The Radeon RX 9070 GRE launched recently, and AMD shipped a matching driver to go with it. Adrenalin Edition 26.6.1 is out now, and while official RX 9070 GRE support is the headline addition, the bug fix list is where most existing RDNA 4 owners will want to pay attention.

Image: AMD AMD's newly launched Radeon RX 9070 GRE is not hopping off to a good start, according to German retailer Mindfactory. Per 3DCenter (via VideoCardz), consumers are opting to buy last year's Radeon RX 9070, which features higher specs and costs slightly less.

Something is coming from ArenaNet on June 5, and the studio is making absolutely no effort to calm the speculation down. Monday, the official Guild Wars social media accounts posted a short video alongside the message: "The wind stirs.

Image: MSI MSI has debuted the world's first triple-mode gaming monitor at Computex in the form of the MPG OLED 322URDX36. Depending on reports, this new display is said to be either 31.5-inch or 32-inch and supports 4K 360 Hz, 2K 520 Hz, and FHD 680 Hz.

Image: AMD AMD has published a document detailing how its FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling technology can be applied to professional use. While gamers are accustomed to seeing FSR used, it's a bit less uncommon for it to be thought of when it comes to professional environments.

Phanteks came to Computex 2026 with a full hand. Across four separate press releases, the company dropped new case architectures, budget gaming chassis, premium fan solutions, an LCD-equipped AIO, a GaN PSU, and a pair of workstation towers.

Image: NVIDIA NVIDIA has at long last unveiled its ARM-based superchip, the RTX Spark, designed for AI, content creation, and gaming. NVIDIA collaborated with Mediatek to create the RTX Spark, which has been engineered for Windows laptops and compact PCs.

AMD at Computex 2026 AMD is at Computex 2026, though there won't be a keynote this year from AMD. AMD is still announcing some interesting things, and hardware and gaming-related for DIY as well!

Bond is back, and so is the weekly hardware avalanche. IO Interactive's 007 First Light launched Tuesday and immediately spawned a wave of GPU and handheld benchmark coverage, giving us a fresh look at how the current card stack handles one of 2026's most anticipated releases.

Image: Cooler Master/G.SKILL Cooler Master and G.SKILL have teamed up to engineer a sleek-looking air-cooled DDR5 kit called MasterDimm AC. Air-cooled memory is making a comeback, something not commonly seen since DDR3 and G.SKILL had several products featuring it back then.

Image: Valve It looks less likely by the day that Valve's PC gaming console, aka the Steam Machine, will launch at an affordable price. It's been roughly six months since Valve first announced the Steam Machine, along with the Steam Controller and VR headset, the Steam Frame.

Bungie announced earlier this month that Destiny 2 would receive one final update, Monument of Triumph, on June 9, 2026, after which active development ends. The game will remain playable in maintenance mode, mirroring how the original Destiny has lingered on since its own support sunset.

Image: Microsoft Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery has shown promising results in a round of testing, showing majorly reduced load times and improved 1% lows. From long load times to constant stuttering, gamers often encounter shader compilation issues in modern titles.

Introduction Our review is evaluating a new entry from MSI into their "MAX" AM5 motherboard lineup. The MSI MAG B850M Mortar MAX WiFi is a refreshed version of the MSI MAG B850M MORTAR WiFi that we reviewed in July 2025.

Image: IO Interactive IO Interactive and Amazon MGM Studios have released a new trailer for their upcoming James Bond game, 007 First Light. Arriving on PC and consoles on May 27, the new game presents players with the opportunity to take on the role of a young James Bond.

Firaxis dropped the "Test of Time" update for Civilization VII yesterday, and free-for-all owners of the game is an understatement for how significant this patch actually is. The official patch notes run long enough to require a coffee.

Plex really wants you to subscribe monthly. That's the charitable read of the company's announcement today that the Lifetime Plex Pass is jumping from $249.99 to $749.99 on July 1, 2026, a 200% increase that follows a previous hike from $119.99 to $249.99 just over a year ago.

Image: Warhorse Studios The studio behind the Kingdom Come Deliverance franchise has announced that it's working on a new game, as well as a surprise project set in Middle-Earth. It's been eight years since Warhorse Studios debuted its historically based open-world RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

There's a new brand making its presence known at Computex 2026. Levelplay, a PC cooling company positioning itself around builder-friendly design and modern aesthetics, is using the show as its coming-out party, and the lineup it's bringing is more interesting than your typical OEM refresh.

Image: AMD AMD is said to be working on another addition to its Ryzen 7000 series lineup in the form of the Ryzen 7700X3D. It's been three years since the launch of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, and it sounds as if a more affordable X3D part is on the way.

Image: AMD It's official: FSR 4.1 is making its way to AMD Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards and is set to arrive in July. The wait is almost over for owners of RDNA 3 GPUs to use AMD's recent ML-based upscaling tech, which, up to now, has been exclusive to the Radeon RX 9000 series.

Image: Unknown Worlds Unknown Worlds has another hit on its hands after the long-awaited release of Subnautica 2 shot to the top of Steam's charts. The sequel began its early access stage on May 14 at a price of $29.99 on Steam, where it quickly became the latest top-selling game.

Three PC games are launching his week, and NVIDIA is ready for all of them. The company released GeForce Game Ready Driver 596.49 WHQL, covering Forza Horizon 6, Directive 8020, and Subnautica 2 (hitting Steam Early Access on May 14).

Image: Valve Another day, another tease regarding the potential upcoming launch of Valve's wireless VR headset, the Steam Frame. This time around, inspirational hope for a near release comes via Qualcomm's Device Finder, which has listed the Steam Frame's CPU.

Image: TCL TCL is pushing past the barriers of current HDR specifications with its latest round of Mini LED TVs, which have been seen hitting epic brightness levels. Do you have a display capable of 1,000 nits?

Yesterday, Noctua posted a teaser image on X of a blacked-out 120mm fan alongside the caption "Blacked out. Dialled in." — and given the company's current roadmap, there's only one product it can be (Ed: Did you ping them about using spellcheck?).

Introduction How does the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus perform as you scale up the RAM speed? With Intel's new Core Ultra 200S Plus series of CPUs recently launched, the highest officially supported memory speed has now been moved up to 7200MT/s.

Consoles getting cheaper over time used to be one of the reliable constants in consumer electronics. Nintendo just made it official that this generation, that's not happening: the Switch 2 is going up $50 in the United States, from $449.99 to $499.99 effective September 1, 2026.

Image: GIGABYTE GIGABYTE and Microsoft are offering a promotion in which those who purchase a qualifying OLED monitor get a free 3-month subscription. It's a win-win for those looking to upgrade to a new OLED display while enjoying playing some free games on it to boot.

Grinding Gear Games just held its GGG Live stream, and the scope of what is coming on May 29 is staggering. Path of Exile 2: Return of the Ancients, patch 0.5.0, is the largest update in the game's early access run and the final major content expansion before 1.0.

Six weeks is a long time to wait for a Radeon driver, and 26.5.1 is not the kind of release that makes up for the gap. AMD dropped Adrenalin Edition 26.5.1 on May 6, the first public Adrenalin update since 26.3.1 landed on March 20.

Getting CDNA 4 AI compute into a standard rack-mount server has been harder than it should be — until today. AMD has officially launched the Instinct MI350P, a PCIe add-in card based on its CDNA 4 architecture, and it's the first Instinct GPU in this form factor in roughly four years.

The Steam Controller launched on May 4, sold out in roughly 30 minutes, and immediately started showing up on eBay at two to three times retail. Valve, meanwhile, is already thinking three steps ahead.

The Dark Rock series has been a benchmark for premium air cooling since the Dark Rock Pro 2 earned a reputation for combining serious thermal performance with genuinely quiet operation. be quiet!

Nintendo has a long and proud tradition of announcing Star Fox games and then leaving the franchise to slowly rot on the vine for a decade. After Star Fox Zero on Wii U didn't exactly set the world on fire, the series has been dormant long enough that a new announcement now lands as a surprise.

Image: Rockstar Games Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick was straight to the point in explaining why Grand Theft Auto VI will not be on PC when it launches. Assuming that another delay doesn't come into play, GTA 6 is expected to launch on November 19, 2026.

Image: Valve The Steam Controller has launched and is already sold out, with Valve working to get more back in stock. One might think that a $99 controller wouldn't sell quickly, but it didn't stop a frantic buying period that saw Valve's payment system crash during its launch.

Image: G. Skill A new report has indicated that each of the three big memory chip manufacturers has begun ramping up its development of DDR6.

Valve has published the April 2026 Steam Hardware Survey, and the big story this month is normalization. Last month's data was a statistical mess, with Linux at an improbable 5.33%, the 16 GB RAM tier jumping wildly, and the RTX 5070 temporarily sitting at an anomalous position.

EA's Battlefield franchise, which has had a complicated few years on the game front, is apparently hot property in Hollywood right now. IGN reports that five major studios are in an active bidding war over the rights to a Battlefield film: Netflix, Warner Bros., Sony, Universal, and Amazon MGM.

Image: Microsoft The world must be turning upside down since Microsoft is giving users unprecedented control over Windows 11 updates. To say that Windows 11 users have had a rough time of it over the last six months would be an understatement.

Image: Rebel Wolves Rebel Wolves has announced that its first game out of the gate, The Blood of Dawnwalker, will arrive on September 3 for PCs and consoles. The studio, formed by former staff from CD PROJEKT RED who worked on The Witcher 3, first announced its debut project in December 2024.

Noctua did something genuinely useful for the enthusiast community yesterday: the Austrian cooling stalwart quietly released free 3D CAD models of its entire fan lineup, available as STEP files through the download section of its official website. No catch, no sign-up, just free downloads.

Image: NVIDIA As upscaling tech continues to make strides, the question will always come up on which is better, and for now, NVIDIA is still holding the lead position. ComputerBase (via TechPowerUp) conducted its own "blind test" among its staff, but also among its community of users.

Diablo IV's second major expansion, Lord of Hatred, drops this Tuesday April 28, and Blizzard has published the full PC specification breakdown ahead of launch. The good news: the floor is low and the game scales well.

Introduction Today, we are taking a break from the tidal wave of motherboard releases to evaluate a graphics card in 2026 (you heard that right). The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5080 WINDFORCE SFF 16G (GV-N5080WF3-16GD) is on the bench for our testing.

Every Patch Tuesday, there's a moment where you hover over that "Install" button and wonder what you're getting into. The April 2026 update for Windows 11, KB5083769, has given plenty of users good reason to hesitate.

It's been a running joke among Linux users for years: to get NVIDIA CUDA or AMD ROCm working properly, clear your weekend and make peace with your terminal. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon," released April 23, changes that.

For a company that spent much of the past two years in freefall, Thursday wasn't exactly expected. Intel's first quarter 2026 earnings landed well after the close on April 23 and by Friday morning the stock had surged roughly 24%, its largest single-day gain since 1987.

Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft has officially released the first trailer for its AC: IV remake, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, showcasing the game's numerous improvements. Arriving on July 9th, the remake is said to support Dolby Atmos and ray tracing for a deeper, more immersive experience.