AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Is Finally Available For $599 With A Free Bonus

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Is Finally Available For $599 With A Free Bonus
It took a lot longer than we would have liked, but AMD’s flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT is up for grabs at its baseline MSRP. Same goes for the Radeon RX 9070 (read: non-XT model). We won’t go so far as to call this a deal in the true sense of the word, but it’s noteworthy, given that add-in board (AIB) partners have routinely sold these cards

Intel Holiday Bundle Gifts Battlefield 6 Or Another AAA Game With These CPUs

Intel Holiday Bundle Gifts Battlefield 6 Or Another AAA Game With These CPUs
Intel is kicking off a new holiday promotion that rewards gamers who purchase select Core Ultra CPUs and systems with a choice of a free game, plus a collection of bonus software. One of the game choices is Battlefield 6 valued at $69.99, which debuted last month to rave reviews and quickly became Electronic Arts’ most-played title on Steam.
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AMD Clears Confusion Over Radeon RX 5000 & 6000 Driver Strategy And It’s Good News

AMD Clears Confusion Over Radeon RX 5000 & 6000 Driver Strategy And It's Good News
AMD has issued another statement clarifying its Radeon GPU driver strategy after its latest Adrenalin Edition release (version 25.10.2) created a fair bit of confusion and anxiety among owners of older graphics cards. In less uncertain terms (compared to its previous statement), AMD reassures owners of Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 series GPUs they

Black Friday Tablet Deals Drop Early: Lenovo’s 2025 Idea Tab Plus $199, iPad 11-Inch $299

Black Friday Tablet Deals Drop Early: Lenovo’s 2025 Idea Tab Plus $199, iPad 11-Inch $299
We’re already into November and that means Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are right around the bend. However, don’t feel like you have to wait a few more weeks to score a great bargain. The discounts are coming in fast and furious as retailers get an increasingly early start on the annual sales bonanza, and if you’re in the market for

Check Out Smash-Hit Arc Raiders That Just Broke 295K Concurrent On Steam

Check Out Smash-Hit Arc Raiders That Just Broke 295K Concurrent On Steam
ARC Raiders had its cross-platform launch on October 30th, and two days later the game has already met and exceeded 293 thousand concurrent players on Steam—a number we’ve had to update several times during the writing of this article. When we started the newsroom this morning, it was just 250K, and when I started the final writeup, it had

Microsoft Tests Windows 11 Bluetooth Audio Sharing For Two Headsets At Once

Microsoft Tests Windows 11 Bluetooth Audio Sharing For Two Headsets At Once
Microsoft is testing a feature in its Insider Preview builds that allows audio to be shared between two separate Bluetooth LE audio devices. This means that two Bluetooth audio accessories can play back the exact same audio stream simultaneously. Microsoft says that this “lets students share music with a friend while studying, or brings fmaily

Early Black Friday Deals: Xbox Wireless Controllers Hit New Low At 38% Off

Early Black Friday Deals: Xbox Wireless Controllers Hit New Low At 38% Off
Microsoft and its retail partners are celebrating Black Friday early with deals on wireless Xbox controllers, a couple of which are now on sale for the lowest price we’ve seen. We’re talking about a 38% markdown for what we consider to be one of the best wireless controllers for both PC and console gaming. Time is of the essence, though, as

Yes, AMD Is Still Supporting Radeon RX 6000 And 5000 GPUs But With A Key Caveat

Yes, AMD Is Still Supporting Radeon RX 6000 And 5000 GPUs But With A Key Caveat
AMD made some waves recently when it announced that it would be relegating its RDNA 1 and 2 based Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 Series GPUs to a security-update focused branch of its Radeon GPU driver software. In follow-up comments made to Tom’s Hardware, however, AMD has since clarified that this does not mean the GPUs will no longer be supported

Epic Games Victory Forces Google To Make First Major Change To Play Store

Epic Games Victory Forces Google To Make First Major Change To Play Store
If you pay attention to gaming news at all, you’ve almost assuredly heard by now that Epic Games won its case against Google last year. Google still wants to take the case to the Supreme Court, but for now, it has to abide by the US District Court and Judge James Donato’s judgment, where they decided that Google had engaged in unlawful anti-competitive

WordPress Anti-Malware Plugin Flaw Exposes 100K Sites To An Alarming Security Threat

WordPress Anti-Malware Plugin Flaw Exposes 100K Sites To An Alarming Security Threat
A new threat in is the wild affecting sites that run WordPress, a popular content management system. Wordfence, a company that focuses on security research in the WordPress ecosystem, is reporting that a vulnerability is affecting the Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall plugin that’s currently deployed on over 100,000 websites.

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Pac-Man Turns 45 And Google Celebrates With A Playable Spooky Doodle Halloween Surprise

Pac-Man Turns 45 And Google Celebrates With A Playable Spooky Doodle Halloween Surprise
Forty-five years ago, Pac-Man made his U.S. debut in October—and today for Halloween, Google is collaborating with Namco Bandai to present a playable Pac-Man Doodle with eight levels and four brand-new haunted house-themed maze layouts. It’s a timely twist to an all-time classic game.

When one considers the core gameplay loop of Pac-Man,

Intel Panther Lake Performance Teased In Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro Benchmark Leak

Intel Panther Lake Performance Teased In Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro Benchmark Leak
Thanks to a freshly-found benchmark listing, the curtain has been pulled back on Samsung’s Galaxy Book6 Pro with a next-generation Intel chip inside. While this may look like a routine hardware update, Samsung’s ultra-portable laptop provides a closer look into future AI PCs spearheaded by Intel’s Panther Lake architecture. In today’s bit

Minisforum Says Brace For Mini PC Price Hikes Amid Rising DDR5 And SSD Costs

Minisforum Says Brace For Mini PC Price Hikes Amid Rising DDR5 And SSD Costs
If you’ve been on the fence about whether to buy a mini PC now or wait until Black Friday sales roll into view, you may want to consider taking the plunge. Why is that? Minisforum, one of the most active participants in the mini PC space, posted a notice on X saying it will be issuing a “slight price adjustment” on its mini PC models that

YouTube TV Fumbles ESPN, ABC & Disney, Offers Lame $20 Apology

YouTube TV Fumbles ESPN, ABC & Disney, Offers Lame $20 Apology
For the time being, millions of YouTube TV subscribers are no longer able to access Disney-owned channels, including ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, National Geographic, FX, and a whole bunch more. The timing couldn’t be worse, either, with various professional and college sports seasons now in full swing. This effectively means that YouTube TV subscribers

Corsair Smacks Down Hit Box & Razer With Its Sweet New Novablade Hall Effect Leverless Fight Controller

Corsair Smacks Down Hit Box & Razer With Its Sweet New Novablade Hall Effect Leverless Fight Controller
Corsair just announced its entrance into the leverless fightstick scene first popularized by Hit Box, the new Corsair Novablade Pro. Or to be more specific, the Corsair Novablade Pro Wireless Hall Effect Leverless Fight Controller—but we’ll stick with Novablade Pro for now. The Novablade Pro is a direct competitor to the likes of Hit Box’s

AMD Just Referenced Zen 6 Ryzen Medusa CPUs For The First Time

AMD Just Referenced Zen 6 Ryzen Medusa CPUs For The First Time
AMD is on a mission: replace its proprietary AGESA firmware for its Ryzen and EPYC processors with openSIL, which stands for Open-Source Silicon Initialization Library. The move to openSIL will improve security and scalability while improving customization and control for AMD’s customers, including end users. However, that’s not what we’re

Take-Two CEO Proclaims That AI Can’t Make Games Like Grand Theft Auto

Take-Two CEO Proclaims That AI Can't Make Games Like Grand Theft Auto
Discussion surrounding the use of AI in game development is once again at the forefront, after EA recently announced its partnership with Stability AI. Those who work in the industry at a variety of levels have chimed in on the matter, and that now includes Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, one of the biggest game publishers in

Nintendo’s Patent Lawsuit Against Palword Dealt A Rare Fatal Blow

Nintendo's Patent Lawsuit Against Palword Dealt A Rare Fatal Blow
Nintendo’s ongoing patent lawsuit case against Palworld developers Pocketpair has hit a surprising speedbump, though the battle is far from over. For those unaware, Nintendo is suing Pocketpair for patent infringement in Japanese court, and two of the three patents it is claiming have been violated relate to game mechanics that revolve around