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Genki has agreed to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit with Nintendo for an undisclosed sum, new court documents reveal.

The Switch 2's pre-release leaks reportedly caused confusion and fury behind the scenes at Nintendo as Chinese supply line workers, not Nintendo themselves, revealed the new console's new design and uploaded files for 3D-printable mock-ups. Genki, a company that makes gaming peripherals such as cases, printed a Switch 2 mockup and took it to a trade show, and revealed the 3D-printed mockup to both the press and the world via an animated video.

Nintendo responded by suing Genki for alleged trademark infringement. After a few months of back-and-forth, the two parties have reached an agreement to settle. Genki will pay Nintendo a specific amount of money in damages and is barred from falsely advertising Nintendo products in confusing ways--using names like "Genki Direct" for accessory showcases is also forbidden.

Microsoft is bringing Xbox game streaming to your car, but only if you have LG's webOS and a separate paid auto data plan.

Xbox games can now be played on-the-go directly from your car. With the cloud server infrastructure already in place, Microsoft now offers the Xbox app directly on LG's auto platform, allowing passengers to stream games on backseat screens.

"If you're new to gaming, Xbox Cloud Gaming is a great way to get started. All you need to do is connect a compatible Bluetooth controller, launch the Xbox app from your internet-connected in-vehicle infotainment system, log in to your Xbox Game Pass subscription, and start playing."

Dune: Awakening is a survival MMO with, shall we say, a rather mixed bag of reviews - although there's certainly some praise for the game, or parts of it.

If that's left you rather on the fence as to whether to take the plunge, you might be interested to learn that it's free to play the sprawling survival game this weekend, as Wccftech reports. In fact, it's free from today through to Monday, so you've got a long weekend of the spice flowing, should you want to partake.

This is a celebration of the arrival of Chapter 2, a free update for the game, and a new piece of DLC called the Lost Harvest.

Nintendo makes headway on its war against unauthorized modding with yet another lawsuit victory.

In 2024, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Ryan Daly, who ran an online shop called moddedhardware.com that sold modded Nintendo hardware. Daly made headlines for his refusal to hire legal counsel and choosing to take on Nintendo without a lawyer.

Fast-forwarding to the present day, and Daly has essentially taken the loss against Nintendo's lawyers. In a new joint settlement proposal, Daly has agreed to settle the case for a hefty $2 million on top of a permanent injunction barring Daly from, among other things, ever running a store like this again.

We've just learned a good deal more about Battlefield 6's battle royale mode - and how it's going to have the deadliest ring in the genre.

The Battlefield team posted an extensive raft of fresh details about the mode on Steam (as flagged by PC Gamer) and X (see above), including how the ring of fire is going to be lethal.

The ring - the standard mechanism in battle royale whereby the map shrinks on a timer, to force the diminishing number of surviving gamers together - always punishes a player for being caught in it, but that's usually with incremental damage ticking away at their health.

Announced at Gamescom 2025 as part of a wide range of updates to NVIDIA's GeForce NOW cloud gaming platform, the company has announced that its new GeForce RTX 5080 SuperPODs have begun rolling out this week to servers worldwide.

According to the announcement, four locations in the US have already been upgraded (San Jose, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Newark), with two in Europe (Paris and Frankfurt). Upgrading to RTX 5080-class visuals means full support for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, alongside the new Cinematic-Quality Streaming mode, which offers image fidelity and responsiveness on par with rendering a game locally.

Games are already being optimized for the new GeForce RTX 5080 SuperPODs, and the list includes popular new and recent releases, such as DUNE: Awakening, Borderlands 4, Hell Is Us, Dying Light: The Beast, Cronos: The New Dawn, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Okay, so Borderlands 4 is out this weekend, and early word from those who have played the PC version is that it's a pretty demanding game, hardware-wise. This makes yet another potential Unreal Engine 5-powered game that is set to arrive with day-one performance issues. According to Gearbox's Randy Pitchford, a day-one patch will enhance the game's performance; however, PC players should note the hardware requirements before jumping in.

With the recommended GPU being a GeForce RTX 3080, there will likely be Borderlands fans who struggle to achieve smooth performance. Today, as part of NVIDIA's weekly DLSS roundup, we've got some of the first in-game Borderlands 4 benchmark results. However, as it's part of a DLSS 4 write-up, the performance numbers include both DLSS 4's new Super Resolution upscaling and Multi Frame Generation.

And yes, even though the GeForce RTX 5090 can achieve 256 FPS in 4K, and the GeForce RTX 5080 can reach 166 FPS, this represents a 5.5X increase in performance compared to running the game in native 4K without DLSS or Frame Generation. This indicates that the RTX 5090, the most powerful gaming GPU on the market, is running the game at around 50 FPS.

We will get to see new footage of Battlefield 6's single-player campaign at the Tokyo Game Show on September 26, with EA pushing BF6 just two weeks from its official launch.

In the official Tokyo Game Show schedule, at 1PM to 2PM local time, EA will have the "Battlefield 6: Single-Player Live Showcase". This BF6 showcase will have "the developers and English voice actors of Battlefield 6 introduce the upcoming first-person shooter, including a look at the single-player story mode. Featuring executive special producer Philippe Ducharme and senior creative director Roman Campos-Oriola".

Battlefield 6 single-player campaign, what we know so far: EA Motive is the developer behind the single-player campaign for Battlefield 6, which takes inspiration from the recent Civil War movie, and the Taylor Sheridan drama Lioness. We've seen that the President of the United States is speaking to the American people about some "monstrous, unprovoked attack" and that now "no country is safe". The trailer teased different locations throughout the world, including New York City.

At the recent IFA 2025 event, Lenovo executives were asked by PC Watch Japan why the price of its new flagship PC gaming handheld, the Lenovo Legion Go 2, was approaching that of gaming laptops. The Legion Go 2, with its AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor, is set to launch with a somewhat eye-watering $1,349 USD price point for its premium model.

However, the Legion Go 2's specs are impressive. 32GB of LPDDR5X-8000 system memory, 2TB of M.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSD storage, and a large 8.8-inch VRR-ready OLED display with a 1920 x 1200 resolution and 144 Hz refresh rate. Throw in premium detachable controllers, and Lenovo says that expensive components inevitably drive up the price.

One of the side effects of a flagship PC gaming laptop costing $1,349 is that it limits its appeal to a hardcore or enthusiast audience. And this is something that the company is aware of, as it views the Legion Go 2 as an enhancement to the Lenovo brand. "For those seeking a more affordable option, we offer the Legion Go S series," the company added (translated via Windows Central).

First announced at Gamescom 2025, NVIDIA's RTX Remix update, which adds impressive path-traced particles, is now available for modders everywhere. The advanced particle system in RTX Remix enables modders to add dynamic fire, smoke, and other effects with full path-traced lighting to numerous classic PC games.

Now, as real-time path-tracing is incredibly hardware-intensive and requires DLSS technologies like Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction, and Frame Generation to deliver its fantastic visuals, NVIDIA notes that this new advanced particle system doesn't significantly impact performance.

"RTX Remix particles are GPU-driven, meaning you can add tens of thousands of them without significantly reducing performance," NVIDIA writes in the announcement. "They are path-traced, meaning they cast accurate shadows, and are reflected in the world, a rarity in games. Additionally, they feature a realistic physics simulation, complete with proper collisions with the environment."

Borderlands 4 is set to launch this weekend for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version set to arrive in a few weeks. Hands-on previews of the game's PC version indicate that, outside of the game itself being a return to form and a worthy successor to the iconic Borderlands 2, the Unreal Engine 5-powered game suffered from performance issues like stuttering, freezing, and even crashing.

The recommended PC hardware specifications for the game list a GeForce RTX 3080 or Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card, paired with 32GB of system memory, and an Intel Core i7-12700 or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X processor. This is designed to achieve a "solid balance of smooth performance and graphical detail," with the minimum specification requiring a GeForce RTX 2070 or Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card.

In a response to a preview from Destructoid where the writer played with an in-between minimum and recommended specced PC with a GeForce RTX 3070, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford said that Borderlands 4 is "a big, open AAA game and lower-end and older hardware may not perform as well as higher-end, modern PCs."

A new Dead Island game has been confirmed to be in development, and the developer may have teased the sequel's location.

It's official: Dead Island 3 is happening, and the same people responsible for Dead Island 2 are making the new game. Developer Dambuster Studios shared the update on Twitter:

"14 years ago Dead Island made its gory debut. Today, Dead Island 2 has dragged 20 million Slayers into the sunny chaos of HELL-A. The next outbreak? Dambuster is already drenched in the work. The journey is far from over..."

The names of GTA 6's mock websites and apps may have been revealed, including such clever monikers as "hookers galore.com," and one site even mentions Leonida.

Rockstar is infamous for its searing humor and biting wit; the entire Grand Theft Auto franchise is a hyper-satirical crime drama that gamifies the American Dream. There's mainstays like Ammunation, fast food parodies like Cluckin' Bell, and a rip on Apple with iFruit phones. GTA V even has fake, over-the-top commercials that often verge on early 90s MTV humor.

GTA 6 will be no less offensive and ridden with adult humor than its predecessor. The first trailer showed off what looks to be a fake Instagram-like social media app that gamers might be able to watch clips on, and of course there's the classic news broadcasts as well. Now it looks like internet sleuths have discovered some of the spoof websites that could show up in GTA 6.

Bloober Team's new horror-survival game Cronos: The New Dawn has recouped half of its development budget through launch sales alone.

Sales of Cronos: The New Dawn seem to be off to a promising start for Polish game developer Bloober Team. The studio has announced the game has sold over 200K sales digitally on all platforms--physical shipments and sales weren't included in the data.

These kinds of numbers bode well for Cronos, which was developed on a surprisingly low budget.

Grand Theft Auto V is the best-selling video game ever released on Sony's PlayStation console, new data from analyst firm Circana has revealed.

GTA V has ousted big-name Call of Duty titles and Minecraft to become PlayStation's top game. According to new data from Circana's Mat Piscatella, Grand Theft Auto V is the best-earning and best-selling video game in the United States, by dollar revenue and unit sales, in the 30-year history of the PlayStation brand.

Call of Duty has far and away more games than any other franchise or series on the list, with COD taking up 11 out of the top 20 spots in dollar revenue.

Xbox is returning to the Tokyo Game Show, and will bring Ninja Gaiden 4, first-party games, and the Xbox Ally X handheld duo to the big trade fair.

Microsoft's big Tokyo Game Show plans are a mix of the usual fare: a showcase stream with trailers and potential reveals, hands-on demos, and booth presences complete with merch. The Xbox TGS broadcast will kick off Thursday, September 25 at 6AM ET / 7:00 PM JST, as revealed on the Xbox Wire.

"The show will feature titles from our creative teams, alongside exciting updates from our partners in Japan, across Asia and around the world."

Team Cherry's Hollow Knight sequel is a smash hit on all platforms, especially on Steam where it sold an estimated 3 million copies alone.

2025 has been a huge year for breakout games, and now Hollow Knight Silksong joins the list with stellar launch performance. While the developers haven't given out official sales figures, analyst firms like Alinea Analytics estimate that Silksong has sold 3 million games on Steam in the first 3 days since launch, racking up a hefty $50 million in revenue in the process.

The firm notes an interesting trend that reflects the franchise's enthusiast, die-hard fans: Most of the people who bought Silksong also own the original Hollow Knight game. And these players also have a penchant for brutal games--the analyst firm found that Silksong players also frequented FromSoft soulslikes.

Dave Plummer, one of the more famous ex-Microsoft employees out there who has his own well-trafficked YouTube channel, has been talking about the worst bug he was ever responsible for as a software engineer - and it was in a pinball game.

Plummer - who was responsible for Task Manager in Windows, and also bringing in ZIP support, to name a couple of highlights in a long programming career - told his latest tale in the above clip on his Dave's Attic channel, as pointed out by The Register.

The bug in question was in the Windows NT port of 3D Pinball (Space Cadet) and was present in the engine Plummer wrote around the original code to deal with the video and audio.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is getting its first patch, and it'll come with balancing measures to make the game easier going at the beginning.

It's a common enough observation that Silksong is a tricky affair in the early stages of the game - especially if you're a newbie who hasn't played the original - as you can see above in an example thread I've plucked from Reddit.

So, Team Cherry is doing something about this with patch 1.0.28470, which is now in beta (on Steam or GOG) and will be released come the middle of next week, we're told (assuming testing goes well).

Sony's next-gen PlayStation 6 will be all-digital by default similar to the PS5 and PS5 Pro, sources tell Insider Gaming.

The PS6 will share one of the biggest new features of any console generation: The elimination of a disc drive. New reports indicate that the PlayStation 6 will not ship with a disc drive when it launches.

Instead, the PS6 is expected to be an all-digital system upon release. Consumers would have to buy the disc drive separately, similar to how things currently work with gen 9 PlayStation hardware.