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The highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is still in development, with the studio behind it CD Projekt Red recently unveiling there are now more than 400 developers working on the project.

The Witcher 4 was recently unveiled at the Game Awards 2025, and while fans of the franchise are more than excited about sinking their teeth into a new world created by Polish developer CD Projekt Red, there will still be quite some time before the title releases. To speed up the development process, more hands have been brought on deck to assist in its creation, with CD Projekt Red recently revealing during an earnings report that it has hired 57 new developers in the last four months - 11 of those developers have begun work on The Witcher 4.

The remaining developers were moved to CD Projekt Red's other projects, such as the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077, codenamed Orion, which got the biggest bump in developers by 20, bringing its total to 84 from 64. As for The Witcher 4, CD Projekt Red has an army of developers working on the project, and after the new additions to the team, the total number of developers working on the sequel has reached 411.

When it comes to the most offensive game franchises, games like Grand Theft Auto, Manhunt, and perhaps South Park come to mind. However, often forgotten is the Postal series, which is known for being one of the most deliberately offensive, nihilistic and chaotic game franchises in existence. Better yet, you'll be able to experience it in VR.

Postal 2: VR was announced at the VR Games Showcase. Almost twenty years after its controversial release, the 2003 first-person shooter will be reimagined for Steam VR, PlayStation VR2, and Meta Quest, developed in collaboration with Flat2VR Studios and Running With Scissors.

The game comes packed with all the features you'd expect from a VR iteration of a Postal game. Players can use motion controls to flip off pedestrians on the street, engage in over-the-top violence, and utilize the game's urination mechanic to their heart's content.

The Pentagon has released a statement regarding the messaging app Signal following the White House fumbling causing a national security issue when it added a reporter to a group chat with government officials discussing military strikes in a foreign country.

For those who are out of the loop the warning from the Pentagon about Signals came after The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported he was added to a group chat that among others, included key officials such as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. The topic of discussion was military strikes in Yemen, with the mention of timings, weapons used, and targets.

Reports indicate that a 2023 Department of Defense memo states government officials are banned from using mobile apps for "controlled unclassified information (CUI)." NPR states that military operations are many degrees more sensitive than CUI, which can include proprietary business information, tax records, law enforcement data, and personally identifiable data. The debacle is still unfolding in the Senate, with members of the Signal group chat now appearing before officials to answer questions about the legitimacy of the plans.

Ever wondered what Sea of Thieves would be like in space? Well, here's Wildgate, a recently unveiled team-based shooter by Moonshot Games, a team comprised of former Blizzard developers.

Wildgate was unveiled during the Dreamhaven showcase hosted by The Game Awards' Geoff Keighly and Mike Morhaime, former CEO of Blizzard Entertainment. Wildgate can be effectively summarized as Sea of Thieves in space, but it does have its differences. Here's how it works. Wildgate will pit five teams of four players against each other in a session-based, procedurally generated region of space called The Reach, where players will be tasked with finding "The Artifact" and escaping through a wildgate that will randomly appear.

The game focuses on team-based strategies with the end goal of escaping with the Artifact and their lives by collecting upgrades in the form of weapons, ship improvements, and materials used to maintain and upgrade the quality of the team's spaceship.

Capcom has detailed the first major free update for Monster Hunter Wilds, bringing back familiar monsters, adding new social spaces, quest types, and more. The update is set to arrive on April 4, adding a plethora of new features for early and mid-to-late game players.

The main addition is the return of Mizutsune, a popular monster from past titles, now appearing in Wilds for the first time. Players who have reached Hunter Rank 21 or higher can unlock the new mission by speaking to Kanya at the Scarlet Forest Base Camp. An eight-star Tempered version of Mizutsune will also be available for those looking for a higher-tier challenge. The update also adds new armor sets for both hunters and Palicos based on Mizutsune's materials.

Players can also jump into a new social area called the Grand Hub. Which features a new minigame, Barrel Bomb Bowling, that lets players roll explosives into targets for rewards like pendants and items. There's also a nightly performance by the Diva, adding a bit of flavor to the atmosphere. Squad management has also moved here and becomes accessible once you hit HR 16.

Apple's upcoming ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air is back in the headlines, this time with another CAD leak that compares the iPhone 17 Air against the iPhone 17 Pro to show just how thin that ultra-thin 5.5mm thickness really is. Check it out:

In a new post by X user Majin Bu, we're getting another CAD-powered look at the iPhone 17 Pro against the iPhone 17 Air, with the iPhone 17 Air being an ultra-thin 5.5mm to 6mm or so, with a maximum thickness of 9.5mm with the camera bump included.

Inside, the new iPhone 17 AIr will reportedly feature a 6.6-inch display, in-house A19 processor, 8GB of RAM, 24-megapixel front-facing camera, 48-megapixel rear-facing camera, Face ID technology, titanium casing, Apple's in-house C1 5G modem, and charging speeds of up to 35W power.

FigureAI has developed a new AI-powered walking controller for its Figure 02 humanoid robot, taking the android movement patterns into slightly more natural territory.

Announced yesterday, the update was showcased in new footage comparing the previous and current movement systems. There's a clear difference - while the robot's gait still appears mechanical, it now includes more human-like elements such as heel strikes, toe-offs, and synchronized arm swings. It's a subtle improvement, but enough to push the Figure 02 away from the rigid, protocol-droid motion of earlier iterations.

The system was trained entirely in simulation using reinforcement learning - a method where virtual robots learn to walk through trial and error. That training was then transferred directly to the real-world robot without manual tuning, allowing for consistent performance across multiple machines.

UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri says that Intel's freshly-minted CEO Lip-Bu Tan will most likely refocus on chip design in the short term, while securing big customers to strengthen its foundry business.

In his note to investors, Arcuri said that Intel is also reportedly working to finalize commitments from NVIDIA or Broadcom to use its semiconductor foundry business, while also advancing its new 18A manufacturing process. Intel is working on a new lower-power version of that 18A process node called 18AP, and should be appealing to chip companies.

Intel Foundry Services (IFS) is looking to compete directly against TSMC in the semiconductor space, with improvements to its advanced packaging technologies like its Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge platform that would compete against TSMC's CoWoS-L advanced packaging for HPC customers like NVIDIA and others.

Elon Musk has been on the receiving end of what could be viewed as a digital slam dunk by none other than Ubisoft over the SpaceX CEO's recent comments about Assassin's Creed Shadows.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO commented on a recent post by Mark Kern, who highlighted a sponsored post by Hasan Piker where he was promoting Assassin's Creed Shadows. Kern's post calls out Ubisoft for giving money to "terrorist-platforming streamers," which sparked a response by Musk, who called Piker a "fraud". Musk followed up with another reply saying, "Sell-out" would be more accurate. Objectively, he is promoting a terrible game just for the money."

Musk's last comment attracted a reply from the official Assassin's Creed X account, which wrote, "Is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?" For those who don't know what the Assassin's Creed account is referring to, Musk recently admitted that he breaks terms of service (TOS) in Path of Exile 2 and Diablo IV by getting someone else to play his account to achieve his, at the time, world-renowned global top 20 rank.

Valve is reportedly in the optimization phase of development for Half-Life 3, which I'm really hoping gets announced officially on April 1, just for the developer to troll the entire world.

Half-Life 3 is reportedly codenamed "HLX" and was discovered during recent updates to Valve's other games including Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2, with a new video posted by Gabe Follower, who details a bunch of new discoveries, and some of them sound really, really exciting.

Valve is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) system for its NPCs in Half-Life 3, that acts like LOD (level of detail) with the graphics side of the game. The way this works is how LOD will use higher-quality textures on the environment, characters, items, and more in close proximity to you, reducing the detail past a certain point so that your GPU isn't just loading textures unnecessarily at large distances away from you.

Napster has been acquired by Infinite Reality, a US-based VR company, for the sum of $207 million. The acquisition aims to leverage Napster's infrastructure as a subscription music service to build an immersive VR music platform for artists and fans.

The purchase was announced on Tuesday, with the tech startup announcing its bold plans to usher in the 'immersive era' of music. Napster's CEO, Jon Vlassopulos, wrote in a blog post:

AMD has been doing a truly amazing job in the APU market, with its new Strix Point and more so its flagship Strix Halo APUs dominating the laptop and handheld chip market... but it looks like the powerhouse Strix Halo APU is coming to the desktop.

In a recent interview with ASUS China General Manager Tony Yu and AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tony requested Lisa to make its Strix Halo APU transition to the desktop as well, with Lisa replying "yes, yes, of course!". AMD makes its Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" and "Strix Halo" APU processors for mobile platforms on the FP11 socket, with the AM5 socket housing desktop processors.

FP11 processors are larger than AM5 processors, but we've seen companies like Minisforum using its BD770i and BD790i which allowed a Ryzen 7 7745HX and 7945HX on a custom motherboard that could be used as a regular desktop. It looks like AMD is cooking up version of its Strix Halo APU for the desktop, and that is some exciting news.

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.