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Will GTA 6 cost $100, and push AAA game prices to a new MSRP during an economy fraught with rising prices? CD Projekt weighs in with a purely opinion answer.

Just 5 years ago, the games industry used the 9th console generation to collective raised software prices. Games went from $59.99 to $69.99, a price hike that better reflects the higher costs of games development. Now amid a downturn--which is driven by a course-correction of overspending and bad bets placed during COVID-19--it's speculated that GTA 6's release could be used to deliver another price hike.

So what do developers think about this? There's been lots of back-and-forth about GTA 6 costing $100 and now we have the perspective of one of CD Projekt's higher-ups on the topic.

AMD is cooking up a refreshed Ryzen AI series "Gorgon Point" APU family, based on Zen 5 and RDNA 3.5, expected to drop in 2026.

In a special event hosted by LG and AMD for its next-generation Gram laptop, we have AMD's new Gorgon Point APU. The flagship Ryzen AI 9 variant of Gorgon Point will feature 12 cores and 24 threads of Zen 5 processing power, the same core and thread count as the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" APU.

Gorgon Point bumps the CPU clocks up to 5.2GHz+ as well as boosting L3 cache up to 36MB (up from 34MB on Strix Point). The flagship Gorgon Point APU will feature 16 CUs of RDNA 3.5 GPU, the same as what ships on Strix Point. We've also got the Ryzen AI 7 variant of Gorgon Point, which will have 8 cores and 16 threads at 5.2GHz+ and 8 CUs of RDNA 3.5, once again, the same GPU core count as its Strix Point APU counterpart.

It's official: Game Informer has returned from the grave with new ownership at the helm.

After more than 30 years of print and digital games coverage, ailing retailer Gamestop unceremoniously shut down Game Informer, laid off all the staff, and effectively axed the entire branch. The website was pulled down and decades of coverage was offline.

Now Game Informer is back, and it's thanks to Gunzilla Games, a game studio who purchased GI and decided to rehire all the staff and spin the publication back up. Under Gunzilla, the Game Informer team will have 100% editorial freedom to tackle any and all topics and coverage they see fit, including digital and magazine prints.

The Witcher 4 won't be out until 2027, CD Projekt management tells investors.

Ciri's new adventure in the Witcher continuation won't begin in 2026. The Witcher 4 won't be out until 2027 at the very earliest, CD Projekt management has conveyed to investors in a recent company earnings brief. The game is currently in full production at the studio, and as of the end of February 2025, there's around 400 developers working on The Witcher 4.

In the company's FY2024 webcast CEO Adam Kicinski said this of the company's financial net profit targets for 2025-2028:"Even though we don't plan to release the Witcher 4 by the end of 2026, we are still driven by this financial goal."

The Switch 2 will launch in June, and Nintendo will carry out the Switch 2's initial game release structure in a three-phase plan, sources tell Insider Gaming.

Some of Nintendo's strategies for the Switch 2 may have been leaked, including a possible release window. Sources familiar with Nintendo's plans for the Switch 2 tell Insider Gaming's Tom Henderson that the successor could be out sometime in June, which is smack-dab in the middle of year. Nintendo's software release schedule for the Switch 2 has been deliberately timed around this mid-year launch.

As for the cadence or any possibility of constraints or constrictions in the pipeline, reports show that Nintendo has shipped out devkits for the Switch 2 as early as 2021. Even still, some developers are expected to be waiting on Switch 2 devkits and may not have them until on or around the device's reported June 2025 release.

Apple has announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference will kick off on June 9 this year.

In fact, WWDC 25 will run from June 9 to 13, as revealed by the brief press release Apple has posted.

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NVIDIA is bringing its DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation (MFG) tech to a few more games, as the library of support for MFG, which is exclusive to RTX 5000 GPUs, grows steadily.

The biggest hitter among the new recruits for MFG is Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, and support for DLSS 4 arrives via an update tomorrow (the Nightmares and Visions update to be precise).

Another game to get this treatment is Enlisted, an intriguing sounding massively multiplayer squad-based shooter set in World War 2 (see the above video clip).

Most people have multiple devices that require everyday charging, between smartphones, laptops, smartwatches, and headphones, it's hard to keep track of what is charged and when it needs to be on charge.

For people in a hurry who don't have the time to make sure all of their devices are charged for the next day, portable chargers or power banks can be a lifesaver because instead of having to remember to charge multiple devices you just need to remember to have that power bank charged, as that can provide multiple full charges for various devices to get you through the day.

However, not every power bank can charge all your portable devices, which is why ALOGIC has set out to provide that very solution with the Roam 6-in-1 power bank, which is designed to charge multiple devices simultaneously in one compact device. ALOGIC's Roam has been sent to the lab for inspection and I can say this device is quite impressive, and since I'm an Apple user that owns an iPhone, Apple Watch, and MacBook, I can take full advantage of the various charging capabilities.

If you are someone who spends a lot of time in front of a computer screen, like myself, you should consider snagging yourself a pair of blue light glasses to reduce eye strain and improve comfort during prolonged screen use.

For those who don't know, prolonged exposure to screens can cause eye strain that can result in symptoms such as dryness, irritation, and fatigue. Blue light glasses are designed to filter out high-energy blue light, which reduces flare and overall discomfort. Another reason to consider blue light glasses is the ability for the blue light to interfere with melatonin production, meaning being exposed to blue light for prolonged periods of time, particularly in the evening may result in you finding it harder to fall asleep at night.

There are other benefits, such as some people experiencing headaches from being exposed to screens for too long, long-term eye health benefits, as there is some concern, while not confirmed, that blue light exposure may cause retinal damage over time, and wearing blue light glasses can prevent this. Gunnars have long been in the blue light glasses market and have a range of different options with some focussed on style, a gamery look, and casual. Below are some of the best ones I have come across and have used throughout my long gaming/work sessions.

The NVIDIA App now has AI built in to help PC owners fine-tune their games for the best performance, and a bunch of other tricks besides.

If Project G-Assist rings a vague bell, this might be because bringing AI into the mix in this way was once an April Fools joke from NVIDIA (way back in 2017). However, we learned last year that G-Assist was happening for real (the tech was shown off at Computex 2024).

Now, as The Verge spotted, G-Assist is here in the latest version of the NVIDIA App. As the name suggests it's an AI gaming assistant to help optimize your Windows and per-game settings with RTX graphics cards. So, you can request (by typing a query, or issuing a voice command) to optimize a specific game for the best image quality, for example, and the relevant settings will be applied automatically for you.

Distinguished astronaut Koichi Wakata has shared a video from a past stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) where he celebrated the beginning of the Major League Baseball season in a quick video.

Wakata, the fourth Japanese astronaut in space and the first Japanese astronaut to command the ISS shared a video on his X account on March 19 that showed him celebrating the beginning of the Major League Baseball seasons during Expedition 68, which launched on October 5, 2022 and completed its mission on March 11, 2023. Wakata celebrated the MLB being back by sharing an awesome video of him playing a "solo game of baseball" in microgravity, where he says, "you don't need a whole team, you can play all of the positions!"

The video shows Wakata gently pitching a baseball to one side of the JAXA module attached to the ISS. Wakata then quickly pulls himself toward the other side of the module and picks up a makeshift bat, which he uses to tap the baseball back to where he came from. Wakata then makes a successful mid-air catch, getting himself out. Wakata completed 157 days in space as part of Expedition 68 and Crew-5, where he worked alongside NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin, and Anna Kikina, and other ISS crew members.

Publisher of the Grand Theft Auto franchise, Take-Two Interactive has filed a copyright take-down notice against a GTA 5 mod that features GTA 6 content.

The mod under the spotlight is a FiveM mod that added a GTA 6 map into GTA 5, which was sourced from the material gained from a hack GTA developer Rockstar Games experienced a few years ago, and inspired by modders attempting to create the GTA 6 map based on any information that's been made available. Among the material stolen from the developer were numerous assets for its upcoming and highly anticipated GTA 6, which the modder, Dark Space, decided to use as inspiration for the map added into GTA 5.

However, Take-Two Interactive has resisted that idea, and Dark Space has abided by the copyright notice to prevent the publisher from taking further legal action. Perhaps the map was too close to the real thing? Take-Two didn't specify in the copyright notice.

Microsoft has begun testing for Xbox Game Hubs, a new feature that would allow players to access stat tracking, capture tools, settings, and social features in a centralized dashboard for each title.

As highlighted by The Verge's Tom Warren, the feature is currently available to select users in the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring, where early feedback is gathered before a broader rollout. When launching a game from the home screen, instead of jumping straight into the game, players are now taken to a Game Hub panel that includes details like playtime and achievement progress, screenshots and media captures, and social information about friends who play the game.

This interface appears in multiple locations across the Xbox dashboard, including the home screen, game library, and pins list, but it notably does not appear when launching games via the Guide menu or Quick Resume.

A new breakthrough artificial intelligence-powered detection models has caught one of the most challenging cancers to catch, Endometrial cancer, with reports now stating accuracy with the mode has reached up to 99% in its detection rate.

The new AI model named ECgMLP processes visual data, and according to reports, it set a new precedent for AI cancer detection as it is capable of taking the data given to it by doctors, filter out any unnecessary noise, and highlight areas within the data that it deems as a potential risk for cancer. In the case of the data being given to the AI, it would be scans of areas of the human body, and having an AI be able to thoroughly go over multiple scans quickly and accurately will considerably speed up the rate of cancer detection and its accuracy.

For example, ECgMLP was able to detect Endometrial cancer, also known as uterine cancer, which is particularly hard to detect early as most of its symptoms can be subtle or mimic other conditions. The model uses digital pattern recognition techniques to evaluate areas of tissue and then provide a diagnostic prediction. Reports indicate most other automated systems for detecting endometrial cancer have about 80% accuracy, but ECgMLP beats those systems by approximately 20%, making it one of the most accurate AI cancer detection models created so far.

Apple has announced that its AirPods Max is about to get a software update that will enable lossless audio listening. This feature is designed to provide the highest possible level of audio fidelity, but the recent marketing statement contradicts what can be found in Apple's own support documentation.

To understand the contradiction here, we first need to understand Apple's audio codecs. Audio files are typically compressed in specific codecs to reduce file sizes for easier storage management, and with this reduction in size or compression, there is a trade-off in audio quality. Uncompressed audio opens up the sound stage, making specific instruments or sounds much more distinguishable and brighter, while compressed audio muddles the audio experience, drowning out the smaller and more discrete sounds.

Each codec has its purpose, and Apple chooses to provide two codecs for its entire catalog within Apple Music: Advanced Audio Codec and Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC). The discrepancy between what Apple states on its website and the recent announcement by Apple's marketing chief Greg Joswiak can be traced back to the company's documentation, where it states the difference between AAC and ALAC audio files is "virtually indistinguishable," with the company writing, "the difference between AAC and lossless audio is virtually indistinguishable."

A recent update shared by the Skyblivion team provided some insight into the key development milestones achieved in February 2025, including an update on the cities, a new development diary, and plans for post-launch DLC.

During the last major update from the Skyblivion team, the developers stated that the cities within the project are almost entirely complete. Bravil, the poverty-stricken city in southern Cyrodiil, has since been finished - leaving only the Imperial City for finalization before the game is ready to launch. The update also reports that new music has been added to complement the Oblivion and Skyblivion tracks in-game, and that a new development diary is currently in progress.

As the release enters its later stages, the team has also begun concepting for DLC, which is expected to be a remake of Oblivion's main expansion, Shivering Isles. Previous footage has showcased remade models for the Gatekeeper - a massive, grotesque flesh golem from the DLC that guards the Gates of Madness in the Shivering Isles. The model in question took 34 hours to make, and given that it was teased back in 2018, it only highlights how much effort the team has put into making this project a reality.

Ubisoft has confirmed that the (already excellent) PS5 Pro version of Assassin's Creed Shadows will be receiving additional upgrades.

In a discussion with Digital Foundry, developers Nicolas Lopez, Pierre Fortin, and Sebastien Daigneault broke down the game's technical approach - and confirmed that both PSSR support and ray-traced reflections in balanced mode are on the way.

Assassin's Creed Shadows already offers one of the most impressive visual showings on PS5 Pro, largely thanks to its per-pixel ray-traced global illumination. Digital Foundry previously called it a "generational divide in lighting fidelity," noting how the visuals "totally transform the game."

Details for the upcoming survival MMO Dune: Awakening have been released, such as the PC requirements, roadmap for new content, and if the game will have an early access period.

The information comes from the title Creative Director Joel Bylos, who explains in a short and sweet video posted on the Funcom YouTube channel that reveals the developer's intentions with Dune: Awakening when it comes to its business model and post-launch plans.

The details have also been outlined in a blog post where it states the title will not have an early access period when it launches, it will be the full game, there won't be a subscription, which typically comes in the form of a monthly recurring payment, and how the developers plan on expanding the game through free major updates that will add more content, features, and enhancements to the experience.

Assassin's Creed Shadows is already tracking as the second-highest-selling launch title in franchise history. At the center of the game are its two leads, Naoe and Yasuke - and according to actress MASUMI, her first performance as Naoe left a noticeable impact on set.

In a video interview shared by Ubisoft, MASUMI spoke about stepping into performance capture for the first time. While she has a background in acting and music, the motion capture process - full-body performance in a studio filled with sensors and cameras - was unfamiliar territory.

While generally a staple in modern games, the inclusion of UI features like minimaps can often draw players away from the world around them. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 aims to address that, with the team shedding light on its minimalist approach to UI design.

In an interview with Eurogamer, the game's producer and Sandfall Interactive COO, François Meurisse, discussed how minimaps can affect the in-game experience - particularly how they can leave players staring at UI elements rather than engaging with the world itself.