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Nintendo and Sony are currently working on a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie that is slated to launch on March 26, 2027, and now we have learned that after its theatrical run, it will make its way over to Netflix.

The movie is being directed by Wes Ball and will star Bo Bragason as Princess Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link. The decision to make a Legend of Zelda movie comes after the billion-dollar success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and at the end of last year, Nintendo released the first screenshots for the upcoming project, confirming the two aforementioned actors.

In a recent press release, Netflix confirmed that it will have the exclusive streaming rights to The Legend of Zelda Movie following its theatrical run. The screenshots that were released in November last year showcased both Link and Zelda in what appears to be the Hyrule fields.

CD Projekt Red gained its renown following the incredible release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 2016, with the game going on to sell millions of copies around the world, spawn a Netflix TV show, and put CD Projekt Red on the map as one of the best development studios working today.

The monumental success of The Witcher 3 made fans fall in love with the world, and after completing the third installment in the franchise, many have gone back to play the second and first games. Now, CD Projekt Red's CEO Michal Nowakowski has revealed the sales figures for the entire Witcher franchise in a list of the most popular Polish video games.

Unsurprisingly, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has taken first place at 60 million units sold, followed by Cyberpunk 2077 at 35 million and Dying Light at 20 million. As for the first and second Witcher games, the Witcher 2 has sold 15 million units, and the first Witcher game has sold 10 million. According to Nowakowski, both the first and second Witcher games are still selling.

A new report claims the upcoming God of War TV show has secured another actor to play Thor's wife, Sif/Phoebe.

The upcoming TV show based on the popular game franchise from Sony and Santa Monica Studios, "God of War," recently confirmed Sons of Anarchy's Ryan Hurst as the actor who will play Kratos, and now a new report from Deadline has claimed Teresa Palmer will step into the shoes of Sif. Notably, Amazon has declined to comment on the rumor.

Palmer is known for her work in the movies The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Lights Out, Warm Bodies, and The Fall Guy. As for the other characters, a report from last month claimed Max Parker from Boots was in discussions to play Baldur, and Olafur Darri Olafsson from Severance is slated to play Thor. These reports have fans speculating as to what game the God of War TV show will be recreating, as Thor and his wife are only in God of War: Ragnarok.

Apple is reportedly gearing up to implement OLED displays across a range of its products, but some of the company's most popular products won't receive the upgrade until 2028, according to reports.

The information comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, a known Apple insider with an extremely healthy record of knowing the inner workings of the Cupertino company, and DigiTimes. According to Gurman, Apple plans to upgrade the iPad Mini, MacBook Pro, iPad Air, iMac, and MacBook Air with OLED displays, though at different times.

A recent report from DigiTimes states that the change will occur between 2026 and 2028, with the iPad Mini slated for an OLED upgrade in 2026, along with the MacBook Pro. The iPad Air, iMac, and MacBook Air are all pegged to receive OLED upgrades in 2027 and 2028, with the MacBook Air being sometime in 2028.

The PlayStation 5 released right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic on November 12, 2020, making it quite difficult to get consoles into the hands of hungry gamers. Since then, Sony has released many first-party titles, but perhaps not as many as you would expect, especially compared to the esteemed PlayStation 2.

A trending X post has highlighted there have only been sixteen true PS5-exclusive titles, and that the PS2 had more than 500. With the lifecycle of the PS5 coming to an end, and the PS6 being on the horizon, the difference between the PS5 and PS2 when it comes to exclusive games highlights the shift in the gaming market for multiplatform releases. It should be noted the PS5 has more than 1,000 native titles, and thousands of PS4 games through backwards compatibility, but only a limited number of them are available exclusively on PS5.

The statement "sixteen true PS5-exclusive titles" does come with some caveats, such as many exclusivity periods expiring and the title being ported over to PC. Spider-Man 2 and God of War Ragnarök are two examples of that caveat, and therefore they have been excluded from the "true exclusive" list. Games such as Astro Bot and Astro's Playroom are counted as true exclusives as they are currently only available on PS5.

OpenAI has announced in a new X post that it's beginning to test embedded advertisements within ChatGPT conversations, specifically within the free and Go tiers of ChatGPT.

The AI company has outlined its advertising principles in a new image, with the first being "Answer Independence," which means ads do not influence the answers that ChatGPT provides users, and that ads are not optimized toward users. Lastly, ads are "always separate and clearly labelled". Next is "Conversation Privacy," which OpenAI explains is the act of keeping user conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers, adding, "We will never sell your data to advertisers."

"Choice and Control". This guideline states that users will always have the ability to turn off ad personalization, and the option of clearing data used for ads. Users will have these options available to them at any given time, and there will always be an option for users to turn off ads completely, presumably via a paid subscription tier.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has signed a deal with Symbolic.ai, a new AI journalism startup that will be joining News Corp's expansive media conglomerate.

Symbolic.ai was founded by former eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica co-founder Jon Stokes. According to the creators, Symbolic.ai is capable of assisting journalists in the production of quality journalism and content, and its implementation has led to "productivity gains of as much as 90% for complex research tasks."

The creators say the platform is intended to make workflows more efficient, such as the creation of newsletters, fact-checking, headline optimization, SEO advice, and audio transcription. News Corp hasn't shied away from the emergence of AI, with the company announcing in 2024 that it signed a deal with ChatGPT creator OpenAI for it to license News Corp content.

Microsoft says that Black Ops 6 was the "biggest Call of Duty release ever," but that success apparently has not been replicated for Black Ops 7.

While Microsoft has yet to confirm specifics (it probably won't), multiple reports indicate that Call of Duty is on a downslide. The $35 billion franchise was once a prestige brand that sold tens of millions of games per year and generated billions from microtransactions. That's all changed now that Microsoft is in control. Call of Duty games launch into Game Pass, which could negatively impact sales.

That's apparently what's happening, at least according to former Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who is currently involved in a class action lawsuit surrounding the Microsoft-Activision merger (Sjunde Ap-Fonden v. Activision Blizzard et al. Case No. 2022-1001-KSJM). According to Game File, a new document filed by Kotick and his legal team asserts that Call of Duty sales are down by 60% in 2025.

If the latest PlayStation download results are anything to go by, Electronic Arts could be set to deliver a record-breaking year for game sales.

EA was on a roll in 2025, at least on PlayStation. The publisher delivered multiple hits with both Madden and College Football hitting the sales charts running, as well as DICE's big comeback with Battlefield 6, which managed to sell 7 million copies in just 3 days time (up to an estimated 20 million).

Sony's annual list of top PlayStation Store game downloads adds even more evidence of EA's outperformance. According to the results, EA had 5 games on the top 20 most-downloaded PS5 games of 2025, tying with Microsoft, who also had 5 games on the list. Yet it's not just the quantity, but the positioning that matters here: in the US, EA had 3 out of the top 5 most-downloaded games on the PS Store. Microsoft, however, had no games in the top 5, and only 2 games in the top 10.

One of the key considerations for a laptop is always battery life, and there's a new high in terms of a thin-and-light notebook, as teased by Hardware Canucks.

As VideoCardz highlighted, the veteran Canadian tech site took to X in order to tease the fact that a new laptop has managed to exceed 24 hours for battery life in its web browsing test - a feat never before accomplished by a thin-and-light device.

This realm of battery life has previously only been inhabited by rugged laptops with beefy batteries designed to last forever when working in the field - not consumer notebooks, and certainly not slimline models.

Call of Duty has not appeared in the PlayStation Store's top 5 downloads of the year, breaking a long-running franchise streak going back at least 10 years.

More evidence of Black Ops 7 potentially missing the mark has surfaced, this time indirectly from Microsoft's symbiotic rival. Sony recently published the top 20 most-downloaded games on PlayStation platforms, revealing what could be disappointing results for Activision. For the first time in 10 years, Call of Duty has been knocked out of the PlayStation Store's top 5 most-downloaded games.

The list shows that Call of Duty Black Ops 7 was #7 on the top PS Store downloads list both in North America and Europe. Based on the lists that Sony publishes every year on the PS Blog, the Call of Duty franchise has shown up in the top 5 downloads every year since 2015, with the exception of last year. In 2025, Battlefield 6 was #2 on the US download charts, handily beating Black Ops 7, whereas Europe gravitated towards Forza Horizon 5 and EA Sports FC25.

Another high-profile creative has left Ubisoft as the company faces financial and logistical challenges.

Ubisoft isn't in the best place right now. The publisher was just hit with a massive hack on Rainbow Six Siege, its prestige microtransaction revenue driver, and the company is also restructuring its business as part of a big deal with Tencent. Now Ubisoft has taken yet another blow, this time to its creative teams.

Today, Ubisoft revealed that Julian Gerighty is leaving the group after 15 years. "We want to share that Julian Gerighty, executive producer on the Tom Clancy's The Division franchise, is heading off to a new adventure at Battlefield Studios. While we'll miss him, his mark will live on at Massive and we'll continue to bring the world he's been part of creative to our players for years to come," Ubisoft wrote in an announcement.

A new report over at Videocardz sheds some new light on the Intel Arc B770 being a no-show at CES 2026. Also referred to as 'Big Battlemage,' the Intel Arc B770 is the mid-range companion to the mainstream Intel Arc B580 and B570. Powered by the BMG-G31 GPU, it reportedly features 16GB of VRAM and 32 Xe2 Cores, with performance sitting somewhere between the GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 5070.

After the GPU's no-show at CES, with Intel focusing on its new mobile Panther Lake processors, Videocardz reached out to various Intel GPU partners to find out the status of the missing-in-action card. Intel's partners include ASRock, GUNNIR, SPARKLE, and others, and the report states that two of Intel's partners have confirmed that they have yet to receive Intel Arc B770 samples.

These GPU test boards are commonly provided to partners ahead of a launch to finalize designs and specifications. The report notes that it takes at least 6 weeks from receiving test boards to ramp up production, indicating that Intel still hasn't finalized when, or if, it will launch the Intel Arc B770.

With the success of the Fallout TV series adaptation on Prime Video, Amazon has just announced that it's expanding its Fallout TV universe with a new reality series called Fallout Shelter. With a similar name to the popular mobile Fallout game, Fallout Shelter will reportedly drop "contestants into an immersive world across a series of escalating challenges for a huge cash prize."

The 10-episode series is being produced by Studio Lambert, which is the team behind The Traitors, Squid Game: The Challenge, and Undercover Boss. Kilter Films, the production company behind Westworld and the Fallout TV series, is also involved, as is Bethesda Game Studios.

Casting for the show is now open, if you're interested head here, with the announcement also confirming that all of the action and drama will take place inside "Vault-Tec's bomb-proof vaults."

Although its release is still a few months out, IO Interactive's 007 First Light was showcased at CES 2026 as part of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX announcements, and we got our first look at the game's PC system requirements. Where, in addition to 1080p 60 FPS being listed under the 'Recommended' header, the VRAM and RAM requirements left many confused.

In a follow-up post on social media, the developers have updated and amended the PC system requirements. "We are providing today an update to the PC system requirements for 007 First Light after the community flagged some inconsistencies in an earlier version of the listing," the post reads, "The earlier mistake was due to an internal miscommunication leading to an older version of the specs to be shared."

And with that, the big difference here is that the overall system memory requirement has been lowered from 32GB to 16GB, with the VRAM requirements for the 'Minimum' and 'Recommended' specs also dropping to 6GB and 8GB, respectively.

We're only a couple of weeks into 2026, and even though we've been expecting the current memory crisis to affect GPU pricing and availability, things are already looking pretty shaky for the GeForce RTX 50 Series. In addition to the word that NVIDIA has potentially stopped production of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti because it's one 16GB GPU too many (via Hardware Unboxed), there's some supply-based news from insider MEGAsizeGPU.

If you've read the headline, then you're already aware that it's bad news, but there is one part of the story that is "good news," sort of. According to MEGAsizeGPU, previous reports that NVIDIA had stopped supplying GDDR7 memory to its various GeForce RTX partners and was only providing GPU chips are false. At least, not yet.

Citing NVIDIA's partners as the source, the new information says that NVIDIA is still bundling and providing its partners with both the GPU and memory for the various GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. The bad news? Well, supply "has been cut" by about 15-20%.

In a new video on how the current memory crisis is affecting GPUs built for PC gaming, tech outlet Hardware Unboxed is reporting that NVIDIA has ended production of the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB graphics card. Citing various GeForce partners, including ASUS, we learn that the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has essentially reached end-of-life status - less than a year after its debut.

We reviewed our first GeForce RTX 5070 Ti back in February of 2025, praising its 1440p and 4K gaming performance and DLSS-powered path tracing capabilities. The GeForce RTX 5070 Ti is also a direct competitor to AMD's impressive Radeon RX 9070 XT, so its potential cancellation leaves a significant gap between the GeForce RTX 5070 and the more expensive GeForce RTX 5080.

The reason for the RTX 5070 Ti being shelved is fairly straightforward: it's a GPU with 16GB of VRAM, and with current price increases and GDDR7 shortages, NVIDIA is cutting back on GeForce RTX 50 Series cards with 16GB of memory. In fact, the report indicates that the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is also on the chopping block.

Before NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026, Huang sat down for an interview where he discussed the doom-speak surrounding AI and its potential impact on humanity.

In an interview with No Priors, Huang discussed many topics stemming from AI, such as the biggest surprises of 2025, how AI will influence jobs, solving labor shortages with robotics, and the AI "doomer" narrative, along with regulation. Since ChatGPT's explosion in popularity and the billions of dollars that have been thrown into the development of new and more sophisticated AI models, some researchers and industry experts have warned about the potential impact on humanity when all-encompassing AI models emerge.

Some experts have issued warnings about how AI has the potential to destroy people's lives, with others mentioning privacy issues following an increasingly encroaching surveillance state. But, according to Huang, these concerns aren't needed, and have actually done irreversible harm to society's acceptance of AI. "[It's] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative," said Huang.

After deliberating with several companies, Apple has selected Google to provide the new "brain" for Apple's next-generation Siri slated to be released sometime in 2026.

Apple is incredibly far behind its competition when it comes to providing useful AI-powered software features across its range of products, with the company even failing to fulfill its promise to release a next-generation Siri capable of integrating throughout all of Apple's native applications. Apple even quietly removed an advertisement for the upgraded Siri that featured Game of Thrones and The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey.

Why is Apple so far behind in producing a competitive in-house AI model? Several technical difficulties, combined with the product not meeting Apple's exceptionally high standards for uniformity across its range of other products and services, are contributing factors. Apple has recognized that it's significantly behind the competition, such as Google's Gemini, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Anthropic, and in June 2024 the company announced it was integrating ChatGPT for any prompts that couldn't be completed by Apple's on-device AI model.

At CES 2026, Acemagic showcased a range of new Mini PCs, some of which were powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI 400 Series, which was announced at the show. Two designs that immediately stood out from the pack were the NES-inspired Retro X5, announced late last year, and a new design described as a blend of the original Sony PlayStation and the Sega Dreamcast.

The Retro X5's Nintendo Entertainment System look is unmistakable, with the mini PC resembling the classic 1985 console while featuring modern USB and display ports. Acemagic calls the design '1985 Reimagined,' and it's clear that this is a Mini PC aimed at retro gaming and PC gaming fans.

Underneath the hood, it's powered by AMD's new Gorgon Point-powered Ryzen AI 400 Series, with up to a Ryzen AI 9 HX 470. This 12 Core (4 x Zen 5 and 8 x Zen 5c) and 24 Thread processor includes integrated RDNA 3.5 powered Radeon 890M graphics with 16 CUs. GPU-wise, it's powerful enough to run most games at 60 FPS at 1080p as well as 'emulate' classic console and gaming hardware.