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Razer's latest mice are ergonomic productivity mice built with gaming-grade technologies. The new Razer Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition and Razer Pro Click V2 are designed with ergonomics and all-day usage in mind, so comfort is at the top of the list. However, with the fantastic Razer Focus Pro 30K Optical Sensor, you're still looking at a pair of productivity mice with impressive gaming capabilities.

The Razer Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition ($119.99 USD) is the company's first wireless vertical mouse, with a 71-degree angle that "mimics a natural handshake grip, reducing strain during prolonged use."

A vertical mouse is considered one of the most ergonomic and comfortable options for prolonged use. With Razer's fantastic sensor, which has a maximum sensitivity of 30,000 DPI and a 550 IPS rating, and mechanical switches rated at 60 million clicks, it will be interesting to see how the vertical orientation fares when gaming.

Images of PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 GRE Red Devil and PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 GRE Reaper GPUs have made their way online (via Videocardz), pointing to an imminent release for what could be the third RDNA 4 GPU to hit the market.

Usually, the GRE or Great Radeon Edition cards hit the Chinese market first, and that's expected to be the case here. With both images showcasing retail packaging alongside the GPU designs (these are the exact sort of images that show up on retail listings), this third Radeon RX 9070 GPU will reportedly hit the market before the rumored June launch for the mainstream Radeon RX 9060 XT.

Regarding performance, the Radeon RX 9070 GRE will sit between the Radeon RX 9060 XT and the Radeon RX 9070 and will ship with 12GB of GDDR6 memory on a 192-bit bus. Previous reports indicated that the Radeon RX 9070 GRE launch was pushed back to Q4 2025. However, Videocardz's sources state this isn't the case.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered shadow-dropped this week, and it's quickly become one of the most talked-about and played games out there. With several quality of life updates and a truly stunning visual upgrade thanks to Unreal Engine 5, the 2006 classic has been completely transformed for the modern era.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a visually impressive new turn-based RPG from developer Sandfall Interactive that is currently receiving rave reviews from critics and players alike - check out the launch trailer above. IGN praises its "brilliant combat system and a gripping, harrowing story," while Game Informer said everything from the world to the art and narrative is memorable. The PS5 version currently has a 92 Metacritic rating, while the PC version has a 90 - both excellent scores.

Without a doubt, it has been a fantastic week for RPG fans. The good news for PC gamers is that both Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered have been added to NVIDIA's GeForce NOW library, where you can jump into the action on a GeForce RTX 4080 in the cloud and experience both titles with incredible fidelity across a wide range of devices.

TSMC currently has 24 semiconductor factories under construction across Taiwan, the United States, Germany, and Japan, but the company has a shortage of fab workers that could slow things down.

In a new report from DigiTimes, we're hearing that almost all of the teams that TSMC has in Taiwan that can be mobilized, have been, and that hiring locals in Taiwan has caused issues to get worse across its global supply chain. TSMC had 83,825 employees at the end of 2025, which is a huge increase from the 51,000 staffers it employed at the end of 2019.

However, turn over of TSMC employees has reportedly been high enough that it has pushed the company to increase salaries and bonuses, with overseas operations being a challenge to figure out local work culture. Japan is very similar to Taiwan, but there aren't many workers to fill positions, while the shortage of workers in the US has made it hard for TSMC to deal with America's "work-life balance" idea.

Lexar has just launched its new Gen4 and Gen5 SSDs, with its new flagship Professional NM1090 PRO PCIe 5.0 SSD delivering up to 14GB/sec reads and up to 13GB/sec writes.

The new Lexar Professional NM1090 Gen5 SSD packs a new 6nm SSD controller that the company says has optimized heat control for improved performance and customers can pair it with a new AMD Ryzen or Intel Core Ultra 9 series processor for a "next-level game experience". The Gen5 SSD features DRAM cache and SLC dynamic cache to greatly improve data transfer speeds, reduce wait times, and improve system responsiveness.

Lexar also unveiled a new Gen4 SSD with the introduction of the NQ780 M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD that has been designed with "premium technologies" that deliver read and write speeds of 7GB/sec (7000MB/sec) and 6GB/sec (6000MB/sec), respectively. Lexar's new Gen4 SSD features a single-sided design with Intelligent Power Control that makes it a perfect SSD for your laptop.

CD Projekt is somehow jamming the entirety of Cyberpunk 2077 onto the Nintendo Switch 2, and the devs have interesting things to say about the new console.

Nintendo released Switch 2 tech specs a bit ago, but there's still one big detail that we don't know: How much RAM the Switch 2 has. The new handheld-console hybrid is believed to have an even 12GB of LPDDRX memory. Yet Nintendo hasn't confirmed anything and it actually might not--we could have to wait for Switch 2 teardowns for that kind of info.

We do have some comments from CD Projekt RED's dedicated teams about the Switch 2's RAM/memory and storage speeds. Remember that CD Projekt managed to fit The Witcher 3 on the original Switch 1, so they're well-versed with the compromises of putting a huge RPG onto a small and rather limited handheld. Plus, since CD Projekt is also making Cyberpunk 2077 for the Switch 2, the studio is a good candidate to describe the power gaps between the Switch 1 and Switch 2.

Kingston has just silently launched its new Fury Renegade G5 Gen5 SSDs, with speeds of up to a blistering 14.8GB/sec reads, with the 2TB Gen5 SSD starting at $200.

The new flagship Kingston Fury Renegade G5 SSD offers up to 14.8GB/sec (14,800MB/sec) reads and up to 14GB/sec (14,000MB/sec) writes, with up to 2,200,000 IOPS performance. There will be no 512GB variant, with Kingston only releasing a 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB G5 SSD... no 8TB option in sight unfortunately.

Inside, Kingston's new Fury Renegade G5 SSDs are using the Silicon Motion SM2508 controller, which is based on a 6nm chip and uses 3D TLC NAND technology. Kingston's previous-gen Gen4 SSDs in its Fury Renegade family are getting a double up in read/write performance (for the 4TB model, anyway) with IOPS performance skyrocketing by 2.1x to 2.2x, while power consumption is lower at 9.5W for the new G5 Gen5 SSD, compared to 10.2W on the Gen4 G4 SSD.

Intel has provided some more details on its next-gen automotive SoCs codenamed Frisco Lake and Grizzly Lake, which will feature Panther Lake and Nova Lake IP inside, detailed at the recent Shanghai Auto Show in China.

Intel's 2nd Gen SDV SoC is codenamed Frisco Lake and will feature a CPU architecture similar to what will be inside of Panther Lake CPUs, which will be launching later this year with volume production expected in 1H 2026. Frisco Lake will feature Panther Lake IP and core architecture, with TDPs ranging between 20W and 65W, with 10x the AI performance and 61% more efficiency over the previous-gen chip based on the Raptor Cove architecture with 12 cores at between 12W and 45W.

Another big upgrade inside of Frisco Lake is that Intel will be using its 3rd Gen Xe GPU architecture -- Xe3 -- codenamed Celestial. This new Xe3 GPU IP will replace the Battlemage GPU architecture, offering a huge upgrade over the 1st Gen Xe (96 EUs) design used inside current-gen automotive chips from Intel.

Intel has reportedly placed 2nm orders with TSMC for its upcoming Nova Lake CPUs, outsourcing the compute tile to TSMC, confirming rumors from over a year ago that Intel would be indeed using TSMC 2nm for its Nova Lake processors.

In a new report from Taiwan Economic Daily, Intel has reportedly outsourced the compute tile for Nova Lake to TSMC to fab on their new 2nm process node (N2). Intel has been recently bragging about its new in-house Intel 18A process node, yet the company has opted to ask TSMC to make its most advanced processor to date: Nova Lake.

I have been reporting on Nova Lake for a few years now, writing back in January 2024 from rumors all the way back in August 2021 that Nova Lake was the biggest architectural change in CPU architecture since the Core architecture was introduced in 2006. Intel is working on building an entirely new architecture from the ground up much like Ryzen with up to 50% CPU performance improvements from Lunar Lake.

Cyberpunk 2077's incoming Switch 2 version was created entirely by CD Projekt RED, a new report from Game File indicates.

Like many developers who made games for the woefully-outdated Switch 1, CD Projekt took a shine to Nintendo's new Switch 2 successor. With supercharged power, new tools like DLSS, and a high-refresh display panel, the new console refreshes the Switch so it can now play more demanding modern games. The Switch 2 can belt out 4K 60FPS gaming and developers are eager to flex the system in creative new ways.

That's what CD Projekt RED is doing with Cyberpunk 2077, which will be a Switch 2 launch game. According to a new interview with Stephen Totilo's Game File publication, CD Projekt developed the game entirely in-house. There apparently may not have been any outsourcing for the Switch 2 version of Cyberpunk, which also plays into Nintendo's requirement of ultra-confidential secrecy from its third-party developer partners like CD Projekt.

The new Final Fantasy set for Magic: The Gathering hasn't even released yet, but it's already the best-selling new set of all time in the history of the 31 year-old brand.

Today, Hasbro announce its Q1 FY2025 financial results, showing a sharp uptick in Wizard of the Coast's tabletop revenues. In the earnings call, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks remarked about the rather high expectations for Magic: The Gathering in Q2...and it's driven primarily by the upcoming Final Fantasy crossover set. There's also more stores selling Magic products and holding tournaments.

"I'd say Wizards had meaningful outperformance in Q1--we also think it's going to do pretty darn well in Q2. Just to give some color on that: Final Fantasy will be the best selling set of all time on day one. It already is," Hasbro's CEO said in the call.

Discord CEO Jason Citron has resigned and will take an advisory role while the gaming chat company is led by a former Activision executive.

It's the changing of the guard at Discord as current CEO Jason Citron announces he is stepping down. In his place will be ex-Activision Blizzard King exec Humam Sakhnini, who served in numerous high-level jobs at ABK, including being the actual president of the lucrative King segment for multiple years, as well as serving as the chief financial officer at King.

With Activision, Sakhnini helped King and Candy Crush grow over time, and it's implied that Sakhnini's know-how will help elevate Discord's value, which is critical because the company is mulling going public.

TSMC says that it remains on track to begin high-volume production of next-gen chips on its new N2 (2nm-class) process node, the first production tech that uses gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistors, in the second half of this year.

The news was unveiled during TSMC's recent North American Technology Symposium 2025 event, with its new N2 node to power multiple products this year from AMD, Apple, and most recently, Intel.

TSMC's next-gen A14 process node, when compared against the upcoming N2 process, will have 15% more performance using the same power, or up to 30% power reduction at the same speed, along with over 20% more logic density. TSMC will be evolving its NanoFlex standard cell architecture to NanoFlex Pro, enabling greater performance, power efficiency, and design flexibility.

Sony listens to fans and has brought back the popular classic PS5 UIs that launched during the holidays.

Last year during the holidays, Sony rolled out a handful of special themes that gave PS5 consoles a retro refit, stylizing the system around the PS1, PS2, PS3, or even PS4. The console doesn't have custom themes, so this surprise was well-liked by quite a few PlayStation gamers. The themes were only temporary for PlayStation's 30th anniversary, and were eventually taken off.

It turns out the themes were more popular than Sony had thought they would be, so now they're coming back. Sony has announced that the PlayStation 5 will soon get its own themes under a new Appearance section in system settings. The new features are added in a system update to be released today, complete with a bevy of upgraded audio features and adjustments.

Oblivion Remastered is available to play on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, but it's also available to play on the Steam Deck - well, kinda.

Yes, the game technically works on the Steam Deck, with Valve giving its checkmark stamp of approval on the Oblivion Remastered Steam Store listing, but it doesn't run well. Steam Deck players are taking to social media channels and posting YouTube videos showcasing the title's lackluster performance on the handheld console, with several videos showing the Steam Deck struggling to maintain a consistent 30FPS at the lowest settings, and dropping to, in some instances, below 20FPS when running around outside.

The problems don't stop there, as the upscaling technologies, such as XeSS and FSR, come with their own problems. When XeSS is enabled, a shimmering effect can be seen across the screen, but when FSR is enabled, ugly ghosting of character animations plagues the screen. Notably, when bumping the settings above Medium, the game simply crashes, per IGN's video. The good news is that framerates stabilize when indoors or in instance-based parts of the game, with performance testing indicating a solid 30FPS can be achieved, albeit at low.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is expected to ship up to 8 million units at launch, analysts have told Bloomberg.

Nintendo could have anywhere from 6-8 million Switch 2 consoles ready for the system's June 5 launch, and based on current trends, it's possible that Nintendo could sell all of these units. If Nintendo does manage to sell 6 million Switch 2 consoles in a two- or three-month span, then it will be the best-selling and most-produced console system at launch in the history of gaming.

For its part, Nintendo may have underestimated demand, at least in key regions like Japan. Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa recently apologized to Japanese gamers because the company cannot meet the full Switch 2 pre-order demand in Japan. Over 2.2 million Japanese people applied to pre-order the Switch 2--a stat that represents about $75 million in revenue from Switch Online subscriptions alone--and Nintendo simply can't ensure everyone will get to pre-order a system.

If you're one of the many keen gamers who picked up Oblivion Remastered when it arrived earlier this week, you may have been encountering seriously poor frame rates on PC.

There have been multiple complaints about stuttering performance and extremely sluggish FPS since the remake was unleashed, with a lot of blame directed at Unreal Engine 5 (which the game uses for its graphical overhaul).

Well, if you're in this boat, you might be interested to learn that an 'Oblivion Remastered performance guide' has appeared on Reddit (crafted by Sharyat). It's getting some big thumbs-up from players who were previously being driven mad by low, stuttering frame rates (particularly in outdoor areas).

In what appears to be the latest of the Nintendo Switch 2 leaks, a video has surfaced online of a Switch 2 unit, apparently taken from the factory floor, being handled by several individuals who inspect the console along with its controllers.

The Switch 2 could be the most-leaked console in recent memory, and even after Nintendo has officially unveiled it, given a close-up look at the hardware capabilities, games, and provided a release date, we are still getting Switch 2 leaks. The new video, posted to Bilibili (China's YouTube channel), shows a Switch 2 unit being handled by a few people inspecting the console in what appears to be a first-time look. The people can be heard saying the Switch 2 is running "firmware" instead of the software that users will see when they open up the retail version of the Switch 2.

The video has been shared to several Reddit pages where users state the model was "stolen" from the factory floor, and while we cannot verify if that is true, we can say that Nintendo definitely didn't authorize this footage to be taken or shared online ahead of the console's official release. As for the "firmware," if I were to take a guess, I'd say this model has been taken from the Quality Assurance (QA) side of the factory, which is where units are put through various tests to ensure they meet Nintendo's intended level of performance.

Your PC crashing is not something you look forward to, but this experience will soon change in Windows 11 - arguably for the better, or maybe for the worse - as Microsoft is testing a new BSOD.

The Blue Screen of Death is a more than familiar sight - though it's considerably rarer since Windows 10 rolled around a decade ago - but Microsoft is changing how it's implemented, albeit just in testing for now.

In the new Windows 11 preview that just debuted in the Canary channel (build 27842), Microsoft informs us that the idea is to bring in a more streamlined UI for what it calls unexpected restarts. (It's a line we've heard so many times before: 'Oh gosh, my PC has unexpectedly restarted, what a frightful bore.')

The official unveiling of the Nintendo Switch 2 certainly stirred up excitement among gamers, but now analysts are predicting that Nintendo could have on their hands the biggest console launch in the history of video game consoles.

It was only recently Nintendo had to announce it will be unable to meet the number of pre-orders it has taken for the Nintendo Switch 2 in Japan due to supply shortages, with the company having to come out an openly apologize to fans that have pre-ordered the console, but likely won't be receiving it on June 5. Despite efforts to minimize the number of pre-orders of the upcoming console, the 2.2 million applications have far exceeded what the company anticipated.

Following this announcement from Nintendo, Pelham Smithers of Japan-focused equity research house Pelham Smithers Associates says, Japan accounts for a third of the global Switch installation base, which implies there are approximately 6.6 million pre-orders globally.