Fresh rumors are swirling about the RX 9060 XT, which is expected to be revealed later this month, and we're now again hearing that there will be both 8GB and 16GB flavors of this GPU.

However, AMD is apparently set to mostly focus on the 16GB model, so the RX 9060 XT graphics card that has 8GB of RAM will be more of a sideshow - in much the same vein as NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti, where the 8GB incarnation is difficult to find. There simply aren't many of those GPUs out there (not that many gamers are really looking, anyway).

If you've been following this thread of speculation regarding AMD's next plans for RDNA 4, you'll recall that we were originally told that there'd be 8GB and 16GB variants of this lower-mid-range GPU - then further rumors insisted that AMD had cancelled the RX 9060 XT 8GB version.

Gaming monitors come in all different sizes and speeds, with some designed for a more general gamer, and others, such as Acer's recently announced Nitro XV240 F6, being designed for a specific type of gamer.

The Nitro XV240 F6 is a gaming monitor designed for speed, with its trade-off being in resolution. Acer explains the new gaming monitor is a 1920 x 1080p "UltraSpeed" display that features an insanely fast 600Hz refresh rate, which is 10 times the typical rate of a monitor (60Hz), and a little less than three times the 240Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor I'm using to write this post. As for other specifications, the Nitro XV240 F6 is a 24-inch TN LCD panel that sports a 250-nit brightness, HDR400 certification, a pair of 2-watt speakers, and zero USB ports.

The Nitro XV240 F6 is rocking a 0.1ms (GtG) response time, a 1000:1 contrast ratio, 100x100 VESA wall mounting support, and DCI-P3 90% color gamut. As for connectivity, the Nitro XV250 F6 features 1x HDMI and 1x DisplayPort. Notably, the HDMI port is limited to 240Hz at 1080p, while the DisplayPort enables the full 600Hz refresh rate. Given its specifications and Acer's press release, the Nitro XV250 F6 is aimed directly at competitive gamers who aren't too fussed with image clarity and just want the highest framerate they possibly can.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has announced that Fortnite will return to the US-based iOS App Store next week, with the Unreal Engine creator also putting forward a "peace proposal" to Apple at the same time.

Sweeney posted on X, saying: "We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week. Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic".

This comment was in a reply to a post on X a couple of hours ago, where Sweeney said: "NO FEES on web transactions. Game over for the Apple Tax. Apple's 15-30% junk fees are now just as dead here in the United States of America as they are in Europe under the Digital Markets Act. Unlawful here, unlawful there. 4 years 4 months 17 days".

As part of its Q3 2024 earnings call, Remedy Entertainment shared some optimistic updates on the status of Control 2 and the Max Payne 1-2 remakes.

While speaking to investors, Remedy highlighted that "Max Payne 1 + 2 Remakes is [all the time] making good progress in the production phase."

The project, initially announced in 2022, has been the subject of relatively transparent discussions in investor meetings. Last year, Remedy confirmed that the project passed the proof-of-concept phase in April and "production readiness" in October. Fast-forward to May 2025, and the project remains aligned with early timelines, officially entering full production as of April last year.

After a month of early access, developer Netmarble has announced that Game of Thrones: Kingsroad will be free-to-play and available on PC and mobile devices come May 21.

The open-world RPG is set during season 4 of HBO's hit TV series, featuring familiar characters such as Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, and Ramsay Bolton. The game also features the TV actors' likeness, and fleshed-out versions of its iconic locations like Castle Black and Winterfell.

While Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is primarily a single-player experience, the game features online co-op features and monetization mechanics. Steam reviews currently sit at 'Mixed' over 1000 reviews, praising the game's writing, tone, and character customization, while lambasting the game's aggressive pay-to-win features.

id Software's DOOM: The Dark Ages launches May 13 for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5. The PC version is set to go all-in on the latest RTX technologies, with full Path Tracing and support for DLSS 4, including multi-frame generation. It's a ray-tracing-only game that uses RT for accurate hit detection, which ramps up the combat.

The Path Tracing or Full Ray Tracing in DOOM: The Dark Ages ensures that it covers everything from shadows to reflections and global illumination. This is then paired with DLSS 4's new AI model for Super Resolution and Ray Reconstruction to enhance image quality and Multi Frame Generation and Reflex to boost performance while maintaining responsive controls.

For the absolute maxed-out 4K path-traced DOOM experience, you will need a pretty powerful GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU. NVIDIA confirms that running on a GeForce RTX 5090 in 4K with Ultra Settings, Path Tracing, and Multi-Frame Generation (4X) will give you 210 FPS.

The oldest living full-time NASA astronaut, Don Pettit, has sat down for an interview following his recent 220-day stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), where he revealed an interesting effect of prolonged space residency.

Pettit spoke to reporters a week after touching back down on Earth on April 20, his 70th birthday, which is probably one of the most unique birthday presents a human can receive - plummeting back down to the surface of your home planet. Pettit has now racked up 590 days aboard the ISS, and reporters asked him about the impact space has on the body at the age of 70.

Pettit said that after prolonged exposure to the weightlessness of space, coming back down to Earth's gravity has always posed a "significant challenge," with the veteran NASA astronaut acknowledging he didn't look great in the photos/videos of him being carried away from the Soyuz spacecraft on April 20.

The GeForce Game Ready 576.28 WHQL driver is here, and this one fixes many issues related to the GeForce RTX 50 Series - from crashes to freezes to flickering textures in games. It also resolves a GPU temperature monitoring bug from the most recent official driver release, which caused issues for PCs waking up from sleep states.

This new driver incorporates all of the fixes we've seen in NVIDIA's recent GeForce Hotfix Display Drivers, which have addressed many issues and reported bugs.

This is one of those rare GeForce drivers from NVIDIA that doesn't focus on new game support or optimized settings, and it's a definite must for all GeForce RTX 50 Series owners. Especially those playing Black Myth: Wukong, Red Dead Redemption 2, Horizon Forbidden West, Resident Evil 4, Forza Horizon 5, and more.

AMD is preparing to formally unveil and launch its mainstream RDNA 4 line-up, which includes the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB and Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB. Like the recent GeForce RTX 5060 Ti launch from NVIDIA, the difference between the two models is in VRAM capacity. Previously, we reported on a rumor that AMD was planning to lift the lid on the Radeon RX 9060 XT at Computex 2025, and now, with this latest report, we can pencil it in.

A new report at Benchlife (via Videocardz) indicates that the Radeon RX 9060 XT will be unveiled on May 21 as part of AMD's press conference. It also notes that "product availability" will be sometime in June, which aligns with previous rumors about a release in the first week of June.

This also aligns with AMD's official word, indicating that the Radeon RX 9060 XT will be released sometime in Q2 2025. With the baseline GeForce RTX 5060 (with an MSRP of $299) expected to launch on May 19, it'll be interesting to see if this is enough time for AMD to provide benchmark comparisons as these two GPUs, specifically the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB, are expected to go head-to-head.

Gearbox has just wrapped up the Borderlands 4 reveal with PlayStation in a recent State of Play live stream that showcased many new aspects of the upcoming game, such as the game's new loot, movement, new characters, mechanics, and story teasers.

The 20-minute presentation began with a short gameplay teaser trailer that reveals players will be able to take advantage of new movement mechanics, such as gliding to traverse long distances. Gearbox says players will also be able to dash, double jump, climb, and point grapple, all of which have been designed to increase the amount of fun players will have in combat, and also speed up the time it takes to move around the world.

Another addition to Borderlands 4 that makes moving around the world easier is Silos, which when grappled take players up to extreme heights and let them glide down. Two new vault hunters are available: Rafa, an exosuit soldier, and a siren called Vex, who can summon a phantom called Trouble to assist in combat through various customizable elemental attacks.

XPG, ADATA's enthusiast and gamer brand, has just launched its new MARS 980 Gen5 SSD Series - high-performance PCIe Gen5 SSDs with read speeds of up to 14,000 MB/s and an 'advanced 6nm process controller.' The flagship MARS 980 STORM looks like a tiny cryo or deep sleep chamber from a sci-fi film because it includes a hybrid liquid and active fan cooling system.

With a sequential read/write speed of 14,000/13,000MB per second, the MARS 980 STORM's performance is up there. XPG notes that its blend of liquid cooling and symmetrical dual-fan setup with copper heat pipes reduces temperatures by around 20% compared to a traditional fanless heatsink. The patented design is powered via the M.2 slot, so there's no need for additional cables, and is available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities.

The MARS 980 STORM is an SSD built for a high-performance gaming PC, whereas the MARS 980 BLADE is designed for laptops and compact mini-PCs looking to take advantage of the faster speeds PCIe Gen5 SSDs offer. Like the STORM, the BLADE also offers a sequential read/write speed of 14,000/13,000MB per second, using a "highly efficient 6nm controller" for low power consumption and thermal efficiency. Like the STORM, it's also available in capacities of up to 4TB.

The MSI Claw 8 AI+ and MSI Claw 7 AI+ PC gaming handhelds stand out as they are powered by Intel Core Ultra 200V chips with integrated Arc Battlemage graphics, aka Lunar Lake. As part of recent driver updates (Intel graphics driver 32.0.101.6734 and newer), now available for MSI Claw handhelds, owners can expect a free 10% boost to gaming performance with significantly better 1% low performance.

This is important because a high 1% low figure indicates that you're getting smooth and consistent performance. Intel has provided a benchmark chart showcasing 1080p Medium performance on MSI Claw handhelds in 17W mode across a wide range of games, and the results are impressive.

"In testing this update across 9 games on the MSI Claw 8 AI+ in the Manual 17W profile, players can expect higher average GPU frequency and improved frame pacing, which translates to significant uplifts in not only average FPS but also in 1% low FPS, also called the 99th percentile," Intel writes. "What this all means is we're improving not only performance but also smoothness for a great gaming experience."

EA founder Trip Hawkins has laid out some predictions and thoughts about the Nintendo Switch 2 and the future of next-gen hardware in a Medium blog post.

Nintendo is gearing up for the Switch 2's release in June, and forecasts indicate there could be up to 20 million Switch 2 consoles produced in the first year. The successor is also expected to potentially ship as many as 8 million units at launch. Everyone is talking about the Switch 2, even industry figures from a long-ago era like EA and 3DO founder Trip Hawkins.

In a recent blog post, Hawkins laid out his predictions for the Switch 2, and they're quite straightforward: The Switch 2 will break 100 million sales in its lifespan.

SilverStone has a new power supply, an ultra-high-capacity 2500W PSU. The SilverStone HELA 2500Rz Cybenetics Platinum 2500W ATX 3.1 & PCIe 5 Fully Modular ATX Power Supply includes four, yes four, native 12V-2x6 connectors. This is enough juice to power four GeForce RTX 5080 or three GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs, and it is so beefy that it demands a 200-240 volt outlet to unlock its full power.

It also ships with five standard 8-pin power connectors (two dual 6+2-pin and three single 6+2-pin cables), so there's also the option to connect a few Radeon RX 9000 Series or GeForce RTX 5060 Series GPUs. This is a beast of a PSU, and not something you'd get for PC gaming; this would be more for a workstation running GPU-intensive tasks like AI.

Per the product title, the SilverStone HELA 2500Rz is Cybenetics Platinum certified to ensure that it runs efficiently and minimizes heat. SilverStone notes that thanks to the 135mm dual ball bearing fan, you can expect silent performance, and the HELA 2500Rz has an operating temperature of 50 degrees Celsius after 24/7 continuous power output.

The PC Gaming Show has officially announced its return, arriving June 8 to showcase over 50 games from publishers including Ubisoft and Devolver Digital.

The show was first established during E3 2015, and has steadily grown in popularity, reaching over 76 million viewers as of last summer. As of 2025, the show will be celebrating its 10th anniversary. Some of its most notable reveals during this span included XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, which was revealed in 2017. Satisfactory, which was revealed in 2018. As well as Wartales, which was showcased in 2021.

Ubisoft is slated to be the feature guest of the PC Gaming Show, with rumours suggesting that the publisher could show off Anno 117: Pax Romana, an RTS title set in the Roman Empire. Hardcore Gamer also speculates that we could see the remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003), or the sequel to Beyond Good & Evil (2003) - however, the status of these projects currently remains up in the air.

Xbox gaming hardware revenues are down year-over-year for the fifth consecutive quarter in a row.

Microsoft's Q3 FY25 results are up, and Xbox delivered a new all-time high of $5.721 billion revenue during the quarter. While total earnings were up +5%, Xbox hardware earnings are down once again, this time decreasing by -6% year-over-year. Xbox made an estimated $329 million from hardware in the quarter, which includes Xbox consoles and accessories. With these results, Q3'25 represents the fifth straight quarter in a row of Xbox hardware revenue declines on a year-over-year comparable basis.

It's also the lowest hardware revenue of the Xbox Series X/S generation of consoles (Q3'24 had previously been the lowest at $347 million), and at just $329 million out of $5,721 million, hardware made up 6% of total quarterly revenues.

Xbox just delivered record Q3 results, and these earnings helped boost the profitability of its home segment.

Microsoft's Q3'FY25 earnings show an uptick in Xbox revenues, with the games division raking in $5.721 billion in the period. This is a new all-time third quarter record for Xbox that pushes cumulative 9-month revenues to nearly $18 billion.

But what about profitability? That's information that we don't get. Microsoft only reports profits of its individual segments, and since Xbox is part of Microsoft's More Personal Computing segment, we don't get actual profit margins for the Xbox division. We can still analyze the full extent in what Microsoft says about gaming, though.

Microsoft's latest Q3 results are in, and it's good news for Xbox.

Today, Microsoft announced its Q3'FY25 earnings results, showing a strong uptick in games earnings during a particularly slow time of the year for gaming. Throughout the Q3 period, which took place from Jan 1 - March 31, 2025, Xbox generated $5.721 billion in total revenue. That makes Q3'25 a record-breaking third quarter for Xbox.

Xbox gaming earnings were up +5% year-over-year, or $270 million, over last year's results, delivering a total of $5.721 billion. Content and services led this increase with a +8% year-over-year jump, driven by growth in Xbox Game Pass, Call of Duty, and Minecraft, two of Microsoft's franchises. There was no other real information about the gaming segment in the reports and we may get more information from Satya Nadella and Microsoft management during the earnings call.

Intel announced the enablement of its high-end 14A process node at its Direct Connect 2025 event this week, where we get some juicy new details on the new semiconductor process node.

Intel's freshly-minted CEO Lip-Bu Tan took the stage to reveal an updated Intel Foundry roadmap, adding new Intel 18A derivatives, and announcing the enablement of its high-end Intel 14A process node. The company says that it's already working with partners and 14A, and that it's sharing early versions of the Product Design Kit (PDK), and that so far, customers are reportedly happy with the implementation of Intel's new 14A process node.

The new Intel 14A process node will feature the company's second-generation PowerVia implementation dubbed PowerDirect, a more power-efficient method that focuses directly on supplying and draining transistor power through specialized contacts. This means that with Intel 14A, the company is effectively two entire generations ahead of semiconductor leader TSMC when it comes to employing backside power delivery (BSPD).

Electronic Arts has unfortunately stopped active development on the EA Sports WRC series.

Yesterday, it was revealed that publisher EA was laying off anywhere from 300 to 400 people (including 100 developers at Respawn) in a bid to cut costs amid significant economic uncertainty. Two projects were also cancelled at Respawn, including a Titanfall game. Now EA is hitting the snooze button on one the more fringe sports franchises under its banner, EA Sports WRC.

"After releasing EA SPORTS WRC in 2023, the 2024 season, including the recently released Hard Chargers Content pack, will be our last expansion," reads the announcement.