AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 for Radeon graphics cards is here, with the company adding new game support for Battlefield 6 and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. However, it seems that, with this new driver, New Game Support will be limited to "Radeon RX 7000 and 9000 series graphics products" going forward, even though the driver is compatible with Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 Series graphics cards.

'Expanded Vulkan Extensions Support' in the driver is also limited to RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 products, suggesting AMD is ending RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 PC gaming support. However, in the Known Issues for Battlefield 6 on RDNA 3 and RDNA 4 GPUs, the latest driver lists crashes and timeouts when playing on Ryzen AI chips, as well as issues with streaming the game on Radeon hardware.

On the plus side, this new driver fixes a long list of issues across a wide range of games. So, if you've got a Radeon graphics card or Ryzen APU with integrated graphics and are playing The Last of Us Part II, FBC: Firebreak, GTFO, NBA 2K25, or Baldur's Gate 3, be sure to grab the latest Adrenalin Edition here.

Ex-PlayStation Worldwide Studios boss Shawn Layden cautions game developers to be careful about entering the live service arena, warning that the games industry is basically built on the bones of Fortnite contenders.

Breaking into the live service market is so hard that some companies just buy their way into it--Microsoft comes to mind with its Mojang and Activision acquisitions, so does Sony with its Bungie buyout. Here at TweakTown, we've been talking about live games for years and put together an Engagement Cycle that we think developers have to achieve and maintain to break into the market. It's an exhaustive list of things that a game must perpetually keep in motion, and for most companies, that's unsustainable. This is the message around ex-PlayStation boss Shawn Layden's recent interviews--that live games come with pitfalls.

"The highway is littered with people wanting to take on Fortnite, with people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," Layden said in a recent interview with Inverse.

NVIDIA has just announced a large partnership with Nokia on next-gen 6G connectivity, where the power of AI will be used through NVIDIA Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs.

The new partnership kicks off the AI-native wireless era, providing the foundation to support AI-powered customer experiences and enterprises at the edge. NVIDIA and Nokia are also laying the strategic infrastructure and opening a new high-growth frontier for telecom providers by delivering distributed edge AI inference at scale.

NVIDIA's new family of products for this new venture are called ARC (Aerial RAN Computer), which is reportedly platform ready for 6G computing by embedding RAN software into the CUDA stack, boosting performance. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang revealed that ARC will feature Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs, making it the first time where telecom infrastructure will have huge performance capabilities ready to go. The ARC ecosystem will be integrated into Nokia's existing RAN buildout, enabling customers to make the easy switch to 6G.

NVIDIA has just announced a huge partnership with Uber, to use its NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion 10 reference system, providing self-driving fleets, with Uber combining human riders and robot drivers in a worldwide ride-hailing network powered by DRIVE AGX Hyperion-ready vehicles.

The partnership will see the scale up of the world's largest level 4-ready mobility network, using Uber's next-generation robotaxi and autonomous delivery fleets using the new NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion 10 autonomous vehicle (AV) development platform, and NVIDIA DRIVE AV software purpose-built for L4 autonomy.

On the tech side of things, NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion 10 specs and features: NVIDIA has two performance-packed DRIVE AGX Thor in-vehicle platforms, which are based on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. Each of the platforms can deliver over 2000 FP4 teraflops (1000 TOPS in INT8) of real-time compute, with NVIDIA AGX Thor fusing 360-degree sensor inputs and is optimized for transformer -- vision language action (VLA) models and generative AI workloads -- which provides safe, level 4 autonomous driving backed by industry-leading safety certifications and cybersecurity standards.

A new version of the NVIDIA App is out and it comes with optimized settings for Battlefield 6 among other games - and some fresh additions for DLSS override support, but there's an annoying bug in the mix, too.

This is version 11.0.5.420 of the NVIDIA App (flagged by VideoCardz) and it provides optimal settings for seven new games as follows:

On top of that, there are 11 games which are now catered for with DLSS override:

Microsoft gaming CEO Phil Spencer says that Forza Motorsport hasn't been sent to the junkyard for scrap--that franchise will continue, but even Spencer doesn't know when.

Xbox has two racing franchises that have been operating in parallel with one another for years now: Forza Motorsport, which is Xbox's answer to Gran Turismo, and Forza Horizon, an offshoot series focused more on recreational racing and exploration. The latter, Horizon, is much more popular than the former, solidifying Microsoft's focus and taking away attention from the Forza Motorsport series. This is only temporary, and the Forza Motorsport franchise will continue out, but there's no optics on the next release.

Microsoft recently downsized its Xbox games unit, eliminating key positions and significantly reducing the staff at Turn10, the developers behind Forza Motorsport, with priority given to the more profitable Forza Horizon. This repositioning is happening for a number of reasons: Microsoft is merging Xbox consoles with Windows PCs in a radical transformational business strategy, and the company is also facing the rigors of tariff-choked economics. Both of these things are financially sensitive and require careful accounting. Also, Microsoft's board of directors, CFO, and CEO are currently pressing Xbox management to deliver a steep 30% profit margin--on this topic, CEO Satya Nadella recently said the "best way to innovate in gaming is to improve margins."

History could have been very different if Konami had greenlit a Hideo Kojima-directed Matrix game.

Decades ago during the PS2 era of the early 2000s, the Wachowski sisters expressed interest in having Hideo Kojima make a game based on the Matrix series, which was mega-hot at the time. This little tidbit of retro gaming lore was unearthed by nostalgia news blog Time Extension, which followed up on a 25-year-old rumor. In an interview with former Konami executive Christopher Bergstresser, it was revealed that the Wachowskis approached Konami about the idea, but it ultimately died on the vine.

The project was essentially nipped in the bud and shut down before it could even really be mulled over, with then-CEO of Konami Kasumi Kitaue scrapping the idea. Kojima was just too invaluable to the Metal Gear series (ironically, the opposite would be true some 15 years later).

Halo Studios developers have a practical take on artificial intelligence, saying that it's a "tool in a toolbox" but ultimately the humans are the creators.

Days ago, a report from Rebs Gaming stated that generative AI was being heavily used in the development of new Halo games, including the new Halo CE remake. Windows Central's Jez Corden stepped in to clarify this isn't the case, and now Halo Studios developers are once again speaking on the controversial technology.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, two Halo Studios devs spoke about how AI can help games production, indicating that it may be being used for new Halo games, but not in the capacity of letting generative AI call the shots.

Microsoft's servers have hit trouble (again), as a major Azure outage has left Minecraft players frustrated, Xbox services down, and more besides.

Update (14:35 CDT): Microsoft has said that customers might now see the first signs of recovery. The company just posted on its Azure dashboard: "We initiated the deployment of our 'last known good' configuration, which has now successfully been completed. Customers may have begun to see initial signs of recovery. We are currently recovering nodes and routing traffic through healthy nodes, and as we make progress in this workstream, customers will continue to see improvement."

Microsoft 365 services are affected by the downtime as well as Minecraft, with the game showing a strong upsurge of reports on Down Detector in the last hour and a half (since approximately 10:30am CDT). Xbox servers and the official website have been hit, too.

MSI Afterburner has a fresh version in the works and apparently it'll support a new class of hardware.

The developer, Alexey Nicolaychuk, has let us know that version 4.6.7 of the GPU overclocking tool (which can do more besides) is now in development with the initial beta expected soon- and it'll come with the mentioned additional support.

VideoCardz noticed that Uniko's Hardware on X flagged up Nicolaychuk's Guru of 3D forum post, where the developer tells us: "New engineering sample just arrived and it is ... not GPU. With the next MSI Afterburner beta (a) new class of MSI hardware products will be natively supported in MSI Afterburner's hardware monitoring module. That's all I can share now. Stay tuned!"

NVIDIA has become the first publicly traded company on Earth to reach a $5 trillion valuation, and it was only three months ago that it was worth $4 trillion.

According to data provided by the World Bank, the value of NVIDIA exceeds the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of every country on Earth besides the United States and China, following the company's share price on Wednesday opening up by more than 3%. NVIDIA's skyrocketing valuation can be attributed to the booming AI market, with tech companies around the world looking to invest as much as possible into the emerging software, and to achieve a sophisticated AI, companies need the infrastructure to operate it. That is where NVIDIA comes in.

NVIDIA's AI GPUs have become such a sought-after product that they have become the subject of international trade restrictions, geopolitical footballs between competing countries, and even spawned a black market where the GPUs are banned from being sold. All of this is part of the greater race between countries and companies to create the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the world's most sophisticated AI software.

PNY's new CS3250 M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen5 x4 SSD not only delivers cutting-edge Gen5 speeds across its 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities, but also offers an affordable price point. With impressive sequential read and write speeds of 14,900 MB/s and 14,000 MB/s, respectively, the 1TB is available now for $125.99 USD, with the 2TB model priced at $219.99 USD.

PNY notes that the 4TB version is "coming soon," so we'll have to wait and see what the pricing is for the larger capacity variant. That said, it's great to know that we're now in the era where high-speed enthusiast-grade PCIe Gen5 storage is becoming increasingly affordable. And with that, PNY notes that the CS3250 is designed for AI applications, content creation tools, and PC gaming.

The PNY CS3250 M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen5 is also a modern Gen5 SSD that doesn't require active cooling, thanks to its "advanced thermal-coated controller," which helps keep operating temperatures down and extends the SSD's lifespan.

Jumping into a vehicle and putting on the radio to listen to popular music has been a thing ever since cars and radios were combined. However, in the world of video games, it's something we associate with Grand Theft Auto-style open-world games, where hopping into a random car will start playing one of several random in-game curated radio stations as you drive to your next mission or simply roam the streets looking to make your own fun.

In-vehicle radio and music are not something we usually associate with multiplayer games like EA's Battlefield 6, which is why the "first-ever official Battlefield playlist for Battlefield 6" is noteworthy. In addition to being a Spotify playlist that you can stream, the Battlefield playlist is also an actual GTA-style in-game radio.

Yes, jumping into a vehicle while playing one of the game's various multiplayer modes will turn on the radio and start playing "tracks from legendary artists" covering a wider range of genres.

If you've been PC gaming ever since the days of MS-DOS and Windows 95, then you're probably aware of Sound Blaster, Creative's brand for its line-up of dedicated sound cards for PCs. Yes, once upon a time, to get digital sound from a pair of PC speakers, you needed a sound card, with Sound Blaster one of the most dominant names in the space.

Of course, in 2025, motherboards include dedicated sound chips and hardware directly on the board, relegating the sound card market to a niche for audio and music producers. As for Sound Blaster? Well, it's back with Creative announcing the new Sound Blaster Re:Imagine modular audio hub with AI-powered apps and features.

According to the company, the Sound Blaster Re:Imagine takes the core DNA of classic Sound Blaster hardware and evolves it into a "modern, modular platform designed for creators, gamers, and anyone who lives at the intersection of work and play." Its features and capabilities certainly sound impressive (in more ways than one), so here's a quick summary.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is widely considered to be one of the best open-world role-playing games ever made, and it cemented developer CD Projekt Red as one of the world's premier studios for creating immersive gaming experiences. This year, the game is celebrating its 10th anniversary (the complete edition of the game is currently 80% off at GOG.com), and to celebrate, Corsair has partnered with CD Projekt Red for some Limited Edition gear.

The new 'CORSAIR x The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 10th Anniversary Collection' includes three pieces of custom PC gaming gear: the Corsair K65 PLUS WIRELESS 75% gaming keyboard, the Corsair M75 WIRELESS Lightweight gaming mouse, and a Witcher 3-themed Corsair MM300 2XL Mouse Pad. All three sport a stylish, minimal The Witcher 3 look, with black, grey, and gold accents paired with logos like protagonist Geralt's iconic Wolf medallion.

The good news is that the gear chosen for this collaboration is all fantastic. In our review of the Corsair K65 PLUS WIRELESS 75% gaming keyboard, we praised its performance, customization, and features, giving it a well-earned Editor's Choice award. Likewise, the Corsair M75 WIRELESS gaming mouse earned a Recommended award for its high-quality build and wireless performance.

As a pure PC gaming platform, Linux has come a long way, thanks in part to Valve and its efforts with SteamOS and its Proton compatibility layer for running the latest DirectX graphics API. And with the popularity of its Steam Deck gaming handheld and third-party Linux builds focused on gaming like Bazzite, more and more gamers are looking for a Windows-free PC gaming experience, since games often run faster on Linux than on Windows.

According to a new report over at Boiling Steam, which monitors and tracks ProtonDB, gaming on Linux has never been more accessible, with close to 90% of Windows games launching and most running perfectly "out of the box." Valve's Steam Deck is primarily responsible for the rise in 'Platinum' and 'Gold' rated Windows games in recent years, which cover games that run well on Linux.

Although desktop gamers have Linux distros like Mint, Zorin, and Bazzite, many are waiting for Valve's controller-friendly and console-like all-in-one SteamOS to make the jump from PC gaming handhelds to more systems. SteamOS is optimized and limited to specific handhelds and AMD APUs, with the good news being credible rumors that Valve is planning to launch a full-fat version of the Linux-based operating system for PC gamers running a wide range of hardware.

Razer has evolved its premium Huntsman V3 Pro lineup of keyboards for competitive and pro gamers with the new Razer Huntsman V3 Pro 8KHz, which the company says offers an industry-leading latency of just 0.58ms for true 8K (8,000 Hz) polling. Razer notes that this provides a near-instantaneous response that is 11% faster than its nearest competitor; however, the company doesn't say which keyboard it's comparing performance to.

The Razer Huntsman V3 Pro 8KHz series is the company's "analog optical keyboard" that features the company's magnetic Analog Optical Switches Gen-2 with adjustable actuation, Rapid Trigger, and Snap Tap support. With an impressive adjustable actuation range of 0.1 - 4.0mm, a snappy 40g actuation force rating, and a 100-million keystroke lifespan, these magnetic switches are built for pro-level PC gaming performance.

Razer confirms that it has developed the Razer Huntsman V3 Pro 8KHz series alongside esports professionals like Counter-Strike star Nikola "NiKo" Kovač to help fine-tune the latency, keystroke feel, and overall performance.

NVIDIA has officially shown off its next-gen Vera Rubin Superchip at GTC in Washington, the first time in the flesh, ready with next-gen chips and HBM4 memory for the next dominator in AI chips.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang first showcased the company's next-generation Vera Rubin Superchip, but this is the very first time an actual sample of the motherboard, which NVIDIA calls the Superchip, has been shown. We have a Vera Arm-based CPU joined by not one but two gigantic Rubin GPUs. NVIDIA's motherboard for the Vera Rubin Superchip features LPDDR system memory that gets combined with the on-board HBM4 memory on both Rubin GPUs.

Jensen mentioned that NVIDIA's new Rubin GPUs are back in the NVIDIA labs, which means what he showed off was directly from the semiconductor fab at TSMC in Taiwan. Each Rubin GPU is surrounded with a bunch of power circuitry, with each of the Rubin GPU chips sporting 8 HBM4 sites, and two Reticle-sized GPU dies. The Vera CPU features 88 cores and 176 threads of custom Arm-based CPU cores.

Amazon is substantially reducing its presence in gaming, winding back its first-party game development and publishing divisions while also cancelling key projects along the way.

Amazon is preparing to lay off 14,000 workers, and the company's ailing games division will be hit hard. In a memo obtained by Bloomberg, an Amazon Games executive confirmed the cutbacks, telling employees to expect "significant role reductions."

Projects like the Lord of the Rings MMORPG have been cancelled, the report says, and the remaining in-house Amazon Games teams will focus on creating "casual and AI-focused games." New World, the division's most popular game at one point, has been sunset into maintenance mode and will no longer be receiving new updates, leading to an eventual shut down in 2026. This news comes shortly after the Season 10 update successfully attracted user engagement.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirms that the next-gen Xbox will innovate in both the PC and console space.

Just yesterday, Windows Central's Jez Corden reported that the next Xbox would be a Windows PC that mimics an Xbox console experience, reiterating reports from The Verge's Tom Warren. Now Microsoft's leader comments on the new Xbox PC while clarifying and reiterating the company's gaming strategy.

In a recent interview with TBPN, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discussed how Xbox will make innovations in the synergies between Windows PCs and Xbox consoles. He also says that Microsoft considers Windows "the biggest gaming business," a nod towards all of the different stores available on the platform--Steam, Xbox Store, Epic Games Store, GOG, Battle.net, etc.