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Taiwanese hardware manufacturer Biostar recently teased next-gen AMD motherboards planned to be showcased at Computex 2026. The PR announcement has since been quietly edited, with the "next-generation" wording removed, which likely means AMD wasn't ready to go public yet or Biostar got a little too excited. The company didn't name a specific chipset, but the wording points to a new AM5 board lineup, something in the vein of an X970E, though nothing is confirmed.

That's not the most interesting part of this story, though. A new leak from MEGAsizeGPU suggests AMD's next-generation AM5 platform may reuse the same Promontory 21 chipset found in all existing AM5 motherboards. The difference from the current 800-series and previous 600-series boards could come in the form of add-on features, new BIOS-level software capabilities, and significantly overhauled memory support.

That memory support could include full compatibility with both CUDIMM and CAMM modules, rather than only partial compatibility added via recent AGESA updates. CUDIMM, or Clocked Unbuffered DIMM, incorporates an onboard clock driver that helps support higher memory speeds. CAMM, or Compression Attached Memory Module, is a thinner memory form factor designed primarily for laptops and high-volume OEM desktop systems, using a compression connector to save space.

Frame generation, hate it or not, has become a staple of PC gaming thanks to mainstream integration by NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, as well as 3rd-party solutions such as Lossless Scaling. PC-like Frame generation technology has now begun to trickle down to Android devices through a new Vulkan-based iteration of Lossless Scaling's frame generation technology.

Right now, there are two ways to get Lossless Scaling frame generation installed on Android. One is to install the standalone version from the LSFG-Android GitHub page, and the other is to use GameHub, which comes with LSFG baked in. However, both implementations require you to buy Lossless Scaling, which is currently $6.99 on Steam. The standalone option is technically better as it allows you to apply frame generation to any game installed on your Android device.

The version of LSFG offered on Android comes with up to an 8x frame generation multiplier, performance mode, HDR mode, anti-artifact mode, and flow scale adjustment. Flow scale changes the resolution of the generated frames, improving performance or image quality depending on how aggressively the flow scale is adjusted.

Information is starting to surface about the much-anticipated Forza Horizon 6 ahead of its May 19th launch. Recently, Forza Horizon 6 went gold, and several other details regarding its map, city size, and Japan's density also leaked. Now, more information has come out regarding the upcoming game, but this time it requires a deeper discussion.

According to a blog post, Forza Horizon 6 is now available to preload ahead of its launch, revealing the game's size. Evidently, the file sizes of Forza Horizon 6 are absolutely gargantuan, and you may need to clear up some space on your drive for this game. The blog states that the game requires 135 GB of space on the Xbox Series X, 130 GB on the Xbox Series S, and a whopping 160 GB on PC.

The file sizes were further corroborated by a Reddit post on the Forza Horizon subreddit, which revealed the exact sizes via the Xbox phone app: 144.84 GB for the Xbox Series X|S and 156.65 GB on PC. Furthermore, the Forza blog says that an SSD is mandatory for this game, which could mean there's a potential performance dip if you run the game from a hard drive.

Colin Angle, the man who brought us the Roomba, is now pushing the boundaries of robotic companionship with a plush, AI-powered pet robot.

Dubbed a "Familiar," the four-legged, stuffed-like device is designed to interact socially, learning and adapting to household routines while offering emotional support.

Angle's new venture, Familiar Machines & Magic, unveiled the AI robot pets at the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything conference. These devices feature a full sensory suite, equipped with microphones, vision, and audio systems, and are built to read body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice.

Valve's Steam Controller is returning to the hands of fans this Friday via a reservation system, according to an announcement.

After launching May 4 and flying off shelves, the device became a victim of its own popularity, leading to intense scalping. Now, Valve is rolling out a new reservation queue to curb reseller activity and give genuine customers a fair shot.

Reservations open Friday, May 8, at 10 a.m. Pacific, and each user is limited to one controller. Once you secure a spot, you'll have three days to complete your purchase. Valve also requires users to have made a Steam purchase before April 27 and maintain a good-standing account. Those who already own a controller won't be eligible for a second one in this batch.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight has officially dropped its launch trailer, and it's already stirring excitement in the gaming community.

The trailer, unveiled at Gamescom, delivers a fresh look at the upcoming LEGO action-adventure title, showcasing Bruce Wayne's evolution into the Caped Crusader. With a bold new aesthetic and a deep narrative, the game promises to expand on the LEGO Batman legacy in a way that fans haven't seen in years.

The trailer teases a story that dives into the core of Batman's origin, with a strong focus on character development and iconic villains. TT Games, the studio behind the LEGO franchise, has crafted a visually vibrant world that blends humor with heart, a defining feature of the LEGO series since its inception.

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is now allegedly banned from eBay, just days after he proposed a $56 billion acquisition of the site, which would represent a 20% premium over eBay's current share price.

The bizarre saga continues as Cohen shared a screenshot on X claiming his account had been suspended, though his listings remain live and bidding is ongoing. Cohen's eBay venture began with a viral stunt: he listed items, including a $14,000 pair of socks.

But now, the CEO says the platform suspended him, just hours after he began selling. The sale of these items was in response to criticism that Cohen would not be able to afford the acquisition of eBay.

Halo Studios is actively developing the next mainline Halo campaign, codenamed "Halo Next," and the project is already generating major speculation about its direction.

According to Rebs Gaming's latest report, the sequel is in active development at Halo Studios, with fresh details emerging about the story's potential focus and key returning elements.

The project was initially led by Joseph Staten before the 2023 layoffs, with plans centered on the mysterious race known as the Endless, introduced in Halo Infinite. Staten had reportedly ruled out the Flood for the sequel, but the recent job listing for a Narrative Design Director and Halo: Edge of Dawn suggest the studio might be shifting course, at least in part.

Grand Theft Auto 6 players could be hit with a $1,000 console price tag, according to a new warning from gaming industry analyst Mat Piscatella.

As current-gen consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series continue to see price hikes due to rising component costs and economic instability, Piscatella expects sticker shock for those who wait until launch to pick up a system just to play GTA 6.

Piscatella, speaking with The Game Business, said the rising cost of RAM and other volatile market conditions have already driven the price of a standard PS5 to $649 and the PS5 Pro to $900. Piscatella expects these increases won't slow before the release of GTA 6, and warned potential buyers who aren't closely tracking the market could be blindsided by a $1,000 console at launch. "A $1,000 console!" Piscatella said, adding, "There's going to be a price shock for a lot of people."

A mad modder has somehow managed to run the entirety of *The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind* inside the Pip-Boy of Fallout 4, and it's one of the most absurdly creative PC mod feats we've seen in years.

The mod, created by YouTuber RPGKing117, streams a custom build of OpenMW into the Pip-Boy display in real time, allowing players to navigate the 2002 RPG from within the 2015 post-apocalyptic title.

RPGKing117 posted a demo on YouTube showing Morrowind running on both a computer terminal and the in-game Pip-Boy itself. The mod requires both Fallout 4 and Morrowind (Steam versions), plus the Fallout 4 Script Extender.

Since Asha Sharma took over as the new CEO of Xbox, there has been an overhaul of the Xbox brand, with Sharma stating that Xbox is getting back to its roots and reestablishing itself as a gaming brand.

This overhaul of Xbox comes after the tragic "This Is An Xbox" marketing campaign, which Sharma axed upon her entry, leaving Xbox in the confused state it is in right now. The marketing campaign essentially suggested that anything could be an Xbox, even a PlayStation, as Xbox is currently moving toward dropping exclusivity entirely.

Xbox fans, in response to that message, began to ask why they would even buy an Xbox console at all if their favorite Xbox games were available on PlayStation. That's valid reasoning, especially if you don't have a PC to play Xbox games.

It was back in July, 2025, when we reported that FromSoftware, the creators of the Dark Souls franchise, were working on a new project codenamed "FMC" and that it was targeting a release sometime in 2026. A new leak has now given us an indication of what FromSoftware will be calling this title.

FromSoftware is reportedly set to reveal its next unannounced single-player title at the Summer Game Fest in just one month. According to the latest leaks, the title will be self-published and launch as early as August, beating The Duskbloods to the finish line.

The game, purportedly titled Cerulean Onslaught, is described as a dark action RPG centered around open-world ocean exploration, with players sailing between islands and using their ship as a central hub. Reddit and 4chan leaks point to a potential Souls-like structure, and with FromSoftware already deep into production, a 2026 launch seems likely unless there are setbacks.

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has admitted he's "deeply disappointed" that a new BioShock game hasn't launched in over a decade.

Despite the franchise's strong legacy and gamer demand, the next entry in the series has proven difficult to deliver, with Zelnick blaming the lack of a new BioShock game on the difficulty of finding the "right creative purchase" as the root cause.

Zelnick explained in a recent interview that the company spent years exploring creative avenues that ultimately failed to pan out, wasting both time and money.

A new report from DigiTimes has laid forth Intel's CPU roadmap for the next two years. Intel is reportedly ramping up to deliver four distinct processor families: Nova Lake, Razor Lake, Titan Lake, and Moon Lake as the company aims to reclaim dominance in the desktop and mobile markets.

Based on the report, Nova Lake and Razor Lake are slated for the desktop market, while Intel's mobile and low-power efforts will center on the Titan Lake and Moon Lake families. The company supposedly expects no major disruptions to this upcoming cadence, with all four families currently on track to meet their targeted launch windows.

Nova Lake is Intel's immediate priority, with an official launch scheduled for late 2026 to succeed Arrow Lake. Despite the official word, debate continues over whether we'll see silicon as early as Q3 2026 or at CES 2027. The report claims Nova Lake is on schedule for launch in Q3 2026. It is unclear which Nova Lake designation this date refers to, or when we'll see real volume.

Today, AMD unveiled its new Instinct MI350P GPU accelerator, targeted at AI workloads. The company is marketing the MI350P as a cost-effective, drop-in upgrade for companies that want to expand their AI infrastructure. The MI350P is a dual-slot PCIe GPU accelerator that can be easily installed in existing air-cooled servers without extensive reconfiguration.

The key marketing point is definitely its PCIe form factor and relatively affordable price. AMD, in its press release, is directly targeting enterprises that want to adopt AI without having to invest heavily in new infrastructure. The company is offering air-cooled systems with up to eight Instinct MI350P accelerator cards, designed for small and medium-sized AI deployments.

Under the hood, the Instinct MI350P has 128 compute units, equaling 8,192 stream processors, along with 512 Matrix cores. The GPU uses the CDNA 4 architecture built on TSMC's 3nm production process. The core is in a 4-XCD configuration, boosting to 2200 MHz. The single I/O die is based on TSMC's 6nm FinFET process, and the GPU also houses 128MB of LLC in the form of Infinity Cache.

Earlier this week, a PassMark leak surfaced involving an AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D. Now, another unannounced processor, the Ryzen 7 PRO 9755, has surfaced, featuring the same core and thread count as the Ryzen 7 PRO 9745 but likely with higher clocks.

Several leaks indicate AMD is expanding its Ryzen PRO 9000 series Zen 5 lineup for the enterprise market. As it currently stands, AMD officially lists three Ryzen PRO 9000 series processors for the business segment: the Ryzen 9 PRO 9945, Ryzen 7 PRO 9745, and Ryzen 5 PRO 9645.

Last week's leak about the Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D revealed a chip with 16 cores, 32 threads, and likely 128 MB of L3 cache. The interesting detail there was the 3D V-Cache designation, something we have not seen before in the PRO lineup. The chip was spotted on PassMark, showing just 32 MB of L3 cache and 16 MB of L2 cache.

Samsung is reportedly developing a next-gen holographic display for Apple's rumored Spatial iPhone, and it's already taking shape in South Korea.

The MH1 panel, according to recent leaks, could use advanced eye-tracking and diffractive beam-steering technologies to enable immersive 3D visuals. If the rumors are true, Apple is once again leaning on Samsung's display expertise to bring a futuristic product to market.

The MH1 is part of Samsung's broader push into next-level display tech. Just last year, the company secured a three-year exclusive deal to supply foldable OLED panels for Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone.

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is selling GameStop merchandise on eBay to fund what he calls a potential $55.5 billion buyout of the auction platform eBay. Yes, that's right. The GameStop CEO is selling items on eBay to fund his venture in acquiring eBay.

In a move that's certainly eyebrow-raising, Cohen is listing items on the very site he wants to own. The idea behind the new eBay listings is to mock skeptics who question how Cohen will finance the blockbuster deal.

Cohen's $55.5 billion offer, which values eBay at $125 per share, is a 20% premium over its recent closing price. The deal would give GameStop control of one of the most established online marketplaces in the world, where users trade everything from collectibles to electronics.

Nearly four years after PCI-SIG announced PCIe 7.0, the consortium has now revealed it is moving towards its successor. PCI-SIG members have gained access to version 0.5 of the PCIe 8.0 standard, described as the first official draft. The release incorporates feedback from the earlier 0.3 draft published in September 2025, while the final PCIe 8.0 specification remains on track for release in 2028.

PCIe 8.0 represents a major leap over existing standards, offering eight times the transfer rate of PCIe 5.0, which remains the fastest PCIe standard available on consumer desktop platforms today. On paper, the new standard delivers a 256 GT/s data rate and 1 TB/s of raw bi-directional bandwidth via a 16-lane configuration. As with every new PCIe generation, PCI-SIG aims to double bandwidth every three years. Here is the breakdown across different lane configurations:

At x1, PCIe 8.0 effectively matches the bandwidth of PCIe 4.0 running at x16 or PCIe 5.0 at x8. At x2, it reaches the full PCIe 5.0 bandwidth, while x4 mode matches PCIe 6.0 capabilities. Hence, technically, PCIe Gen8 NVMe SSDs will be rated for sequential speeds of up to 120,000 MB/s.

OpenAI is fast-tracking a smartphone designed to upend the app-driven model of modern mobile computing, and it's coming sooner than expected.

According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, OpenAI is preparing to launch an AI-first phone that could directly challenge Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy lineup.

The device is said to leverage AI agents instead of traditional apps, offering a fundamentally new user experience for owners. Qualcomm and MediaTek are reportedly supplying the custom silicon, while Luxshare Precision Industry is handling manufacturing.