2025

A busy mod community quickly sprung up around popular multiplayer shooter Marvel Rivals—there are over 500 mods already and it’s only been out for a month—but with mods, as always, comes drama. The current squall kicked up around the Nexus Mods’ removal of a couple of mods for Marvel Rivals: one which replaces Captain America’s…

Starfield lead quest designer Will Shen says “a growing section of the audience is becoming fatigued” with huge games that require dozens or hundreds of hours to properly play through, and—tongue in cheek—that he’s sorry for the role he played in helping popularize that trend. “I’m sorry. I’ll say that,” Shen said, laughing, in a…

Dell’s branding has always seemed a bit clumsy to me, and it seems the Texas-based tech giant may agree. It’s just announced a branding change that simplifies its core PC product tiers into three main categories—Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max. Dell becomes the default brand, in the sense that it’s designed for “play,…

Announced today, AMD’s Adrenalin software is getting an AI bump for compatible cards Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070, which will be launching in the coming months. Over the last few years, we have seen countless companies cash in on the popularity of AI with their own chatbots, image-generation tools, and more. Creatively…

No longer an elusive creature of legend, we’ve been learning all of the Strix Halo APU’s secrets lately. Firstly, there’s power in names and AMD’s flagship laptop APU has finally been knighted the ‘AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 w/ Radeon 8060S.’ Fair play to AMD—that is a name that strikes fear in the hearts…

Previous rumours have suggested that AMD’s new top-end RDNA 4 GPU will deliver RTX 4080-like raster performance. However, according to an official slide detailing the branding scheme for the new cards, it looks like the RTX 4070 Ti is the 40-series card it’s aiming to match. The RX 9070 XT has been expected to be…

Well, it’s finally here. We’ve been crossing our fingers for a long, long time waiting for AMD Strix Halo, and now the waiting’s over. As one of its many rabbit hat-pulls for CES 2025, AMD’s just announced the halo (ie, top) end of its Strix Point mobile processors, combining Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5…

CES 2025 is officially underway, and the first of our big GPU hitters has broken ranks. Sort of. AMD’s RDNA 4 graphics cards have long been anticipated, and now we’ve been given a preview of what to expect from the next-generation AMD GPUs. In a pre-briefing at least, as AMD didn’t actually show us anything…

AMD has confirmed that Valve will be using one of its new handheld gaming PC processors, the Ryzen Z2 Series, inside a future model of Steam Deck. During a CES 2025 call, an AMD spokesperson said: “You’ll see this [Z2 Series] coming to market from a number of partners, the Legion Go, the ROG Ally,…