Google and Square Enix announced a partnership over the weekend at a press event to bring the search engine's proprietary AI, Gemini , into Dragon Quest X via a " conversational AI " companion called Chatty Slimey , powered by Google's Gemini.

Spotted by , Square Enix's head of development, Takashi Anzai told Japanese publication that " new players won't feel lonely wondering where to start playing; it will become their own personal companion ."

Sankei added that " When a player talks to Slimey using the

The reasons for skipping the flagship Arrow Lake Refresh CPU are unclear, but it does look incredibly impressive.

Intel just launched its Arrow Lake Refresh lineup , but as you might know, the launch skipped the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus, which was supposedly the new flagship chip in the series. Intel unveiled the Core Ultra 7 and 5 series SKUs, bringing significant improvements in their specifications, delivering promising results. Unfortunately, the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus wasn't a part of the official

The PlayStation 5 Pro Enhance PSSR Image Quality toggle will not be updated in the future even when new versions of the upscaling tech are released, PlayStation 5 Lead System Architect Mark Cerny confirmed in a new interview with (as reported on Reddit by ). Cerny cited the need to set a standard for the community regarding the feature as the primary reason for this decision.

"The current strategy is that it will be fixed, i.e. even if there are updated network parameters for the most recent PS5 Pro games

Apple's new C1X modem is proving to be surprisingly competitive against Qualcomm's X80 modem, and substantially more so than the Cupertino giant's last-gen C1 modem, as per the .

Before delving into Ookla's new speedtest data set, let's first go over the broad strokes of Apple's C1X modem.

The C1X is Apple's second custom modem following the C1. According to the Cupertino giant, the C1X is

The in-house CPU designs of Apple Silicon are truly something to behold, with the California-based titan not just stepping up its game with the A19 Pro’s efficiency cores, where these consume practically zero additional power and deliver up to a 29 percent performance improvement , but the company has also brought eye-opening improvements to the M5 Pro and M5 Max . Both chipsets are said to sport an entirely new microarchitecture, with one of their biggest strengths being that the new ‘Performance’

Xbox has announced it will host an Xbox Partner Preview event this week, highlighting games from the company's partners, including Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio's next project, Stranger Than Heaven , along with an update on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl , another look at The Expanse: Osiris Reborn , and more.

The event will take place this coming Thursday, March 26, at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm GMT , and will be livestreamed on YouTube and Twitch. An announcing the

For under $1000, you can grab four of the most expensive components to build a high-end gaming PC at a time when memory and SSD prices are at an all-time high.

As soon as the Intel Core Ultra Plus series hit the shelves, we are seeing some decent discounts on Ryzen 9000 processors. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which remains one of the best gaming processors, is right now sitting at just $419 on Amazon

Marathon initially launched on March 5, 2026, but you could make an argument that its full release didn't arrive until two weeks later, on March 20 , with the arrival of its endgame raid, Cryo Archive . It's the fourth zone and the game's biggest challenge yet, and while there's a sect of Bungie fans who love the raid as a return to a kind of Bungie they thought long gone, there are plenty who see some of the studio's

NVIDIA's Vera Rubin AI racks are becoming the next 'prized possessions', but at the same time, pricing is expected to increase significantly from Blackwell.

When we talk about the complexity of NVIDIA's AI portfolio, it is without a doubt that Vera Rubin is one of the company's most sophisticated offerings, featuring seven newly-designed chips that target almost every element of the rack infrastructure. You are looking at the Vera CPU, the Rubin GPU, an enhanced NVLink 6 chip, and much more