Yesterday, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced two new high-profile hires: Scott Van Vliet , a former OpenAI executive, as the new Chief Technology Officer, and Matthew Ball as the new Chief Strategy Officer. Now, in a brief statement , Ball revealed that his focus will be on resurrecting Microsoft's so-called storied franchises and rebuilding Xbox's console business . Despite the well-known issues with component costs, Ball reckons the console business is still growing , and Sharma's new strategy (which he
A Raytraced Rogues’ Gallery – Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced (PC) Preview
Wccftech recently attended an exclusive hands-on preview, getting an intimate look at the early hours of the upcoming Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced.
AT&T Dismantles The ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Wireless Plans With A Month-To-Month ‘Build-A-Plan’ Bundle That Starts At Just $15
AT&T has just surpassed its major competitors when it comes to debuting value-based plans by launching an entirely customizable wireless bundle that entails the lowest entry price among comparable plans from Verizon and T-Mobile.
AT&T has now announced the launch of its " ," an entirely customizable wireless experience designed to empower consumers with fiscal and functional autonomy over their mobile connectivity.
Expected to go into effect on May 27, 2026, the new customizable bundle addresses the growing market demand for financial flexibility
Helldivers 2 To Get NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, FSR 4.03 Support, But PlayStation 5 Pro Owners Will Only Get PSSR 1.0
The popular Helldivers 2 is the rare modern game that launched on PC without supporting any major upscaling technology like NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR , but this is set to change next week, on May 27 , with the release of a new set of technical improvements. Console users will also get some of these improvements, but PlayStation 5 Pro players will inevitably be disappointed by the decision not to bring support for the latest iteration of the PSSR upscaler.
"We’re excited to announce a new set of technical improvements,
Leaked Cinebench Run Shows Intel’s Core Ultra 7 251HX Crushing The Core i9 14900HX In Efficiency, Despite Trailing Its Own Sibling
The newest Core Ultra Series 2 chip offers superior raw performance at lower power consumption vs Raptor Lake Refresh's flagship chip.
The Arrow Lake-HX lineup was expanded a month ago with the introduction of the Core Ultra 7 251HX . The processor sits between the Core Ultra 5 245HX and the Core Ultra 7 255HX, offering an 18-core configuration as a result of a 6+12 core arrangement. With two fewer Performance cores than the Ultra 7 25
GIGABYTE M27Q2 27-Inch SS IPS Gaming Monitor Drops to $179, Making a Solid Buy for Enthusiasts Looking to Go Beyond 200Hz
When it comes to specs on a budget, the GIGABYTE , delivering over 200 Hz refresh rate for just under $180.
GIGABYTE is already one of the most dominant hardware makers and is equally solid when it comes to the peripherals. Apart from dominating the graphics card and motherboard segments, the company offers some decent options in its peripheral catalog. From gaming mice to gaming monitors, you will find a perfect gaming accessory for your needs.
At a time when a fluid gaming experience is uncompromisable, it
Samsung Shareholders Up In Arms Over The “Illegal” Incentives Deal That Will See Each Memory Division Worker Take Home ~$400,000 In Bonuses
Not all is well at Samsung after agreeing to a new incentives deal , with the South Korean tech behemoth now having to contend with not only intra-divisional resentments due to the massive difference in the implied incentives of the semiconductor division and its Device Experience (DX) counterpart, but also shareholder wrath, with one group of shareholders going so far as to unabashedly term the still-fledgling deal "illegal."
According to South Korea's Yonhap, Samsung's semiconductor employees are now all set to receive a special
AMD’s EPYC Venice Becomes Industry’s First 2nm HPC CPU To Achieve Volume Ramp As It Races Towards Agentic AI Leadership
AMD's , making them the first HPC product to achieve the milestone on TSMC's 2nm process tech.
The Agentic AI boom is driving the CPU market up, unlike anything that came before. High-Performance CPUs are seeing massive demands, and AMD, being a leader in HPC, has just achieved volume ramp of its next-generation EPYC Venice CPUs based on the Zen 6 core architecture. The volume ramp was achieved on TSMC's cutting-edge 2nm process technology.
MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ With Arc G3 Extreme Spotted At An Australian Retailer, Starting At $1780
The fastest Intel-based gaming handheld will cost at least $1780 for the standard edition and slightly above $1,800 for the launch pack edition.
Roughly three weeks ago, we spotted the first-ever retail listing of the upcoming MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld. This is also going to be the first-ever gaming handheld to utilize the Arc G3 Extreme chip , a Panther Lake variant, that brings the 2+8+4 core arrangement, and a strong integrated
AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL & DSC Patches To Linux Kernel, Keeping FRL Disabled By Default
AMD's HDMI 2.1 breakthrough on Linux hits a small roadblock as FRL will stay disabled by default initially.
We recently saw AMD posting the FRL (Fixed Rate Link) patches to the Linux kernel , adding support for HDMI 2.1, which has been a challenge for a long time. The company has once again posted the sixth revision of its HDMI 2.1 FRL and DSC patches for the open-source AMGPU Linux driver. This is a major development for Radeon users on Linux, as FRL