Instead of buying a CPU and getting free memory, Newegg’s new listing does the reverse. A G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series 64GB kit, model F5-6000J3636F32GX2-RS5K, is shown with a “ Free 285K CPU with purchase ” promo attached to the product.
Microsoft may be looking at cheaper Xbox Game Pass options again. This follows last year’s price increase, which pushed the top tier much higher. According to a report from The Information, cited by GameSpot, new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma is considering lower-priced tiers. A Netflix bundle was also reportedly discussed.
The main problem is that Microsoft already raised prices in October 2025. Game Pass Ultimate went up to $29.99 per
Honestly, it’s refreshing to finally receive emails with proper deals on PC hardware. There’s hardly anything to report on GPUs yet, but CPUs are definitely moving, and its AMD Ryzen that leads here for now.
OpenAI is discontinuing the Sora consumer app and API, ending its public video-generation push less than a year after the standalone app launched. The company confirmed the change through Sora’s official X account, while outside reports said OpenAI is redirecting resources toward other priorities.
The shutdown also affects OpenAI’s tie-up with Disney. Early reports described the arrangement as a $1 billion investment and licensing deal tied to Sora, but according to reports the transaction never closed
Nintendo has quietly added one of the more useful Switch 2 backward compatibility features through system update 22.0.0. The new Handheld Mode Boost option lets compatible Nintendo Switch games run undocked as if they were being played in TV mode, and the toggle is now listed under System, then Nintendo Switch Software Handling.
Switch 2 has a 1080p handheld display, while many original Switch games used a lower portable profile
Primate Labs says the Geekbench Browser will now attach a warning to Geekbench 6 CPU results from processors that support Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool , or BOT. The company says some Geekbench 6 workload scores can rise by up to 40% under BOT, while overall scores can increase by up to 8%. Primate Labs argues those runs are not comparable with standard Geekbench 6 submissions, and says it currently has no way to tell whether BOT was enabled for a specific
Gearbox has shared a new PC performance update for Borderlands 4 ahead of its March 26 patch, comparing launch version 1.0.2 against update v1.5. The studio says it has been working on frame rate, hitching, and crash reduction since launch, with most of the changes focused on GPU, CPU, and general engine efficiency.
© Sony Mark Cerny has now given the clearest description yet of how Sony’s updated PSSR relates to AMD’s latest FSR upscaler. In Digital Foundry’s interview, Cerny said the new PSSR uses the same core co-developed algorithm as FSR Upscaling, but with a different implementation because AMD’s PC version uses FP8 while PSSR on PS5 Pro uses INT8.
AMD appears to be expanding its new RDNA 4m graphics branch in LLVM. A pending pull request adds GFX1171 and GFX1172 alongside the earlier GFX1170 target, and all three are listed under the same RDNA 4m section. Phoronix says the two new entries currently follow the same code paths and ISA capabilities as GFX1170, with no functional differences documented so far.
The GFX1170
Arm has announced the AGI CPU, its first production silicon product and its first Arm-designed data center CPU. The company says this marks a shift beyond licensing IP and Compute Subsystems, with Arm now offering complete silicon for AI infrastructure.
The AGI CPU is aimed at what Arm calls agentic AI infrastructure, where CPUs handle orchestration, scheduling, memory, storage, and data movement around large accelerator clusters. Arm says the chip offers up to 136 Neoverse V
