As we've just passed the summer solstice and are heading towards darker times (at least in the northern hemisphere), we should soon be back to the time of the year when there are some bigger game releases. However, this week isn't one of those weeks, but we do at least have one bigger release this week which is the return of a fighting game franchise. The rest of this week's releases includes running an animal hotel, adventuring with a deer, some 6v6 PvP

Microsoft on Friday released a feature that lets game developers better assess game crashes at the graphics API level, with the new DirectX Dump feature. Released as a preview, the feature requires support from GPU vendors in the form of graphics driver-level awareness. AMD released a preview driver for Radeon GPUs to support this feature. When enabled, the feature gathers and outputs a detailed DirectX runtime crash dump file with the file extension ".dxdmp," which the game's crash-handler can upload to the game developer

Socket AM4 is here to stay as long as DDR4 memory remains affordable, and AMD resurrected the Ryzen 7 5800X3D to restore a flagship gaming processor and upgrade path for this platform. Motherboard vendors are trickling out a new crop of AM4 motherboards. ASRock recently debuted its Rock brand of entry-mainstream motherboards and recently a new product to its lineup, the B550 Rock WiFi. Built in the ATX form-factor, this board features a modern product styling from the

AMD backpedaled on its recent decisionto remove Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) feature on its consumer Ryzen processors, which was typically enabled by default. The company had, in April, quietly disabled the feature for Ryzen consumer processors through an AGESA update encapsulated into motherboard firmware updates. The idea probably was to restrict TSME to Ryzen commercial-segment processors, sold under the Ryzen PRO brand, besides Ryzen Threadripper WX workstation processors, and EPYC server processors. For reference, Intel offers a similar feature, TME-MK (

Meccha Chameleon is a new multiplayer "friendslop" hide and seek game that launched on June 9 and sees players conceal themselves on surfaces by painting over their bodies to match the surface textures. As the developer recently announced in a Steam community updateon June 19, Meccha Chameleon has sold over 5 million units in its first 10 days on Valve's storefront. According to SteamDB, Meccha Chameleon reached a peak concurrent player count of 244,731 players on June 18. That performance almost

Despite the recent announcement of the Grand Theft Auto VI June 25 pre-orderdate, gamers have become concerned about the game being delayed yet again. Shortly after the pre-order announcement, all mentions of GTA VI's November 19 official launch datehave been removed from the official Rockstar site for GTA VI, leading to theories that the game has been delayed, and that Rockstar will wait to announce the delay until just after pre-orders go live.

Others have pointed outthat on sites like Bilibili

Despite the recent announcement of the Grand Theft Auto VI June 25 pre-orderdate, gamers have become concerned about the game being delayed yet again. Shortly after the pre-order announcement, all mentions of GTA VI's November 19 official launch datehave been removed from the official Rockstar site for GTA VI, leading to theories that the game has been delayed, and that Rockstar will wait to announce the delay until just after pre-orders go live.

Others have pointed outthat on sites like Bilibili

The open-source, community-driven NVIDIA Linux driver stack has been on a constant march towards feature-parity with the proprietary NVIDIA driver. The latest news in Mesa driver stack comes by way of NVK, the open-source NVK Vulkan driver, which recently merged support for DLSS support on NVIDIA GPUs. As reported by Phoronix, the pull requestwill see DLSS support merge into Mesa 26.2 via the VK_NVX_binary_import binary extension, which is slated to launch in the stable update

As we've seen previously, many modern game studios are leaning on artificial intelligence to accelerate game development workflows—both for code completion and graphics applications—and Sony recently confirmed in an annual SEC formthat it too is using AI. As spotted by The Game File, Sony says in the regulatory filing that it is using AI in a number of ways throughout the game development process, with the filing making specific mention of automating "repetitive tasks," in order to improve efficiency and productivity in software development, QA