Welcome to midsummer week and a tad slower week when it comes to new releases. This week's major release is an anime inspired APRG set in its own universe. If that's not your style, then the week kicks off with some underground drilling, followed by driving cars in a city and a salvage operation. We round the week off with a new RPG from Square Enix and a job interview from your worst nightmares.

Zenless Zone Zero / This week's major release / Wednesday 17 June
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AMD announced in May 2026 that the Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform mini PCwould arrive in June, and launch day has apparently arrived, with the Strix Halo-powered mini PC now available for pre-order via Micro Center in the US. The Ryzen AI Halo developer kit is mostly aimed at AI developers, and although there are two SKUs, both have identical hardware, featuring the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 CPU, with its Radeon 8060S iGPU, and 12

AMD announced in May 2026 that the Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform mini PCwould arrive in June, and launch day has apparently arrived, with the Strix Halo-powered mini PC now available for pre-order via Micro Center in the US. The Ryzen AI Halo developer kit is mostly aimed at AI developers, and although there are two SKUs, both have identical hardware, featuring the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 CPU, with its Radeon 8060S iGPU, and 12

The Arch User Repository (AUR for short) is a community-driven software repository for Arch Linux and its derivatives, often touted as one of the major benefits of using Arch Linux, due to its unmatched software availability. Unfortunately, it was recently discoveredthat several malicious accounts—it's unclear whether they belonged to a single bad actor or multiple users—had made submissions to some AUR packages to inject malware that added the NPM package manager, which would go on to install a keylogger or info stealer when affected

Despite having launched in 2021, adoption of Windows 11 has been somewhat slow-going, with Microsoft's latest desktop OS only overtaking Windows 10nearly four years after launch and only reaching 1 billion users in 2026. If Valve's Steam Hardware and Software survey is anything to go by, it looks as though Windows 11 adoption has continued to grow in recent months. The survey results for May 2026 point to a 2.02% increase in

BenQ, under its gaming peripherals brand, Zowie, has just announcedtwo new wireless gaming mice, the FK1-DW and the ZA12-DW, which are the brand's first gaming mice in several years to launch in larger sizes. The FK1-DWis a new large version of the FK-DW mouse shape, and the ZA12-DWis a medium version of the ZA-DW mouse. Both new mice are symmetrical shapes, but the FK1-DW has

Microsoft today rolled out Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD), a feature that allows game developers to ship pre-compiled shaders to end-users specific to graphics hardware, to minimize game loading times. Modern games perform runtime shader compilation on the end-user's machine, usually during the first startup of an installed game, or when graphics settings are significantly changed, to build or rebuild shaders specific to the installed hardware. This can sometimes take frustratingly long, as your machine is essentially compiling code for your GPU.

Apacer has introduced GraTherX, an industrial-grade memory cooling technology aimed at addressing thermal challenges in high-speed DDR5 modules, particularly in fanless and space-constrained systems.

As demand for DDR5 continues to grow alongside AI applications, increasing thermal density and power consumption have raised concerns over system stability. According to the company, testing under high-load conditions shows that DDR5 modules equipped with GraTherX can achieve temperature reductions of up to 23.4°C, compared with the typical 3-5°

We recently reported that Xbox seems to be having some troubles, with significant layoffs and a 100-day plan on the cards to bring the ship around. Some of Microsoft's issues include plummeting revenue, an affordability crisis, and low adoption rates. According to Xbox Gaming's Chief Stragety Officer, Matthew Ball, ad-supported tiers may be one potential tool to help improve things at Xbox. In an interview with The Game Business, Ball addresses the rising costs of gaming, saying that "the