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NVIDIA's new RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU is appearing online at e-tailers in Japan and Europe, where in Japan the new GPU with 96GB of GDDR7 memory costs an eye-watering $11,326.

X user @jisakuhibi showed a Japanese retailer that has listed the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU for ¥1,630,600, which works out to around $11,326. There are other listings in the UK with online retailer Scan listing pre-orders for the PNY RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU for £7,859.99 (around $10,433 USD or so).

It's not the first time that the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU has appeared online with its price listed, where a US-based IT retailer for enterprise customers had the new workstation GPU listed for $8565. This isn't for gamers, but rather developers, content creators, AI workloads, and other workstation-class tasks.

NVIDIA describes Agentic AI or AI Agents as the next step beyond AI chatbots powered by generative AI. AI agents use "sophisticated reasoning and iterative planning to autonomously solve complex, multi-step problems." This sort of AI will revolutionize the customer service market, healthcare, software development, and cybersecurity.

When it comes to cybersecurity, Agentic AI will reportedly work alongside cybersecurity experts to play an essential role in threat detection, response, and overall security. NVIDIA notes that this will help free up cybersecurity teams to focus on high-impact decisions and reduce workforce burnout as cybersecurity threats to businesses, individuals, and governments continue to ramp up year-over-year.

"AI agents can cut the time needed to respond to software security vulnerabilities by investigating the risk of a new common vulnerability or exposure in just seconds," NVIDIA's David Reber Jr. explains. "They can search external resources, evaluate environments, and summarize and prioritize findings so human analysts can take swift, informed action."

Apple is currently hard at work on its foldable iPhone which we've heard is called the iPhone Ultra, and now analyst Mark Gurman has teased to stand out from other foldables in more ways than one.

In his latest Power On newsletter, Bloomberg writer Mark Gurman explains that Apple will be launching its first foldable iPhone in 2026, and that it'll be a higher-end handset "rather than a niche alternative design). Gurman says that Apple will "stand out from the foldable phone competition with hopefully crease-free (or as close to that as possible) that is "less noticeable even the phone is in the open position to the point where it's nearly invisible".

Apple is also reportedly looking to offer a "much higher-quality" hinge, something that we've been hearing about in previous rumors that Apple would be using a liquid metal hinge that would resist deformation, improving durability and minimizing the crease on the foldable display.

The first entry to Halo Infinite's Summer Update series, Operation: Last Stand, is set to launch tomorrow, adding 'the Mutilator', new game modes, and a fresh battle pass. Halo Studios' second update in the 3-part series, Operation: Legacy, sets its sights on Halo 3 - in a content update that throws things back to 2007.

Halo Infinite was criticized for a lack of in-game content in the year following its late 2021 launch. Since then, Halo Studios has been making up for lost time, starting with the game's Winter Update in 2022, which introduced Forge, campaign co-op, and a custom game browser. There have been 18 updates to Halo Infinite since Winter 2022, and the recent shift from seasons to the shorter 'Operations' format has lessened the wait times for new content.

As teased in the latest community live stream, Operation: Legacy is themed around Halo 3. The studio teased some brief snippets of what's in store for the retro update, starting with Halo 3's EOD armor, which was a campaign reward for completing various Halo 3 missions on legendary difficulty.

Nintendo is suing accessory-maker Genki for alleged trademark infringement.

On May 2, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Human Things, Inc in the Central District courts of California (Nintendo of America Inc. v. Human Things, Inc., 2:25-cv-03960, link). In the complaint, Nintendo alleges, in part, that Genki had used Switch branding in an unauthorized way that confused consumers and potentially damaged Nintendo in numerous ways.

At CES 2025, Genki sparked tons of headlines by showing off its new products on a dummy Switch 2. Genki had said that the mock-up was based on a real Switch 2 system, and affirmed that their accessories would fit the new handheld. Nintendo caught wind of this and shut the rumor down quickly.

Gears of War, one of the seminal franchises that helped shape the identity of Xbox, is now crossing over to PlayStation.

It's happening: Gears of War is coming to PlayStation. Today, Microsoft and Sony announced Gears of War: Reloaded, a new remaster of the 2006 original third-person shooter. Gears Reloaded is coming August 26, 2025 and will be sold for $39.99 on a veritable laundry list of platforms, including PlayStation 5.

The Gears franchise helped establish the Xbox brand during the platform-defining Xbox 360 era, and was a premiere Xbox exclusive series of games for nearly 20 years. Gears breaking platform exclusivity isn't exactly a surprise, as Xbox CEO Phil Spencer has said that no first-party games are off limits for cross-overs. The plan has apparently worked quite well, with Xbox earnings rising and first-party Xbox games topping PlayStation's charts.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has now sold more than 3 million copies in its first 3 months on the market, developer Warhorse has announced.

Recently revealed sales figures show that KCD2 is a big success for independent developer Warhorse Studios. The Prague-based group has sold 3 million copies of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 on all platforms in just 3 months, with the game also seeing high acclaim from players. The sequel currently sits at an 88 Metacritic rating and is in the running for game of the year.

"Over 3 million Henrys setting out on their adventures - and leaving their mark on Bohemia. Thank you for every quest completed, every battle fought, and every story written!" Warhorse writes on Twitter.

Oblivion Remastered was the most-downloaded game on the PlayStation Store in the US in April 2025, Sony reveals in a PlayStation Blog post. But that's not the only Xbox game on the PS Store's top downloads list.

Sony today published the list of the most-downloaded games on the PlayStation Store across North America and Europe for the month of April 2025. The results are interesting to say the least, underlining Microsoft's cross-platform success. The rankings show that not only did Oblivion Remastered hit #1 on the PS5's top downloads section, but first-party Xbox games also comprised 4 out of the top 10 slots in North America (Oblivion Remastered, Minecraft, Forza Horizon 5, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6).

Xbox had an even bigger impact on the PS Store's European charts, with 5 out of the top 10 most-downloaded PlayStation 5 games being first-party Xbox games (Forza Horizon 5, Oblivion Remastered, Minecraft, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Call of Duty Black Ops 6).

GTA 6's delay will provide some breathing room for other games targeting a Fall 2025 release date, and one analyst says that GTA 6 would have 'devoured' billions of dollars in spending had it launched during its original planned release date.

Rockstar recently delayed Grand Theft Auto 6 to 2026, but had the game met its original 2025 launch, it was expected to be such a big deal that it would uplift the collective games industry. GTA V was the largest entertainment property launch in history with $1 billion earned in 3 days of sales. GTA 6 is expected to be even bigger--so big that it could eclipse a multitude of other games that unfortunately release alongside it.

We've seen analyst make predictions on GTA 6's breakout sales, and now Epyllion CEO Matthew Ball recently weighed in on the other side of the coin--what happens to the games that would've launched near GTA 6? "For the rest of the market, GTA's delay provides much needed - though only temporary - oxygen. The title was expected to devour billions of dollars in consumer spend."

It was only immediately after the release of the original Nintendo Switch that rumors began flying around about the successor console, but now we have confirmation on when Nintendo began work on that console.

In new court documents between Nintendo and accessory company Genki, it's stated there were only two years between the release of the original Nintendo Switch and work beginning on the successor console, which is now officially called the Nintendo Switch 2. The documents state that Nintendo began planning the Nintendo Switch 2 shortly after the release of the original Switch, with "formal hardware development beginning around 2019."

The Nintendo Switch 2 wouldn't be officially announced by Nintendo until January 2025, marking six years of silent development on the console, which provides significant performance improvements compared to the original Switch. While Nintendo didn't officially recognize the Switch 2 in any capacity, throughout that time, numerous rumors swirled about its performance capabilities, display size, functionality, etc.

The release of Oblivion Remastered has taken over the internet, with numerous social media platforms being flooded with images and videos of the remastered nearly 20-year-old game.

The surprise launch of Oblivion Remastered following Bethesda's live stream confirming the title existed sent shockwaves through the gaming industry, with hundreds of thousands of players flocking to clients and services to get a taste of "new" Elder Scrolls magic. Despite being available on Game Pass for considerably less, Oblivion Remastered has still managed to top Steam charts, with the title reaching an all-time peak of 216,784 players, and a hovering 24-hour peak of approximately 140,000 concurrent players.

Now, we are beginning to hear about sales. According to Circana's Mat Piscatella, data for the week ending April 26 indicates Oblivion Remastered is the third best-selling game of 2025, behind Monster Hunter: Wilds and Assassin's Creed: Shadows. For the week it has been out, Oblivion Remastered was the best-selling title that week. These accolades are hardly surprising, as Bethesda confirmed Oblivion Remastered had already amassed more than 4 million players.

A team of students has resurrected an ancient rice recipe through the use of Han-era techniques and modern technology.

Eleven students have taken an ancient rice recipe that was found on a bamboo slip inside the tomb of Wu Yang, a military general and politician who lived in the county of Hunan, and applied modern technology along with Han-era cooking techniques to resurrect the ancient food. The students from Hunan University, along with China Agricultural University in Beijing, set out to recreate the food by correctly interpreting the ancient texts and using tools that are as close to what was used by people when the recipe was written.

The 2,000-year-old recipe was scattered among several bamboo slips, and unfortunately fragmented. Moreover the recipe didn't include important factors such as cooking times, sparking an investigation into how rice cooking has changed over the course of 2,000 years.

NASA has announced that its new space observatory has completed its calibration phase and has begun mapping the entire night sky in 3D.

The space agency has explained in a new blog post that the SPHEREx observatory, which was launched on March 11, has recently completed its six-week-long calibration and checkout phase and has now begun snapping images of the entire night sky. NASA emphasizes this space observatory won't be taking photos of portions of the night sky; it will be the entire sky, with the goal of mapping the positions of hundreds of millions of galaxies in 3D to "answer some big questions about the universe."

NASA says that operations for SPHEREx began on May 1, which involves the observatory taking approximately 3,600 images per day for the next two years. SPHEREx is positioned in Earth's orbit and throughout its planned 25 months of observations it will complete more than 11,000 orbits of Earth, circling the planet we call home about 14 and a half times per day. The hundreds of thousands of images SPHEREx will capture over its two-year period will be digitally woven together to create four all-sky maps.

Researchers from Peking University have claimed to have created a silicon-free transistor that is pegged to improve processor speed and efficiency significantly.

The creation is detailed in a new study published in Nature Materials that explains a next-generation chip architecture that could replace traditional silicon-based microprocessors as we know them. The new design involves a two-dimensional material called bismuth oxyselenide, which the study explains is not only thinner and more flexible than silicon, but also enables faster electron movement along with more control over electrical currents. According to the study, the new transistor is able to completely wrap the gate around every side of the source, providing complete coverage.

Notably, traditional transistor designs are only able to cover three sides of the source, and since the new design is able to wrap the gate around the entire source, there is less energy loss and more current control, which leads designers to have faster and more efficient performance. The researchers behind the paper state that the new silicon-free transistor has the potential to be 40% faster than top silicon-based chips from companies such as Intel, while also using 10% less energy.

The Assassin's Creed franchise was kicked off with Altaïr, but you could argue Assassin's Creed didn't become a household name until Assassin's Creed II, when players took control of Ezio Auditore.

Assassin's Creed II debuted in 2009, and since then, Ezio Auditore has been renowned as one of, if not the most iconic protagonists of the Assassin's Creed franchise, arguably being the springboard the franchise needed to get to where it is today. And now he is coming back, unfortunately, not in a mainline Assassin's Creed game, but in another title where he will be joined by the two main protagonists from Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Kassandra and Alexios.

The title is called Reverse: 1999, and the collaboration is a franchise-first for Assassin's Creed, with the three main protagonists of the mainline Assassin's Creed games being added into the turn-based RPG that has amassed a staggering 30 million players since it launched in October 2023. Here's how it's going to work. The collaboration will be split into two phases, with the first being in Renaissance Florence, the location where players first met Ezio Auditore in 2009, and the second will be Ancient Greece for Alexios and Kassandra.

Limited-timed modes, or LTMs, are headed to Call of Duty, and while fans of the franchise may be excited to hear of periodically switching gamemodes, they may not be as thrilled to learn they will be placed behind the Battle Pass paywall.

That is according to serial leaker TheGhostofHope, known for their accurate Call of Duty leaks. According to Hope, Call of Duty is revising its Battle Pass strategy and including LTMs within the upcoming Call of Duty game, but to make the Battle Pass that much more enticing for players these LTMs will be locked behind the paywall, meaning players wanting to enjoy them will need to fork out $20 to $30 for the Battle Pass to be granted access.

If these rumors pan out to be true it will undoubtedly cause an uproar among the community of players, who are already battling with rumors that the next Call of Duty will be one of Xbox's first $80 games. For those who are out of the loop, Xbox recently announced it was increasing the price of its first party titles from the marketwide standard of $70 to $80, citing the current economic climate amid the newly implemented US export tariffs.

It has barely been two weeks since overclockers broke the DDR5 memory frequency OC world record with 12772 MT/s, but now overclocker "bl4ackdot" has reached a new OC world record with an additional 2MHz frequency at 12774 MT/s using G.SKILL Trident Z DDR5 memory.

Overclocker "bl4ackdot" used an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor, 24GB of G.SKILL Trident Z memory, and an ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 APEX motherboard. The overclocker pushed the G.SKILL Trident Z memory to 6387MHz or 12774 MT/s speed, just 2MHz higher than the previous record from a couple of weeks ago.

LN2 cooling was used to hit the speeds and frequencies required for the new OC world record, and from here on out I don't think we're going to see huge strides in OC memory frequencies, as we're splitting hairs here with 2MHz (but every single MHz counts).

Valve has released its Steam Hardware Survey for the month, and something surprising is at the top of the GPU charts: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU.

The GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU currently has 4.99% of PC gamers running a gaming laptop with NVIDIA's previous-gen laptop chip inside, while owning pretty much the rest of the entire GPUs used on Steam. NVIDIA has its GeForce RTX 3060 in second spot with 4.72% of users running one, and in third place the R TX 4060 with 4.51%.

If we look at these numbers in December 2024, the RTX 4060 Laptop GPU was only being used by 4.19% but it has slowly been gaining traction (except for the dip in February 2025) and now sits at 4.99%. NVIDIA has also had its GeForce RTX 4060 desktop graphics card slowly feeding more and more systems worldwide, with 4.04% of Steam gamers running one in December 2024, compared to 4.77% in April 2025.

The new WD_BLACK SN8100 Gen5 SSD isn't quite on the market yet, but it has been listed a little early on Amazon Germany with the 1TB Gen5 SSD variant costing around $225 and up to a blistering 14.9GB/sec read speeds.

We should expect a full unveiling of WD's new Gen5 SSDs at Computex 2025 in just a few weeks time, with a launch expected on May 30. Inside, Western Digital will use its in-house Gen5 SSD controller which uses BiCS8 218-layer 3D TLC NAND and features up to 8-channel DRAM and 4-channel non-DRAM.

The company says its new Gen5 SSD will have up to 2TB capacity and twice the performance of its Gen4 SSDs, with a 55% efficiency uplift over Gen4 SSDs. The company also showed off its new Gen5 SSDs inside of laptops (mobile workstations) at FMS 2024, with WD's new Gen5 SSDs slowly getting ready for their big reveal, it seems.

Pre-orders for Ghost of Yōtei opened three days ago, during which the $69.99 Standard Edition, $79.99 Digital Deluxe Edition, and the whopping $249.99 Collector's Edition went live. Since then, fans have been quick to jump on the anticipated title, topping the charts in over a dozen major regions.

As shared by ZubyTech, Ghost of Yōtei currently holds the #1 pre-order spot across North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions. The full list of countries, as sighted on the PlayStation Store, includes:

The game, which has been in development since 2020's Ghost of Tsushima, introduces a new protagonist, Atsu - who seeks vengeance across the northern regions of Japan. Set 300 years after its predecessor, the game aims to explore feudal Japan, specifically in the early Edo period.