Players flock to Battlefront 2 to continue the Star Wars celebration following a number of well-timed crossovers and events.

Last month, we reported that Battlefront 2's playerbase skyrocketed by over 1000% on Steam. According to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, the jump in players was accompanied by a salvo of game sales that caused Battlefront 2 to break into the top 20 best-selling video games of May 2025.

May is a big month for Star Wars fans, with annual celebrations planned throughout. This year, Epic and Disney teamed up with a huge Fortnite Galactic Battle event, which undoubtedly primed players for more Star Wars multiplayer action. The Revenge of the Sith 20th anniversary film release also sparked interest, as the shooter spans multiple movies across the prequels and sequels.

The Stop Killing Games movement continues to gain momentum and is now being supported by a vice president in the European Union.

EU vice president Nicolae Ștefănuță has given a pro-consumer stance when it comes to video game sales and ownership. In a recent Instagram post, Ștefănuță openly broadcasted his support for the movement and committed to helping in any way he can. At the time of writing, the EU petition has over 1.3 million signatures.

"I stand with the people who started this citizen initiative. I signed and will continue to help them. A game, once sold, belongs to the customer, not the company," the Romanian EU vice president said in the post.

The new Subnautica 2 leaks are authentic, Krafton has confirmed, revealing key insight into how the publisher assesses internal games projects.

New developments have surfaced in the ongoing dispute between Krafton and Subnautica 2's leadership dev team. The controversy has evolved with back-and-forth claims, with Krafton alleging that the devs weren't focused enough, and the ousted Unknown Worlds creators even filing a lawsuit. Krafton, for its part, has issued multiple statements and explanations on what's going on, and even went so far as to confirm that a leaked document is real.

The leak shows an internal review of Subnautica 2's development. The sheet shows that as time went by, core features and content were cut out of Subnautica 2's early access version. Big parts of the game like extra modes were nixed, and 6 hours of narrative content was cut. This is not unusual for the industry--big swaths of content are cut all the time--however there's criticism that Krafton may have been unclear with what it wanted with Subnautica 2.

Krafton has released a detailed statement that responds to the recent Subnautica 2 controversy.

The Subnautica situation appears to be heating up. Krafton recently fired three key members of Subnautica 2's dev team, including studio co-founder Max McGuire. Things accelerated when it was revealed that Krafton may have had to pay a $250 million bonus payout to Unknown Worlds if revenue targets were met, but that's unlikely now that Subnautica 2 has been delayed into 2026. Krafton caught a lot of flak for the decision, and the former developers are actually suing Krafton because of what happened.

Now Krafton has issued a response to explain their side of the story. The publisher alleges that the former developers essentially weren't completely on board with Subnautica 2, and that early access was delayed because the game simply didn't yet have enough meat on its bones to substantiate a release.

Unknown Worlds developers are suing Krafton over the recent Subnautica 2 controversy, former game director Charlie Cleveland announced on Twitter.

Recently, Krafton, the South Korean games company that owns PUBG, shocked the industry by ousting Subnautica 2's leadership team. Unknown Worlds CEO Ted Gill, studio co-founder Max McGuire, and Subnautica 2 game director Charlie Cleveland were let go by Krafton, replaced by Steve Papoutsis from sister studio Striking Distance.

The decision sparked major controversy in the Subnautica community, and both Krafton and Unknown Worlds are dealing with the fallout. It's now been revealed that the former Subnautica devs have banded together to collectively sue Krafton, Inc., but the exact details of the legal complaint remain unclear.

Sony's next-generation PlayStation 6 console should be twice as fast as the beefed-up PS5 Pro, and should have performance close to, or more, than the RTX 4090.

Tom from Moore's Law is Dead talked about the new PlayStation 6 performance estimates in his latest video, where he was asked a question from a viewer about the performance of the PS6, and where he thinks it'll end up. This lines up with everything we've heard so far, with AMD deploying its new UDNA GPU architecture that'll power the PS6, as well as a much higher-end Zen 5 CPU (PS5 + PS5 Pro use the Zen 2 architecture).

We should expect to have 4K 120FPS and even 8K 60FPS gaming on the PS6, with 8K 60FPS gaming being made possible through PSSR upscaling technology, and the much more powerful UDNA architecture from AMD. The new PlayStation 6 is rumored to be 20% faster in rasterization, and 2x faster in both RT (ray tracing) and AI according to rumors from leaker KeplerL2 just last month.

AMD is reportedly targeting 7.0GHz or higher boost CPU clock speeds for its next-gen Zen 6-based Ryzen CPUs on the desktop, according to new leaks.

In his latest video, Tom from Moore's Law is Dead updates us on his latest insider information suggesting that AMD is "definitely achieving" at least 6.4GHz on Zen 6, while their goal is 7.0GHz, while that 7.0GHz CPU clock is "in the middle" of what AMD is trying to achieve with Zen 6.

AMD's next-gen Zen 6 "Olympic Ridge" desktop AM5 processors clocking in at over 7.0GHz would be a huge deal for the entire market: AMD the company itself, PC gamers, performance enthusiasts, and as another nail into Intel's CPU coffin. Olympic Ridge will arrive on AM5, which is another win for AMD as it won't be forcing consumers into a new chipset and motherboard, unlike Intel's next-gen processors.

It looks like we can expect an open beta of Battlefield 6 in the near future, as news of the open beta has been revealed in a recent data mining expedition.

Insider Gaming reports that "something major is brewing" for Battlefield 6, with mentions of an "open beta" being discovered in a new data mine. The information emerged from the 1BF Telegram Group, which is known for its data mining operations related to Battlefield Labs.

The group found the phrase "Battlefield 6 Open Beta" had been added to the latest client update to BF Labs, with new further information provided, leading gamers to believe that a huge open beta for Battlefield 6 is being planned.

If you're a Hatsune Miku anime fan, then ASUS has the goods for you with the introduction of its new co-branded hardware series starting with the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5080 O16G Hatsune Miku Special Edition graphics card.

Hatsune Miku is a "virtual" pop star from Japan, created back in 2007 by Crypton Future Media using voice synthesis software, portrayed as a teenage girl with turquoise twin-tails. She has gotten more and more popular over the years, has been performing 3D hologram concerts, fan-made projects, and collaborating with various brands, games, and artists.

The aesthetics of the new hardware is impressive, with the beautiful blue-green and pink Miku color scheme spread out across the graphics card on the cover, sides, and back panel. ASUS dons a huge quad-fan design on the card with three fans on the front and one on the back, just like the original ROG Astral RTX 5080. ASUS has added a vapor chamber with a milled heatspreader, phase-change GPU thermal pad, and powerful 50A MOSFETs.

ASUS has revealed the most expensive graphics card ever made, with the introduction of its new ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Real Gold Edition, and it's worth as much as a house at over $500,000.

The new ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Real Gold Edition was revealed at the recent Bilibili World 2025 event, with some pictures shared by @realVictor on X of the new ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Real Gold Edition that is made purely of real gold. Not just up to 6.5g of gold on the recent ROG Astral Dhahab Edition graphics cards made for the Middle Eastern market, but real, actual gold, and a real, actual price of $500,000.

ASUS is using 5kg of real gold on its custom ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Real Gold Edition graphics card, and with 1kg of gold selling for around $100,000... that means that this new custom graphics card is worth an insane $500,000 in just gold alone, with another few thousand dollars for the GeForce RTX 5090 that it's been dipped in.

Billion-dollar video game maven Krafton has delayed Subnautica 2's release right before a $250 million payout bonus was to be issued, leading to controversy and industry-wide rifts.

Krafton recently made a radical decision that made headlines. The publisher ousted Subnautica 2's executive leadership team, pushing three key people out of the Unknown Worlds team, including studio co-founder Max McGuire. Krafton appointed a new CEO of Unknown Worlds to ensure the studio delivered timely build updates for an eventual release.

Now it's been revealed that Subnautica 2's early access period has been delayed to 2026. The timing is suspect, with new reports from Bloomberg indicating that Krafton delayed the game just months before the company would have paid a $250 million bonus to developers. When Krafton bought Unknown Worlds in 2021, a clause in the acquisition contract outlined a bonus payout structure if certain milestones were hit throughout 2025--e.g. if the team could make X amount of revenue by the end of 2025, they'd get a substantial $250 million payout.

Apple was originally slated to release its new M5-powered MacBook Pro laptops later this year, but new information suggests the company has delayed the launch of its new MacBook Pros until 2026.

In his latest Power On newsletter on Bloomberg, Mark Gurman writes that according to "people with knowledge of the matter", Apple is working on upgraded MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, and that these new M5-powered laptops were to be released later this year, but Apple is "considering pushing them back to 2026".

The delay of the new M5-powered MacBook Pros and Airs is because Apple wants to get back to more consistent revenue growth following this fall's iPhone launch. Gurman explains: "After a pandemic-fueled sales surge in the early part of the decade, Apple has suffered from spottier demand the past two years. A slower rollout of new models - including iPads - contributed to the slump".

NVIDIA has announced another giveaway, this time it's a custom Cyberpunk 2077-themed GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card, and you can enter by commenting on the X post below.

The company announced a couple of days ago it was giving away a custom Superman-themed GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition signed by Jim Lee, with the giveaways a part of the GeForce RTX Summer event. The Cyberpunk 2077-themed RTX 5090 isn't hand-painted like the Superman-themed RTX 5090, but it still looks slick.

There's a full yellow sticker wrap on the card, but it would've been real nice if it was a full custom job like previous special editions that the company has used on Cyberpunk 2077-themed graphics cards over the years.

TEAMGROUP has just showcased something ripped right out of a spy movie, with the introduction of its new P250Q Self-Destruct SSD, where you can wipe all of the data from the SSD in a single click.

The new TEAMGROUP P250Q Self-Destruct SSD is something completely new in the storage space, offering an innovative solution to the destruction of data on your SSD, based on intelligent design, various press durations can enable different modes of erasing your data. The new TEAMGROUP P250Q Self-Destruct SSD comes with a Secure Independent Destruction Circuit, which sees the drive perform data destruction using a button through Intelligent Dual-Mode Data Destruction and Intelligent Continuous Execution Mechanism.

The company has its patented independent destruction circuit for erasing your data at the hardware level, where it aims directly at the Flash IC, enabling the TEAMGROUP P250Q Self-Destruct SSD to erase all of the data on your drive, and even resume the operation in the event of the system being abruptly shut down because of a power outage. Based on the duration of the press and the multi-stage indicators, users can track the data erasing process in real-time.

COLORFUL is cooking up a new GeForce RTX 50 series iGame Ultra Duo White SSD GPU, with dual M.2 SSD slots on the back, letting you expand your SSD storage using your graphics card.

Chinese media noticed the new graphics card at the recent Bilibili World 2025 event, with what appears to be COLORFUL's exciting new iGame Ultra Duo White SSD, with what should be a GB206 or GB207-based GeForce RTX 50 series GPU with dual M.2 SSD slots on the back.

The PCB itself looks quite short, with mounting holes on the back of the GPU heatsink sitting between the SSD and I/O bracket without a full slot required. The upcoming COLORFUL iGame Ultra Duo White SSD GPU uses just 8 PCIe lanes, with two additional SSDs using the PCIe bifurcation mechanism, allowing multiple devices to be used on the same interface. The GPU uses 8 lanes, with each SSD enjoying 4 dedicated lanes.

GALAX's flagship GeForce RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC graphics card is an elusive GPU that has just hit eBay with a starting price of $5500... check it out:

The new ultra-flagship GALAX RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC graphics card is one of the fastest consumer GPUs on the planet, with dual 16-pin PCIe power connectors and an insane 2000W BIOS. It has broken multiple world records in the last few weeks since its introduction, with more details on that in the links below.

GALAX's custom RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC graphics card has a powerful 38-phase PWM, 26 of which are dedicated to the GPU, with a 12-layer PCB and two 12VHPWR power connectors. The dual 16-pin power connectors and its 2000W BIOS are designed for LN2 cooling, that allow for peak power consumption of over 1000W, far up and above the 600W limit that NVIDIA imposes on its AIB partners for the RTX 5090.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees this week that he doesn't consider Intel among the world's leading chip companies, saying: "Twenty, 30 years ago, we are really the leader. Now I think the world has changed. We are not in the top 10 semiconductor companies".

The company is too far behind to catch up with NVIDIA in developing technology to train AI, with the new CEO saying that customers are giving Intel failing grades, and that a turnaround for Intel would be a "marathon". Tan said that the recent layoffs that he ordered are a move to make Intel more like its chip-making rivals NVIDIA, AMD, and Broadcom. Tan said "we have to be humble" and that Intel staff need to listen to customers, and respond to their needs.

Intel has a market cap of only $100 billion right now, and if you compare that to NVIDIA, which recently hit a milestone $4 trillion market cap, Intel is not just behind, it's almost like a sinking ship in comparison. Intel replaced its CEO Pat Gelsinger, falling radically behind AMD in the CPU business, and has failed the AI business and left it to NVIDIA.

Silicon Motion has just announced its new MonTitan SM8466 PCIe Gen6 SSD controller, packing up to 28GB/sec speeds and huge 512TB capacities, aimed at the enterprise storage market.

The new Silicon Motion SM8466 SSD controller is part of the company's MonTitan family of controllers, designed specifically for enterprise-tier storage products. The new SM8466 SSD controller is based on the TSMC 4nm process node, supports the SCA interface, has capacities of up to a huge 512TB capacity, and offers huge performance increases over the company's current SM8366 controller.

Silicon Motion's new SM8466 PCIe Gen6 SSD controller is compliant with the new NVMe 2.0 interface and the new OCP NVMe SSD Spec 2.5, featuring SR-IOV / MPF, Namespaces, SMART monitoring, End-to-End Data Protection, Secure Boost, AES-256, TSC Opal, and Attestation support.

AMD has been rumored for quite a while that it was working on a multi-chiplet gaming GPU, with a new patent fueling these rumors in the battle of GPUs against NVIDIA.

In a new video shared by coreteks, we're hearing that AMD has recently secured a new multi-chiplet GPU patent that could solve the latency issues using a 'Smart Switch'. MCM (Multi-Chiplet Module) isn't new, as they're used outside of the gaming GPU market, but there are limitations of monolithic GPU designs that MCM can solve.

AMD used an MCM design approach for its Instinct MI200 series AI accelerators, stacking multiple chiplets onto a single package, including the GPCs (Graphics Processing Cores), HBM memory stack, and the I/O die. However, AMD used a different approach with its Instinct MI350 series AI chips, and this could be the foundation of its multi-chiplet-based consumer gaming GPUs according to coreteks in his new video.

G.SKILL and ASUS have broken the DDR5 memory OC world record, with overclocker bl4ckdot pushing G.SKILL Trident Z5 DDR5 RAM up to a huge 12872MT/s on an ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard.

It was only a couple of months ago in May 2025 that overclocker "bl4ckdot" hit a record at the time with 12774MT/s, but now the overclocker is back with another world record, hitting 12872MT/s. The overclocker holds his world record for the highest DDR5 memory speed once again, using Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor and ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard, a combo used multiple times for DDR5 memory speed world records.

LN2 cooling was used to chill the system down, with bl4ckdot using G.SKILL Trident Z5 DDR5 memory at 12872MT/s (6431.1MHz) and cache latencies of CL68-127-127-127-2. HWBOT now lists bl4ckdot at the top, with overclocker "saltycroissant" in second place, with both of the overclockers being the only two to have broken through the 6400MHz barrier on HWBOT's Memory Frequency Hall of Fame.