Everyone and their mother might still be obsessed with Embark Studio's latest live service hit, ARC Raiders , but those following the studio know that third-person extraction shooters are not the studio's whole image. The other half of that belongs to The Finals , a fast-paced free-to-play FPS that initially arrived as a shadow-drop during The Game Awards 2023 .

While it started off incredibly strong, reaching over 240K concurrent players on Steam right at launch,

Wildcat Lake chips have started to appear online more frequently than ever, and this is probably the first benchmark glimpse of a Wildcat Lake SKU.

We are eagerly waiting for Intel to launch its ultra-power-efficient Wildcat Lake series, which will succeed the Alder Lake N/Twin Lake series for power-efficient devices. It's expected that the CPU series will be launched in the first half of 2026, and the leaks hint towards the launch date coming closer. We have been spotting Wildcat Lake

Capcom's upcoming third-person sci-fi puzzle shooter Pragmata is due out next month on April 17, 2026 , a week earlier than its initial April 24th date set at The Game Awards 2025. So it's no surprise that we're seeing a little more of the game ahead of that launch date, including a recent demo , and a little more recently, previews from outlets getting one final look at the game ahead of launch.

One of those

Daniel Vávra , founder and creative director at Warhorse Studios on Kingdom Come: Deliverance , and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II , and previously credited for his work on Hidden & Dangerous and Mafia I and II at Illusion Softworks/2K Czech, has shared his opinion on the controversial reveal of NVIDIA DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 . , he opined that while the beginning might look a little uncanny, in the future, DLSS 5 could be trained to a particular art style or face and replace computationally expensive

Can't complain about 8 GB VRAM when you are paying less than $100 for a powerful budget GPU.

It was unbelievable for u/ForkDryer to see the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti listed for barely $80 at his local Walmart. He says, "It seemed too good to be true", but when he reached the checkout counter, the price sticker turned out to be accurate. At a time when the GPU prices are 20-30% higher than usual

Grand Theft Auto 6 is set to be one of the most advanced open-world games to date, coming with some features that will set it apart from the competition , including a "next generation procedural breakable glass system for vehicles and props" that is sure to push the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S hardware considerably.

"Took lead on the next generation procedural breakable glass system for vehicles and props," wrote a programmer who worked at Rockstar Games from February 2020 until April 202

Crimson Desert does away with the traditional XP system se en in countless other games, basing the entire character progression for Kliff, Damiane, and Oongka on gear and Abyss Artifacts , which are used to unlock skills and increase three base stats . However, the game still features a sort of XP system (which it never explains) that lets you farm these artifacts to power up your characters quickly and further refine your gear.

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One of the main issues of the industry, the continuous rise of AAA game development costs , seemingly has no end in sight. , the budgets being "floated around" these days often match or even exceed $300 million :

Exact budgets of video-game productions can be tough to corroborate (more transparency from publishers would be nice!), but the numbers I've heard floating around AAA game dev these days are $300 million or more — sometimes much more! — which I think

Samsung revolutionized the 200MP camera on its smartphones, leading to other firms, mainly Chinese competitors, to follow in its footsteps. Apple, which typically adopts these specifications much later, is also rumored to jump onto the same bandwagon after keeping the 12MP sensor on iPhones for years. A new rumor claims that the company is testing a sensor with the aforementioned resolution. Whether or not the hardware makes the cut is another debate.

A machine translation of Digital Chat Station’s post on Weibo states that