Acer's new Swift Spin 14 AI (SFSP14-Q51T) lives up to its name thanks to its convertible design, featuring 360-degree hinges that let it transform from a powerful productivity laptop to a tablet-like device for note-taking, presenting, and other tasks. With a 14-inch WUXGA IPS touch-enabled glass display, it responds to fingertip strokes and is fully compatible with the Acer Active Pen 420, which supports 4,096 pressure levels and tilt detection for artists and creators, and is included as standard.

This premium, versatile, AI-ready laptop is powered by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite or Snapdragon X2 Plus processor, delivering up to 80 TOPS of performance. The device is built for performance and efficiency, with multi-day battery life offering up to 20 hours of pure video playback or 16.5 hours of web browsing. As a Snapdragon X2 Series laptop, it uses the integrated next-gen Adreno GPU, which supports the latest DirectX 12 games with hardware ray-tracing.

Configurations of the new Swift Spin 14 AI will be available with up to 16GB of LPDDR5X memory and up to 512GB of internal SSD storage. It's also portable, measuring 15.9-16.5 mm thin, in a lightweight 1.34 kg build. It's also built to last, with a stylish cobalt-blue aluminum chassis that's MIL-STD-810H-certified. Basically, it's military-grade. And port-wise, it's stacked with dual USB Type-C, dual USB Type-A, and HDMI 2.1.

Amazon has just announced that it will be releasing three AI-animated series on Prime, and it's only the beginning.

Amazon MGM Studios, and AWS have greenlit Punky Duck, Love, Diana Music Hunters, and Cupcake & Friends, all built using their new AI production platform, Project Nara. The GenAI Creators' Fund, a joint venture between Amazon Web Services and Amazon MGM Studios, aims to level the playing field for creators by giving them access to professional-grade AI tools.

The platform integrates with popular tools such as Maya, Blender, and Unreal Engine and assigns each task to an AI model that has the best chance of completing it with the highest degree of accuracy. Creators had just five weeks to deliver their pilot episodes for the series, a stark indicator of how quickly these AI models can generate content.

Acer is introducing a new PC gaming handheld at Computex 2026, sporting a large 8-inch WUXGA (16:10 resolution, 1920 x 1200 pixels) display with 500-nit peak brightness and VRR support for smooth visuals. However, that's not the big thing here, as the new Predator Atlas 8 handheld from Acer is powered by the Intel Arc G3 Extreme processor, which features integrated Intel Arc B390 graphics.

Utilizing the latest Arc Graphics architecture with 12 Xe3 Cores built on the 3nm Intel 18A process node, codename Panther Lake, this integrated GPU recently debuted in laptops, where its competitive performance, real-time ray tracing, and AI-powered XeSS Super Resolution and Frame Generation technologies deliver smooth 60-100 FPS in games like Cyberpunk 2077 and the new Forza Horizon 6. Based on several reviews, it's comparable to a discrete GeForce RTX 4050 laptop GPU, making it an impressive addition to the handheld scene and the new Predator Atlas 8.

In addition to gaming performance, the Predator Atlas 8 and Intel Arc G-Series Processors are also optimized for efficiency. When it comes to the Predator Atlas 8, the up to 80 Wh battery works alongside Intel Endurance gaming to balance frame rate and power draw for longer sessions when you're not plugged in.

ASUS has just dropped a speed demon in the form of a new TUF Gaming monitor, the VG27AQM5F, a 27-inch QHD gaming monitor with a blistering-fast refresh rate.

ASUS has designed the VG27AQM5F specifically for esports and competitive gaming, with the size and specifications being clear indicators of that. Built around a Fast IPS panel, the VG27AQM5F features a 0.3ms response time (presumably GTG) and a QHD resolution (2560x1440).

The idea is to provide visual clarity and prioritize speed. The monitor is engineered for players who demand every frame count, whether in fast-paced shooters or high-intensity racing titles.

Former Rockstar employees have yet to match the success of Grand Theft Auto, according to Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick.

The Take-Two CEO noted that many developers, including those with Rockstar backgrounds, have tried and failed to create a hit on par with GTA or other major Take-Two titles. Zelnick emphasized that technology alone won't disrupt Rockstar's dominance. Instead, he believes it will take "extraordinarily creative individuals" to challenge the company's legacy.

He also confirmed GTA 6 will launch in November 2026, following a 13-year gap since GTA 5. Meanwhile, GTA 5 remains a commercial powerhouse, selling 5 million units each quarter, while GTA Online continues to receive regular updates and rakes in millions of dollars per week for Rockstar and Take-Two.

The new James Bond 007 First Light game is one of 2026's big AAA hits with 1.5 million copies sold in its first day of availability.

The new James Bond prequel is off to a strong start as the game reaches platinum sales in just 24 hours, highlighting yet another successful launch for the year. IO Interactive has always wanted to make a James Bond game, and their passion and dedication shines through the high-quality, cinematic machismo chaos that First Light offers to players.

Based on player reception, the studio has adequately captured a modern day Bond's suave and deadly prowess in game form, mixing big death-defying sequences with explosions, thrilling car chases, gun battles, and more set amid major set pieces ranging from mountains to mansions.

Riot Games is making a bold shift in the support meta with Patch 26.11, prioritizing melee and engage supports over the ranged enchanter playstyle, which is currently dominating bot lane.

The changes aim to improve the variety of supports that can be played, widening the team comp variables, especially in competitive matches. Key adjustments include a nerf to ranged support effectiveness, a buff to Aftershock and Guardian for melee users, and a rework of Dream Maker to balance damage reduction mechanics.

Grubs have also been strengthened, helping melee supports roam more effectively. Summon Aery and Locket of the Iron Solari have also been changed, with the latter gaining a direct stat boost aimed at providing more agency to tanky support builds.

Apple's MacBook Neo changed what people expect from a budget laptop, and the PC industry is now responding. Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon C, a new processor platform designed specifically for entry-level Windows laptops, with a $300 starting price, and Acer, HP, and Lenovo already signed on as launch partners.

The C in Snapdragon C stands for Compute, and Qualcomm is positioning it as a platform that brings genuine everyday performance to the bottom of the market. The company promises all-day battery life, cool, quiet operation, and responsive performance for typical workloads such as web browsing, video streaming, video calls, and productivity tasks. While the Snapdragon X2 and X2 Elite cater to high-end needs, the Snapdragon C is built for everyday performance.

Qualcomm is staying tight-lipped on specs for now, but has confirmed that Snapdragon C chips will include a dedicated NPU for on-device AI, something largely absent from entry-level laptops until now. That said, the platform will not meet Microsoft's Copilot Plus PC requirements, so the full suite of AI tools won't be available. Clock speeds, core counts, memory configurations, and the NPU's TOPS rating have not yet been shared.

Ninth generation console prices are higher than they've ever been, yet Grand Theft Auto 6 is still expected to help elevate hardware sales throughout the holiday period.

GTA 6 is expected to be the biggest entertainment launch of all time. Analysts predict the game will sell tens of millions of copies on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and now Take-Two management has commented on its views on GTA 6's wider industry-level effects.

In a recent interview between The Game Business and Take-Two execs CEO Strauss Zelnick, company CFO Lainie Goldstein quickly interjected with a simple but meaningful response on the topic of console price increases. "We do think GTA 6 will drive console sales," she said.

Activision has officially revealed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, marking the return of Infinity Ward's sub-series after a three-year hiatus. Players officially go boots on the ground again on October 23, 2026, when the game launches on PS5, Xbox Series X / S, PC, and for the first time in the franchise's history, Nintendo Switch 2.

The Switch 2 debut is the first solid proof of the 10-year Call of Duty agreement between Microsoft and Nintendo in 2023, which committed Microsoft to bringing CoD to Nintendo platforms. On the other end of the spectrum, PS4 and Xbox One are being left behind entirely, making MW4 the first current-gen-only Call of Duty of this console generation.

The official confirmation follows a trail of leaks that had been pointing this way for months. Gaming insider NateTheHate had already tipped it off with a simple "Yes" in response to a comment on r/GamingLeaksAndRumours suggesting MW4 would be the first CoD on Switch 2.

Infinity Ward today revealed Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4, confirming that the campaign centers around a North Korean invasion set in a linear storyline.

This year's Call of Duty has been revealed as Modern Warfare 4, and is set to launch this October on current-gen consoles--even the Nintendo Switch 2. Infinity Ward promises that MW4's campaign is a "return to form," and that it will be "darker and more dangerous than ever before."

MW4's campaign will take players all over the world with car chases through Paris, as well as missions in New York and even Mumbai. There's also reports that the campaign will be playable offline, unlike last year's Black Ops 7, which had a widely unpopular forced online campaign. Story-wise, it will feature Captain Price, Valeria, and Shadow Company, as well as Private Park's new team of South Korean soldiers.

The new PlayStation Days of Play sale discounts a bunch of products, including annual PS Plus subscriptions, giving gamers a prime opportunity to buy in.

New and lapsed subscribers can grab a full year of PlayStation Plus Premium for $108 in Sony's latest Days of Play sale, which is a lot more manageable than the original $159 per year. The annual event will likely spark a lot of sign-ups and re-subscriptions, especially for the Premium tier, which is priced so competitively against the Extra tier that users will only be spending an extra $7 for substantial benefits.

The discount also comes shortly after Sony raised the prices of all PlayStation Plus tiers in the United States and other regions. What's interesting about this move is that Sony only increased the prices of its 1-month and 3-month subscription tiers, leaving the 12-month options the same. It appears to be a move to push consumers towards the 12-month options in a bid for maximum engagement with the services--MAUs are important--as well as improved chances of recurring memberships through embedded investment.

Subnautica 2's stellar launch sales have reportedly triggered a bonus that will award developers at Unknown Worlds up to $250 million, as per an acquisition contract signed in 2021.

Years ago, PUBG giant Krafton bought Subnautica dev Unknown Worlds for half a billion dollars. Included in that buyout deal was a clause that Krafton would pay $3.12 for every $1 earned in excess of $69.8 million across any given month. Krafton laid off Subnautica 2's leadership team, laying off management, leading to a lawsuit that eventually reinstated the developers to ensure they have a fair shot of hitting the bonus target.

Now it appears that target has been hit thanks to Subnautica 2's release. Sources tell The Korea Economic Daily that the developers at Unknown Worlds have indeed broken the earnings threshold and triggered the bonus. It's unclear how much Krafton will have to pay, but the clause is for up to $250 million, which is 35% of Krafton's annual operating profit, the KED notes.

After years of being banned from Apple's platform, Fortnite is finally back on iOS worldwide, and the return has been anything but quiet. The legal battle with Apple over storefront taxes and payment options isn't over, but the first week's download numbers make it very clear why Epic spent years fighting to get back on Apple devices.

According to AppMagic data cited by PocketGamer, Fortnite pulled 3.4 million iOS downloads globally during its first week back on the App Store. This figure makes it the fourth-strongest week for Fortnite since its launch, just 0.3 million downloads shy of the 3.7 million seen in the 2018 launch week. Considering the game is eight years old and has undergone several major changes, matching its highest-ever popularity shows how the game can still move like it's brand new.

When comparing daily downloads, Fortnite's global return marked the highest daily download numbers in eight years. From approximately 19,000 installs on May 18, 2026, daily downloads surged by 1,408% to almost 290,000 on May 19, then peaked at 674,000 on May 23. Throughout the week, daily installs consistently surpassed numbers seen before the global relaunch, with 445,000 additional downloads recorded on day seven.

NVIDIA's Vera CPU has been making headlines ever since it was announced at GTC 2026, and Phoronix has finally put some real numbers behind the hype. The publication was given early access to pre-production Vera hardware and ran it through a permitted subset of workloads, including code compilation, STREAM memory benchmarks, video encoding, database performance, and Python and Java tasks.

Under the hood, Vera is built around 88 custom Armv9.2 "Olympus" cores on a unified monolithic die, delivering 176 threads through physical resource partitioning. The chip supports native FP8 processing for AI workloads, pairs with up to 1.5 TB of LPDDR5X memory in the SOCAMM2 form factor, and hits 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth. A second-generation Scalable Coherency Fabric provides 3.4 TB/s of bisection bandwidth, which helps sidestep the latency issues that typically come with chiplet-based designs.

The benchmark results are impressive. Across the geometric mean of all tested workloads, Vera came out nearly 11% ahead of AMD's top EPYC offerings and around 55% ahead of the best single-socket Intel Xeon. From generation to generation, Vera clocked in at roughly 1.63 times the performance of NVIDIA's previous Grace CPU. Phoronix concluded that this is the most capable ARM-based Linux server processor it has ever tested, which is a statement worth sitting with for a moment.

Microsoft has warned users about an active cryptojacking campaign that uses AI chatbots to serve malicious downloads disguised as trusted PC utilities. Microsoft Defender Experts and the Security Research Team said in a report published Tuesday that "this emerging delivery technique extends social engineering beyond conventional search results and increases the visibility of malicious software recommendations."

The campaign impersonates legitimate system utilities like CrystalDiskInfo, HWMonitor, Display Driver Uninstaller, FurMark, K-Lite Codec Pack, and PDFgear. The idea is to target applications favored by PC users with high-performance GPUs to gain access to systems with higher cryptocurrency mining potential, rather than infecting a large number of machines at random.

Downloads from this cryptojacking campaign have also been found to establish persistent remote access through ScreenConnect deployments. ScreenConnect, also known as ConnectWise Control, is a legitimate remote management tool widely used by IT administrators, but it can also be leveraged for data theft, lateral movement, or ransomware.

Take-Two Interactive boss Strauss Zelnick gives some clues on what's next for Grand Theft Auto VI, unofficially indicating that the game will have some sort of online mode ready for the influx of new players.

It's no secret that GTA Online is a billion-dollar success; the service can make $4.4 million per week on PS5 and help the franchise make anywhere from $100 million to nearly $300 million per quarter. Rockstar has transformed Grand Theft Auto into a kind of service franchise, and there's no reason to think the latest GTA 6 release would be any different. While specifics haven't been revealed, Take-Two Interactive's CEO comments that Rockstar Games will be very busy after GTA 6's official November release, likely with a mix of content updates for the online mode as well as critical bug fixes.

In a recent interview with The Game Business, Zelnick answered a question about layoffs at Rockstar once GTA 6 launches. In that response, Zelnick talks about a busy future for Rockstar:

Microsoft is following through on its previously announced "Low Latency Profile" feature with a new optional preview update, KB5089573, for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. The official changelog for the update lists the change under "General Performance". It doesn't mention the Low Latency Profile by name, but it appears to be the same CPU-burst feature seen in earlier Windows 11 testing.

Low Latency Profile temporarily boosts the CPU to its maximum frequency for 1 to 3 seconds to make app launches smoother. The feature is designed specifically for core Windows tools, with Microsoft in-box applications like Edge and Outlook seeing around 40% faster launch times, while OS flyouts such as the Start menu, Notification Center, right-click menus, and other shell areas may see speed improvements of up to 70%. Third-party apps aren't part of the optimization package just yet, but they will be in a future update to Low Latency Profile.

KB5089573 is currently optional and in preview, meaning it won't be installed automatically. If you want it early, head to Settings > Windows Update > Advanced options > Optional updates, then install it manually. Due to Microsoft's gradual rollout system, the feature may not be available to everyone immediately after installing the update. Users can force-enable it early using ViVeTool, but this requires running a few commands in a Command Prompt window. If you are not familiar with this, just wait for the official rollout for your system.

Activision started up a mysterious live stream earlier this morning where it showed snippets of this year's Call of Duty game, proving that the leaks surrounding the title were correct.

This year's Call of Duty game is indeed set in the Korean peninsula, new official teaser footage has confirmed. The footage depicts bodycam footage of a group of Korean soldiers walking around a city, which is then struck by a missile attack.

The news comes shortly after Activision formally sent a cease-and-desist to Call of Duty leaker TheGhostofHope, whose original leaks turned out to be accurate. The info says that Modern Warfare 4 will chronicle a conflict between North and South Korea, however official details have yet to be confirmed by Activision or Infinity Ward.

LG may be done making TVs after nearly 60 years in the business, and it's reportedly in talks to sell the division to Chinese electronics giant Hisense.

According to reports from Korean outlet EBN, LG is exploring the possibility of restructuring or even selling its TV business due to weak profits and increasing competition from Chinese brands.

If LG goes through the sale of its TV business it would mark a major departure from the TV market, and yet another industry that LG has left after establishing a healthy presence for many years. For those wondering, LG shut down its smartphone business in 2021.