The man responsible for the creative vision of the Assassin's Creed franchise has left Ubisoft.

Big changes are happening at Ubisoft. The company took a $1 billion investment from Tencent to stave off hostile takeovers and pay back debt. To make the deal happen, Ubisoft carved out its three biggest franchises and placed them in a separate subsidiary, Vantage Studios. Tencent has a 25% stake in Vantage Studios in exchange for its investment.

Ubisoft has formed the executive leadership structure for Vantage Studios, and by extension, the future of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six. Vantage Studios will be led by Charlie Guillemot and Christophe Derennes, respectively the son and cousin of Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. This change-over is happening, and it's since been revealed that Assassin's Creed creative Marc-Alexis Cote won't be coming over to Vantage Studios to lead the billion-dollar franchise.

The best Aliens shooter ever made may be getting a sequel, but exact details haven't been revealed just yet.

Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 has been spotted on the ESRB website, where it had been rated M for Mature for blood, gore, and violence. The listing has since been taken offline or made private, yet archived versions remain. According to the info, Daybreak Games will publish Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC. Focus Home had published the first game on PC, whereas Cold Iron Studios published the console versions.

Cold Iron had teased a new project in a studio update, saying that they were working on a fresh game for "fans to sink their teeth into," possibly a nod to the xenomorph's lethal bite.

The team behind Ghost of Tsushima and Ghost of Yotei will continue taking their time and focus deliberately on one game project at a time.

As studios like Naughty Dog ramp up to work on multiple games at once, some PlayStation studios like Sucker Punch Productions are keeping things lean. The team's samurai slasher Ghost franchise has helped Sony continue its penchant for cinematic-quality productions, so it has a critical place within the PlayStation ecosystem.

Now in a recent interview with VideoGameChronicle, studio founder Brian Fleming says that Sucker Punch will continue its single-release cadence. That's partly because Fleming only wants to select the single best idea that the studio has for a new game. The other part is because developers want as much time to make their game look and play as best as possible, and having multiple projects can crowd the workcycle.

NVIDIA has announced it has released new GeForce Game Ready Drivers for a selection of upcoming titles, providing new features and optimizations.

The latest GeForce Game Ready Drivers are available to download and include support for ARC Raiders, Pax Dei, The Outer Worlds 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, along with a bunch of other titles that now have DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. NVIDIA took to its blog to share details on each of the titles, explaining that by downloading the drivers, players will get a more optimized in-game experience, and have the latest NVIDIA technologies at their disposal to increase performance.

It's highly recommended that if you intend to play any of the titles listed below, you update your drivers via the NVIDIA App or download the specific driver manually, as performance will be significantly improved if you have the up-to-date driver installed. Moreover, suppose you are a GeForce RTX 40/50-series owner. In that case, you will be able to take advantage of NVIDIA's upscaling technologies, such as DLSS, and RTX 50-series owners will be able to utilize DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation for significant performance gains.

While Bloodborne on the PC continues to progress - by which I mean the emulator version, of course - rumors about a remake of the game are still rumbling on, the latest of which is a wispy clue from Bluepoint Games.

As Eurogamer reports, this comes in the form of a job advert for a position of senior combat designer at Bluepoint - or it did, but that ad has now been taken down, perhaps unsurprisingly given the stir this has created on the gaming grapevine.

Of course, all the details have been preserved, and the position mentioned that someone was needed for Bluepoint's "next great title" and that they'd be working on the combat, and should have a "solid understanding of combat systems and mechanics for third-person melee action experiences".

Discord recently confirmed that approximately 70,000 users had sensitive information compromised from an unauthorized third party, with the voice communication platform saying it wasn't Discord itself that got hacked, but one of its third-party customer service companies.

However, Discord's story has now had a wrench thrown into it as that third-party customer service company has now denied it was "hacked". Here's what happened. Discord confirmed that it was hacked, with reports stating the unauthorized party stole 1.5 terabytes worth of age verification images from the customer service company. Discord refuted these claims, saying the purported 2 million images that were stolen weren't an accurate figure, and that the hackers made off with "limited" personal information.

Discord outlined the personal information that was stolen, including names, Discord usernames, emails, and other contact information, along with limited billing information, such as payment type, last four digits of credit card numbers, purchase history, IP addresses, messages with customer support agents, and limited corporate data, such as training materials and internal presentations. Furthermore, the platform said it had immediately severed its connection with the third-party customer service company once it was made aware of the hack.

A new scientific paper has discovered if an AI is rewarded for completing tasks on social media such as boosting likes and other online engagement metrics, the AI exponentially participates in unethical behavior, such as lying, spreading misinformation, and abuse.

The findings were published by Stanford University researchers, who explained in a recent paper how they created three digital online environments, and then used the following AI models as agents to interact with the audiences within the environments: Qwen, developed by Alibaba Cloud and Meta's Llama model. The three digital environments included: online election drives directed at voters, social media posts intended to maximize engagement, and sale pitches for products aimed at consumers.

Here's what happened. In the social media environment the AI would share news articles to online users, who would then provide feedback on the article by engaging with it through likes and emote. Once the AI received feedback from these online users it began to sway more toward what the researchers are calling "misaligned behavior," despite the AI model being explicitly instructed to remain truthful and grounded.

NVIDIA has a new graphics driver out for its GeForce GPUs and it cures some seriously annoying bugs, including frustrating glitches with Madden 26 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

VideoCardz noticed the release of the fresh driver which also incorporates support for ARC Raiders, The Outer Worlds 2, and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, all of which get DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation.

The bug fixes will be what many PC gamers will be after, though, and one of these is the solve for an odd issue with Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 where the game suffers from either driver crashes or bad bouts of graphical corruption after the PC wakes from sleep.

As you've no doubt seen, today is the official end of support for Windows 10, and Microsoft has managed to break the Media Creation Tool (MCT) for those thinking of making the upgrade to Windows 11.

In a case of very unfortunate timing, Windows Latest reports that Microsoft admitted that the latest spin on the Windows 11 MCT - which is used to create a bootable USB (or DVD) to install the newest OS - has gone awry.

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It has been leaked and hinted at that Ubisoft is planning to release Assassin's Creed Shadows on the Nintendo Switch 2, and now reliable leaker billbil-kun has posted a new report revealing the release date.

According to the report, Ubisoft intends to release the Switch 2 version of Assassin's Creed Shadows on December 5, 2025, and that it will be arriving as a physical version as well, albeit it will be a "Game Key Card" version. Notably, rumors about Shadows coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 were sparked when the official PEGI website, the European video game rating organization, quietly added a Switch 2 listing to the Assassin's Creed Shadows page.

That was quickly followed by French retailer Auchan, which accidentally made the product page public on October 10, even revealing the box art for the game. The retailer leak was also when we first heard about the "Game Key Card" version being released. It should be noted that billbil-kun was unable to obtain information regarding the exact date for the pre-order, and also the pegged December 5 release date is for France, but is presumed to be global.

Microsoft officially severs support from Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, marking the End-of-Life phase for the popular operating system, as it will no longer receive security updates, new features, bug fixes, or necessary patches.

While Windows 10 is more than a decade old, the operating system still has a substantial user base of hundreds of millions of people, who are now faced with the decision of upgrading the machine they currently have with the necessary hardware to run Windows 11, buy a completely new Windows 11 capable PC, abandon Windows altogether for competing operating systems such as MacOS, or simply run the risk of their current machine exponentially being prone to security breaches since Microsoft is no longer providing vital security updates to malware hunting software.

There is another option, albeit it is a band-aid fix for the situation, as Microsoft offers one-year extended security updates for Windows 10 users, but that will require a payment of $30 per system, or logging into Windows 10 with a Microsoft account to sync your settings. It should be noted that Microsoft is officially ending support for all versions of Windows 10, which means Home, Pro, and Enterprise.

Intel and AMD have partnered to introduce new improvements to the x86 instruction set, with the two competing companies coming together in a joint initiative to strengthen the future of x86 computing.

The joint initiative was formed in October 2024, and today marks a one-year anniversary, with Intel and AMD outlining a bunch of new standardizing features for x86. The goal of the initiative is to enhance compatibility, predictability, and consistency across x86 processor-based productions, which includes everything from supercomputers to handheld gaming devices.

The advisory group has outlined key technical milestones to include as features in upcoming x86 processors, which have been outlined below. One of the announced features is FRED, or Flexible Return and Event Delivery, which AMD and Intel intend to reduce latencies and increase software reliability with a "modern interrupt model." Additionally, AVX10 is the next-generation vector and general-purpose instruction set extension, designed to boost throughput and enable portability across client, workstation, and server CPUs.

NVIDIA has unveiled when it will begin shipping the world's smallest AI supercomputer, with the company taking to social media to showcase NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang hand-delivering one of the first devices to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

The NVIDIA DGX Spark is a new class of computer that is aimed at researchers, engineers, teams of scientists, and even consumers who are interested in running custom AI models. The DGX Spark is built on NVIDIA Grace Blackwell architecture and integrates NVIDIA GPUs, ARM CPUs, networking, CUDA libraries, and NVIDIA AI software, creating a device capable of running 200 billion parameter AI models.

The DGX Spark delivers a petaFLOP of AI performance and 128GB of unified memory, enabling developers to run 70 billion parameters locally - all within a footprint that's about the size of your outstretched hand. More specifically, the DGX Spark's 1 petaFLOP of performance is accelerated by a NVIDIA GH10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, NVIDIA ConnectX-7 200 Gb/s networking, and NVIDIA NVLink-C2C technology, which enables 5x the bandwidth of fifth-generation PCIe and 128GB of CPU-GPU coherent memory.

Intel's Panther Lake or Intel Core Ultra (Series 3) processors for laptops and handhelds are on the way, powered by the company's most advanced chip technology to date - Intel 18A. Intel notes that with improved performance and efficiency, Panther Lake will be able to deliver Lunar Lake levels of power efficiency with Arrow Lake-like performance.

Looking at the GPU side, which will be powered by Arc Graphics and the latest generation of Xe3 graphics, Panther Lake's top-end chip with 12 Xe Cores will reportedly deliver a 50% or 1.5X improvement over Lunar Lake with better support for ray-tracing, with Intel XeSS delivering its version of Multi Frame Generation optimized for portable devices.

With a reported 40% increase in performance-per-watt compared to Arrow Lake, and more Xe Cores to play with (Arrow Lake handhelds like the MSI Claw 8 AI+ feature a processor with 8 Xe Cores), the prospect of a high-end PC gaming handheld powered by Panther Lake and AI rendering could present a real alternative to AMD-powered handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally X and Legion Go 2.

Game Freak, the developer of Pokémon, has been hacked, and now the content that was stolen is being released online, revealing what the developer plans to release up until 2030.

This isn't the first time Game Freak has experienced a tragic hack, as it was only last year in October that the developer had to respond to a hack referred to as the "Teraleak," which revealed details about the developer's plans for the Nintendo Switch 2, employee information, game source code, new games, past projects, and Pokémon designs.

Now, Game Freak has been hacked again, and this time the developers' plans have been revealed, showcasing that three mainline Pokémon games are currently planned, with the first being Gaia/Gen 10, scheduled to release in 2026 with a DLC planned in 2027.

Edifier is an audio brand known for creating traditional bookshelf-style speakers and other audio solutions for listening to music, streaming media, and playing games on a PC. In China, the company has unveiled its 'New Cyber' speaker (via TechSpot) that features a design that makes it look like a desktop gaming PC.

Yes, at a glance, you might even think that this was a PC with desktop speakers built into the lower third, but it's not. Priced at 1,499 yuan, which is around $210 USD, this Bluetooth speaker is perfect for those who love the look and aesthetic of a modern panoramic PC. The 2.1 design includes a downward-facing four-inch subwoofer, with two additional speakers with 52mm drivers behind the mesh finish.

The design itself is actually a lot of fun (which, admittedly, is a weird way to put it), as the "GPU" serves as the power supply for the unit. At the same time, the cable that resembles a tuning fork for an AIO cooler houses the speaker cable. In addition to this, you've got lighting flourishes mimicking fans and memory, and a functional 2.8-inch display that can display images, animation, and other information.

Using upscaling or 'Super Resolution' technologies like NVIDIA's DLSS, AMD's FSR, or Intel's XeSS is always a trade-off. You're essentially sacrificing visual quality and fidelity for improved performance, with the best examples actually delivering native-like or even better-than-native results thanks to advanced AI models.

NVIDIA's DLSS (especially the new DLSS 4) and AMD's FSR 4 are the two best examples of AI-powered upscaling for PC gaming; however, the latter is limited and exclusive to the new Radeon RX 9000 Series of GPUs due to its AI hardware requirement. This means RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 owners with a Radeon RX 6800 XT or Radeon RX 7800 XT are limited to using the inferior FSR 3.1, which delivers improved performance at the cost of image fidelity that's a step or two behind DLSS and FSR 4.

The good news is that, thanks to an unintended leak of FSR 4 code and files, an unofficial INT8 version of FSR 4 is circulating. It works on all Radeon GPUs, including RDNA 2 and RDNA 4 cards - but requires a bit of manual work. And with that, German outlet Computer Base has conducted an in-depth look at the performance and image quality of FSR 3 and FSR 4 running on three generations of Radeon hardware.

When NVIDIA shifted to the new 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector for the GeForce RTX 40 Series of desktop graphics cards, news of cables melting and GPUs being damaged began appearing online at a steady clip. The revamped 12V-2x6 design, introduced with the GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series refresh and the new GeForce RTX 50 Series, saw a reduction in cases of 'GPU power cables melting'; however, instances still seem to appear as clockwork.

With only a handful of AMD's new RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards adopting the new power connector, which delivers up to 600W over a single cable, it looks like we've got our second case of a Radeon GPU's power cable melting due to the new cable standard. The GPU in question is the impressive and sleek SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 9070 XT NITRO+, a premium model that adopts the new 16-pin power connector via an innovative hidden-cable design.

According to the report by Redditor 'e92justin,' the GPU was connected via a 3 x 8-pin power adapter connected to a 1000W Corsair power supply. Based on all of the investigations into the issue over the years, a faulty connection or improperly inserted cable could be the culprit. However, it's yet another case of the 12VHPWR and 12V-2x6 design power connector for modern GPUs failing, overheating, and effectively melting.

MONTECH is a hardware company best known for creating sought-after PC cases and cooling solutions. This week, the company is formally unveiling its latest AIO liquid cooler. The new LightFlow ARGB AIO liquid cooler from MONTECH is available in either Black or White, with two radiator size options: 240mm and 360mm.

And with this latest AIO liquid cooler for CPUs from MONTECH featuring both LightFlow and ARGB in its naming, you can be sure that customizable aesthetics and lighting are right up there with thermal performance. MONTECH says that the new LightFlow ARGB AIO liquid cooler offers "minimalist aesthetics," but this likely refers to avoiding the full-brightness rainbow mode we see in the marketing materials.

One of the defining design features of the new cooler is the infinity mirror design on the pump head, sporting the company's logo. As a more affordable cooler that doesn't go the 'slap and LCD screen on the pump' route, the infinity mirror look is definitely impressive. Beyond its appearance, MONTECH adds that the 3100 RPM high-performance pump paired with the 27mm high-density radiator delivers "stable, efficient cooling."

AMD has yet to confirm or formally announce details on its next generation of desktop Ryzen CPUs that will be built using the company's on-the-horizon Zen 6 architecture. Credible leaks, rumors, and speculation suggest that Zen 6 will feature a mix of TSMC's 3nm and 2nm process nodes, offering more cores than previous generations, along with notable improvements in power efficiency, latency, and performance.

Marketing for the new ASUS X870 AYW GAMING WIFI W motherboard confirms 'Zen 6' support

It's also expected that the Zen 6 generation of Ryzen CPUs will be supported by the AM5 platform and current Ryzen motherboards, even though the release is expected sometime in late 2026 or in the first half of 2027. This aligns with AMD's commitment to supporting motherboard chipsets for multiple CPU generations, as reflected in the new X870 AM5 boards listed as "future CPU ready."