Microsoft Office is finally letting you move the Copilot button after acknowledging that the new floating button was getting in the way of users' workflows in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. According to Windows Latest, starting in the last week of May 2026, an update will give users the option to move it back to the ribbon where it belongs.

The button, officially called the Dynamic Action Button, has been part of Microsoft Office apps since December 2025. It floats above the bottom right section of spreadsheets and documents, causing problems for users. Excel users were hit hardest, with the button floating directly over spreadsheet cells and blocking data with no easy way to dismiss it.

Once the update rolls out, users can right-click the Copilot icon and move it back to the ribbon. Microsoft already added a docked mode that reduces the space the button takes up, and that option is staying. Users will be able to switch between the floating button, the docked version, and the ribbon placement depending on their preference.

Analysts have lofty estimates for GTA 6 sales, and if they're right, Rockstar's sequel won't just break records--it will define them.

Take-Two Interactive is standing by GTA 6's incoming November 19 launch, and both gamers and investors are watching with anticipation. The game is expected to have an explosive release with megaton sales amounting in the tens of millions of copies, raking in billions in the process--Morgan Stanley in particular believes GTA 6 could become the fastest-selling game of all time.

According to Investor's Business Daily, Morgan Stanley has forecasted GTA 6 to sell 40 million units through FY27: "We continue to believe TTWO remains uniquely well positioned heading into one of the largest entertainment launches in history, with significant operating leverage potential if GTA 6 outperforms our current assumptions of about 40 million units sold in fiscal 2027,"Morgan Stanley analyst Matthew Cost tells investors.

After more than a decade, Bungie is winding down the Destiny franchise...but hopeful fans are nonetheless petitioning Sony to greenlight a sequel.

Fans are calling on Sony to approve Destiny 3 in a rapidly-growing Change.org petition that has reached over 122K signatures at the time of writing. Bungie recently announced that Destiny 2 is going into retirement, and all future expansions have been cancelled. The game will remain online, but new content updates will no longer happen, and Destiny 3 is not in development. Longtime fans are appealing to Sony to allow Bungie to make Destiny 3, as recent reports indicate that Bungie developers are pitching new projects set in the Destiny universe to management, yet none of these projects have yet to be greenlit.

"Our passion and commitment to the Destiny franchise drives us to reach out to Sony and express our collective voice. We believe in the potential of Destiny 3 to inspire new generations of gamers and to keep the fire of the Guardian spirit alive," reads part of the petition, which could very well break over 150K signatures throughout the weekend.

Intel recently expanded its Arrow Lake-HX lineup by quietly launching the Core Ultra 7 251HX. This uniquely-named CPU was first spotted in some gaming laptop listings before Intel made its product page available on ARK. The CPU sits between the Core Ultra 5 245HX and the Ultra 7 255HX, so it is a mid-range Arrow Lake-HX chip for performance-focused mobile devices.

Under the hood, the 251HX packs 18 cores in a 6P+12E configuration, two fewer than its bigger sibling, the 255HX. As far as performance goes, a recent leak showed the Core Ultra 7 251HX going up against the Core i9 14900HX and the Core Ultra 7 255HX in a Cinebench R23 run. The results are rather interesting and require some interpretation.

Per the leak from @realVictor_M on X (formerly Twitter), the Core Ultra 7 251HX delivered nearly 30,000 points in the multi-threaded Cinebench R23 test, almost matching the result of the Core i9-14900HX. The latter is a 24-core CPU with an 8P+16E configuration and hyperthreading, bringing the thread count to 32. The fact that the Core Ultra 7 251HX can match the multi-threaded Cinebench R23 score of the 14900HX while having 6 fewer cores is astonishing.

It looks like OLED monitors are flying off shelves at a pace that would have seemed unthinkable just a couple of years ago. According to the latest research from global market intelligence firm TrendForce, global OLED monitor shipments soared 78% year over year in Q1 2026. That said, shipments dipped 11% on a quarter-over-quarter basis compared to Q4 2025.

That drop is largely seasonal, and part of it is down to the aggressive promotional campaigns at the end of last year that pulled forward a chunk of demand. For context, full-year 2025 OLED monitor shipments already posted a 92% year-over-year increase, with roughly 2.7 million units shipped globally.

So what is actually fueling this kind of growth? A few things have clicked into place at the same time. Burn-in concerns that kept many gamers on the sidelines have largely faded after real-world durability tests have proven modern OLED panels can take a beating. Prices have also come down significantly, and the 27-inch QHD format running at 240Hz is now the sweet spot that checks all the boxes for gaming performance and value.

Intel's new Wildcat Lake laptops might have been designed to combat Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo, but they're launching alongside an unexpected fire sale on premium hardware. As manufacturers clear inventory, Lunar Lake laptops are now crashing to $600 in China, creating an overlap between the two options.

Wildcat Lake arrives as a budget sibling to Intel's latest Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake architecture. Optimized for cost-efficiency, it features a 6-core hybrid configuration (2P + 4LPE) utilizing Cougar Cove P-cores and Darkmont E-cores. To keep costs down, the integrated GPU is scaled to 2 Xe3 cores, and the memory architecture is restricted to a single-channel configuration. While global availability remains scarce, we're seeing a steady influx of these devices in China at $400-$600.

Early benchmarks show that Wildcat Lake is highly competitive against Apple's MacBook Neo. While laptop designs vary by manufacturer, Wildcat Lake laptops can offer more memory, storage, and active cooling at lower costs than the Neo. Despite the current DRAM crisis, Wildcat Lake is a welcome relief for the masses, with Intel's Project Firefly vowing to introduce affordable laptops based on a thin-and-light reference design.

Valve's new Steam Controller has been a massive success, with largely positive customer feedback. In fact, demand has been so high that the company launched a reservation system to prevent scalpers from buying up new stock. Now the controller has found itself in the spotlight again, but this time for a design flaw that could be life-threatening in the worst circumstances.

The controller ships with a Puck that acts as a 2.4GHz wireless receiver and magnetic charging dock. It is a vital part of the Steam Controller package, but a Reddit post claims the accessory nearly caused a fire after coming into contact with a metallic smartwatch strap.

As reported on r/SteamController, user u/Toikka shared that they were charging a Pixel Watch 4 near the Steam Controller when the watch band touched the exposed contacts. Their watch strap heated up and started "sizzling". Thankfully, they were nearby and separated the devices before a fire started. The Reddit user reported that both the Steam Puck and the Pixel Watch 4 sustained only cosmetic damage.

Chinese display maker Tianma Microelectronics has become the first company to unveil a display optimized for Intel's next-generation Razor Lake processors. Razor Lake isn't coming anytime soon, with Nova Lake being Team Blue's immediate priority, but this is the first time we are seeing a display manufacturer already getting Razor Lake-ready products in the pipeline.

During Intel's Client Ecosystem Symposium and Edge Solution Summit 2026 in Shanghai, Tianma announced two laptop-focused display panels, including one already optimized for Intel's next-generation architecture. The two panels are a 16-inch WQ display supporting variable refresh rates from 1Hz to 120Hz and a 14-inch 2.8K in-cell touch panel.

The headline product is the 14-inch 2.8K in-cell touch display with a 30Hz to 120Hz refresh rate, "deeply" optimized for the Razor Lake platform. The panel supports Intel's ITST function, which manages the refresh rate and touch module together. In static workloads, the panel drops to 30Hz and intelligently disables touch functionality to reduce power consumption.

NVIDIA introduced its Vera CPU back in March at GTC 2026, billing it as the world's first processor purpose-built for agentic AI workloads. The chip is an ARM-based, 88-core design that can be sold standalone or paired with the Rubin GPU inside NVIDIA's NVL72 systems, and the company has already hand-delivered its first Vera units to partners including Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Oracle.

Now, the revenue projections attached to Vera are turning heads in a big way. During NVIDIA's recent earnings call, CFO Colette Kress stated that the company expects its Grace and Vera CPU lineup to bring in around $20 billion in revenue this fiscal year alone. CEO Jensen Huang framed the broader opportunity as a brand-new $200 billion total addressable market (TAM), one that NVIDIA says it has never previously addressed.

To put that $20 billion figure in perspective, Intel's Data Center and AI division pulled in $16.8 billion across all of last year, while AMD's data center segment brought in $16.63 billion in 2025. However, one can argue that the AI boom will lead to higher revenue for these companies as we move through 2026 and towards 2027.

Take-Two's latest earnings results give an update on total Grand Theft Auto franchise revenues, with the series nearing $10.6 billion earned since 2013.

According to Take-Two's latest earnings report, Grand Theft Auto earned $825 million throughout the FY26 financial year, representing around 12.4% of the company's total yearly net revenues.

The results show GTA is actually up +14% from last year's $709 million earned in FY25, likely due to a mix of game sales--GTA V shipped 20 million copies again this year--as well as a healthy influx of new GTA+ subscribers and GTA Online spending. Rockstar also benefited from multiple subscription deals throughout the year, as GTA V appeared on both PS Plus and Xbox Game Pass.

Red Dead Redemption 2 has officially beaten Wii Sports to become the third best-selling video game ever made, and Rockstar has 2 out of the top 5 games on the list.

Rockstar's wild west outlaw opus Red Dead Redemption 2 is now the third best-selling video game of all time by shipments. According to Take-Two's latest FY26 earnings report, the game has shipped more than 85 million units worldwide on consoles and PC combined, beating out the previous third spot-holder, Wii Sports at 82.9 million.

Sales trends show that Arthur Morgan's adventure typically ships anywhere from 2-3 million copies per quarter, including both digital and physical units.

Intel's Foundry business has been slowly ramping up over the past year or so. At long last, Intel has started shipping its Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake chips built on the in-house 18A production node. Intel's manufacturing operations got off to a slow, rocky start, but the latest earnings show that the Foundry brought in $5.1 billion in revenue in Q1 2026.

It looks like the Foundry is up and running like a well-oiled machine, since Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has confirmed that the company is on track to meet its goals. Speaking at the J.P. Morgan TMT Conference in Boston, Lip-Bu Tan stated that Intel now forecasts the 14A node to enter risk production in 2028, with high-volume manufacturing following in 2029. The company plans to offer the 14A node to external customers in addition to its own in-house usage.

Intel has also recently secured Tesla as a major external customer for its next-gen 14A node, a huge deal for its manufacturing ambitions. CEO Lip-Bu Tan previously expressed frustration with the challenges the Foundry faced, stating that securing an external customer was almost "existential" to the company's continued existence in the manufacturing business. With 14A now on track for risk production in 2028, the tides seem to have turned in Intel's favor.

Huawei has produced a 122TB SSD using its proprietary chip-packaging technology known as Die-on-Board (DoB), without access to the latest 100-plus-layer 3D NAND from mainstream suppliers. According to BLOCKS&FILES, US restrictions have forced Huawei to rely more heavily on domestic suppliers for its NAND needs.

Once Huawei's existing stockpile of US 3D NAND chips was exhausted, it turned to Chinese-made NAND from suppliers such as YMTC. Rather than accepting the capacity disadvantage of existing TSOP or BGA packaging, Huawei focused on board-level packaging innovation to improve capacity density by enabling tighter NAND integration.

DoB is a wafer-level packaging technology that mounts semiconductor dies directly onto a base PCB. Mainstream SSD suppliers like Samsung with V-NAND, Kioxia and Sandisk with BiCS, and Micron typically use multi-die stacking inside TSOP, BGA, or other packages before mounting them onto a base PCB. DoB enables more flexible die stacking and shorter interconnects, improving both performance and power efficiency compared to traditional packaging approaches, with a 33% improvement in capacity density, though the number of stacked layers remains undisclosed.

Riot Games has rolled out a major update to its Vanguard anti-cheat system that makes expensive DMA cheat hardware completely useless in its games. The updated system targets DMA-based cheat firmware that uses SATA and NVMe interfaces, widely regarded inside cheating communities as the safest and most "invisible" solutions available.

DMA, short for Direct Memory Access, allows hardware devices to access system memory without routing every operation through the CPU. These cheat devices use specialized FPGA software to hide them from the operating system and Vanguard while appearing to be real NVMe or SATA SSDs. In reality, the DMA device connected through PCIe is also connected to a second computer where the cheats run, making them harder to detect.

To counter this, Riot is strengthening Vanguard's IOMMU enforcement. IOMMU, or Input-Output Memory Management Unit, is a hardware-level component that controls which devices can access which memory regions. IOMMU generates repeated page faults and restarts that interfere with the firmware running on the DMA device's FPGA, corrupting it and rendering both the hardware and the associated SSD unusable.

Moore's Law Is Dead (MLID) has detailed a handful of Intel's major client CPU families through the end of the decade. The leaker claims that Intel is phasing out traditional hybrid layouts in favor of a unified-core strategy, starting with Titan Lake, scaling to the desktop with Hammer Lake, and adding back Hyper-Threading. Tucked inside the leak are also new details on Intel's upcoming high-end mobile family featuring integrated RTX graphics tiles from NVIDIA.

Titan Lake is not a direct successor to Razor Lake, but it is allegedly an intermediary and experimental platform exclusive to the mobile segment. Per MLID, Titan Lake will fill up the U/P/PX/B/BX designations. Among these, U ,P, and PX refer to mobile offerings with an Arc integrated GPU featuring up to 16 Xe3P cores, and a Titan Lake CPU die with up to 12 (8+4) Copper Shark unified cores and 4 Arctic Wolf LPE cores.

It is believed that, much like AMD's dense C-cores, Intel will feature Copper Shark P and Copper Shark E variants. The unified "E" cores are simply denser, area-optimized versions of the exact same underlying architecture. According to industry rumors, the engineering shift behind Intel's unified core initiative aligns its design philosophy more closely with the E-core lineage than with the historical P-core team.

AMD has announced the production ramp of its next-generation 6th Gen EPYC server processors, codenamed "Venice." This is a big milestone, as Venice is the first high-performance computing (HPC) product in the entire industry to enter volume production on TSMC's advanced 2nm process node. Production is currently underway at TSMC's facilities in Taiwan, with plans to later extend the ramp to TSMC's Arizona fabrication plant as well.

So what does "production ramp" mean, exactly? It refers to the transition from early, limited silicon runs into the full-scale, high-volume manufacturing needed to supply commercial customers. In other words, Venice has transitioned from an engineering sample to a production-ready state and is getting ready to ship at scale.

As for what Venice actually brings to the table, the numbers are quite impressive. The processor is built on AMD's new Zen 6 architecture and scales up to 256 cores, a 33% increase over the current EPYC "Turin" lineup's maximum of 192 cores. AMD projects a 70% performance improvement over Turin as well.

Moore's Law Is Dead (MLID) has laid out detailed coverage of Intel's client CPU plans through the late 2020s. Since some of these processors are still years away, it is important to take this leak with a grain of salt.

Rumored to launch roughly a year after Nova Lake (targeting late 2027), Razor Lake is described not as an architectural revolution but as a modest refinement step, similar to Panther Lake. The leaker says the jump from Nova Lake to Razor Lake is like the jump from Alder Lake to Raptor Lake.

Razor Lake is said to feature Griffin Cove P-cores, which, according to the leak, deliver a noticeable IPC boost over Coyote Cove in Nova Lake. The report claims that Razor Lake's E-cores are called Arctic Wolf, while earlier rumors referred to them as Golden Eagle. Both designs are believed to be similar, so final branding will be up to Intel.

We're continuing our TweakTown newsletter subscriber-exclusive giveaways, rewarding loyal readers with top-tier gear every week. For our latest giveaway, we've teamed up with Lian Li to give one lucky winner a premium white PC building combo.

There will be one winner in total, and the prize this week includes the Lian Li O11 Vision-M chassis in white and the Lian Li HydroShift II OLED Curved 360TL AIO liquid cooler in white.

The Lian Li O11 Vision-M is designed for builders who want the showcase look of a panoramic glass case without completely sacrificing airflow. It uses tempered glass on the front, sides, and top for a clean, display-focused build, while the top glass panel features a ventilated mesh cutout to help exhaust air through a 360mm radiator.

Some of gaming's most iconic franchises and brands could make a resurgence in gaming form or in other ways.

Embracer Group is splitting up into two companies, and one of them, Fellowship Entertainment, will have a treasure trove of dormant game IPs. Now the organization says they want to activate franchises like Deus Ex and Saints Row for new projects, including games and other opportunities.

The new group is called Fellowship Entertainment, a so-called "steward" that will lead the future of some of the most recognizable video game properties on the market, including Lord of the Rings, Tomb Raider, Metro, Kingdom Come, and Dead Island. There's also what the organization calls "the vault," which includes older brands like Deus Ex, Saints Row, TimeSplitters, Thief, Red Faction, Legacy of Kain--some of which haven't been dusted off for quite some time.

Nintendo has plans to produce tens of millions of Switch 2 consoles throughout this fiscal year as the company faces cost-pressured product margins.

Nintendo intends to manufacture up to 20 million of its new Switch 2 systems in FY27, sources tell Bloomberg's Takashi Mochizuki. Bloomberg had previously reported that Nintendo was cutting its Switch 2 output by 30% from 6 million to 4 million units in a purchase order made in March, and it was said that the reduction would begin in April, coinciding with Nintendo's Q1'FY27 period.

In its recent earnings report, Nintendo tells investors that it expects to ship up to 16.5 million Switch 2s in the year, and if this new estimate is accurate, the company intends for its hardware production to overshoot shipments by 21%. These estimates are known to be safe bets that the company easily beats--Nintendo forecasted 15 million NSW2 sales in FY26, but ended up selling 19.86 million instead, establishing the console's current sales mark.