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If you ever wanted an AIO cooler with a screen large enough to casually watch YouTube on, Cooler Master is making that happen. The company has launched the B360 TV ARGB, a 360mm AIO liquid cooler that comes with a 6-inch screen that Cooler Master itself is calling a "TV."

The B360 TV ARGB is currently only listed on JD in China (per VideoCardz), so a global rollout has not been officially confirmed yet. According to the JD listing, it is available in black-and-white models, with the black variant confirming a 6-inch display, a rotatable screen base, ARGB Mobius fans, and a 6-year warranty. The listed price is ¥699, or around $103 before tax.

The screen is obviously the centerpiece here, so let's talk about that. Cooler Master went with a 6-inch TFT LCD with a 960x480 resolution and 300 nits of brightness. The display sits on a fully 360-degree adjustable base and is managed through Cooler Master's MasterCTRL software, giving you control over what's on screen without leaving your desktop.

NVIDIA has released GeForce Game Ready Driver 610.47, and buried inside it are the first signs of DLSS 5 making its way into the driver pipeline. User Warkratos discovered through the NVIDIA Profile Inspector that the new driver appears to add three new profile entries: DLSS-NR, DLSS-NR Streamline, and DLSS-NR Presets. The "NR" part almost certainly stands for Neural Rendering, which is how NVIDIA has been presenting DLSS 5 since its GTC 2026 reveal.

Before anyone gets too excited, these entries do not make DLSS 5 usable in any current games. Even if you enable the preset through the NVIDIA Profile Inspector, you will not get any DLSS 5 effects in existing titles. NVIDIA has not yet shipped any DLSS 5 files to go alongside these flags, so for most users, this is early groundwork rather than anything immediately useful.

For context, DLSS 5 introduces a real-time neural rendering model that takes a game's rendered 2D frame and motion vectors as input, then uses an AI model to infuse the scene with photoreal lighting and materials anchored to the source 3D content. NVIDIA's pitch is that it delivers a level of photorealistic computer graphics previously achievable only in Hollywood visual effects, running in real time at up to 4K resolution.

Computex 2026 kicks off next week. As has become tradition, the Computex Best Choice awards highlight some cool hardware to be shown off, and one of those new products is the ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro WiFi 8 router. It won in the Gaming and Immersive Tech category.

The ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro appears to be based on the WiFi 7 ROG Rapture GT-BE98 Pro with a few tweaks. The headline feature is its support for WiFi 8, adding Multi-AP coordination architecture, integrating intelligent path optimization, dynamic bandwidth management, and a patented thermal design. It includes 10Gbps ports and support for ASUS AiMesh systems. If it's anything like the GT-BE98 Pro, the GT-BN98 Pro is sure to take up a lot of desk space!

It's not the first WiFi 8 router to be shown by ASUS. It revealed its futuristic NeoCore concept router back at CES, complete with a live demonstration.

Sony has rotated most of Destiny 2's content library into PlayStation Plus as the game exits active development and enters virtual retirement.

The Destiny 2 Legacy Collection is coming to PlayStation's subscription service, with PS Plus Extra and Premium users getting an opportunity to jump into the game ahead of the space shooter's official retirement on June 9. After that date, Bungie will no longer release any new content updates for Destiny games, instead focusing on Marathon. The studio still intends to give Destiny 2 a good send off and is inviting PS Plus subscribers to try out nearly a decade of content in the process.

The PS Plus freebie version includes Lightfall, The Witch Queen, packs from Beyond Light, Shadowkeep, and Forsaken, three dungeons, the 30th anniversary pack, and the added bonus of The Final Shape expansion. The upfront value here is very high, especially for new players who were interested in trying out Destiny 2...yet the game does have a clear progression block once all of the endgame content is exhausted.

The new Halo 1 remake will make substantial enough changes to the campaign to make the game feel somewhat new, even to longtime fans.

Microsoft is celebrating 25 years of the Halo franchise with a big new release, but instead of a sequel, Xbox is reaching it Bungie's past and resurrecting one of the most iconic games of all time. The new Halo Campaign Evolved release aims to essentially revamp, upgrade, and in some cases, alter the Xbox original in order to achieve three major goals: 1) have a frontline, premium release to capitalize on Halo's anniversary, 2) provide a product that ties well into Xbox Game Pass, and 3) further progress in UE5 adoption.

As for content, Halo Studios is giving everyone a good reason for everyone try out the game. PlayStation users will try it because they may never have played a Halo game before, but Xbox gamers, even franchise die hards, will want to return in order to play the new missions. New reports from trusted games reporter Rebs Gaming indicate that Halo Studios has altered some Halo CE's campaign missions, including The Library, which has received significant adjustments.

The buzz around the upcoming Ryzen 7 7700X3D is ramping up, suggesting the launch is imminent. CPUID recently released CPU-Z version 2.20.1, and the changelog includes the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D, listed under the Raphael codename. This is the same platform codename as the rest of AMD's Ryzen 7000 desktop family.

It is worth noting that CPUID does not typically add processors to CPU-Z's detection database unless a launch is right around the corner. The same update also added support for a wide range of other processors, including the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition (Granite Ridge), several new Ryzen AI Max+ and Ryzen AI Max SKUs under the Gorgon Halo codename, a number of new PRO-tier Granite Ridge chips, Intel's new Wildcat Lake and Bartlett Lake families, and new Intel Arc Pro graphics solutions.

According to earlier leaks that have since been corroborated by multiple sources, the Ryzen 7 7700X3D will pack 8 cores and 16 threads on the Zen 4 architecture, with a total of 96MB of L3 cache. That breaks down to 32MB of native L3 on the CCD with an additional 64MB stacked on top via 3D V-Cache technology, which is identical to the 7800X3D's cache configuration.

Newegg's latest Deal of the Day is helping gamers buy Switch 2 consoles for little over $400 for the base console.

Gamers have an opportunity to beat the incoming Nintendo Switch 2 price hike with a well-timed deal. Newegg's current Deal of the Day discounts $200 worth of Nintendo eShop gift cards for $170. Gamers are buying 2x of these deals, redeeming the gift card balances into their Nintendo accounts, and then adding extra money to cover the full cost of a Switch 2 console.

In this way, users can attain a base Switch 2 console with no games for $390 pre-tax (little over $400 depending on state), or a pick-your-own-game bundle for $440.

Warhorse Studios aims to have the next Kingdom Come game out in the next few years, and if everything goes according to plan, the game could launch by April 2028.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 has become a big success for publisher Deep Silver with 5x the revenue than the first game in the US at launch, so it's no surprise that a new game is already in the works. The project was actually confirmed in Embracer Group's recent earnings report, where it also announced that Warhorse would now be joining Fellowship Entertainment, a new company spun off by Embracer that now leads IPs like Lord of the Rings, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, and the aforementioned Kingdom Come.

Now we have comments from Warhorse on the timing of the next KC game. In a recent stream, studio communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling says the game will ideally be out by next fiscal year, which corresponds with the April 2027 - March 2028 timeframe. He also confirmed that KCD2 creative director Prokop Jirsa will lead the core team behind the new KC title.

Intel's Bartlett Lake lineup is one of the more interesting CPU families to come out of Intel in recent years. The chips are not available on consumer platforms and are instead targeted at embedded and edge computing applications. What makes them stand out is their pure P-core design, with no E-cores in sight. The flagship of the lineup is the Core 9 273PQE, which packs 12 P-cores running at up to 5.9 GHz, 36MB of cache, and a 125W TDP, all based on the same Raptor Cove architecture found in Raptor Lake.

Since Bartlett Lake chips are not supported on consumer motherboards, enthusiasts have had to get creative. We previously covered how a modder successfully booted the Core 9 273PQE into Windows on a standard Z790 motherboard, an impressive feat given the platform's limitations. Shortly after, we also covered benchmarks from German reviewer Zed Up Gaming, which showed the 273PQE outpacing the Core i9-14900K by up to 10% in gaming. That was a genuinely exciting result for a chip that Intel never intended for consumer desktops.

Now, PC Games Hardware has published a much more thorough set of gaming benchmarks, and the results tell a very different story. Using a proper Bartlett Lake-compatible workstation board, the ASRock IMB-X1714 with a W680 chipset, and DDR5-5600 C46 memory, the 273PQE was tested across roughly 15 games. Across those tests, the chip failed to pull ahead of the Core i9-13900K, a processor that is now over four years old.

Dragon Quest is getting a special hour-long showcase tomorrow, May 27, 2026 at 9AM EST to commemorate the franchise's 40th anniversary, and updates on the next mainline DQ game are expected at the show.

Square Enix is set to celebrate a major milestone in one of the most enduring video game franchises as its Dragon Quest RPG series turns 40 years old. The publisher is holding a Dragon Quest stream tomorrow on DQ Day that will highlight the last 4 decades of adventuring, leading to a hefty 95 million copies sold.

Specifics on what exactly will be shown during the event have not been revealed, and gamers are avidly looking forward to a myriad of projects, including remakes of Dragon Quest VIII and IX, and even Dragon Quest Builders 3. However, it's been more than four years since Square Enix revealed the teaser for Dragon Quest XII, so that game could be up next for a major showing.

Sony's latest patent could pave the way for native advertising in PlayStation games.

A newly-published patent shows that Sony has very forward-thinking plans about how it will use the valuable visual space in its games, especially during downtime sequences like loading screens. The patent (Delivery of Alternate Content During Video Game Wait Times, 20260138036) was actually filed in late 2024 but only recently published this month.

It's important to note that the main reason this patent even exists isn't for ads, or at least that's not the cause given. Sony created the patent in an effort to preserve total immersion in its games by giving players something to do, look at, or engage with during loading screens or match-up transitions. The patent calls this "alternate content," and there's even mention of generative AI models being used to make this content.

After a decade of fan requests, Jason Voorhees is finally joining the lineup of killers in Dead by Daylight. Developer Behaviour Interactive officially announced the iconic Friday the 13th slasher as part of the game's 10th anniversary celebrations, with Jason set to enter The Fog on June 16, 2026. Players on Steam's public test build can get an early taste of the hockey-masked killer from May 26.

Jason enters Dead by Daylight with two major abilities. The first, Omnipresent Evil, is a stealth-based power that allows him to vanish from the map entirely, moving at increased speed while tracking survivors through subtle footstep cues. To reappear, Jason must target environmental points like pallets, vault points, or breakable walls, appearing seemingly out of nowhere for a perfect jumpscare.

The second ability, Improvised Carnage, lets Jason throw makeshift projectiles scattered across the map, including locker fragments, broken generator parts, shattered pallets, and hooks. A successful throw staggers a survivor, and hitting an injured survivor near a wall pins them in place, letting you savor the kill even more.

It seems like Microsoft still hasn't figured out how it wants Copilot to fit into Windows 11, as it is reportedly going back to the original idea of docking the AI assistant directly alongside your desktop. As first spotted by Windows Latest, a new Copilot update is currently rolling out to Windows 11 users, introducing a proper sidebar docking mode that physically pushes your open apps aside to make room for itself.

This comes at a rather ironic time, given that Microsoft has been actively working to make Windows 11 a better experience for users under Project K2, an internal initiative built around three pillars: performance, craft, and reliability. As part of that effort, Microsoft had previously been scaling back Copilot's footprint in Windows 11, removing it from apps like Notepad, and allowing users to remap the Copilot key.

According to Windows Latest, the new behavior is triggered through a dropdown menu in Copilot's title bar, which now reveals a set of dedicated snapping layouts. These include the existing standalone app view and picture-in-picture mode, plus two new options to dock Copilot to either the left or right edge of the screen. Once docked, Windows 11 automatically resizes and repositions everything else around it, including any open apps such as File Explorer, which get compressed to fill the remaining space.

Yujiro Hanma is the second Ogre to join Tekken's character roster, and Bandai Namco plans to add the villain into the game.

Megalomaniac father figures Heihachi and Kazuya might get one-upped by Tekken's latest combatant. The terrifying and legendary Yujiro Hanma will be a playable fighter coming to Tekken 8's new season 3 pass in early 2027. The news was made at the Combo Breaker 2026 fighting game expo, and while no actual gameplay footage of the strongest creature on Earth was actually shown, fans are still reeling from the surprise reveal.

Yujiro Hanma will cost $7.99 when he launches as a standalone DLC character in early 2027, and the Ogre will be included in the Tekken 8 Season 3 Character Pass for $39.99, including three other characters--Kunimitsu, Bob, and Roger Jr.

Last year, AMD launched the Radeon RX 9070 GRE in China with a starting price of 4,199 yuan. Like other GRE cards before it, the launch was China-exclusive. However, rumors now suggest that AMD may be preparing to launch the graphics card globally.

Videocardz has obtained a picture of the English box art for a Sapphire Pulse version of the card, which immediately stands out since Sapphire typically uses Chinese product names for its China-market cards.

Adding weight to the rumor, Videocardz has also spotted Newegg listings for prebuilt systems featuring the Radeon RX 9070 GRE, alongside unofficial listings for the card itself. The PULSE and PURE RX 9070 GRE models are both listed on Newegg, though these are currently from Chinese third-party retailers rather than official US distributors. This suggests that these GPUs are already available to distributors and system integrators in the US.

There are plenty of signals pointing toward NVIDIA's rumored N1X chip. The latest comes from Lenovo, whose internal ADFS authentication system has been spotted referencing an "NVIDIA N1x Portal," confirming the OEM is actively working on N1X-powered laptops ahead of Computex 2026.

The discovery, spotted by VideoCardz, shows two entries in Lenovo's public sign-in system: "NVIDIA N1x Portal PROD" and "NVIDIA N1x Portal Test." These labels suggest production and test environments for an internal Lenovo portal, confirming that N1X hardware is moving through Lenovo's internal systems. No product specs, model names, or launch dates were revealed.

Interestingly, this isn't the first time N1X has broken cover. Earlier support page leaks listed several unreleased Lenovo systems with N1 and N1X labels, including the Legion 7 15N1X11, suggesting a Legion 7 gaming laptop built around the N1X chip. Yoga Pro 7, IdeaPad Slim 5, and Yoga 9 2-in-1 models were also listed, suggesting Lenovo is preparing a wide range of N1X-powered devices across different categories. We also recently covered a laptop motherboard with an N1 chip and 128GB of memory that appeared on Goofish.

Star Citizen has broken a new sales milestone, and it's as big as they get in the games industry.

Cloud Imperium Games has finally done it: Star Citizen has officially broken $1 billion in player funding. The news was confirmed on the official RSI website, which shows the game has generated over $1 billion in crowdfunding across just 6.5 million users, which is no small feat to say the least.

CIG also has the benefit of owning the Star Citizen IP on a development and publishing label, that Star Citizen has its own private launcher, and that the studio has a rare direct digital monetization stream that can deliver high-margin earnings. In short, Star Citizen is less of a game than it is a bustling economy within itself that facilitates ship purchases and the like after the main game is bought--it's not unlike most live games in this way, but it's proven to be highly durable with resilient revenues.

After recently putting a Linux-powered PS5 setup through a path tracing test, the experts at Digital Foundry are back with another experiment, this time to show why Sony has never officially delivered PlayStation 3 emulation on the PS5. Using RPCS3, the most advanced PS3 emulator available, running natively on a hacked PS5 with firmware 6.02 or earlier, Digital Foundry tested a variety of games, with some running great while others struggled to achieve even PS3-level framerates.

Games that don't heavily rely on the PS3's exotic Cell processor and its Synergistic Processing Units (SPU) ran surprisingly well. Ridge Racer 7 ran at a locked 4K 60 FPS, while Resistance: Fall of Man hit 4K 30 FPS with only minor frame pacing issues. Heavenly Sword was arguably the most impressive result, scaling from its original sub-30 FPS 720p performance to a near-locked 30 FPS at a staggering 5120x2880, a 16x increase in pixel count over the original output.

The MotorStorm trilogy also held up well. The original MotorStorm ran at 1440p 30 FPS, Pacific Rift reached 4K 30 FPS, and Apocalypse also hit its performance target after MLAA was disabled through RPCS3 patches. In short, for games that didn't push the Cell processor's complex SPU architecture, the PS5 delivers a genuinely impressive upgrade in visual fidelity.

More information has surfaced regarding Intel's next-generation Core Ultra 400 "Nova Lake" processors. We know that Nova Lake is in advanced stages of production, as engineering samples have already started shipping. Now, we have more information about what the lineup might look like, at least on the embedded side.

According to a report by leaker Golden Pig Upgrade Pack on Weibo, corroborated by Videocardz, Intel is preparing a Nova Lake processor with an unusual 8E+12Xe configuration. This means the CPU lacks any performance cores and relies solely on the computing power of its "Arctic Wolf" E-cores. This CPU is apparently meant for Edge applications only.

We have known Intel CPUs to have a hybrid P-core + E-core configuration for a few years now, but this is the first rumored SKU we have seen with such a bizarre layout. Instead of going for P-cores, Intel is pairing the CPU cores with a large integrated GPU that has 12Xe units. This sort of configuration would not be very effective in normal computing, but it makes sense for Edge applications where the CPU takes a back seat to the GPU.

New information has surfaced about AMD's future Zen 7 architecture, and it is coming straight from Taiwanese supply chain sources. According to Commercial Times Taiwan, AMD has proactively begun preparations for its next-generation Zen 7 platform well ahead of schedule, and the process-node picture is now quite clear.

The Zen 7 Core Complex Die (CCD), internally codenamed "Grimlock," is reportedly set to be manufactured on TSMC's A14 process node, which represents the foundry's 1.4nm-class technology. As a refresher, AMD is currently ramping up production of its Zen 6 EPYC "Venice" processors on TSMC's 2nm node, meaning Zen 7 would be skipping over several intermediate nodes, including N2P, N2X, and A16, going straight to A14.

The production timeline also aligns with TSMC's plans for its Fab 25 P1 facility in Taichung, which is expected to enter trial production in 2027 before scaling to mass production in 2028. That puts Zen 7 on track for a late 2028 launch window, which also happens to be when Intel's own 14A node is expected to reach volume production. Intel's 14A node has been gaining traction recently, with Tesla and Apple already confirmed as customers. This makes the 2028 period a particularly competitive battleground for both companies.