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Rockstar Reveals $400 Grand Theft Auto 6 Box Of Stuff That Doesn’t Include The Game
This collection includes a ton of Vice City-inspired extras, like a statue, sunglasses, and crossbody bag
Control Resonant Gets Day-One Patch Making Enemies Easier To Kill
It also makes some bosses a bit less tanky after initial reactions complained heavily about enemies having too much health
Meta Promises Lightweight VR Multimedia Headset, Launching in Spring 2027
But will IMAX movies and Xbox Cloud Gaming in VR convince the skeptics?
Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration’s 15 Highest-Priced Cards (Including The $4000 RGB Mew)
The prices are so much lower than anyone was expecting, apart from those ridiculous Mews
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Is About To Make Me Go Back To The Old Me
It’s been a while since I went back home to Night City
State Of Decay 3 Studio Almost Sold To Splash Damage Before The Deal Fell Through
The company behind Brink was nearly set to buy former Xbox studio Undead Labs with the financial backing of the publisher behind an upcoming Star Wars game
Instead of Announcing Ace Attorney 7, Capcom Is Porting The Fifth Game Into VR For Some Reason
The wait continues as Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies gets a VR remake
Boys Don’t Die: A Halo Retrospective
‘No, I think we’re just getting started.’
Microsoft’s Latest Round Of Layoffs May Have Killed A Brand New Age Of Empires Game
Rumors suggest World’s Edge might have been working on a new entry, after news that its current project has been cancelled
Hackers Exploit Critical WordPress Flaw Just Hours After Patch Release
If you, your business, or someone you know rely on the use of WordPress in any way, applying patches immediately is essential to prevent possible compromise by a Remote Code Execution (RCE) attack. To be specific, security company Patchstack discovered widespread attacks using the CVE-2026-87902 vulnerability, which is an unauthenticated local
NVIDIA Details How DLSS 5 Developer Controls Tame AI Over-Rendering
NVIDIA just published a new developer-focused blog post detailing how game makers can control DLSS 5’s 3D-guided neural rendering, and while most of the information in the post will be familiar to anyone who has been following DLSS 5 closely (and, indeed, to anyone who read our launch coverage) it offers a useful look at why NVIDIA gives developers
Sony’s 2028 PlayStation Disc Plan May Be Cracking Under Pressure
Fans of physical game releases, don’t give up hope yet, because there are rays of sunshine peeking through the dark clouds of the all-digital future. First, it got out that Microsoft was surveying fans about supporting game discs with its next generation console, Project Helix. Now it looks as if Sony has sent a similar survey to game developers,
Xiaomi 18 Pro Max Debuts With Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 And Split-Screen Privacy Display
At the Snapdragon Summit, we were there as Xiaomi unveiled its newest flagship smartphones, the Xiaomi 18 Pro and Xiaomi 18 Pro Max that run on the all-new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series, massive silicon-carbon battery upgrades, and trick split-screen privacy display.
Xiaomi 18 Pro has brought split-screen privacy protection ahead of the
Grab An RTX 5070 Founders Edition Gaming PC For $1,549 At Walmart
As part of its ongoing GeForce Week sales event, Walmart is offering a big discount on a prebuilt gaming desktop equipped with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5070, making it one of the lowest prices we’ve seen for a system with this GPU. Also notable is that this is a Founders Edition graphics card, which for some buyers holds added appeal compared
Nikon Debuts Z5IIc Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera Built For Budget Creators
Nikon has dropped the Z5 IIC, a revised viewfinder-less full-frame mirrorless over last year’s Z5II with one clear mission: to give content creators something with the ease of smartphone photography and the power of higher-end digital imaging at an affordable price.
Unlike its fuller-featured sibling the Z5 II, there’s no EVF here, which
Steam Frame Teardown Finds Modular VR Design A Breeze Until You Hit The Fan
Valve’s long-awaited standalone virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, not only finally launched this month, it also made it onto the dissection table. In its latest teardown, the folks at iFixit put the newly launched hardware under the knife (and other surgical instruments) to determine how easily users can service and repair it. The
Microsoft Surface Pro 12 And Laptop 13 Gain Snapdragon X2 Plus Firepower
Microsoft is expanding its Arm-powered PC lineup with fresh internal upgrades for its most portable form factors. Announced at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, the company is refreshing both the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus processor.
The transition brings notable performance and efficiency
Qualcomm Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 Brings AI Agents To Your Earbuds
Qualcomm has made a series of announcements this week at its annual Snapdragon Summit event in Maui, Hawaii, the newest of which is the unveiling of its Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 platform. Purpose-built for next-generation audio devices for the agentic age, the platform aims to combine premium Snapdragon Sound technologies with on-device
Xbox Helix Leak Tips 56 TFLOPS GPU To Overpower PS6 By 40%
Over on the NeoGAF forums, which are popular among gaming industry insiders, credible leaker Kepler_L2 appeared in a thread claiming that the PlayStation 6 would have performance surpassing NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5080, citing support for dual-issue compute as the reason why. Kepler did not back that claim, but did assert both that the PlayStation