Asha Sharma has been extremely active since she officially replaced the now-retired Phil Spencer at Xbox in late February. One of her earliest moves was discontinuing the " This Is an Xbox " marketing campaign, which had been widely mocked by fans. More significantly, she formally dismantled the Microsoft Gaming identity in favor of a unified Xbox-first structure, with Microsoft plastering the " Return of Xbox " slogan on its office walls.

On April 21, Sharma announced a cut to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 's monthly price

Microsoft's are now available in preview, expanding the DX12 API with brand new features.

Today's launch expands on the previous release of Shader Model 6.9, DXR 1.2, and other enhancements, which were part of the AgilitySDK 1.619 . With the release of the AgilitySDK 1.720 preview, Shader Model 6.10 and several other features listed below are being added to the DX12 API:

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The first of the three new pieces of hardware that Valve announced back in November 2025 will arrive next week on May 4, 2026, and it would be a much bigger surprise if a review of the product hadn't leaked days ago . The Steam Controller , as we already learned, will arrive next week and be priced at $99 USD , and now Valve has officially confirmed the leaks. We also got an update on the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame , which is

ARC Raiders is the latest game to add to the list of games that support PSSR 2 , the latest generation of PlayStation's upscaling technology. Embark Studios confirmed that tomorrow's Riven Tides update for the extraction shooter will not only add a new map, new map condition, new items, a new enemy, a new event, and new cosmetics , but it'll also bring " meaningful " visual improvements thanks to PSSR 2 that PS5 Pro players will notice " immediately ."

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China has unveiled its new supercomputer, called , in Shenzen, which will deliver 2 ExaFlops of compute performance.

During a conference at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen today, the fastest domestic supercomputer project was announced. Known as LineShine, the Supercomputer will be built in two phases and will deliver over 2 ExaFlops of compute. Currently, the is the AMD-based El Capitan, which has a peak compute of 2.8 Exaflops.

Coming to the specifications, the LineShine Supercomputer is purely a CPU-only project with

Kingston has launched a large capacity Gen 5.0 U.2 SSD for data centers, featuring up to 14 GB/s of sequential read speeds.

Popular storage maker, Kingston, has debuted its high-capacity variant for the DC3000ME Gen 5.0 U.2 NVMe SSD. The new SSD brings a capacity of 30.72 TB, expanding the storage ceiling of the enterprise PCIe 5.0 lineup for data centers that are rapidly scaling for AI operations. The

People Can Fly, the studio behind Gears of War: Judgement and Outriders , which is currently co-developing Gears of War E-Day has just acquired games publisher Cooldown Games for an undisclosed amount, per This acquisition is part of People Can Fly establishing its own publishing arm, and it comes after the company's 2025 was marked by project cancellations and layoffs .

People Can Fly's 2025 started with players learning that the studio would be co-developing Gears of War E-

Later this week, MotoGP 26 will launch on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S and X, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2.

According to Italian developer Milestone, this year's entry represents the most significant overhaul of the franchise's core in years. The headline change, the new Rider-Based Handling system , flips the fundamental control philosophy on its head: where previous games mapped player input directly to the bike, MotoGP 26 routes it through the rider's body first, shifting

The AirPods family offers a product for every price bracket, meaning that there’s something for everyone, just as long as you have the budget for the purchase. Fortunately, Amazon will make those purchases simpler as it has knocked off up to 22 percent from the AirPods 4 without Active Noise Cancellation and the AirPods Pro 3 , which are Apple’s top-tier wireless earbuds at this time. For just $99.99, you can be the proud owner of one of these.

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