want one.

AMD will be launching its next-gen Zen 6 CPUs next year, but after that -- and after Zen 7 -- we've got the new Zen 8 and Zen 9 processors that some juicy new leaks have just provided us with purported codenames of AMD's future-gen Zen chips.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, we're hearing that Zen 8 is codenamed "Penelope" and Zen 9 is codenamed "Nemesis" and that both new CPU architectures will be on AMD's next-gen AM6 socket. AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors will debut on AM5 extending the lifespan of current motherboards, while Zen 7 is also expected to debut on AM5 before AMD moves onto the newer AM6 socket for Zen 8 and Zen 9.

We should expect to see Zen 8 and Zen 9 processors launching sometime 2029-2030 and 2032-2033, respectively, both on the new AM6 socket and we should also see PCIe Gen6 and DDR6 memory support, but hopefully the DRAM shortage has worked its way out of the system by then.

SK hynix has announced that its new 256GB DDR5 RDIMM server memory modules have been approved by Intel for its new Xeon 6 platform.

In a new press release, SK hynix said its new high-capacity 256GB DDR5 server memory modules based on 1b 32Gb have been verified for compatibility with Intel's next-gen Xeon 6 platform. The new registered memory (RDIMM) is a buffered module type of RAM used in servers and workstations, with testing and validation completed at Intel's Advanced Data Center Development Laboratory in the US.

SK hynix says that servers using its new 32Gb based 256GB RDIMM memory module will enjoy 16% more inference performance versus its 128GB modules on 32Gb DRAM, as well as up to 18% more power efficiency versus existing 256GB RDIMMs based on its 1a 16Gb DRAM modules, using a design built around a single 32Gb DRAM chip.

NVIDIA has teamed with SK hynix on a next-gen ultra-powerful SSD solution for AI inferencing, that could offer 10x the performance for AI inferencing in the middle of the worst DRAM crisis ever.

SK hynix has formalized development of the next-gen SSD with NVIDIA, after the South Korean memory giant enjoyed great results from supplying HBM to NVIDIA for its AI GPUs, and its customer- and service-tailored product development is expanding into the NAND flash sector.

In a new report from Korean outlet Chosun, SK hynix Vice President Kim Cheon-seong said at the recent "2025 Artificial Intelligence Semiconductor Future Technology Conference" (AISFC) that SK hynix was developing a new SSD with 10x more performance with NVIDIA. This new SSD is dubbed "Storage Next" for NVIDIA and "AN-N P" (AI NAND performance) for SK hynix, a new proof of concept that is in the works with the goal of releasing a prototype before the end of 2026.

The Legion Go Gen 2 is the company's latest flagship PC gaming handheld, powered by the new AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme Processor with integrated RDNA 3.5 Radeon Graphics, sporting 16 Compute Units. There are multiple SKUs available, but all of them include 32GB of fast LPDDR5X-8000MT/s memory and an impressive 8.8-inch 1920 x 1200 OLED display with a 144 Hz refresh rate, HDR-1000, and VRR support.

However, the current Legion Go Gen 2 is akin to the flagship ROG Xbox Ally X from ASUS and Microsoft in that it ships with Windows 11 and the new Xbox Full Screen Experience for accessing system features and games via controller input. According to a new report over at Windows Latest, Lenovo is set to unveil a new Legion Go Gen 2 model at CES 2026, one that will ship with SteamOS pre-installed.

SteamOS, Valve's Linux-based operating system on the Steam Deck, is widely considered one of the best platforms for PC gaming because it essentially transforms the Steam app into an intuitive console-like experience. Not only that, it's optimized for efficiency and performance, leading to games running faster on SteamOS than on the same hardware running Windows 11.

If you're a PC gamer that plays the latest games on enthusiast-grade hardware, then you've no doubt come across G.SKILL's lineup of DDR4 and DDR5 memory kits over the years. With a wide range of stylish kits, the company is also best known for offering some of the most OC-friendly memory options on the market, with its Trident Z5 DDR5 memory being used by the world's best overclockers to set new records.

As a company known predominantly for its memory products, the current DRAM crisis has already led to exponential price increases for DDR5 memory kits, with reports from a wide range of sources, including leading memory manufacturers, indicating that 2026 will see prices continue to rise as supply becomes increasingly scarce.

And with that, G.SKILL has released a statement for its fans and the broader PC gaming community, attempting to answer the question: Why has G.SKILL DRAM memory prices increased so much recently (since 2025 Q4)?

NVIDIA has just released what will likely be the final GeForce Game Ready driver of 2025, focused on fixing several issues and bugs. GeForce Game Ready 591.59 WHQL is available to download from GeForce or via the NVIDIA App.

Although the patch notes don't mention any specific new game support with this new driver release, NVIDIA does say that the new GeForce Game Ready driver "optimizes your experience in the latest titles featuring DLSS 4 and NVIDIA Reflex and ensures the best possible experience in your wider library of games and apps.

And with that, NVIDIA confirms that there are four new games with DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation support: ARK: Lost Colony, Ashes of Creation, SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded, and Yakuza Kiwami 2. And with that, let's take a look at the full release notes, which include fixes for games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Dying Light: The Beast (which now has ray-tracing), and Enshrouded.

Hollow Knight Silksong is one of the best-selling video games of the year, and it only released three months ago.

Silksong is one of the most popular games of the year, amassing hundreds of thousands of concurrent players on Steam shortly after release. Now we finally have a sales update for the beloved indie: Team Cherry has confirmed that Silksong has sold over 7 million copies since its launch, firmly establishing it as one of the best-selling titles of 2025 and of recent memory.

"But firstly, and most importantly, we wanted to say a huge thank you to all the players who've braved Silksong's distant and dangerous lands. That's over seven million of you who've purchased the game, alongside millions more playing on Xbox Game Pass," the devs said in a blog post.

We're continuing our TweakTown newsletter subscriber-exclusive giveaways, rewarding loyal readers with top-tier gear every week. For our Christmas 2025 giveaway, we've partnered with the folks over at Montech to deliver a slick PC hardware prize pool for builders and upgraders.

There will be three winners in total: one winner takes home the main upgrade bundle, and two additional winners will each score a high-wattage PSU. Check out what's up for grabs below.

As always, this giveaway is exclusive to subscribers of the TweakTown daily newsletter, and it's open globally. You can learn more about Montech's lineup here and check out their latest cases, coolers, and power supplies.

Naughty Dog's next big-budget PlayStation game is planned for a mid-2027 release on PS5, sources tell Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, with the team now working longer hours to finish a playable demo of the project.

After making multiple Last of Us games back-to-back, Sony's premier first-party art house Naughty Dog is back with a fresh new game. It's called Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and it's set in a new IP set thousands of years into the future, with leaks suggesting Dark Souls-level challenges with God of War combat.

Earlier reports said that Intergalactic wouldn't launch in 2026, and now the latest from Bloomberg says that Naughty Dog wants to have the game out by the middle of 2027. Sources also paint a hectic picture of work life at Naughty Dog's Intergalactic team, with the studio reportedly pushing overtime onto employees and an increase to 5-day office work weeks.

Sony's copyright lawsuit against Tencent has ended, and both parties have agreed to settle for an undisclosed sum.

Back in July, Sony sued Tencent in a copyright lawsuit, alleging that the Chinese games-maker created a product that was too close to Sony's Horizon franchise to be a coincidence. Tencent's so-called 'Horizon clone' had been titled Light of Motiram, and Sony's original 48-page legal complaint laid out side-by-side comparisons that showed stark similarities between the two games.

Now it's been revealed that the case has been dismissed. Sony and Tencent have reached a "confidential settlement," the court filing says, and the Light of Motiram game is no longer available on Steam or the Epic Games Store.

New reports from Windows Central reiterate Microsoft's plans to release Starfield on non-Xbox platforms.

Months ago, there were rumblings that Bethesda is preparing to launch Starfield on Switch 2 and PS5. Now we have a possible release window for the RPG: sources tell Windows Central that the new Starfield port could launch sometime in the first six months of 2026.

That's a pretty wide timeline, but it's also worth mentioning that next year will be one of the biggest moments in Microsoft history: Xbox turns 25, and Bethesda also celebrates its 40th anniversary. The studio will want to capitalize on this momentous occasion, so a cross-platform release of Starfield in 2026 makes sense, and this also leaves the game plenty of clearance from the sales crater that GTA 6 will cause.

Legendary creative Hideo Kojima has an unsurprising take on AI: The dev doesn't want to use it to create any kind of visual art, and thinks the technology could be used for things like enemy responsivity in games.

Following record spending highs during COVID-19, the games industry has now simultaneously contracted while raising prices. Every publisher and developer is feeling the financial pressures, with many shedding workers en masse in an effort to improve margins and assuage shareholder fears. Everyone is looking for ways to save money and reduce labor costs; enter generative AI, new tech that could potentially even replace game developers.

AI has proven to be significantly controversial, and rightly so, because video games are a full conjunction of all creative arts--static art, animation & motion capture, audio. The industry's workforce is one of creativity and developers are pushing back against AI, however teams have embraced the tech in a bid not to be left behind. This kind of motivation seems to be the main driver of AI's global adoption; no one wants to miss out on the Next Big Thing.

The new NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72GB Blackwell GPU, which the company says is now available, offers a memory-focused configuration that will sit alongside the existing NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU with 48GB of VRAM. The new variant is targeted at AI developers, scientists, and creatives who require hardware for "modern, memory-hungry workflows."

With generative AI and the rise of complex, multimodal agentic AI, NVIDIA notes that today's large language models (LLMs) and AI agents are growing in both complexity and size - necessitating the release of a beefier NVIDIA Blackwell GPU. With 72GB of ultrafast GDDR7 memory, 50% more than the current 48GB model, and a memory bandwidth of 1,344 GB/s, you're looking at 2,142 TOPS of AI performance.

Naturally, having access to 72GB of GDDR7 memory on a 512-bit interface will allow AI developers to train, run, and tweak models locally. This adds an extra layer of privacy and reduces latency compared to a cloud-based solution.

The Game Awards has revealed the 2025 show is by far the biggest Game Awards ever conducted, with the social media account for the award show stating it had 171 million global livestreams.

The stat was revealed on the official X account for The Game Awards where the organization wrote that viewership for the award show was up 11% year-over-year, with more than 171 million global livestreams. Additionally, conversations about The Game Awards on X were up 12% year-over-year, and there were 23,000 co-streams of the event on Twitch & YouTube, marking a 50% increase year-over-year.

Furthermore, the 171 million viewership figure doesn't include the views the award show obtained through Amazon Prime Video. To put that level of viewership into context, the last Super Bowl held on February 9, 2025 pulled 127.7 million viewers, and peaked at 133.5 million during the halftime show.

There are only a few games that gamers cannot wait to get their hands on. The first is Grand Theft Auto 6, which might be the most anticipated game of all time, and the one that follows closely behind that is Elder Scrolls 6, the sequel to Skyrim.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released in 2011, and since then, we have only received a brief teaser trailer for the sequel to the acclaimed title, which was released in 2018. Following that teaser, we have only heard brief mentions of Elder Scrolls 6 from Bethesda's Todd Howard, who has said the title is the studio's focus and that it will take as long as it needs to meet fan expectations.

However, Kiwi Talkz, an interviewer known particularly for Bethesda and Valve interviews with developers and industry members, recently wrote on X that he expects we won't see Elder Scrolls 6 until at least 2028, with the more likely release window being sometime in 2029. According to Kiwi Talkz, Bethesda isn't giving a rough date as it will "do more harm than good," especially after the studio announced the game "too early".

If you've been tracking PC hardware prices, you've probably noticed that high-capacity DDR5 memory kits now cost more than a PlayStation 5. And with the DRAM crisis affecting any piece of hardware with memory, alongside rising storage costs, several analysts and companies are predicting that the situation will only get worse throughout 2026, potentially leading to historic consumer shortages.

Yes, even though the insatiable demand from data centers and AI is leading memory makers to focus on expensive, cutting-edge HBM with high margins, they're still unable to keep up. Micron, which recently shuttered its consumer-facing Crucial brand to focus on high-bandwidth memory for AI, recently noted in its latest earnings report that supply will remain "substantially short of the demand" for the "foreseeable future."

What does this mean for gaming, specifically high-profile AAA-style experiences with a focus on immersive and detailed visuals? Well, a fundamental shift in how game developers will approach making games for the "foreseeable future." And with that, game developers will be forced to optimize performance for systems with limited RAM and VRAM.

With the product page now live, AMD has quietly launched a brand-new variant of its mainstream RDNA 4 GPU, the Radeon RX 9060 XT. The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT LP graphics card is a low-power variant that lowers the TDP to 140W, 20W lower than the standard Radeon RX 9060 XT.

The Radeon RX 9060 XT LP is a 16GB model, so it includes 16GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit interface with a total memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s - the same as the current 160W model. The GPU configuration is also identical with 32 RDNA 4 Compute Units and Ray Accelerators, plus 64 AI Accelerators. It also sports the same Stream Processor count of 2048 with 64 ROPs and 128 Texture Units.

The Radeon RX 9060 XT LP also features DisplayPort .1a and HDMI 2.1b connectivity with hardware-accelerated H264, H265, and AV1 video encoding and decoding. The only thing missing from AMD's product listing is the Boost Clock speed of the new Radeon RX 9060 XT LP variant, so this might be where the difference lies.