Sapphire set to launch its first X870 motherboard

Retailers started to list new motherboards despite no formal information from Sapphire.

In April, Sapphire formally announced the B650M PURE motherboard, which debuted shortly after in China. The company later showcased this board alongside the X870E NITRO series at Computex, suggesting wider availability.

This month, Sapphire has officially entered the global motherboard market. Its first products include B850 and B650 models from the NITRO series, aimed

Forza Horizon 6 launching 2026 on PCs, set in Japan

Playground Games has confirmed that Forza Horizon 6 will launch in 2026, with Japan serving as the next open-world location for the series. The news was announced during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show 2025 broadcast, where a short cinematic teaser gave fans a first look at Mount Fuji, neon-lit cityscapes, and nods to previous Horizon titles.

According to Art Director Don Arceta, Japan has been one of the most

Rockstar’s “Project ROME” could bring official mods to GTA 6

Old rumors point to Rockstar building a new platform called Project ROME straight into GTA 6. The idea is simple: give players tools to make their own missions, servers, and game modes without relying on third-party mods. That’s basically what most modders and gamers were asking for a long time.

ROME is said to stand for Rockstar Online Modding Engine. The move makes sense

GamingLaptops mods call out coordinated brand marketing from MSI

We were recently contacted about a new issue involving one company in particular. The moderators of the GamingLaptops subreddit have raised an issue about an increase in coordinated marketing targeting their community. In a recent post, the team informed users that recommendation threads are being flooded with comments pushing a single brand or model, often posted in suspiciously repetitive patterns. This brand is MSI.

According to the moderators, the posts show clear signs of being coordinated rather than genuine community advice. Many accounts

Qualcomm shows prototype Mini-PCs with AirJet coolers

Actually something interesting.

Source: AllroundPC/XDA

Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite for Windows on ARM devices coming in 2026 is something that is yet to be tested and verified by reviewers, more so software than hardware reviewers maybe. The company made a lot of progress and thanks to Microsoft’s push into the ARM ecosystem, many large software companies now offer pure ARM-based software which requires no emulation.

However, Qualcomm is still relatively slow with updates for

Steam preparing for Secure Boot requirement in more games

Steam beta adds Secure Boot and TPM status to system information.

Valve has updated the Steam Client Beta with a feature that shows whether Secure Boot and TPM are enabled on a user’s PC. The new status entries appear under Help > System Information and are also included in the Steam Hardware Survey.

Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 have become requirements for an increasing number of games, mainly those with stricter anti-cheat systems. Recent examples include EA’s Javelin

Alphacool expands its single-slot waterblock designs to Gigabyte Gaming series

We usually do not cover waterblocks unless they are somewhat special. Alphacool has something that would match this description.

The company developed a single-slot waterblock for RTX 5090 cards. This isn’t the first nor the last such waterblock on the market, but the fact that these companies make such coolers means that they know their target and it isn’t a gamer.

Their ES GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming 1-Slot cooler

NVIDIA Open Sources Audio2Face for Real-Time Character Animation

NVIDIA does something good.

NVIDIA isn’t the company we know for open sourcing its work. That’s despite alternatives appearing over time (upscaling/framegen), but they finally made an exception without much  competition, one should add.

NVIDIA has announced that its Audio2Face technology is now available under an MIT open-source license. The tool, part of the company’s generative AI portfolio, produces real-time facial animation and lip

ASRock has a blue Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU

Design for Monster Hunter Wilds fans.

ASRock has introduced a special Monster Hunter Wilds Edition of the Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card. The model is based on AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture and comes with 16 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus.

The RX 9070 XT Monster Hunter Wilds Edition ships with a game clock of 2400 MHz and a boost clock of up to 2