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GIGABYTE's custom GeForce RTX 5090 AORUS Master graphics card has had its BIOS flashed with the leaked XOC BIOS for the ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 D, pushing its power limit to 1600W and providing around 10% more performance over the stock BIOS.

YouTuber JayzTwoCents used the leaked XOC BIOS for the ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 D on his GIGABYTE RTX 5090 (non-D) AORUS Master, which on the ROG Astral RTX 5090 enables a huge 2001W power limit, but on the RTX 5090 non-D it's limited to 1600W. None of the custom RTX 5090 cards have dual 16-pin power connectors, which is why we won't see them pushed up to 2001W TDPs.

Once the XOC BIOS was flashed to the RTX 5090 AORUS Master, JayzTwoCents noticed that one of the fans on graphics card stopped spinning, which is because the RTX 50 series GPUs support up to three fan controllers, and the ROG Astral RTX 5090 has four fans but uses two controllers.

Battlefield 6 is going to be one of the biggest games of 2026, and with its leaked PC system requirements seeing gamers require just 30GB of storage space... that is a surprising move in a world where Call of Duty can chew through an insane 300GB+ of storage.

The Battlefield 6 PC system requirements come from HyperPC picked up by @BattlefieldIntel on X, pointing towards only 30GB of storage, and pretty tame minimum system requirements of an Intel Core i5-8400 processor, 16GB of RAM, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060.

The recommended system requirements for Battlefield 6 are bumped up a bit, with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, the same 16GB RAM, and a higher-end NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card. However, the 4K Ultra requirements are pretty hardcore with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D processor, 32GB of RAM (that's not that bad), and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card.

A new Friday the 13th video game is on the way, producer Robert Barsamian announced at San Diego Comic-Con.

With both Clive Barker and even John Carpenter working on games, the demand for horror movie games appears to be strong. Film companies are now more willing to license out big names like Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Friday the 13th. The last F13 game, an online-driven multiplayer game, was pulled offline last year due to licensing. Now Jason Voorhees is coming back to the gaming world courtesy of Horror Inc's Jason Universe, a new brand name that handles the Friday the 13th franchise.

"I can tell you that a new sequel movie and new sequel game are at the top of our list. In fact, it's where most of our energy's going right now. And I can tell you, finally, we're in a position to deliver on that," said Horror Inc president Robert Barsamian.

It's not just Fallout--the brutal anti-Nazi shooter series Wolfenstein is also getting a TV series.

Wolfenstein is coming to the small screen, with its signature violence in tow. Amazon is developing a Wolfenstein TV series for its Prime Video streaming service, Variety reports, with a one-sentence description summing up the show: "The story of killing Nazis is evergreen."

Kilter Films, who also worked with Bethesda on the popular Fallout TV series, will be involved with three executive producers attached to the Wolfenstein project. Patrick Somerville, who executive produced Netflix's dark psychological sci-fi series Maniac, will create, write, and executive produce the Wolfenstein show. MachineGames' Jerk Gustafsson will also serve as a producer.

New data underlines just how big FromSoftware's Elden Ring franchise has grown in such a short span.

FromSoftware recently announced sales updates for both Shadow of the Erdtree and the new Nightreign spinoff. According to the figures, Nightreign has sold 5 million units (including pre-orders) so far, a great performance for a multiplayer-only spinoff; to put these numbers into perspective, some AAA games are lucky to hit 5 million sales, let alone a side game that requires users to always be online.

Shadow of the Erdtree is now at 10 million sales, up from the 5 million sales figure that Bandai Namco reported shortly after launch (Erdtree had hit 5 million sales in 3 days, making up more than half of Bandai Namco's total game sales for the quarter).

Lian Li's original O11D Mini chassis was widely praised when it debuted, offering a modular design that offered versatile build options and the space to house even the largest desktop graphics cards. The highly anticipated follow-up, the Lian Li O11D MINI V2, has finally arrived - and this time it's got even more room.

With only a minor 2L or 2-liter volume increase over the original, it's enough for the O11D MINI V2 to offer full ATX support for both motherboards and power supplies. Yes, not only is the Lian Li O11D MINI V2 an excellent case for building an M-ATX or Mini-ITX rig with overclocked components, a powerful GPU, and ample cooling, but it also supports full-sized motherboards and power supplies.

However, when it comes to 200mm ATX PSU support, this is enabled with an offset mounting bracket and "side panel protrusion." This is something we noticed when we first saw the O11D MINI V2 at Computex 2025, where, at the time, Lian Li explained that it was due to them sticking to a strict 45-liter limitation for the case.

Chinese server CPU manufacturer, Zhaoxin, has just unveiled its next-gen KH-50000 chiplet CPUs for servers boasting up to 96 cores.

The new Zhaoxin KH-50000 chiplet CPUs are a serious upgrade over the current KH-40000 offerings, with KH-40000 offerings featuring up to 32 cores, 32 threads, 64MB cache, 8-channel DDR4 memory support, and 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes. The chips feature a chiplet CPU architecture, meaning they come in various SKUs with 16-core and 12-core offerings with CPU clocks of up to 2.5GHz.

Zhaoxin's next-gen KH-50000 chiplet CPUs boast a considerable upgrade in CPU power, unveiled at the Shanghai World Expo 2025 event, based on a chiplet architecture and feature support for an LGA socketed platform. The new Zhaoxin KH-50000 chips feature up to 96 cores (no confirmation on SMT, but we could see 96C/192T like AMD's new EPYC processors).

SK hynix has confirmed that it's cooking up higher-capacity GDDR7 memory modules that will roll out later this year, confirming it is increasing the maximum capacity of its GDDR7 from 16GB (2GB per module) to 24GB (3GB per module).

The South Korean memory giant commented on its larger 3GB GDDR7 memory modules for AI GPUs, but we know that we'll see 3GB GDDR7 memory modules arrive on desktop gaming GPUs like NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 50 SUPER series GPUs that have been in the rumor mill for months now.

We should see NVIDIA release a new GeForce RTX 5090 SUPER with a possible 48GB or even 64GB of GDDR7 memory, the RTX 5080 SUPER has been rumored with the full GB203 GPU and a larger 24GB of GDDR7 at 32Gbps and 420W+ of power. The RTX 5070 SUPER is rumored with 18GB of GDDR7 in the future.

Intel Foundry is in serious trouble if it can't find big customers to use its Intel 14A process, and, wouldn't you believe it, there are rumors flying that Apple might use Intel as its semiconductor partner for upcoming M-series processors.

In a new report, GF Securities analyst Jeff Pu, who has the inside track at Apple, claims Intel is sampling early versions of Intel 14A PDK to its customers, and that both Apple and NVIDIA are interested in using Intel Foundry as a chipmaking partner.

Pu said: "The next focus Intel 14A process will incorporate second-gen RibbonFET and PowerDirect, marking a technological evolution built upon the foundation of the PowerVia introduced in Intel's 18A. Targeting both AI and edge applications, Intel has already provided early versions of the 14A PDK to key customers, with several expressing interest in producing test chips. We anticipate NVIDIA's gaming GPU (low-end version) and Apple's M series to emerge as adopters of Intel 14A".

The future of Intel Foundry is in the hands of external customers like Apple and NVIDIA signing up for its new Intel 14A process node, and if that doesn't happen, the company might be closing the doors to its semiconductor foundry business.

Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan said on Thursday that its engineers were hard at work with customers to jump-start its next-gen contract manufacturing process, after the company announced yet another wave of layoffs that will see 15,000+ jobs slashed.

The company's next-gen Intel 14A process node is crucial to the success of the technology, so much so that if Intel fails to secure big customers for its new node, it might be shutting down its Intel Foundry business for good. If Intel did drop out of the chipmaking race, it would be huge news (on top of the piles of huge news from Intel, and its mostly not good) as Intel is the only US-based chipmaker capable (well, kinda) of making advanced chips.

NVIDIA is still cooking its upcoming N1X AI PC processor, based on Arm CPU cores and Blackwell GPU cores. But now we've got some Geekbench scores that show it's as fast as a GeForce RTX 5070, and faster than all other integrated GPUs on the market.

In some new Geekbench OpenCL browser benchmarks, we have the upcoming NVIDIA N1X processor scoring 46,361 points. We've also got some details on the Blackwell-based GPU which rocks 6144 CUDA cores and 48 SM units, the same core count as the GeForce RTX 5070 which is based on the GB205 "Blackwell" GPU.

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 features the GB205 GPU, which contains 192 TMUs, 80 ROPs, 48 RT Cores, and 192 Tensor Cores. There's also 12GB of GDDR7 memory with up to 672GB/sec of memory bandwidth, a GPU boost clock of up to 2512MHz and a 250W TDP.

FromSoftware is directly responding to fan feedback by adding in a two-player co-op mode into Elden Ring Nightreign.

Two-player mode is coming to Elden Ring Nightreign on July 30, developer FromSoftware has announced.

"On July 30, 2025, take on Night's terrors as two kindred souls. Duo Expeditions will be added in patch 1.02 of ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN. Additionally, patch 1.02 will include quality-of-life UI improvements, including more Relics filtering options."

The team behind the highly successful Fallout London mod may have just teased their next big project.

Fallout London has an unusual story. The mod was so popular and anticipated before release that it got its own official spot on CD Projekt's Good Old Games (GOG) storefront. This paid off big time, as Fallout London (or FOLON for short) is one of the most popular video game mods of all time with over 1 million downloads.

Now the team is celebrating Fallout London's one year anniversary by potentially hinting at something new.

Polyphony Digital is hiring a new Project Manager, and it's possible the team is working on Gran Turismo 8 for Sony's next-gen PlayStation 6 console.

Sony recently updated the PlayStation careers page. This has led to the discovery of some interesting job openings, including one that may hint that Sony will break exclusivity with first-party games and bring PlayStation Studios titles over to Xbox (while games like Death Stranding and Helldivers 2 are coming to Xbox, these aren't made by wholly-owned PS Studios teams).

The job listings are global, and one particular role in Japan caught my eye: Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital is hiring a Project Manager to work on the franchise. It's unclear if this is directly connected with a new Gran Turismo game, but it's certainly not unlikely given that Sony is currently working on the next AI-powered PlayStation console with AMD.

Techland has delayed Dying Light The Beast by 4 weeks, with the standalone survival game now launching in September.

The next Dying Light game is almost ready--it just needs more time to cook. Polish developer Techland has announced a month delay for Dying Light The Beast as the team doubles down on quality and presentability. The delay falls in line with recent comments made by the studio; Techland has said that The Beast is so important that they are treating it like Dying Light 3.

"It has always been our goal to make Dying Light: The Beast the best Dying Light game we've ever released. To honor this promise, we've made the decision to move the release date to September 19, 2025 to allow for extra polishing work," the studio said.

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A new investigation has been published into the smuggling of banned NVIDIA GPUs into China during the early stages of the Trump administration's tightening of export restrictions. The report states that at least $1 billion of high-powered NVIDIA AI hardware was smuggled to China, circumventing the newly implemented US trade restrictions.

The report comes from the Financial Times, which states that a billion dollars worth of NVIDIA GPUs were shipped to China during the three months before Trump eased the trade restrictions with the nation, with the report citing "dozens of sales contracts, company filings, and multiple people with direct knowledge of the deals." More specifically, Chinese distributors from the Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Anhui provinces are alleged to have sold various NVIDIA AI GPUs in large quantities, including the B200, H100, and H200.

These GPUs were sold and moved in racks that were approximately the size of a "large suitcase" and contained all of the necessary components to integrate them directly into an existing data center. Each of these "racks" was valued at approximately $489,000, which means the price was jacked up by at least 50% when compared to the average retail value in the US.

A new job listing at Sony may suggest that more first-party PlayStation Studios games could cross over to rival platforms like Nintendo Switch and Xbox. The job listing could also be for cross-platform games like MLB The Show.

Gamers speculate the end of exclusivity may be at an end, and Sony's own internal reports may support this theory.

Sony is hiring a Sr Director, Multiplatform & Account Management that will "play a critical leadership role in shaping and executing the global commercial strategy for PlayStation Studios software titles across all digital platforms beyond PlayStation hardware, including Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox, Nintendo, and mobile."

Splitgate 2 goes back to beta as 1047 Games braces for the impact of the premature launch.

1047 Games' quest to 'make FPS great again' isn't off to a good start. Splitgate 2, which released just last month, is now un-launching and going back into beta. The developer announced the move amid recent layoffs and a microtransactions controversy, saying that new overhauls are coming in early 2026. The team will use direct player feedback to shape the updates.

"We launched too early. We had ambitious goals with Splitgate 2, and in our excitement to share it with you, we bit off more than we could chew. We rushed certain features, made some boneheaded mistakes, and most importantly - we didn't give you the polished, portal-filled mayhem you fell in love with," the studio writes in a Steam community message.

Starfield fans are latching on to an innocuous comment made by Bethesda on a recent game update post, but it's hard to say if a new expansion will actually happen or not.

Starfield's latest Shattered Space expansion is almost a year old now, and fans are clamoring for more content. Optics and visibility into what's on the horizon remains dim, especially with the latest Xbox layoffs affecting multiple projects. Bethesda also reportedly cut funding for a new FPS game from John Romero, so it's difficult to say which projects may be funded at this point.

Bethesda recently posted up patch notes for Starfield's new 1.15.222 update, saying: "Looking ahead, we're continuing work on future updates and will share more about the exciting things we have planned for Starfield in the coming months."