Apple won't be releasing an iPhone 17 Plus this year, but instead will be dropping the iPhone 17 Air, a super cut-down iPhone that is incredibly thin and only has the bare minimum features.

A dummy unit of the iPhone 17 Air has made it out into the wild, and in a new video posted by Majin Bu, a known leaker, the upcoming iPhone has been compared to an iPhone 16 Pro. The video showcases the new incredibly thin design of the iPhone 17 Air, with previous reports pegging the width of the device at just 5.5mm. To keep to the minimalist feature set, Apple is dropping the multiple cameras on the iPhone 17 Air and only placing a single-lens camera module on the back inside a pill-shaped camera bar.

For comparison, the iPhone 16 Pro measures at 8.25mm thick, making the iPhone 17 Air nearly half the width of the previous generation Pro device. Additionally, the video shows an Action button on the left-hand side of the device above the two volume buttons, and on the right-hand side, the power button and below it what appears to be a Camera Control button.

A new report has revealed that Call of Duty Black Ops 7's campaign will end and then immediately put players into a 32-player multiplayer experience, marking a first for the franchise.

The report from Insider Gaming cites sources that have requested to remain anonymous as they aren't approved to talk about the game. According to the report, Black Ops 7 will feature 12 campaign missions, and the 12th and final mission will be on the "Avalon" map, a map that was originally planned as a Battle Royale experience. The final mission reportedly sounds like an extraction shooter that requires players to complete objectives and extract.

Details on what those objectives are weren't mentioned, but the sources did describe the mission as "hardcore" with players only having one attempt as a group. If the squad is all killed, all progress for the character will be lost. If true, this will be the first time the campaign and multiplayer in Call of Duty will be merged together, with the report saying it will be a fully-fledged 32-player multiplayer experience.

Sometimes you want to keep the nostalgia of an old console, but want that console to be as fast as modern technology. Well, with a little bit of time on your hands and enough persistence, you too can build a PC inside an Xbox 360 shell.

The above image is of a PC built within an Xbox 360 shell, and the system is nothing to roll your eyes at either as it features an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, a GIGABYTE RTX 4060 Low Profile, 32GB of TeamGroup T-Create DDR5-6000 RAM, a 250W PSU, a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD, and a cheap WiFi card from Amazon that also features Bluetooth. So, yes, it is possible to build a PC within the corpse of a dead console. But does it actually run games?

According to the builders, yes, it does, and quite competently as well, as the system has been heavily optimized with each of the parts being placed in specific locations for increased airflow, which, according to the builders, has maintained temperatures at optimal levels for stable performance. Anyone who is into PC parts would be raising an eyebrow at the PSU. Only 250W? For an RTX 4060 and 7800X3D? Not to mention the rest of the components within the system? Surely it's not possible? Right? Wrong.

The entire gaming market is eagerly awaiting the pricing of Grand Theft Auto VI by Rockstar and Take-Two Interactive. Recently, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick commented on the pricing and who will reveal it.

In a recent interview with Variety, the Take-Two CEO was directly asked about the pricing surrounding GTA 6, with the Take-Two CEO responding by saying, "So now that announcement will come from Rockstar in due time. Our goal always is to deliver more value than what we charge, so we've had variable pricing at the company forever."

In a roundabout way, Zelnick is saying that if Rockstar believes it has provided much more value than the standard $70 premium price tag for a AAA game, there is a chance it will up the price. It really comes down to how much Take-Two and Rockstar believe gamers are getting value-wise from the game.

Windows 10 isn't the only flavor of Microsoft's desktop operating system that's soon to bite the silicon dust - there's also a variant of Windows 11 about to suffer the same fate.

This is Windows 11 23H2, and as Neowin noticed, Microsoft has just issued a reminder that the last-but-one incarnation of Windows 11 is on its way out. And yes - that means for those who've been holding out on upgrading to 24H2, you soon won't have much choice.

You will have a slightly longer stay of execution than Windows 10, though, which has its neck marked for October 14, 2025 - whereas Windows 11 23H2 isn't on the proverbial chopping block until November.

Razer has unveiled a pair of new BlackWidow keyboards, and if you're a fan of low-profile boards, you'll want to take note. The Razer BlackWidow V4 Low-profile HyperSpeed and Razer BlackWidow V4 Low-profile TKL HyperSpeed are the company's most advanced low-profile keyboards to date, with a slim, high-quality build and custom Razer Low-profile Mechanical Switches.

Like Logitech's popular G915 series of low-profile keyboards, the Razer BlackWidow V4 Low-profile series has been designed for gaming performance, comfort, and customization. Like the company's popular and award-winning Razer BlackWidow V4 keyboards, you've also got the option to choose between three different low-profile mechanical switches - green (clicky), yellow (linear), and orange (tactile).

Razer notes that one of the reasons low-profile keyboards have become popular among gamers is the fact that the reduced height (you're looking at an ultra-low 18.5mm front height here) leads to a more natural wrist position that doesn't require a wrist rest. This also means a shorter travel distance for the mechanical switches, albeit with the same responsiveness that you get with a Razer BlackWidow V4 keyboard.

The second open beta weekend for Battlefield 6 has officially gone live, and in a matter of hours, hundreds of thousands of players have flocked to the game.

In the span of just six hours, more than 300,000 players rushed to jump into the action in Battlefield 6, with SteamDB numbers indicating there are 328,197 players in-game right now. For comparison, the first open beta weekend that ended 5 days ago peaked on Steam at 521,079 players, which is more than Call of Duty's highest concurrent player count on Steam.

It's still too early to say if the momentum will carry over from the first open beta weekend to push concurrent player counts above the 521,079 player record. As for the open beta weekend two, EA and DICE have thrown in a new map and game modes for players to enjoy, with bug fixes and a bunch of miscellaneous improvements. The second open beta weekend will run from August 14 to August 17, and EA has set the goal for players to cause $1 trillion worth of destruction during the beta period.

Apple is rumored to be baking in a new in-house Wi-Fi chip onto its new M5-based MacBook Air laptops in both 13-inch and 15-inch MBA laptops in the future.

The big plan of Apple transitioning to its own in-house wireless solution started in 2023, where Apple would combine Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular (4G/5G) into a single package. This move would free up valuable space on the logic board, as well as boost power efficiency (leading to longer battery life).

The way it works now is that these components are separately soldered onto the logic board, increasing production costs and removing the benefits of using less space + less energy than using in-house solutions. The first important step for Apple will start with the upcoming iPhone 17, while the next phase would see the same in-house Wi-Fi chips on the M5 MacBook Air series refresh.

ASUS has just jacked up the pricing of its ROG NUC 2025 in flagship hardware form, with a $350 increase for the model containing the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU combo to $3199, up from $2849.

We reported last month that the ASUS ROG NUC 2025 configured with the Core Ultra 9 275HX + GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU combo was $2849, but this week that price was increased by the company to $3199.

The new ASUS ROG NUC 2025 is a small form factor gaming PC that packs up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor (24C/24T @ up to 5.4GHz) with support for up to 96GB of DDR5-6400 memory, and GPU options between the RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5070, and RTX 5060 all in Laptop GPU form.

AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX processor has been tested running an insane 100 copies of the original Doom at once, and 8 copies of Crysis.

PC enthusiast YouTuber Level1Techs was using the Falcon Northwest Talon workstation PC powered by the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX processor with 96 cores and 192 threads installed into an ASUS WRX90 SAGE SE motherboard, a huge 256GB of RAM, and dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 workstation GPUs with 96GB of VRAM each for a total of 192GB VRAM.

The YouTuber was running 400 copies of Doom at the same time, but then Level1Techs host Wendell accidentally left 100 copies of Doom running on the new system, only noticing they were running when his Cinebench R24 benchmark score was lower than he expected. But, that's when he revealed just how powerful AMD's new 96-core, 192-thread CPU was.

Arm is bringing DLSS-like AI Super Resolution to mobile gaming with its new and impressive Arm Neural Super Sampling (NSS) technology. It builds on Arm Accuracy Super Resolution (Arm ASR) technology that is already available, improving image fidelity and performance by leveraging neural accelerators on Arm GPUs that are on track to launch sometime in 2026.

Even though the hardware for this is still a year away, the company is all-in on bringing AI-powered rendering to mobile gamers on day one, as NSS already has its own Unreal Engine plugin with PC-based Vulkan emulation and Vulkan ML extensions. The NSS model, which Arm says delivers DLSS 2-like image quality on a low-power mobile device, is compact and open-source.

Arm notes that developers and companies like Enduring Games, Epic Games, NetEase Games, Sumo Digital, Tencent Games, and Traverse Research are already working to add NSS support to games and apps. As a mobile-focused tech, it's designed to reduce GPU workloads by up to 50% while maintaining native-like image fidelity.

Turtle Beach has been creating gaming headsets for as long as we can remember gaming headsets being a thing, which is why it's a little surprising to learn that the company's new Atlas 200 is its "first officially licensed headset for PS5 and PS4." Now, Turtle Beach has been releasing PlayStation-compatible and focused headsets for a while. Still, now you've got one that has been developed in partnership with Sony that sports the iconic PlayStation logo and blue color.

The new Turtle Beach Atlas 200, which is launching with a wallet-friendly price point of $59.99 MSRP on September 12, 2025, is a wired headset designed to be plugged into the PS5's DualSense controller or the PS5's DualShock 4.

The physical design and the name draw inspiration from Turtle Beach's flagship Atlas Air PC gaming headset, so you've got premium closed-back earcups with ProSpecs glasses-friendly cushions and an adjustable floating headband. The Turtle Beach Atlas 200 is also PC-compatible as it ships with a USB audio adapter, so it can properly integrate with Turtle Beach's Swarm II desktop app.

The ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero is one of the company's flagship motherboards, which it released for the latest Ryzen 9000 Series of CPUs and the X870-series chipset. This week, the company is formally introducing the ROG Crosshair X870E Hero BTF variant, with hidden reverse-side connectors.

And it's an impressive unit, with a 600 W-capable 12V-2x6 power connector on the reverse side to support ASUS's BTF-compatible ROG Strix, ROG Astral, and TUF Gaming graphics cards. And when you add in reverse side connectors for motherboard power, SATA, USB headers, fans, audio, and more, it offers up the potential to put together a high-end gaming PC with no visible cables.

Outside of its BTF design, the specs and capabilities of the motherboard are similar to the original ROG Crosshair X870E Hero, which earned an award when we reviewed it last year. So it's equipped with premium power delivery, five NVMe M.2 SSD storage slots, multiple high-speed Ethernet ports, Wi-Fi 7, and two 40 Gbps USB4 ports.

AMD recently launched the Radeon RX 9060 non-XT graphics card; however, the fifth RDNA 4 GPU to hit the scene has arrived without a retail release. Instead of being marketed as an off-the-shelf entry-level 1080p gaming GPU, it's currently being sold exclusively as an OEM device for prebuilt systems.

Which is why South Korean creator Technosaurus (very cool name by the way) decided to buy one of these Radeon RX 9060-powered desktop rigs, remove the GPU, and compare the performance to the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB, the GeForce RTX 5050, and the GeForce RTX 5060.

The RTX 5050 comparison, which is NVIDIA's mainstream RTX Blackwell GPU, is the most interesting as we see the Radeon RX 9060, on average, beating the entry-level RTX GPU by around 20%. This is a decent lead, and the sort of performance you'll be able to notice when gaming at 1080p.

Apple's upcoming ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air smartphone won't just be the thinnest iPhone ever, it'll also have a binned A19 Pro chip inside, the same SoC inside the iPhone 17 Pro, but with less GPU cores.

In new leaks from Weibo-based tipster "Fixed Focus Digital", the new iPhone 17 Air is indeed powered by Apple's new in-house A19 Pro chip, but in "binned form". Binned chips are ones that have just barely missed silicon perfection, so they get cut down and used in different products down the stack. Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and many other chipmakers do this with their GPUs and CPUs during production.

This means that the A19 Pro destined for the iPhone 17 Air will feature a 5-core GPU, which is one less GPU core than the iPhone 17 Pro will house with the same A19 Pro chip. One less GPU core won't result in too much gaming performance lost on the iPhone 17 Air, but it will make it just slower than the slightly higher-end iPhone 17 Pro.

The former boss of Blizzard has said that Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and that the clear winner here is all FPS gamers because of it.

Mike Ybarra is the former CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, posting his thoughts about Battlefield 6 and its impact on Activision-Blizzard's biggest FPS franchise: Call of Duty and its upcoming Black Ops 7 title. He said: "Battlefield will boot stomp CoD this year. But the real win here is CoD won't be lazy anymore, and we'll all get better FPS games for it".

Battlefield 6 has had an explosive entry onto the scene in beta form, racking up more players during its open beta weekend last weekend than Call of Duty with the BF6 Open Beta pulling 512,000+ players on Steam beating out COD's all-time player record.

Intel has just unveiled its new "USAI" narrative, underscoring its US manufacturing prowess, in perfect timing almost inside 24 hours of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan meeting with President Trump at the White House.

Intel has unveiled its new USAI campaign, which has appeared on a bus stop stating "Built for the mission. Backed by Trust. That's the power of Intel Inside". The poster continues, saying with "five decades of US-based manufacturing and ready-to-deploy AI solutions, Intel is a proven partner to help the public sector implement AI security and at scale".

Intel has a USAI website live, explaining its new USAI narrative that shows Intel's commitment to not just the US public sector, but also partnerships with the government and military. Intel explains: "At Intel, we know the future belongs to those who build it right. And it starts right here at home-in the USA. For over five decades, we've been the only U.S.-based company committed to advanced manufacturing on American soil to produce the world's most cutting-edge chips".

NVIDIA's next-gen Rubin AI GPU architecture hasn't been delayed, after rumors flew in the last few hours that Rubin was being delayed to better fight AMD's next-gen Instinct MI450 AI accelerators.

But in a response from an NVIDIA spokesperson who said recent reports of Rubin being delayed are "incorrect" and that "Rubin is on track". This is after reports surfaced claiming NVIDIA has delayed Rubin, redesigning the chip from 1800W power to 2000W of power to better compete with AMD's next-gen Instinct MI450 AI accelerator.

The earlier report has been debunked, with official comment from NVIDIA reaffirming Rubin is on track, which last we heard there will be 5.7 million Rubin AI GPUs shipped in 2026, each with next-generation HBM4 memory and up to 1800W of power per R100 AI chip.

PUBG is ending support on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on November 13, Krafton today announced.

One of the biggest live service games is leaving last-gen consoles behind so it can continue to grow on Gen 9 systems. Krafton has made the decision to discontinue PUBG on PS4 and Xbox One, saying that this decision will deliver a "more stable gameplay environment." The teams want to streamline content delivery on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and both Sony and Microsoft are already working on next-generation console hardware. That's a lot of technical debt to carry forward, so Krafton shed the weight well after gen 9's introduction in 2020.

PUBG players on PS4 will need to re-download the game to play on PS5, whereas Xbox One players will receive the Xbox Series X/S version automatically via Smart Delivery.

Borderlands 4 has 30x more guns than its predecessor, making it a veritable guntopia of carnage.

In an interesting development, Epic Games of all places was the first to announce how many guns there will be in Borderlands 4. Epic recently interviewed Gearbox about Borderlands 4, and based on that feature, we know that the game will have 30 billion guns.

Yes, really. The new Borderlands will have 30 billion different gun permutations across a dozen or so weapon brands. That's 30x more than the 1 billion+ guns that Borderlands 3 had. Gearbox is amping up their procedural generation tech with Borderlands 4 to unlock an incredible level of customization, with enough statistical combinations to appease an algebra teacher.