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Ahead of the official gameplay unveiling at Gamescom next week, details regarding Resident Evil: Requiem have surfaced online, with a series of posts revealing what players can expect to be present in the upcoming title.

According to prominent Resident Evil leaker Dusk Golem, Requiem will feature new lighting and shadow engines that will be accompanied by a new AI system that will react and behave uniquely in real-time. Moreover, there are more innovations, such as being able to switch between first and third-person camera angles in real time, and the hair engine from Pragmata.

Furthermore, Dusk Golem writes there has been an effort to make Raccoon City an open-level designed environment that can also support vehicles to travel around in, along with innovations in combat, which is reportedly similar to how combat is in The Last of Us games. As with all leaks, take the information with a healthy amount of skepticism, as it hasn't been confirmed and is subject to change. The good news is we won't have to wait long until the confirmation as Resident Evil: Requiem is going to be unveiled at Gamescom next week.

The new OneXPlayer Super X gaming tablet has been unveiled, with the AMD Strix Halo APU-powered ASUS ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet competitor packing some serious hardware inside.

OneNetbook announced its new gaming tablet is powered by AMD's flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU with its 16 cores and 32 threads with 120W of power at the ready, an RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU that the company says provides RTX 4060 Ti and beyond gaming power, and an OLED display.

The new OneXPlayer Super X gaming tablet features a 14-inch 2.8K OLED display with a built-in kickstand and support for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) technology. The company looks to be using a CNC-milled aluminum chassis that's 12.5mm thick, with the gaming slate packing up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory with a 83.5 Wh battery.

US authorities have been secretly placing location tracking devices inside of shipments of advanced AI chips and AI servers that are at high risk of illegal diversion into China.

In a new report from Reuters, it's being reported that the new measures have been enacted to detect AI chips being diverted through countries that are under US export restrictions, and apply only to particular shipments that are under investigation. This move shows how far the US is willing to go to enforce its chip export restrictions to China, and that's even with the Trump administration relaxing some of the US export restrictions to give China access to some advanced US-designed semiconductors.

The trackers are a decades-old investigative tool used by US law enforcement agencies, so that they can track products that are under export restrictions, including airplane parts. Trackers have been used to combat the illegal diversion of semiconductors in the past years, according to one of Reuters' sources.

The recent Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced upgrade and remaster updated the iconic title's visuals with ray-traced ambient occlusion, global illumination lighting, shadows, and reflections. GTA 5 is still one of the most played games on PC, so it's fantastic to see it enhanced with detailed in-game ray-tracing.

This week, it's getting another upgrade in the form of DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation and Frame Generation support for GeForce RTX 50 Series and RTX 40 Series owners. DLSS 4 also includes NVIDIA's game-changing Transformer model for DLSS Super Resolution, so this is a big win for all GeForce RTX owners, including those rocking a GeForce RTX 3060.

With the game maxed out at 4K, with all ray-tracing effects enabled, DLSS Super Resolution set to Performance, and Multi Frame Generation turned on, Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced achieves an impressive 485 FPS on the GeForce RTX 5090, 350 FPS on the GeForce RTX 5080, and 240 FPS on the GeForce RTX 5070.

If you haven't heard about Micro RGB or micro-scale RGB LED backlight display technology, you're not alone. The technology is exclusive to Samsung, and it involves controlling tiny micrometer-sized red, green, and blue micro RGB LEDs located behind the panel for lighting. Samsung says that it raises the bar for "color accuracy and contrast," and the technology is debuting in the company's 115-inch 4K Micro RGB Samsung Vision AI Smart TV.

Yes, there's AI involved, with the Micro RGB lighting controlled by a dedicated Micro RGB AI engine that analyzes each frame in real-time to automatically optimize colors for a more "lifelike and immersive picture." The AI engine can recognize dual color tones, and the overall accuracy is so high that it achieves 100% color coverage of BT.2020, which is the color space used to master 4K HDR movies.

Samsung's impressive world-first Micro RGB TV also includes the company's Glare Free technology to enhance viewing in bright rooms, a generative AI-powered Bixby voice assistant, and other AI tools for improving picture and sound. This state-of-the-art TV doesn't come cheap, as you've probably seen in the headline; it's coming soon to the U.S., with an MSRP of $29,999.

Apple's next-generation iPhone 18 will feature the company's next-gen in-house A20 processor, which is reportedly shifting from InFO to WMCM (Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module) packaging.

The use of WMCM advanced packaging for the A20 chip will be done by TSMC, with WMCM using MUF (Molding Underfill) which integrates underfill and molding processes, reducing material consumption and process steps to improve yield and efficiency, explains insider Ming-Chi Kuo.

Eternal has "outcompeted" Japanese rivals Namics and Nagase to secure its first-ever contract as an advanced packaging materials supplier to TSMC, with mass production of the new A20 chips kicking off in 2026. This is an important step for Eternal, as meeting TSMC's stringent qualifications is no easy feat.

NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 with a tweaked design and just 24GB of GDDR7 (regular RTX 5090 packs 32GB) has arrived to the shores of China, priced at the same price as the RTX 5090 D.

The new RTX 5090 D V2 is mostly unchanged for the most part across the board from the RTX 5090 D non-V2 variant, but the new RTX 5090 D V2 has a radically changed VRAM capacity of 24GB GDDR7 compared to 32GB on the RTX 5090 D and RTX 5090 graphics cards. The tweaks are for NVIDIA to meet US export restrictions to China, hence the new memory configuration.

NVIDIA's official website now lists the RTX 5090 D V2 and all of its GPU specifications, with the GB202-240 die and its 21,760 CUDA cores, 4th Gen Ray Tracing Cores, 5th Gen Tensor Cores, with 2375 AI TOPs of performance. This is compared to the RTX 5090 with 3352 AI TOPs.

Sony's next-generation PlayStation 6 console is shaping up to be a monster 4K 120FPS system thanks to AMD semi-custom chips, with ray tracing performance thanks to RDNA 5 GPU cores in the PS6, could be better than the RTX 5080, and closer to the RTX 5090.

In a new video from leaker Moore's Law is Dead, talks about the ray tracing (RT) performance of the next-gen PlayStation 6 console, and its new codename "Orion" semi-custom SoC from AMD. The PS6 will feature next-generation RDNA 5 GPU cores, with heavy uplifts in rasterization and ray tracing over the standard PS5 and its RDNA 2-based GPU.

The new PS5 Pro likely has RDNA 4-powered RT cores and some other RDNA 4-based optimizations and tweaks inside, with its superior RT performance over the standard PS5, but the next-gen PS6 is going to blow them both out of the water with a possible 5-10x in RT performance over the base PS5.

Will GTA 6 be delayed again? No one knows for sure, but Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick publicly telegraphs the game will release in May 2026 as intended.

Rockstar and Take-Two aren't ready to entertain the possibility of another Grand Theft Auto 6 delay, especially now that company stock is up. In a recent interview with CNBC, company CEO Strauss Zelnick said that he's pretty confident that GTA 6 will keep its summer 2026 launch.

"My level of conviction is very, very high, obviously," Zelnick responded when asked what his conviction level was on GTA 6's current release date.

The Battlefield 6 open beta has directly translated to boosted pre-orders, with one analyst estimating over 600,000 people have bought the game ahead of time on Steam.

Battlefield 6 exploded onto the FPS market with a chaotically fun open beta, driving tons of buzz. The beta attracted half a million people on Steam, which is more peak players than any Call of Duty game in history.

BF6 is also currently the top #1 best-selling premium game on Steam right now. Battlefield 6 has actually kept this position for two weeks now.

The walls of gaming continue to fall as Xbox and PlayStation openly cooperate with game crossover content.

Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26, and to celebrate, Sony dropped a new trailer for the game on the Xbox channel. After decades of fierce rivalry, where Microsoft even called Sony a "hostile" competitor, it still feels jarring to see a PlayStation logo on Xbox content.

Microsoft was the first to break exclusivity with Xbox games and to great effect; Xbox earnings are higher than ever. There's signs Sony may do the same with its own games, at least selectively. Sony is currently moving away from a hardware-oriented business, focusing more on engagement and users, leading them to bring their best-selling live service game Helldivers 2 to Xbox.

Cutting-edge carbon nanotube technology that was previously reserved for space-based missions has now made its way into the PC gaming market, and it's attempting to replace thermal paste as a premium option.

Carbon nanotube technology involves the use and manipulation of carbon nanotubes, which are extremely small cylindrical structures that are entirely made out of carbon atoms that are arranged in a hexagonal pattern.

The material offers some key characteristics that make it applicable for space-based missions, such as its exceptional strength of being about 100 times stronger than steel by weight, high electrical conductivity, excellent thermal conductivity, very lightweight, and flexible despite its strength.

A new Resident Evil horror movie is in development and it will tell a brand new narrative that's separate from the games--that means no Leon or Claire story arcs.

Zach Cregger, the director of acclaimed horror movies Weapons (2025) and Barbarian (2022), is lending his creative vision to a new Resident Evil movie. The film aims to capture the creeping dread from the original games, of which Cregger is a huge fan--especially RE4.

While we don't know official story details just yet, Cregger tells Inverse that it won't be another rehash of the games. This isn't an adaptation of a particular game, but of the series as a whole, set with macabre overtones.

Dataminers have uncovered what is believed to be evidence that Halo titles are making their way over to PlayStation.

The information is sourced from Grunt.api and RebsGaming, with RebsGaming being known for his information on the Halo Games and pointing to Grunt.api as a source in the past. As for credibility, in 2021, Grunt.api accurately predicted the release date for Halo Infinite's multiplayer mode. As for the new information, the dataminer looked into the Application Programming Interface (API) of Halo and found, "new Halo title with PlayStation compatibility is listed in the API".

Additionally, the same title was discovered in PlayFab last Monday, which is a backend platform that assists in cross-platform matchmaking, progression, and unified online services. Furthermore, a new beta title, along with a second new Halo title with PlayStation compatibility, were discovered within the API, but the dataminer said there isn't much information on either of these titles.

A gaming handheld packing an NVIDIA RTX 4090 graphics card sounds improbable, but an eye-opening DIY effort has achieved just this - and it boasts some seriously nippy frame rates while staying impressively cool.

As Notebookcheck picked up (via TechRadar), this is the work of Qingchen DIY on Bilibili, as showcased by NITTRX on YouTube (see this video clip).

It's a 12.5-inch handheld PC - obviously stretching the definition of portable to some extent - which comes with an RTX 4090 of the mobile variety with 16GB of VRAM (it's not like it would ever be a desktop GPU, of course). That's partnered with an Intel Core-i9 14900HX laptop CPU (with 24-cores), and the display is a 4K affair with a 60Hz refresh rate.

FBC Firebreak, the new multiplayer shooter from Max Payne and Alan Wake studio Remedy, has fallen flat for the Finnish developer.

Remedy's first self-published game hasn't found success, at least at launch. The company today acknowledged the commercial disappointment of FBC Firebreak's launch, especially on Steam, where the game "underperformed."

Interestingly enough, FBC Firebreak helped boost year-over-year sales. Remedy also saw an uplift from Firebreak's launch via direct game sales and earnings from subscription deals made with PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass.

Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake is currently in development by Remedy Entertainment and Rockstar Games, according to a new report.

The last time we heard about the Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake was in Remedy's last financial report, where it said development was moving along at a steady pace, with the game entering full production in 2024. The financial report revealed that production on the two Remakes is still in "full production," with the team at Remedy building on the steady momentum from earlier in the year.

Moreover, the statement revealed, "Collaboration with Rockstar Games remains close and productive, ensuring alignment as the project advances toward its next major phase." The statement revealed that Remedy and Rockstar have teamed up for the remake, but it still remains unclear what the share of the development work is, and more specifically, what level of involvement Rockstar has in the project. Despite the unknown, it's great to know that development is continuing for the Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake.

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The first open beta weekend for Battlefield 6 was a massive success with more than 500,000 players jumping into the action-packed game on Steam, with thousands more across other platforms. The chaos doesn't stop there, as weekend two is coming up.

The second weekend of the open beta will usher in some new changes, such as the inclusion of new maps and game modes for players to enjoy. The news was announced by Daniel Cambrand, an Environmental Artist at EA DICE, and a current member of the Battlefield development team. Cambrand took to his personal X account to share his thanks for the massive reception of the first open beta weekend, and added that in the upcoming beta weekend, players will be able to jump into Rush and Squad Deathmatch.

In addition to the new modes, Cambrand revealed there would be a new map, Empire State. Moreover, the new modes and map will be on top of the already included maps and modes within the beta, which, for those who can't remember or don't know what they are, are Liberation Peak, Siege of Cairo, and Iberian Offensive, as for modes, Conquest, Closed Weapon Conquest, Breakthrough, Domination, and King of the Hill.

Roblox has threatened to sue a "predator hunter" named "Schlep" who makes videos on exposing child predators on Roblox who are attempting to groom children.

Lawyers representing The Roblox Corporation have banned Schlep and all of his accounts following a cease and desist letter being sent to the YouTuber, who has more than 640,000 subscribers. Schlep posted a recent video explaining the letter from Roblox, which claims the YouTuber is "engaging in simulated child endangerment conversations, sharing or soliciting personally identifiable information (PII), [and] directing users to move conversations off-platform."

Notably, Schlep claims to have directly influenced the arrest of six predators using the Roblox ecosystem for participating in nefarious grooming activity. Moreover, Schlep says during the video that he experienced grooming by an individual when he was younger, and that his motivation behind his vigilante activities on Roblox is to prevent what happened to him from happening to other children using the platform.