NVIDIA’s New Game Ready Driver Powers Halo: Campaign Evolved Launch and DLSS 4.5 Upgrades Across a Wave of New Releases

Today, NVIDIA has released a new Game Ready Driver for its GeForce graphics cards, optimized for the launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved and the upcoming Gears of War: E-Day beta.

Halo: Campaign Evolved launches today (after a brief period of advanced access) with built-in support for DLSS Super Resolution, DLSS Frame Generation, and NVIDIA Reflex. Through the NVIDIA app, GeForce users can upgrade to DLSS 4.5 Dynamic Multi Frame Generation and the latest Super Resolution model.

Tomorrow, Chinese developer Bellring

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NVIDIA RTX Spark Shows Strong Potential, But Early Prototype Leaves Plenty Of Performance On The Table

The NVIDIA N1X is surely powerful enough for the Windows-on-Arm market, but the current prototype software prevents it from reaching its full potential.

The NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops will debut in the coming weeks, and if you were wondering about their performance numbers, here is an early sneak peek by a TechPowerUp user, who got his hands on an early prototype from Microsoft. The user "Fouquin" says he found the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA's RTX Spark N1X on the roadside

The internals of a laptop prototype labeled 'PROTOTYPE: NOT FOR SALE' with dual cooling fans and a visible battery.
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MacBook Ultra’s Adoption To Suffer Due To Insane OLED Premium And DRAM Prices, Leaving Apple To Stick With Just One Supplier For Now

Apple’s first MacBook redesign in years could possibly arrive in the fourth quarter of 2026, with reports calling it the MacBook Ultra. However, its OLED touchscreen and other changes could mean that the portable Mac is stamped with a price tag only the most affluent can afford, which is why a new report says that Apple won’t require more than one display supplier.

The 14-inch and 16-inch OLEDs are said to be designed and manufactured by Samsung, a name that hasn


AMD Prepares Entry-Level Radeon RX 9050 GPU, Comes in 8 GB & 4 GB, With The Latter Cutting The Memory Bus In Half

AMD seems to be working on a new entry-level graphics card, the Radeon RX 9050, which will come in 8 GB and 4 GB flavors.

AMD RDNA 4 Lineup To Soon Get New Entry-Level Options With 8 GB & 4 GB Radeon RX 9050 GPUs

The AMD Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA 4" GPU lineup is getting more options, which will make the lineup a lot messier and confusing.

AMD currently has two product series, the Radeon RX 90

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro Pricing To Alienate Customers To The Ultra-Premium Segment; MediaTek’s 2nm SoC Can Capitalize With A 28% Cheaper Alternative

The first 2nm ‘N2P’ chipsets from Qualcomm and MediaTek are scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2026, and while the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro and Dimensity 9600 Pro might share the same lithography, their pricing difference is what will determine their adoption, or lack thereof. Looking at the contrasting figures, MediaTek has an excellent opportunity to chip away at Qualcomm’s market share, as its flagship SoC is said to be 28 percent cheaper.

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ASRock Silently Confirms Radeon RX 9050 GPU In 4 GB And 8 GB Variants

We may finally see the cheapest RDNA 4 GPU in the market soon, and it will be available in two memory configurations.

The Radeon RX 9050 made its first appearance last year on a Mexican retailer, and that was one of its first impressions on the internet. To this day, AMD hasn't confirmed the GPU, but we did see some reliable info on the GPU two months ago . It appears that the GPU does exist, and we may soon see the card in the mainstream market.

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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Gets PSSR 2.0 Support Nearly 3 Years After Launch, Yet PC Players Haven’t Been Left Behind Either

The new, enhanced version of the PlayStation 5 Pro's PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution Upscaler, commonly also known as PSSR 2.0 , got another high-profile game on its list of supported games , as developer Insomniac Games and lead architect Mark Cerny added official support for the upscaler to Marvel's Spider-Man 2 with a new patch that also adds new content on PlayStation 5 and PC , signaling how support for already released single-player games won't stop even after Sony Interactive Entertainment's decision


Nioh 3 Open-Area Gamble Paid Off, As Hell Rising DLC Doubles Down On Everything The Game Did Well This August

With so many excellent games having been released so far in 2026 , it's not surprising that some may have forgotten publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Team NINJA released the excellent Nioh 3 this year on PC and PlayStation 5 . Although the new mechanics made the main character so powerful it invalidates the strength of the vast majority of enemies, requiring additional free content to up the game's challenge level , the game's open-area approach worked great, creating the most compelling experience of the entire franchise


Xbox Sign-In Meltdown Revives All-Digital Fears, as Disc-Free Gamers Realize an Outage Like Error “0x87e107df” Could Cut Them Off Entirely

For nearly a full day, several Xbox users experienced issues logging into their accounts and actually playing their games due to error 0x87e107df . Eventually, as of 2:30 PM Pacific Time on July 27, service was restored, but the bigger news is that Xbox Chief Technical Officer Scott Van Vliet shared a lengthy, heartfelt letter to the community that went a long way toward assuaging fears that this may happen again.

Van Vliet began by calling this kind of outage " unacceptable

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CAPCOM Smashes Another Record Quarter as Resident Evil Requiem Blazes Past 8 Million Units Sold

To the surprise of absolutely nobody with a little bit of recent games industry knowledge, CAPCOM delivered yet another blowout quarter driven by a strong new IP launch and record catalog sales:

  • Net sales hit ¥70.41 billion ($430.1 million), up 54.7% year-on-year , while operating profit jumped 66.9% to ¥41.05 billion ($250.7 million).
  • Profit attributable to owners of the parent
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