Apple is reportedly testing a quad-curved display for the iPhone 19 Pro, a design that wraps the screen around all four edges to eliminate bezels.

The prototype, currently at the evaluation stage, features a hole-punch cutout for the front-facing camera, but Face ID is said to be fully hidden under the panel. The news comes from according to Weibo-based leaker Digital Chat Station, a renowned Apple leaker with a very healthy track record of revealing Apple design choices. The quad-curved display is reportedly destined for Apple's purported 20th-anniversary iPhone next year, which could feature a more refined version of the quad-curved display seen in the evaluation model, and have no cutouts.

The leaker has a history of accurate Apple leaks, including the iPhone Air and the triple 48MP rear camera system on the iPhone 17 Pro. The challenge for Apple lies in integrating Face ID and the front-facing camera under the panel without compromising quality, and according to reports Apple engineers are finding it difficult to cover up the selfie camera cut out.

Apple's long-rumored OLED MacBook Pro is on track for production despite ongoing delays, with reports suggesting a 2027 release.

While initial leaks in 2021 hinted at a 2023 launch, recent supply chain updates from 9to5Mac, citing a report from Bloomberg and The Elec, now place the device's arrival in early 2027 due to ongoing DRAM shortages and component constraints.

The M6 MacBook Pro is expected to feature a thinner design, improved power efficiency, and potentially a touchscreen display, which, if true, will mark a major shift for Apple's premium laptop line. Perhaps the biggest upgrade, or at least the most noticeable at first glance, is reportedly the adoption of an OLED panel, which would bring Apple's premium line of laptops up to the latest-generation pixel technology.

Former Rockstar developers are still shackled by NDAs that can last up to 10 years - and in some cases, for life - making it nearly impossible to discuss the inner workings of the esteemed developer or any of the underlying technology powering its titles.

KiwiTalkz, a well-known game journalist, recently shared on X that many devs who respond to his questions either provide vague answers or outright decline to comment on potential legal ramifications. One former Rockstar developer told KiwiTalkz that even after a decade, they couldn't speak on specifics without risking legal repercussions. "Speaking about the RAGE Engine in any type of detail is an absolute no-no," the source said.

Rockstar has long been known for its aggressive legal tactics and tight-lipped culture, and these NDAs ensure that even after a project concludes, the details remain buried. And for good reason, too. Rockstar controls some of the most valuable video game IP on the planet, and part of the excitement fans have for Rockstar's projects is the lack of information the developer provides.

Sony PlayStation accounts are reportedly being hacked with ease, even when users have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled.

A growing number of users have come forward claiming that their PSN accounts were compromised, with digital game libraries and in-game purchases wiped out in seconds. The vulnerability reportedly stems from a loophole that allows hackers to access an account using only one transaction ID from the target account.

Hackers are somehow obtaining a single transaction ID linked to the account and providing it to Sony as "evidence" of account ownership, which, once approved by Sony, enables them to change the email linked to the PSN account and bypass 2FA. This isn't the first time PlayStation has faced a data breach or security issue. In 2011, a massive hack exposed the data of 25 million users. Now that a new exploit has emerged, the company is rightfully under pressure to secure its platform before more users fall victim.

CD Projekt Red seems to have learned a thing or two from its disastrous Cyberpunk 2077 launch. After the immense success of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, expectations were at an all-time high when CDPR teased its next project based on a futuristic dystopia. However, the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 was riddled with bugs and performance issues that just left a sour taste in gamers' mouths. It now looks like CDPR is taking steps to make sure that doesn't happen again.

At the Digital Dragons panel attended by GamesRadar, CDPR technical writers Jarosław Ruciński and Adrian Fulneczek discussed some of the development challenges the team faced during The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, and how they have addressed them moving forward. Apparently, a key oversight during the development of those games was that not enough technical knowledge was preserved through documentation, which later became a huge hurdle.

The writers also stated that during Cyberpunk 2077's development, the team had over 8,000 documentation pages, which posed a new challenge. Maintaining these documents required a huge amount of time and effort, which is why they later became low priority. What's important is that CDPR has learned from these challenges and aims never to repeat the same mistakes.

COLORFUL has announced a pair of new compact Micro-ATX motherboards for AMD Ryzen platforms with the new iGame B850M ULTRA-S and the iGame B850M ULTRA-OC. Design-wise, these new boards feature a similar look and feel as the stylish COLORFUL iGame GeForce RTX 5070 Ultra OC we recently reviewed, and they're built for gamers, creators, and enthusiasts putting together a compact rig.

Both boards support the latest AMD Ryzen AM5 platform, which means they feature Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity and support for overclocked AMD EXPO DDR5 memory. They're also ready for the latest Ryzen 9000 Series desktop processors, including the popular Ryzen 7 9800X3D. In fact, despite the flagship iGame B850M ULTRA-OC's compact size, it ships with a 10+2+1 phase 60A DrMOS power design that's more than ready to handle the latest Ryzen 9 9950X3D flagship CPU.

As for the iGame B850M ULTRA-S, this is a motherboard built for mainstream gaming and running professional workloads. It sports a robust 14+2+1-phase 80A DrMOS power design with dual 8-pin CPU power connectors and four reinforced DDR5 DIMM slots that support DDR5-8400 speeds, with a total capacity of 256GB. Storage-wise, it's also packed, with three M.2 slots, including two PCIe 5.0 x4 slots, ready for the latest Gen5 SSDs.

NVIDIA's latest Security Bulletin details several new high-severity security vulnerabilities covering its wide range of GeForce RTX, Quadro, Tesla, and NVS products, related to its drivers for Windows and Linux. The high severity relates to potential "denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, data tampering, and code execution."

The good news is that these vulnerabilities have been addressed as long as you're running GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.36 or newer. 596.36 dates back to April 28, 2026, so if you haven't updated your graphics driver in a while, consider this a call to update your driver as soon as possible. The latest release, GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.49, adds support for Forza Horizon 6.

Data tampering and code execution are high-severity vulnerabilities for a reason, and the issues extend to older GPU hardware covering Maxwell, Volta, and Pascal GPUs. For those gaming on older GeForce GTX hardware, you'll want to ensure you're running driver version 582.53 or later to receive the security update.

For those who have been tracking NVIDIA as it becomes a $5 trillion company that leads the world in chips and hardware built for modern AI data centers and workloads, it probably wasn't a surprise to learn that the company's latest financial report showed record revenue. Namely, with its Data Center segment accounting for $75.2 billion of the record $81.6 billion for the first quarter of the company's fiscal 2027.

For those out there who best know NVIDIA as the company behind GeForce and as a leader in the PC gaming hardware market, it's not a surprise to learn that the company's Gaming revenue has become a small slice of its overall revenue. And for those thinking that GeForce is now an afterthought for NVIDIA, and not a focus in any meaningful sense, the latest financial report only reinforces this stance.

And that's because the company is no longer reporting Gaming revenue as a separate line item. Previous financial reports from the company have grouped Gaming and AI PC revenue under a single umbrella covering PCs, GeForce RTX GPUs, laptops, and workstation hardware for enthusiasts and consumers. Now, gaming falls under the catch-all Edge Computing banner that covers AI PCs, GeForce RTX GPUs, game consoles, workstations, AI-RAN base stations, robotics, and automotive.

NVIDIA has announced its latest financial results for fiscal Q1 2027, beating expectations with record revenue of $81.6 billion over three months, representing an 85% increase from the same period last year. Naturally, the company's record Data Center revenue drove this growth, with this segment accounting for $75.2 billion of the overall revenue. The Data Center revenue alone is up a staggering 92% from a year ago, showcasing the seemingly insatiable appetite for all things AI and NVIDIA hardware.

"The buildout of AI factories, the largest infrastructure expansion in human history, is accelerating at extraordinary speed," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Agentic AI has arrived, doing productive work, generating real value and scaling rapidly across companies and industries. NVIDIA is uniquely positioned at the center of this transformation as the only platform that runs in every cloud, powers every frontier and open source model, and scales everywhere AI is produced, from hyperscale data centers to the edge."

The $75.2 billion in Data Center revenue is up 21% from the previous quarter, another record-setting revenue period for the company. NVIDIA lists the new Vera Rubin platform, which includes the groundbreaking Vera CPU built for Agentic AI, as a key highlight for its Data Center business this year, including an extended partnership with Google Cloud that will power Google Gemini with Vera Rubin, Blackwell, and Blackwell Ultra systems.

Samsung has unveiled its next-generation Odyssey Gaming monitors, which include the world's first 6K gaming display. The 32-inch Odyssey G8 (G80HS model) boosts resolution from 4K to 6K to enhance clarity and detail while maintaining a 165 Hz refresh rate. Naturally, pushing 6K natively requires a powerful GPU and system, so the new Odyssey G8 is also a dual-mode display that supports 3K at 330 Hz for enhanced responsiveness and motion clarity when gaming.

Samsung also announced a 27-inch Odyssey G8 (G80HF model) that supports 5K at 180 Hz, with a dual-mode that supports 1440p at 360 Hz. Samsung also announced new OLED gaming monitors this week and stated that it's currently the global OLED gaming monitor market leader with a 26 percent share. The company's next-gen OLED gaming monitors include the new Odyssey OLED G8 (G80SH), available in 27- and 32-inch variants.

With the latest QD-OLED Penta Tandem technology, the new OLED G8 monitors deliver improved efficiency, durability, and brightness compared to previous-gen models, with the flagship 32-inch model receiving VESA DisplayHDR True Black 500 certification. Both sport 4K resolution and a 240 Hz refresh rate, with AMD FreeSync Premium and NVIDIA G-Sync Compatibility.

Last week, Trump Mobile announced that its T1 phone was finally shaping up to be an actual product ready to ship after months of delays and controversy. Now, the Trump Mobile website is allegedly facing serious security issues that have reportedly led to the leakage of customers' private information and order numbers.

According to YouTubers Coffeezilla and Cr1TiKaL, the official Trump Mobile website has been leaking customer information, including full names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and order numbers. Customers' credit card information appears to be safe. Anyone who ordered the phone or opted for Trump Mobile's cellular service could be affected.

Coffeezilla received the information via an anonymous source who shared personal data to prove they had access. The anonymous individual claimed to have exploited a vulnerability in the Trump Mobile website, allowing access to the entire pre-order database and even the ability to place fake orders for the T1 phone. "Long story short, I found a vulnerability in the Trump T1 Mobile preorder website and gained the ability to both place fake orders, but also to scrape and search the entire preorder database," the person told Coffeezilla.

Ubisoft's FY26 earnings show the results of the company's costly reorganization efforts, leading to the second consecutive year of annual losses at the company.

French games-maker Ubisoft recently posted its annual report for FY26, confirming a hefty 1.3 billion euro operating loss for the financial year. This is actually a reduction in losses--Ubisoft recorded a 1.46 billion euro loss the year prior in FY25.

The losses were driven by major expenses in Ubisoft's R&D segment, which spent 1.855 billion euros in FY26, of which 75% of that, or 1.402 billion euros, was related to accelerated depreciation of cancelled and delayed game software.

Researcher Andy Nguyen, aka TheFlow, has made it possible to turn a launch-era PlayStation 5 running firmware up to version 6.02 into a Steam Machine-like device running Linux. This setup allows the console to run PC versions of games, as Andy demonstrated by successfully running Grand Theft Auto V: Enhanced Edition.

Following that, the team at Digital Foundry caught wind of the PS5 Linux breakthrough and decided to run a path-tracing test on the system. They tested three titles: Quake II RTX, Portal with RTX, and Cyberpunk 2077 RT Overdrive, each representing a different level of path-tracing load.

Quake II RTX was NVIDIA's first major path-tracing showcase, and even though the game itself is ancient by gaming standards, path tracing breathes new life into its visuals. Portal with RTX was the first game to use NVIDIA's RTX Remix, and Cyberpunk 2077's RT Overdrive mode is the ultimate path-tracing stress test.

Sony has announced a new State of Play showcase for June 2, and the event will highlight both upcoming first-party and third-party PlayStation 5 games.

Sony's new State of Play returns on June 2, 2026 at 2PM PST/5PM EST, offering a full hour of games and content from major developers and publishers.

As per usual, Sony didn't reveal the full lineup of its summer-timed event, but did confirm that Insomniac's new Wolverine game will be front and center with more gameplay footage and info on the visceral adventure, which is due out September 15.

Ubisoft will release multiple AAA games by March 2029, including new titles in its trio of biggest brands.

Ubisoft today announced its earnings results for FY2026, and nestled in the report is an update on its upcoming release plans. The company recently went through a hefty reorganization largely funded by a big $1.2 billion investment from Tencent that resulted in a restructuring of its business into units called Creative Houses.

The biggest of these groups, a subsidiary called Vantage Studios, handles Ubisoft's largest, most prestige brands: Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon. It's now been revealed that Ubisoft plans to have new games in all of these franchises released by March 2029, coinciding with a significant boost in positive free cash flow--a critical metric of success for any company.

Microsoft has hired industry analyst Matthew Ball to help guide its Xbox games division in uncertain waters, especially as the company prepares its revolutionary Project Helix console.

In her quest to overhaul Xbox, Microsoft's new gaming CEO Asha Sharma has made some key hires to help facilitate key shifts at the segment. New reports from The Verge indicate that Xbox has hired games industry analyst Matthew Ball to help lead strategy at the group. Ball is well-known for his work at Epyllion, where has published multiple games industry-oriented reports and briefings.

"Matthew has been partnering with us on strategy since day 10 and will officially start this month, reporting to me," Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is believed to have said in a recent memo.

It's official: Warhorse Studios is indeed developing a new Lord of the Rings game, and the news was confirmed in today's spin-off announcement from Embracer.

The rumors were right, and Kingdom Come developer Warhorse is working on a new RPG set in the Middle-earth franchise. The info was announced by Embracer during its business strategy briefing. Embracer will spin off Fellowship Entertainment, which includes a ton of other IPs like Tomb Raider, Metro, and Dead Island, into a separate standalone group. Warhorse, and the Lord of the Rings franchise as a whole, are both part of this group.

"Warhorse is making a new game set in Middle-earth. The studio celebrated for its extraordinary depth, historical authenticity, and storytelling, is bringing that craft to the greatest fantasy world ever created--an expansive, deep, open-world experience. Warhorse demonstrated with Kingdom Come that they are one of the premiere open-world RPG studios on the planet," Fellowship Entertainment confirmed today.

Sony's upgraded PlayStation Super Spectral Resolution tech is seeing adoption in newer games, and developers are surprised at how easy it is to incorporate the boosted version into their projects.

Sony's new PSSR upgrade is apparently quite optimized and requires little tweaking when added into PS5 Pro titles. In the latest update on the PlayStation Blog, IO Interactive devs discussed their experience with the new PSSR update doing its magic within the new action -based James Bond 007 First Light game. The testimony was interesting and reflective of Sony's developer-first stance, where its hardware--and adjoining software/OS layers--are tailor-made to developer's needs and specifications.

"We integrated upgraded PSSR in about a day and were essentially happy with what we saw straight away. No per-scene tuning, no special-case work - it just held up across the whole game. That's not something we get to say very often about a piece of new tech," said Principal Render Engineer, IO Interactive Jon Rocatis.

AMD has now formally launched its EPYC 8005 "Sorano" server processor family, following a preview at Mobile World Congress 2026 earlier this year. The new series succeeds the EPYC 8004 "Siena" lineup and slots between AMD's flagship EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors and the more affordable EPYC 4005 parts.

One of the most notable things about Sorano is that AMD chose to equip it with full Zen 5 cores, rather than the Zen 5c cores that feature in Turin Dense. Keep in mind that the previous-generation EPYC 8004 "Siena" used Zen 4c, so this is a meaningful architectural step up. The shift to full Zen 5 brings a substantial boost in per-core L3 cache, and all current SKUs now reach up to 4.5 GHz boost, compared to just 3.15 GHz on the previous generation.

The EPYC 8005 lineup comprises 7 SKUs. The stack starts with the entry-level EPYC 8025P at 8 cores and 95W TDP, and steps up through the 16-core 8125P, 24-core 8225P, 32-core 8325P, 48-core 8435P, and 64-core 8535P, all the way to the flagship EPYC 8635P with 84 cores, 168 threads, 384 MB of L3 cache, and a 225W TDP.

Embracer Group is shedding some of the biggest video game companies in the business in a new spin off, leaving the fate of major franchises like Metro, Lord of the Rings, Tomb Raider, and more in the hands of the new separate entity.

It's an end of an era at Embracer Group; the once-mighty Rome of gaming is not splintering up even more, with some of its biggest and most valuable IPs being spun off into a new company. The group has announced that key franchises and game studios will be spun off into an independent company called Fellowship Entertainment.

Fellowship, the so-called "steward" of these legendary series, will be the home of powerhouse IPs and game dev studios alike, from Tomb Raider at Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal, Dead Island from Dambuster, and Metro games from 4A. All future Lord of the Rings games are also covered under the deal under the Middle-earth Enterprises label.