We recall speaking to a Razer representative at a convention a few years ago, where we learned that its Kitty line of gaming headsets with cat ears was a popular choice among gamers and streamers in several regions. This is a roundabout way of saying that we're not surprised that Razer has announced the new and improved Razer Kraken Kitty V3 line, which includes the flagship wireless Kraken Kitty V3 Pro model. This model features the company's pro-grade TriForce Titanium 40mm Drivers and a broadcast-quality microphone.

The Razer Kraken Kitty V3 Pro, priced at $179.99 USD, also supports tri-mode connectivity, featuring low-latency Razer HyperSpeed Wireless (2.4 GHz), Bluetooth 5.3, and wired connections via USB-A. And yes, the Razer Chroma RGB covers both the earcups and the kitty ears and is "designed to react dynamically to games and live events" with profiles and support for over 300 games.

Naturally, the Razer Kraken Kitty V3 Pro is destined to become popular among streamers, so the inclusion of the Razer HyperClear Super Wideband Mic, which operates at 32 kHz, is more than enough to provide crystal-clear chat for platforms like Twitch and Discord. Rounding out the features, you've got THX Spatial Audio, high-quality memory foam ear cushions, and access to a wide range of audio and chat presets with Razer's Synapse 4 app.

Corsair has launched a new display that's a little different, the XENEON EDGE 14.5-inch LCD Touchscreen display, which can be used in several ways. With flexible mounting options, it can be placed inside your PC via a 360mm fan mount, attached to a side panel or any metal surface, placed on a desk, or mounted on an arm to sit beside your main display.

The Corsair XENEON EDGE features a 2560x720 native resolution with a 60 Hz refresh rate, and can be used as an invaluable tool for monitoring system statistics, such as CPU, GPU, and other metrics, while also serving as a dedicated window for communication and entertainment apps. Corsair notes that the AHVA panel is designed for clear text and sharp images with a wide viewing angle. And the five-point multi-touch capacitive touchscreen makes interaction a breeze.

Connecting the Corsair XENEON EDGE to a PC can be done via USB-C DP Alt Mode or a full-size HDMI cable, with support for both landscape and portrait orientations in Windows. Although it doesn't require software to function as a secondary display, pairing it with CORSAIR's iCUE software offers a range of utilities, widgets, and AI tools for the XENEON EDGE.

NVIDIA has quite a lot of things to detail and announce at Hot Chips 2025, with one of them being more details on its new Blackwell Ultra GB300 GPU, the fastest AI chip the company has ever made, and it's 50% faster than GB200.

The new entry into the Blackwell AI GPU family before its next-gen Rubin AI chips debut in 2026, the new Blackwell Ultra GB300 features two Reticle-sized Blackwell GPU dies, connecting them through NVIDIA's in-house NV-HBI high-bandwidth interface, making them appear as a single GPU.

The Blackwell Ultra GPU is made on the TSMC N4P process node (which is an optimized 5nm node for NVIDIA) with 208 billion transistors in total, beating out the 185 billion transistors in AMD's new flagship Instinct MI355X AI accelerator. The NV-HBI interface on Blackwell Ultra GB300 has 10TB/sec of bandwidth for the two GPU dies, while functioning as a single chip.

NVIDIA has just unveiled more details on its new Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics interconnect, using next-gen silicon photonics replacing the traditional optical interconnect, and it's a "game changer" for AI.

During the recent Hot Chips 2025 event, NVIDIA presented its next-gen Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics interconnect, showing some rather huge improvements in scaling AI factories, and making sure the new interconnect will be an effective and powerful replacement of the traditional optical interconnect.

NVIDIA went into detail about the need of co-packaged photonics, and how massively it can scale AI factories, with the company noting that AI factories use around 17x more optics power compared to a traditional cloud data center, mostly because of the increased in GPU clusters that need dozens of optical transistors in order to talk to other GPUs.

AMD launched its new Instinct MI350 series AI accelerators two months ago, but the company has now detailed the MI350 chip at Hot Chips 2025, all fabbed on TSMC's bleeding-edge N3P process node.

AMD's new Instinct MI350 series AI accelerators feature the CDNA 4 architecture, bringing improved performance and efficiency for AI workloads, as well as support for larger capacities of VRAM and capacity at higher speeds, faster AI training and inference on large models with boosted link speed, and improved power efficiency and performance.

The new flagship Instinct MI355X AI accelerator is liquid-cooled with up to 1400W of power, with its GPU running at 2400MHz, with up to 288GB of HBM3E memory.

NVIDIA's impressive new Jetson Thor system is now out in the market, a tiny compact powerhouse AI system, that Boston Dynamics is integrating into its humanoid robot Atlas.

NVIDIA has published a new blog post on its website detailing the new Jetson Thor chip, which features 7.5x more AI compute power, 3.1x more CPU performance, and 2x more memory than its predecessor, the Jetson Orin. This huge performance leap enables roboticists to process high-speed sensor data and perform visual reasoning at the edge, these are workflows that were too slow to run in dynamic real-world environments.

NVIDIA's new Jetson Thor chip and its new powerful performance upgrades across the board open new possibilities for multimodal AI applications, such as humanoid robots. Jetson Thor modules will be used inside of new robotics computers that can "serve as the brains for robotic systems across research and industry", explains NVIDIA.

be quiet!, the respected German PC hardware and cooling maker and bane of spelling and grammar check systems everywhere, has announced its latest AIO water coolers for CPUs with the new Pure Loop 3 series. With near-silent operation and RGB and non-RGB designs built for overclocking and high-performance workloads, the latest Pure Loop range from the company also includes flexible tubing and an easy-to-access refill port.

The latter is something we love to see, as it highlights that if you're picking up a new ARGB-lit Pure Loop 3 LX or stealthy Pure Loop 3 cooler, it's built to last well beyond the included 3-year manufacturer's warranty. The Pure Loop 3 LX is available in 240mm and 360mm radiator size variants, featuring two or three of the company's impressive daisy-chain Light Wings LX 120mm PWM high-speed fans. The cooling block's ARGB is comprised of 10 interchangeable lighting foils for software-free customization.

The stealthy all-black Pure Loop 3 AIO cooler comes in three radiator sizes: 360mm, 280mm, and 240mm. It's fitted with up to three daisy-chained Pure Wings 3 PWM high-speed fans, which feature a maximum noise level of only 36.8 dB, ensuring quiet performance even when your system is under stress.

NVIDIA has provided more details on its new GB10 Superchip with a Blackwell GPU at the Hot Chips 2025 event, a new chip that will power multiple DGX AI Mini supercomputers.

The first system announced powered by the new NVIDIA GB10 Superchip is the DGX Spark, which is the first step from the company into the "AI PC" segment, with NVIDIA partners also announcing their own GB10-powered "AI PC" platforms. NVIDIA used the event to detail its GB10 Superchip, and how it scales the Blackwell GPU architecture down into small-sized developer and workstation systems.

The new GB10 Superchip has a large number of innovations from the datacenter mixed in with the Blackwell GPU architecture that is traditionally in gaming and AI GPU markets (GeForce RTX 50 series, GB100, GB200, GB300 AI GPUs). In order to create the GB10 Superchip, NVIDIA uses technologies from the datacenter like NVFP4, CUDA, SLANG, TensorRT, vLLM, CX-7 NIC, NVLINK C2C, TMEM, and more, crammed into a Mini-PC platform in a small form factor.

Outside of the improved visuals delivered by its much more advanced NVIDIA hardware, one of the most significant improvements that the Nintendo Switch 2 has brought to Nintendo fans and gamers is much faster storage. This not only means games load fast, but navigating the OS and storefront is also vastly improved thanks to the faster internal flash memory. The only downside is that you can no longer expand the handheld's storage capacity with an affordable microSD card.

Instead, storage expansion is only possible with the latest microSD Express cards, which include PCIe Gen 3x1 technology, offering read speeds of up to 890 MB/s and write speeds of up to 810 MB/s. Compared to the read speeds of up to 100 MB/s that some of the best microSD card options for the original Nintendo Switch offer, the new microSD Express format is a literal game-changer, as it enables faster data streaming for features like textures and larger digital environments.

However, it's brand-new, and microSD Express cards with larger capacities are currently quite expensive. This is where PNY's new microSD Express card comes in - as the first 512GB option launching with a more wallet-friendly price of $99.99 USD.

Helldivers 2's new Into the Unjust update brings a new level of challenge to the game with a gigantic, claustrophobic cave system that cuts players off from their super destroyers.

Arrowhead is leaning into the horror with the new Helldivers 2 update, taking players into the freakish Terminid Hive Worlds. The update offers a unique new challenge to the game via its massive network of caves and tunnels that are interspersed across the planets.

While in the caves, players can't call down weapons from super destroyers, and they'll face unpredictable survival scenarios that can range from swarms of enemies in cyclopean cave chambers to high-tension cat-and-mouse moments in almost complete subterranean darkness.

Intel has provided us with some rather exciting news at the Hot Chips 2025 event, with details on its next-gen Clearwater Forest Xeon CPUs: up to 288 cores, made on Intel's in-house 18A process node and on American soil, with Foveros Direct 3D construction.

The new Intel Clearwater Forest Xeon CPUs will have only Efficient cores (E-Cores) and no Performance cores (P-Cores) with up to 288 cores, with the company moving the package on its next-gen Clearwater Forest Xeon processors into chiplets, with 12 compute chiplets fabbed on Intel 18A, above three base tiles fabbed on Intel 3, and two IO chiplets on Intel 7.

Intel then links this all through its in-house Foveros Direct 3D stacking and EMIB technologies, with a monolithic mesh fabric that connects resources across the package. Clearwater Forest Xeon CPUs are designed and fully built in the US, versus processors being fabbed at TSMC in Taiwan, marking a huge milestone for Intel.

Hollow Knight Silksong is one of the most anticipated games of the year, and some indie developers aren't willing to risk going up against it.

At least three independent game developers have moved their projects out of the blast radius of Silksong's expected megaton launch. Competition is always fierce in the games industry, and interest in indie games has grown particularly over the last few years, leading to some eclectic and unpredictable surprise hits. Everyone wants to be the next big thing, or at least make their money back, but that's hard to do if you're going up against fierce competition.

That's why some devs are delaying their games to avoid competing directly with Hollow Knight Silksong, at least on the game's September 4 launch day.

Activision today confirms that Black Ops 7 won't be compatible with the Carry Forward program after all, meaning your existing unlocks and skins from Black Ops 6 won't cross over to the new game.

Activision has changed its mind and canceled Black Ops 7's carry forward support. As Gamespot notes, this course reversal comes just a week after Activision made the announcement that Black Ops 6's unlocks would also be carried over to the new sci-fi FPS.

So what happened? The official reasoning is that Activision wants to preserve an authentic look and feel for the game. Basically, it doesn't make sense for the content to cross over. This, of course, also means users will need to play the game to unlock new skins and rewards while also buying new packs and passes. Call of Duty is a franchise that's generated revenue in excess of $35 billion, primarily from microtransactions, and it's also capable of earning $1 billion from game sales alone.

Major online games are starting to drop support on PS4, and Final Fantasy XIV could be next.

After earning over $100 billion from a prolonged console life cycle, it seems like everyone is ready to move on from the PS4. Two of the platform's biggest online games have announced they'll be dropping PS4 soon--PUBG in November of this year, and Genshin Impact in April 2026. Now a recent interview hints that Final Fantasy XIV might also be moving on from the PS4 soon.

FFXIV game director Naoki Yoshida (aka Yoshi-P) reveals some interesting details on how the game actually works on PS4. Yoshi-P tells games publication Feed4Gamers that Sony basically gives Final Fantasy XIV extra clearance to use more of the PS4's OS resources. But there's a limit, and that limit is close to being maxed out.

Google has made what's proving to be a controversial move with the imminent Pixel 10 range, confirming that the latest iterations of its smartphones will have the Battery Health Assistance feature enabled by default - with no way to turn it off.

In short, this feature - first introduced with the Google Pixel 6a - is going to be policing your battery whether you like it or not. And the news has certainly revealed how many would-be buyers of a Pixel 10 handset fall into the latter camp, after Google confirmed the feature will be compulsory to Android Authority.

The idea with Battery Health Assistance is to manage the power pack's long-term health and degradation rate.

With the Battlefield 6 beta weekends now officially over, players are left needing to get that Battlefield fix, and judging by Steam's most-played charts, that fix is being gotten in Battlefield 2042.

Fans appear to be waiting patiently for the release of Battlefield 6 while in the lobbies of Battlefield 2042, as the SteamDB charts showcase an intense spike in concurrent player count since the BF6 open beta weekends came to a close. Prior to the open beta weekends for Battlefield 6, Battlefield 2042 was sitting at around 10,000 concurrent players, but since the closure of the open beta weekends, that figure has jumped up to more than 50,000.

So far, Battlefield 2042 has reached 74,000 concurrent players on Steam following the BF6 open beta weekends, which is just shy of the all-time concurrent player peak of 107,000 set nearly 2 years ago. Possibly one of the attractions to Battlefield 2042 is DICE's announcement that playing the game ahead of the release of BF6 will earn players numerous exclusive rewards that will carry over to BF6 when it launches. Quite a smart tactic by EA and DICE, and it seems to be working.

Call of Duty has officially responded to the community backlash following the recent gameplay reveal for Black Ops 7 at Gamescom 2025.

The community pushed back intensely after seeing the gameplay trailer released by Activision and Call of Duty developers at the show, with the video on the official Call of Duty YouTube channel currently sitting at 44 million views, but with 407,000 dislikes versus just 55,000 likes. Also, the top comment on the gameplay reveal is "This made me pre-order Battlefield 6."

One of the particular points of contention Call of Duty players raised in various social media posts is the integration of cosmetics in Black Ops 7, or more specifically, how they don't want Black Ops 6 skins and cosmetics to carry over to Black Ops 7.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has sued Apple and ChatGPT creator OpenAI in US federal court in Texas on Monday, with xAI alleging Apple and OpenAI are illegally conspiring against the X, formerly Twitter, and Grok app.

The lawsuit claims that OpenAI and Apple have engaged in a deal that doesn't allow for competing AI-based apps, such as xAI's Grok, to reach #1 on Apple App Store rankings. OpenAI and Apple entered into a partnership to integrate ChatGPT into Apple's iOS operating system, which directly injects the power of ChatGPT into Apple's iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The lawsuit claims that part of this agreement between the two companies is to prevent other innovators, such as X and xAI, from competing in Apple App Store rankings.

xAI said it's seeking billions of dollars in damages. Musk wrote on X earlier this month that Apple's behavior "makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store," and in another X post on Monday the Tesla CEO wrote, "A million reviews with 4.9 average for @Grok and still Apple refuses to mention Grok on any lists."

Activision recently concluded its worldwide reveal for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 at Gamescom 2025, and the new gameplay trailer published to the official Call of Duty YouTube channel now stands as a representation of how the Call of Duty community feels about the next addition to the Call of Duty franchise.

The "gameplay" reveal at Gamescom 2025 has been met with heavy criticism from the Call of Duty community, which has taken to dislike-bombing the YouTube video, which has gained more than 46 million views since its release. Using the Likes, Dislikes, and Views of the video, we can learn some insights using this public-facing data.

For example, of the 46 million views, only 1% of viewers actually clicked like or dislike, and the approval ratings for the video are as follows. 55,000 Likes ÷ 462,000 (Likes + Dislikes) = 11.9% Likes. As for Dislikes, 407,000 ÷ 462,000 = 88.1% Dislikes. Reactions relative to views are even more interesting, with 55,000 ÷ 46,000,000 = 0.12% of viewers liked the video. Dislikes landed on 0.88% of viewers.

Apple is scheduled to hold a new special event for its upcoming iPhone 17, with Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, a known Apple insider, sharing an image to his personal X account stating the event is set for September 9.

The iPhone 17 line-up of devices has long been rumored to be a dramatic shift for Apple and how future iPhone generations will be, as the company is pegged to showcase a redesigned iPhone, a new ultra-thin model purportedly called the iPhone 17 Air, and all-around visual design changes. Additionally, the iPhone 17 Pro Max, the most powerful of the generation, is slated to have the biggest battery within an iPhone yet, and the Air is meant to be just 5.5mm in thickness, making it the thinnest iPhone ever made.

Gurman writes in a follow-up X post that the aesthetics of the September 9 event invitation aren't random, but hold some hints toward what we can expect to see during the event. The reporter adds that the orange in the Apple logo is a hint toward a new color for the Pro model devices, the light blue is for the iPhone Air, and the "Awe-dropping" slogan is a play on jaw-dropping for the "thin/light of the phone".