We’d be fools to expect much talk of desktop chips at the ‘Advancing AI’ event, but we can always grab pinches of salt and attempt to infer what talk about server chips might mean for desktop. To that end, I’d say (tentatively) that what AMD has revealed about its upcoming Zen 6-based ‘Venice’ server processor…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is planning to break into the US memory market. According to sources close to the matter, branching out overseas is part of a longer-term plan for the Chinese firm that has swiftly become the fourth-biggest maker of memory in the world. CXMT has been on my radar lately as multiple motherboard…
Bethesda is eager to reassure you that its house is not, in fact, on fire in the wake of 3,200 layoffs (1,600 that already happened, 1,600 that are still to come) at Xbox that claimed numerous devs at the studio, including the artist responsible for designing The Elder Scrolls’ khajiit and argonians. Thus, its recent…
You’ll need a GBA to see it. Given the widespread fame of the Zelda series, you would assume all of the series’ secrets would be common knowledge these days, but with the passage of time, it’s becoming clear that some of its hidden features aren’t as well known as others. For example, Twitter user TheRealPit0…
Category: Next Week on XBOX July 24, 2026 Next Week on XBOX: New Games for July 27 to 31 Will Fulton, XBOX Wire Editor Welcome to Next Week on XBOX! In this weekly feature we cover all the games coming soon to XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, XBOX on PC, and Game Pass! Get more…
White Creek is a new game from Storybird Studio. While most people tend to associate survival horror with the original PlayStation console, thanks to it being the first console to introduce players to titles like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, if you were a fan of the genre in the early 2000s, it’s worth highlighting…
The Halo remake has released for those who forked out for the advance access version, and they’re not thrilled with what they’ve got. At time of writing, Halo: Campaign Evolved is sitting at a humdrum 68% Mixed rating in the Steam user review scores—a mere 2% off the score given to the game by our…
Category: Games Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse – How KONAMI and Evil Empire Reimagined Castlevania’s Return John Harry De LaraXbox Wire France Editor Published July 24, 2026 It seems bizarre to say it, but there hasn’t been a brand-new Castlevania game for more than a decade and – for the series’ long-awaited return – KONAMI made a…
Sonic XG lives! If you ever needed evidence of the Sonic fan community’s persistence, then you needn’t look much further than Sonic XG. Initially starting development in the early 2000s, the fan game (originally created by Euan Gallacher and Joseph Waters) has gone through many personnel changes and iterations over the last two decades —…
The best gaming mouse on the market right now is the Razer Viper V4 Pro. It’s the best because it’s light, very well-built, performant, and has great battery life. This last quality—its battery life—is largely thanks to Razer’s new FrameSync tech, which is kind of like G-Sync but for a mouse sensor rather than a…