Microsoft Rolls Out Shader Model 6.9, DXR 1.2 & DX12 Enhancements In Agility SDK 1.619, NVIDIA With Widest Support

Microsoft has just rolled out its Agility SDK 1.619 with major DX12 improvements such as Shader Model 6.9 & DXR 1.2.

, Microsoft is making three updates: Shader Model 6.9, DXR 1.2, and DX12-related improvements. The features are listed below:

  • Shader Model 6.9 (via DXC 1.9.2602.16):
    • Long Vector
    • 16-bit float Specials
    • 16-bit and 64

This Person Paid $300 for a RAM Kit and Ended Up With a Box Full of Modules Worth Over Ten Times More; Talk About Crazy Luck

The memory industry has gone wild in recent times, and consumers are struggling to get their hands on modules, yet one buyer managed to get pretty lucky with his RAM purchase.

Well, the retail market has pretty surprising stories for us sometimes, and most of them involve either hitting a jackpot with the refund process or relying on Amazon FBA sellers for purchases. This time, , but the package he received from Amazon's delivery service was simply shocking. When he unboxed it, there were a total of ten modules


“I’ve Never Experienced Such a Desperate, Cowardly, Confused State of the Business” Says Just Cause Creator

It's pretty safe to say that the video game industry has been in a weird place for several years now, but for Christofer Sundberg , who has been at this for a long time, the state of the video game industry is in an unprecedentedly poor place. Founder of Avalanche Studios and creator of Just Cause , Sundberg is getting ready to release his next major game with his new studio he founded in 2020, Liquid Swords , which'll release Samson: A Tyndalston Story this coming April 8


“You’re in for a Ride”: Samson: A Tyndalston Story Arrives on PC in April 2026

Samson: A Tyndalston Story , the debut project from Liquid Swords , the team founded by Avalanche Studios (that's the Just Cause and Mad Max people, not the Hogwarts Legacy studio Avalanche Software ) founder, Christofer Sundberg , finally has a release date. It'll arrive on PC first on April 8, 2026 .

After being founded in 2020, the studio is now only weeks away from releasing its debut title, six years later. The game stars Samson McCray, a classic


Samson: A Tyndalston Story Interview – Former Mad Max and Just Cause Devs Sink Into New AA Brawler That’s “Not GTA”

Back in 2020, Christofer Sundberg , founder of Avalanche Studios , revealed what he would be doing with the next chapter of his career after selling Avalanche with the announcement of Liquid Swords . Six years later, the studio is weeks away from its debut game, Samson: A Tyndalston Story .

It's not too dissimilar to the kinds of games that Sundberg's Avalanche was known for. Like Just Cause and Mad Max , they both star a certain flavour of tough guy. The latter was also cited


Samson: A Tyndalston Story Hands-On Preview – “Intensity Over Scale”

All the way back in 2020, Christofer Sundberg , the founder of Avalanche Studios , established a new video game studio after taking some time off once he left Avalanche after it was acquired in 2018. That studio was (is) Liquid Swords , a new studio that, six years since its founding, is inching towards releasing its debut project: Samson: A Tyndalston Story .

Last week, ahead of Liquid Swords announcing Samson's April 8, 2026 , release date,


Laid Off Highguard Devs Chalk Up Game’s Failure to Leadership’s “Hubris,” Believed They Could Recreate the Smash Success of Apex Legends

The beginning of a new calendar year in the video game industry has, unfortunately, once again been marked by mass layoffs and studio shutdowns . And while last year was kicked off by a brand new free-to-play game becoming a smash success, this year is marked by the exact opposite. Highguard , the latest free-to-play game on the market from former Apex Legends developers at Wildlight Entertainment , is the first major misfire of 2026.

After it was debuted at The Game Awards 2


NVIDIA’s New GPU Driver is a Disaster & It Has Now Been Pulled Back; Did We Just See the First ‘Vibe-Coded’ Release?

NVIDIA's latest GPU driver update, which focused on optimizations for Resident Evil Requiem, has been pulled back after Team Green found a bug that had bothered several gamers.

NVIDIA's consumer GPU segment hasn't been seeing the best of times lately, given the ongoing memory shortages. On the software front, the company might have pulled off a blunder. With the , the primary focus has been on the latest Resident Evil release, including support for DLSS 4 MFG and DLSS Ray Reconstruction. However, as soon


Get Resident Evil Requiem for Free with a 12-Month GeForce NOW Ultimate Subscription

Don't have the PC to play CAPCOM 's new Resident Evil Requiem game, but you'd really love to experience it anyway? If you have a solid Internet connection (and live in a supported region of the world), NVIDIA can give you the chance through its GeForce NOW cloud platform, and they're also bundling the game with new 12-month Ultimate memberships. For the record, a year-long GeForce NOW Ultimate subscription sets you back $199.99 ,


PlayStation May Be ‘Backing Away From Putting Their Traditional Single-Player Games on PC’

Over the past few years, plenty of PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 exclusive games have made their way to PC , including tentpole franchises like The Last of Us , Marvel's Spider-Man , Horizon , and God of War .

However, there is a chance that in the future, only PlayStation live service games will launch on PC . Noted journalist Jason Schreier has suggested that traditional single-player experiences may remain console exclusives for the foreseeable future.

Speaking on the latest episode of the , the Bloomberg journalist commented on