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With a peak player count of almost 750,000 on Steam, odds are that if you're a fan of competitive shooters and jumping into the latest PC games, you've spent some time this past weekend playing Battlefield 6. And if you've been doing so on an AMD Radeon RX GPU, then you probably want to install the latest AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Preview Driver.

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 25.10.1 Battlefield 6 Preview Driver is the latest Radeon driver for PC gamers, explicitly built for Battlefield 6. In fact, that's the only thing listed in the release notes: new game support for Battlefield 6 running on DirectX 12. That's it, no bug fixes, no new issues, nothing else really. If you're not playing Battlefield 6 and have a Radeon GPU, you can skip this and wait for the next signed WHQL-certified driver release.

As one of the biggest releases of the year, outside of the seemingly poorly received campaign, Battlefield 6's massive multiplayer battles and large-scale destruction are proving to be a hit in ways that previous releases in the franchise (Battlefield 2042 and Battlefield 5) stumbled at launch.

NVIDIA is celebrating being awarded TIME's Best Invention of 2025 for the creation of the NVIDIA DGX Spark, the company's new desktop AI supercomputer.

The DGX Spark is a mini desktop system built specifically for AI development, fine-tuning, and inference training. The mini AI supercomputer features NVIDIA's GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, a unified CPU and GPU arrangement, delivering a stunning 1 petaFLOP of performance, 128 GB of coherent unified memory, 273 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and storage configurations ranging from 1 TB to 4 TB. As for the CPU, the DGX Spark features 20 ARM cores (10 x Cortex-X925 + 10 x Cortex-A725).

Moving to connectivity, NVIDIA has outfitted the DGX Spark with 1x HDMI port for display, 4x USB-C/USB4 ports at 40 Gbps, 1x 10 GbE RJ-45 port, and dual-port ConnectX-7 NIC support, enabling clustering (200 GbE) with another DGX Spark, as well as Wi-Fi 7 / Bluetooth 5.3. All of that power fits in a very small footprint of just 150 x 150 x 50.5mm, weighs 1.2 kg (2.65 lb), and uses 170W.

The latest Battle Royale game will have players typing on a typewriter for their lives, and any spelling mistakes will result in a brutal execution and elimination from the match. Welcome to Final Sentence.

Final Sentence, developed by Button Mash, combines the Battle Royale genre of last man standing wins with Russian Roulette, as players will be set up in a warehouse alongside each other. Each player will have a typewriter in front of them and a set of sentences they need to type out perfectly, and if three mistakes are made, an NPC with a gun will load a round into the weapon, spin the barrel, and then fire it at the player's head.

In addition to the pressure of making a mistake, a timer is placed next to the typewriter that counts down from 4 minutes. If the timer is exceeded, the player is eliminated. Furthermore, players will compete against each other to complete the set of sentences first, with the first to finish being the only player to survive; the remaining players will be executed at the end of the game.

Skrilla, the rapper behind the song "Doot Doot (6 7)", which is the source of the now global meme among the younger generation, has confirmed that 6 7 will be in Grand Theft Auto 6.

Skrilla appeared during the latest episode of the Matt and Shane Secret Podcast featuring Shane Gillis and Matt McCusker, where they got into discussing video games and the impact of the viral song 6 7. Skrilla says that he has recreated his real-life aesthetic within the game, and then says that 6 7 is "going to be on" Grand Theft Auto 6. Skrilla added that he will be able to play his own music in the game when it releases.

This isn't the first time we have heard an artist talk about their music being added to GTA 6, as it was in June that Grammy Award-winning producer, Jermaine Dupri, revealed that he was asked to be on Grand Theft Auto 6, alongside Drake, who "got his own radio station". Dupri added that "The way they are getting ready to do it is that Drake can actually upload music we probably ain't never heard online or wherever else on that video game."

It looks like 2026 flagship smartphones will be even more expensive than the already expensive smartphones of today, as Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor costs more to make than previous gen Snapdragon chips.

In a new post on X from Abhishek Yadav, we have some price estimates for each of Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon smartphone processors, ranging from the first Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 through to the just-announced Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5... and boy, things are getting more and more expensive with each generation of mobile chip released.

Qualcomm is reportedly charging between $240 and $280 per Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, and this doesn't include the royalties that the companies have to pay to Qualcomm to use their chips... so it is a little more than that on top. Qualcomm started out charging $120-$130 for its Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 a few years ago, but the price has slowly been rising and now it's closer to $300 per chip (once again, without OEMs paying royalties).

GALAX has just unveiled its new single-slot GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics card, which sports a blower-style cooler and is perfect for a SFF gaming rig. Check it out:

The new GALAX GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB MAX graphics card features a tight single-slot design, measuring just 20mm wide, with a single blower-style fan that pushes the hot air through a vapor chamber heatsink, using high-quality Honeywell Phase-Change TIM to make sure it can handle the 180W TDP of the RTX 5060 Ti GPU.

Inside, the new GALAX RTX 5060 Ti single-slot GPU features an 8-layer PCB with a 8+2 phase design, powered by a single 8-pin power connector, and uses the standard display configuration on the back with 3 x HDMI 2.1 ports and a single DisplayPort 2.1 connector.

COLORFUL has just introduced its new CVN X870E ARK FROZEN motherboard, its first X870E-based motherboard. Check it out:

The new COLORFUL CVN X870E ARK FROZEN motherboard sports a gorgeous white PCB that is covered by the company's in-house Aries frost cooling armor and a full-sized metal backplate. On the power delivery side of things we've got a 16+2+1 phase VRM design with 80A DrMOS and dual 8-pin EPS power connectors.

COLORFUL's new CVN X870E ARK FROZEN motherboard will support AMD Ryzen 7000, 8000, and 9000 series CPUs (including their wicked-fast X3D chips), while supporting up to 192GB of DDR5 memory at up to 8200 MT/s, with both EXPO and XMP profiles.

Intel has discussed a little more about its Xe GPU architecture and its upcoming roadmap, with some confusing name changes on the way unfortunately.

During its Intel Tech Tour event, Intel unveiled a slide titled "GPU IP & Product Family Roadmap" which laid out its coming releases. There is a slide that includes all of the Xe GPU architectures: Alchemist discrete GPUs, Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, and Lunar Lake CPUs, as well as its next-gen Panther Lake CPUs which will feature Xe3 GPU chiplets.

The naming scheme seems to be changing with Xe3, which isn't good to see as a few years ago when Intel announced its GPU roadmap, it was clear: Xe was Alchemist, Xe2 was Battlemage, Xe3 was Celestial, and Xe-Next was Druid. These names referred to discrete GPUs (Xe-HPG variants) that Intel was working on at the time, but now the company doesn't like to talk about discrete GPUs... it puts all of its focus on pushing SoCs (regular CPUs with integrated GPUs).

Microsoft is making two high-profile hires that may give an idea of how well the Xbox business is doing, or where management wants to take it in the future.

There's lots of doom and gloom around Xbox right now. Outwardly, console price hikes, Game Pass increases, and unclear communication are Microsoft's biggest problems. On the inside, though, Microsoft is pressuring Xbox to deliver hard-to-reach profit metrics. Buying Activision for $68 billion put Xbox on the hook, and Microsoft's board, investors, and top execs want continual returns on that investment.

Amid the market turbulence and wider macroeconomic disruption, Xbox apparently wants to transform Xbox finances. Microsoft is making two hires that specifically focus on the money-making aspects of Xbox. One of the job listings mentions "driving transformation initiatives with urgency" with the intent of also making sure the studios are on the same page. On paper, Xbox is doing better than ever, with $23 billion revenue earned in FY25. Profit might be a different story, however.

Netflix is bringing games directly to its dedicated TV app, allowing subscribers to play smaller family-oriented party games right on the service.

Netflix has an interesting take on gaming. So far, the company has licensed (and released) actual dedicated mobile games for its users; if you're a subscriber, you can download the game for free. Netflix's biggest win so far is from games that they didn't even make--Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto mobile games were popular, but not popular enough to drive subscription adoption.

That's not Netflix's goal with games, though. The company has bifurcated its titles to make sure the games fit the platforms that they're being played on. Netflix catered its mobile game selection to solo-oriented titles, and the games coming to TVs are family night types of experiences--board games like Boggle, quiz shows like Jeopardy, etc. For Netflix, gaming is more about fostering interactivity than making a boatload of extra cash...and using devices that people already have, like mobile phones, as controllers.

ASUS is the first motherboard maker to officially support AMD's next-gen Zen 6-based Ryzen CPUs on its B850M OC series motherboards.

The company recently announced its new B850M AYW OC motherboard as a new mATX mobo with impressive overclocking features, launching the board for around $190, making it the cheapest B850M OC mobo with an external BCLK generator, and rocking support for DDR5 memory clocking in at over 10,000 MT/s.

ASUS's new B850M AYW OC motherboard features a bigger 64MB BIOS that is ready for updates in the future that will enable support for new Ryzen CPUs from AMD, including the next-gen Zen 6-based CPUs. ASUS isn't the only one, with MSI and ASRock also confirming Zen 6-based Ryzen CPU support on its B850 series motherboards.

SPARKLE has just introduced its new C741-6U-Dual 16P system, which packs up to 16 x Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual 48GB graphics cards for a total of 768GB of VRAM, all running from a monster 10,800W PSU.

The new SPARKLE C741-6U-Dual 16P multi-GPU server supports both single-GPU and dual-GPU variants of the Arc Pro B60 Dual graphics card, the single-GPU version packing 24GB of VRAM, while the dual-GPU ramps that up to 48GB. If configured with 16 of the Arc Pro B60 Dual 48GB cards, you'll have a total of 81,920 GPU cores, and an incredible 768GB of VRAM.

SPARKLE uses a dedicated circuit that extends PCIe connectivity to 16 slots which provides each GPU with its own PCIe 5.0 x8 interface. Both models also use Intel Xeon Scalable processors, either in 4th Gen or 5th Gen.

Sony has full plans to launch its next-generation PlayStation 6 console in 2027 according to a known leaker, says "it's the plan unless any unexpected delays happen".

We've been reporting leaks of the PS6 for months now, where we can expect up to RTX 5090 levels of ray tracing performance from the PlayStation 6, and a performance uplift of an incredible 6-12x faster RT gaming over the base PS5 according to leaker Moore's Law is Dead.

In a new post on the NeoGAF forums by leaker "KeplerL2" who was asked if "2027 was on the table" for the PlayStation 6 release, to which he replied: "Not just on the table, it's the plan unless any unexpected delays happen".

Microsoft has just announced that its first at-scale production cluster of NVIDIA's new GB300 "Blackwell Ultra" GPUs has been installed. Check it out:

The new large-scale and production cluster packs over 4600 GPUs based on NVIDIA's new GB300 NVL72 architecture, connected through next-gen InfiniBand interconnect fabric. The new deployment allows Microsoft to scale to hundreds of thousands of Blackwell Ultra GPUs deployed throughout datacenters across the planet, all working on one workload: AI.

Microsoft says its new Azure cluster powered by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 "Blackwell Ultra" GPUs can reduce training times from months down to weeks, unlocking the way for training models that are over 100s of trillions of parameters large. The new Microsoft Azure ND GB300 v6 VMs are optimized for reasoning models, agentic AI systems, and multimodal generative AI workloads.

The long wait for Battlefield 6 is finally over as the servers have gone live and players are jumping into the mayhem, and already, EA's latest addition to the Battlefield franchise has blown past the peak concurrent player record for Call of Duty.

Players have been anticipating the release of Battlefield 6 for many months now, and all that waiting has finally paid off as the game is out and hundreds of thousands of players are flooding the servers. Looking at the SteamDB charts, Battlefield 6 has already taken second place in the "24-hour peak" category with a staggering 747,440 concurrent players, beating DOTA 2, and only trailing behind Counter-Strike 2.

If the player count continues at the rate it is now, which is every time you refresh the SteamDB listing for the title, it grows by 10,000 players, by the time you have read this, Battlefield 6 will have doubled Call of Duty's all-time player peak of 491,870 before 24 hours is even over. Notably, Battlefield 6 has already beaten the all-time player peak for the Open Beta, which was 521,000.

The contents of Oblivion remastered's physical deluxe edition have been detailed by Bethesda, confirming the game is not complete on disc.

User suspicions were true: Oblivion remastered's deluxe edition will require extra downloads in order to play through the base game. The full game cannot be played offline. After being community noted on Twitter, Bethesda has published a FAQ explaining what is--and isn't--included in the physical deluxe version.

On social channels, Bethesda had previously said: "The Physical Deluxe Edition includes the base game in disc format for Xbox or PlayStation."

Intel has told us that XeSS 3, its next-gen upscaling tech - which comes with MFG, mirroring NVIDIA's DLSS 4 in that respect - will be backwards compatible with games that support XeSS 2.

As VideoCardz reports, XeSS 3 will be a drop-in affair as confirmed by Intel's Tom Petersen in an interview with PC World on YouTube (see above).

In other words, if a developer has provided support for XeSS 2 in any given game, when XeSS 3 emerges - hopefully early next year - it'll simply work straight off the bat without the dev needing to do anything.

Halo art director, Glenn Israel, joined Bungie 17 years ago and began work on one of the most iconic video game franchises in history. Israel spent nearly two decades curating the artistic direction of the series, but has now announced his departure.

In a recent LinkedIn post, Israel wrote that he is no longer officially "contributing to the Halo universe", adding that there is little he can say at the moment, but "I intend to share the particular story in its entirety when it is absolutely safe to do so next year."

The art director goes on to leave a message to the video games industry, writing that while the "state of our industry seems dire," never forget that you are free to choose. No illusion of security nor promise of wealth or fame or power is worth trading away your health, your dignity, your ethics or values - and no one can force you to."

How much would you fork out for an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090? Probably a fair bit, and many gamers would leap at the chance to get one of these GPUs for not much more than a grand - a feat some lucky PC enthusiast managed recently.

Tom's Hardware reports that there have been two tales just shared on Reddit whereby people have managed to get an absolute bargain of an RTX 5090 at Walmart in the US - both of these being the PNY OC model.

First off, NestyHowk grabbed the PNY RTX 5090 for $1,399.99, an eye-opening saving of $600 on the normal price for the Blackwell flagship GPU.

Microsoft's Copilot has received an update that enables Windows users to create Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, and more directly from the chat session.

The new feature is coming to Windows 11 Insiders and will soon be rolled out publicly to all Windows 11 users. Microsoft's Copilot team explained in a blog post that Copilot users will be able to convert conversational ideas, notes, and data into shareable and editable documents with "no extra steps or tools".

Additionally, suppose Copilot responds to a query with 600 words or more. In that case, Microsoft has added an export button that enables a user to send that response directly to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or convert it into a PDF file.