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Corsair has just unveiled its monster new 3000W power supply, rocking multiple 8-pin and 16-pin power connectors that will handle multiple high-end GPUs for workstation PC systems.

Corsair's new WS3000 80 PLUS Platinum Grade PSU features 4 x 12V-2x6 power connectors, ready to handle every single piece of hardware -- including multiple GPUs -- inside of high-end workstation systems that are put under huge workloads with content creation, as well as AI and ML workloads.

You could install not one, not two, but four of NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards into a single PC, or multiple NVIDIA RTX PRO workstation cards and power all of it from the Corsair WS3000 PSU. There are an additional 4 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors for GPUs, which are capable of being split into 8 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors, with Corsair providing 4 x PCIe cables in the box.

Tesla has just received a $10 billion order for its Optimus 3+ humanoid robots, with big pharma securing the robots and deploying them into farm operations, the making of prescription drugs, and lower-level jobs that are said to push Americans into higher-paid jobs.

Firstly, this marks some rather big history for Tesla and the future humanoid robot market, with up to 10,000 Optimus 3+ humanoid robots. Tesla is leading the charge, and big pharma will use the humanoid robots to restore US drug manufacturing sovereignty.

Bright Green Corporation has announced its merger with PharmAGRI Capital Partners, a federally aligned pharmaceutical infrastructure platform architected to restore U.S. drug manufacturing sovereignty. Effective immediately, Lynn Stockwell has been appointed CEO and chairwoman of PharmAGRI, with Stockwell to appoint a new board that will be made up of directors from her Drugs Made In America Corps, which includes a series of 4 Nasdaq-listed special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) formed to acquire DEA-licensed and FDA-compliant pharmaceutical businesses.

Valheim is coming to PlayStation 5's early access in 2026, Swedish indie game studio Iron Gate has announced.

The PS5 version of Valheim's beta testing version will launch sometime next year, complete with cross-play with Xbox and PC. The Viking-themed survival game launched in early access on Steam in 2021, then on Xbox in 2023--by that year's end, Valheim had sold over 12 million copies on just those two platforms. Expanding the game with a PlayStation release could boost sales and overall players, as noted by Iron Gate co-founder Henrik Tornqvist:

"We're thrilled for Valheim to soon reach even more players with the upcoming launch on PlayStation Bringing both new and longtime players to a new platform allows even more people to explore the world we've worked so hard to build, and we can't wait to hear their stories as they're able to dive into their Viking adventures."

Pocketpair aims to bring Palworld out of early access with an official release in 2026, and the devs are prepping a ton of content for the game's eventual launch.

Palworld could get an actual launch sometime next year. There's just one problem (well two, if you count the ongoing litigation with Nintendo): the game isn't optimized enough for a 1.0 release. To make sure Palworld can hit its target, Pocketpair has announced that it will be focusing on bug fixes and performance updates rather than substantial content drops for the MMO. Right now, the goal is shoring up the rough edges rather than expanding or invigorating the player base--that comes with Palworld 1.0.

In a recent video update, Pocketpair's communications director John "Bucky" Buckley laid out the plan while also teasing a staggering amount of goodies: "Palworld 1.0 will be a major milestone for us, and we have a truly massive amount of content planned for the 1.0 update."

Netflix will continue Sam Fisher's story with a new canon TV series, Splinter Cell Deathwatch, set to release mid-October.

The latest trailer for Splinter Cell Deathwatch has been released, giving fans a look at the show's plotlines and story beats. Deathwatch looks like it spins a web of political intrigue, deception, and action--all staples for the franchise. Meanwhile, Ubisoft has been developing a new Splinter Cell remake since 2021.

The footage shows a tech entrepreneur, Diana Shetland, leading a shadowy corporation called Xanadu. Diana's father, Douglas Shetland, was an old friend of Sam Fisher's whom Sam had slain, and Xanadu may be a spiritual successor to Douglas' Displace International PMC. There's a mysterious watch, and some great infiltration footage where Sam dons his iconic night-vision goggles.

The OG extraction shooter is finally coming to Steam in November, but it'll come at a price--even for users who bought the game on the Battlestate launcher.

After five long years of beta testing, Escape from Tarkov's version 1.0 will officially launch on November 15, 2025. Once the shooter is formally released, Battlestate Games is bringing it to the biggest storefront on PC and breaking the game's exclusivity from its own proprietary launcher.

The developers outlined some key info in a recent FAQ, confirming that anyone who already purchased the game on the Battlestate Games launcher will also have to buy it again on Steam. Your content entitlements are account-bound, however, and will cross-over to Steam; if you bought the Unheard Edition on the Battlestate launcher, you can play that edition on Steam.

Battlefield 6 has always had a variety of modes, but the series' bread-and-butter has always been Conquest played out on large maps with 64 players. Divided into two teams of 32, various squads roam the, well, Battlefield, capturing points and taking down enemies on foot, inside a vehicle, or in the sky.

Battlefield 6's brand-new game mode, joining Conquest and Breakthrough, is called Escalation, and during a recent multiplayer preview session where we got to check out two new maps - Mirak Valley and Operation Firestorm - we got the chance to experience all three modes to see how they stack up in terms of variety.

The best way to sum up how Escalation plays is to say that it's a spin on Conquest that doesn't stray too far from the formula - it's basically Conquest Remixed. It's a little faster because the intensity increases and ramps up throughout the duration of a round, and the focus on capturing and holding points plays into Battlefield's strengths.

The recent Battlefield 6 Open Beta was huge, with EA and Battlefield Studios confirming that over 420 million matches were played, with almost 5 billion "enemy kills" and over $196 billion in destruction and damage caused to buildings and infrastructure.

With it being the biggest Beta in the series' history, and the positive feedback making it one of the most highly anticipated releases for the Holiday 2025 season, the teams at Battlefield Studios have taken all that data and made several subtle and meaningful changes to the core game.

We got to check them out as part of a recent multiplayer preview session, where we also got to explore the new Mirak Valley map and the return of Battlefield 3's sprawling Operation Firestorm. Which looks and feels like a modern version of that map - tuned for Battlefield 6's vehicles and destruction. As part of a pre-brief before we jumped into the action, the Battlefield Studios team gave us a quick rundown of some of the key changes that have already been made to the game, so we've decided to list those here for you now.

Although the Battlefield 6 Open Beta has come and gone, giving players a taste of what to expect at launch, there's still a lot of goodness coming. As part of a special hands-on preview session, we got the chance to play what is set to be Battlefield 6's largest map at launch, Mirak Valley. Although we only got to play through three rounds on Mirak Valley in Conquest, Breakthrough, and the new Escalation modes, it's safe to say that this one has the potential to be a fan-favorite.

And the reason for this is simple: it plays into the strengths of both Battlefield as a series and Battlefield 6's destruction-filled take on all-out warfare. The overcast Mirak Valley presents a once-scenic countryside engulfed in modern warfare, with open areas and dense buildings that lend themselves to infantry and vehicle combat, and it leans into what many believe to be Battlefield's secret sauce - the mix of on-foot, in-tank, and in-the-air chaos.

As someone whose first real, "hey, let's play this for months" obsession with 64-player Conquest arrived with Battlefield 2, Mirak Valley brought back some of those classic memories playing Dragon Valley and Strike at Karkand. This is not to say that it's a direct copy of either of these maps, but Mirak Valley already feels like it tops the Open Beta's popular Liberation Peak map in every conceivable way.

Turtle Beach has announced two new peripherals for competitive PC gamers: the Vulcan II TKL RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard and the Burst II Pro Esports Gaming Mouse. Both are designed for peak performance for those who spend a decent chunk of their free time jumping into rounds of Counter-Strike 2 or Call of Duty.

Starting with the Vulcan II TKL, per the naming, this is a compact tenkeyless keyboard that will ship with TITAN HS hot-swappable pre-lubed switches. Rated at 50 million keystrokes, these in-house linear mechanical switches feature a fast 1.8mm actuation point tuned for competitive gaming.

The Vulcan II TKL also features per-key lighting, a durable aluminum top plate, and sound-dampening foam layers for quiet and smooth performance. And then there's ReacTap SOCD support, which is Turtle Beach's version of the handy but controversial 'Snap Tap' feature found in modern gaming keyboards.

AMD's upcoming FSR Redstone update, which is not the final name, is set to bring FSR 4's suite of technologies in line with NVIDIA's DLSS. FSR Redstone features the new AI-powered Super Resolution technology, currently exclusive to the RDNA 4 generation of Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs, alongside AI-powered Frame Generation, Ray Regeneration, and Neural Radiance Caching.

It will open the door to the visually impressive path-tracing and ray-tracing that is currently limited to the GeForce RTX Series and DLSS 4. Due to the AI component, like FSR 4, the expectation and assumption for FSR Redstone is that it would be exclusive to AMD's RDNA 4 GPUs; however, according to a new interview with AMD's Senior Director of Software Development, Chris Hall, FSR Redstone has been designed to work with previous-gen Radeon GPUs and even non-AMD GPUs like GeForce RTX hardware.

Per the interview (machine translated via 4Gamer.net), the reason for this is that FSR Redstone has been developed using ROCm "AMD ML2CODE" (Machine Learning to Code), which converts the machine learning or neural rendering technology to "optimized Compute Shader code" so it can run on GPUs without advanced AI hardware or even third-party GPUs.

Microsoft has just updated the Xbox app for Windows PCs and handhelds, which consolidates the Xbox library, Battle.net, and other PC storefronts, including Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG, into a single interface.

"When you install a game from a supported PC storefront, it automatically appears in 'My Library' within the Xbox PC app, as well as the 'Most Recent' list of titles in the sidebar, so you can jump back into your favorite games with just a click," Microsoft's Jason Beaumont, VP of Experiences, Xbox, writes.

The announcement also confirms that you'll be able to explore and browse 'third-party apps and storefronts' to browse your libraries, install games, and even launch them all within the Xbox app without having to switch between apps. Although it's great to see this feature arrive on PC, according to Microsoft's announcement, it's a feature that will greatly benefit Windows gaming handhelds, such as the upcoming ROG Xbox Ally gaming handhelds.

Borderlands 4 currently has a 'Mixed' user review score on Steam, primarily due to a single, significant complaint: performance issues. The consensus among the PC gaming community right now is that it's the latest Unreal Engine 5-powered release that has launched in an unoptimized state. Furthermore, its demanding hardware and system requirements have made it 'unplayable' without enabling technologies like DLSS and Frame Generation.

As the head of development studio Gearbox Software, Randy Pitchford is renowned for being extremely vocal about projects that he's attached to or is ultimately in charge of. And with that, he's been highly active on social media platform X, responding to complaints about the game's poor performance on PC and the current state of Borderlands 4.

"The game is pretty damn optimal - which means that the software is doing what we want without wasteful cycles on bad processes," Randy Pitchford says in one post in a long thread. And for those experiencing low FPS or wanting to hit higher than 60 FPS on PC, he adds, "Use DLSS. It's great. The game was built to take advantage of it."

Officially announced back in September 2021, it looks like Insomniac's long-awaited Marvel's Wolverine game is set to debut next year. This is according to a new report from MP1ST, an outlet that has been the source of several credible leaks and rumors. Although we haven't seen or heard anything official about the game since its 2021 announcement, an early build of the game was unceremoniously leaked as part of the massive Insomniac Games security breach back in 2023.

After the hack, Insomniac responded by stating that the leak wouldn't affect the continued development of its Wolverine game or the unannounced Spider-Man spin-off that is set to focus on Venom. At the time, the leak revealed that Wolverine was on track for a 2026 release, which this new report states is still the target. However, the release will occur after the start of Sony's fiscal year 2026, which would be sometime after April.

And when you factor in the global launch of Grand Theft Auto 6 in May, odds are that Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine game will probably be the big Holiday 2026 game for the PlayStation 5.

ASUS's new ProArt P16 laptop is the company's latest premium flagship device for creators. ASUS is promising a 'best-in-class visual experience' with this, thanks to it being the first laptop to feature the company's new Lumina Pro OLED display. When paired with the GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU, it can handle 10-bit 4:2:2 video workflows with a 100% DCI-P3 color gamut and Delta E < 1 color accuracy.

Not only that, but this new OLED display is also a touchscreen, featuring a 4K (3840 x 2400) resolution, a 120 Hz refresh rate with VRR support, a 0.2ms response time, and a remarkable 1,600 nits of HDR peak brightness that is VESA DisplayHDR 1000 True Black 1000 and Dolby Vision certified. ASUS has also applied an 'advanced anti-reflection coating' to the display to enhance eye comfort while also enhancing the ambient contrast ratio. Yes, as far as displays go, the new Lumina Pro OLED sounds incredibly impressive.

Rounding out the specs, you've also got the powerful AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor, 64GB of fast LPDDR5X RAM, 2TB of internal PCIe Gen4 SSD storage, and the aforementioned NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.

Last week, Intel launched the Intel Arc Pro B50 workstation graphics card for $349 USD. Based on the company's second-generation 'Battlemage' architecture, the Arc Pro B50's competitive performance, 16GB of VRAM, and updated media engine make it a viable and attractive alternative to AMD's Radeon Pro W7500 and NVIDIA's RTX A1000.

And it seems that, so far, Intel's affordable workstation AI and creator-focused GPU is doing well, with it sitting at the top of US retailer Newegg's 'Best Selling Workstation Graphics Cards' category. This is a single retailer, so it's not indicative of the broader global market. Still, as Newegg's focus is on consumers-first, it's a good sign that the competitive price and performance of the Intel Arc Pro B50 are paying off.

As a consumer-focused retailer, 15 out of the top 20 best-selling workstation graphics cards are priced under $1,000, highlighting that AI enthusiasts and creators are seeking budget-friendly solutions that offer the best value for their money. Here, the 16GB of VRAM is a clear selling point, as NVIDIA workstation RTX GPUs with 16GB of VRAM start at around $700, which is double the price of the Intel Arc Pro B50.

Apple will celebrate its 20th anniversary of the iPhone in 2027, with the iPhone 20 breaking out of its usual mold acting similar to the iPhone X from 2017, with next-gen technologies, a new design, and more.

In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg contributor Mark Gurman explains that the 20th anniversary iPhone would use a design that sports curved glass edges "all around" that would command a higher price when it launches in 2027. We heard in previous rumors from a few months ago that the iPhone 20 would feature an all-screen design, zero bezels, and an under-display camera.

Gurman writes: "the iPhone 20 in 2027 is expected to bring more advancements - and they may not be cheap. It will be similar to the iPhone X in 2017, when next-generation technologies caused that device to shatter the $1,000 barrier for the first time. The 20th anniversary iPhone is expected to move to a design with curved glass edges all around, potentially commanding a higher price".

Minisforum teased its MS-S1 MAX Mini-PC AI workstation not too long ago, but now the company has shared more details about its new Mini-PC which packs AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max 395+ "Strix Halo" APU.

The new Minisforum MS-S1 MAX Mini-PC AI workstation is the company's first Strix Halo APU-powered system, featuring a built-in 320W PSU, and will ship with four different performance modes that span between 110W and 160W. Inside, there's the Ryzen AI Max 395+ "Strix Halo" APU which packs 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power, an RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU, and support for up to 128GB of LPDDR5X-8000 memory.

Minisforum handles cooling with a copper base and 6 heatpipes, dual fans, and phase change materials, with the MS-S1 MAX Mini-PC AI workstation handling thermal loads of up to 130W, with peaks of 160W, all without throttling performance. Minisforum includes dual USB4 v2 ports, dual 10GbE (such a great surprise), Wi-Fi 7, dual M.2 SSD slots, and more.

In a very cool project a DIY modder has turned the PlayStation 5 into a portable console, with a built-in display and slim design that makes me wish companies like Sony would think (and build) outside of the box. Check it out:

The DIY project of the PlayStation 5 Portable Edition was built by TERA, who has worked on other DIY consoles over the years, with the modder noting the improvements of prior projects in the YouTube video above. There are changes to the assembly and thermal system that make the new DIY console possible.

The modder used a new enclosure and LCD panel, component assembly, and more in order to create the new PlayStation 5 Portable Edition. It looks pretty damn good, while the system itself is pretty quiet thanks to the new cooling system, even under gaming workloads. It's not huge, either, where it's lighter than TERA's previous mods of the PS5, so light in fact that it's lighter than a base PS5 console.

GPD's new Win 5 gaming handheld pricing will start at $1400 for a configuration that includes the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385+ "Strix Halo" APU, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD.

The pricing was revealed in a new post on X by @realVictor_M which says the GPD Win 5 gaming handheld will begin at 9999 Yuan (which works out to around $1400 USD). This is for the configuration sporting the AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 processor that features 8 cores and 16 threads of Zen 5 processing power, with the RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8050S integrated GPU with 32 GPU cores.

Up from there you can get the GPD Win 5 gaming handheld with the higher-end Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU with the more powerful 16C/32T of CPU power, and a more powerful Radeon 8060S integrated GPU which will begin at 11,500 Yuan (around $1600 USD or so).