Nvidia announces that a DLSS 4.5 update for Ray Reconstruction is finally on its way, promising better ray-traced and path-traced graphics for 'similar performance' as the old model

At this year's Computex event, Nvidia announced something that many PC enthusiasts have been waiting for. No, not its Arm-powered RTX Spark laptop chip, but a forthcoming update for DLSS Ray Reconstruction, one that brings it on par with the rest of the DLSS 4.5 package.Back in January, Nvidia launched DLSS 4.5, with a...

Minecraft's 3rd game drop of 2026 has been revealed, and its new biome automatically makes it the best one yet

Minecraft has shared the first features of its third game drop of 2026 at TwitchCon, and while we still have a lot to learn, we do know it'll feature an entirely new forest biome: the dappled forest. After the Chaos Cubed update focused on bringing a new and exciting biome to the underground, I for one am excited to ha...

Tekken 8 Game Director Kohei Ikeda leaves Bandai Namco after 20 years, marking yet another major dev departure

Kohei Ikeda, Tekken 8's Game Director, has announced he has left Bandai Namco after over two decades with the developer-publisher. In a statement shared to social media, Ikeda reminisces fondly, offering his thanks to fans and his fellow Tekken developers.

This week in PC games: Summer Game Fest, the Gothic remake, and the policing of furry Chicago

Last week, I blithely commented that the Maw was "taking a break", because we had too much else to do besides feeding our resident cosmic newsbeast. We have now paid a grievous price for my negligence. Friends, I am horrified to report that the Maw has broken containment and eaten Geoff Keighley, the face of Summer Gam...

This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast

Last year at Gamescom, I got to feast my greedy little eyes on a 540 Hz monitor from Asus ROG (pictured above) and was mighty impressed. That one is a 26.5-inch 1440p/720p dual-mode deal, though, so not necessarily for esports. As I've argued before, 720p is a bit low even for esports. And 26.5 inches and 1440p is too...

AMD CPUs will now support socket AM5 motherboards until 2029, for long term easy CPU upgrades

One of the main reasons AMD CPUs have proven so popular in recent years the company's policy to use the same CPU sockets across multiple generations. This has meant that a user could buy a motherboard and CPU one year, then still be able to drop in a newer, faster CPU, four, five, six, or more years later. For instance...

Computex 2026 Live: All the best PC gaming hardware announcements at this year's show

Computex 2026 officially begins on June 2, but we're already swimming in PC gaming hardware announcements. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has revealed the RTX Spark SOC for laptops, desktops and more, Intel has taken the wraps off its G-Series Panther Lake-based gaming handheld chips, and... gosh, this'll be a long intro if I...

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Arc Raiders might be getting a PvE-focused map condition according to limited tests for the Chinese version of the extraction shooter

Even if Arc Raiders isn't as high up on the Steam charts as it was a few months ago, it's still doing well and choosing to step away from live-service tradition. Meanwhile, a new Chinese version of the game with region-specific quirks might be teasing a PvE-oriented map condition. Read more

Backrooms And Obsession Beat Mandalorian And Grogu At The Box Office

Disney executives might be starting to get a little uncomfortable looking at The Mandalorian and Grogu's box office numbers. While they're not terrible, the new Star Wars movie dropped to third in the rankings during its second weekend thanks to two films that the minds behind the Mando movie likely didn't consider str...