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Sony has been sporadically dropping details about the PlayStation VR2 all year long. In a surprise move, at 11PM last night, Sony announced that PlayStation VR2 is launching in early 2023. 

It would seem that Sony has a new lawsuit to contend with, as the company is reportedly being sued in the UK for 'ripping off' PlayStation customers by as much as £5 billion. 

ASUS has issued a recall through the US Consumer Products Safety Commission, asking consumers and retailers to send back their ROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboards due to a misplaced memory capacitor. Due to the error, the capacitor poses a fire risk, leading to the recall of roughly 10,000 units in the US. 

Intel already launched an Arc A300 series desktop GPU and is currently focused on spreading the word on the A700 series. There is a middle ground here that Intel hasn't spoke about much - the A500 series. The Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database was recently updated with results for the Arc A580. 

Thermaltake's unique SWAFANs have swappable blades but are they any good for building a system? We find out.

Back in 2020, upon launching the Quest 2 headset, Meta made it a requirement that Facebook accounts be used to log in to the headset, a policy that caused a lot of issues and controversy at the time. Just one year later, the company changed its mind and began working on a new Facebook-less login system. It has been a while since the last update, but later this month, Facebook logins will no longer be required for VR headsets.  

With every major Bethesda game comes a flurry of mods and typically, one of the most installed mods is an unofficial patch that fixes bugs that have persisted in Creation Engine games. There were heavily-downloaded unofficial patches for Skyrim, Fallout 4 and soon, Starfield will join that list. 

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Intel appears to be having trouble with DX9 on its new, modern GPUs. As a result, Intel is changing things up and will drop DirectX 9 support on Arc and Xe GPUs, and will instead use an open-source mapping layer to emulate DX9 using DX12. 

A few weeks ago, Intel shared the first gaming benchmark results for the Arc A750 graphics card. At the time, we only had performance comparisons between the A750 and RTX 3060 in five games, but now, Intel has benchmarked almost 50 titles and released the results today. 

Just over a week ago, we learned the official opinions of Sony, Ubisoft, WB, Riot and other companies regarding Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Sony naturally had a lot to say and was particularly concerned with Microsoft's growing hold on the subscription market with Game Pass. Now, Microsoft has had a chance to respond, calling Sony for buying 'blocking rights' to keep certain games off of Xbox. 

Intel's GPU rollout continues this week with the launch of the Arc Pro A-series. There are three SKUs to begin with - Intel Arc Pro A40 and A50 desktop graphics cards, and an Arc Pro A30M GPU for laptops. 

Blizzard revealed a good chunk of Diablo 4 gameplay back in June, but much of the game is still under wraps. Recently we heard that Blizzard was hosting a 'friends and family' alpha test for the game, inviting a small selection of people with ties to the studio to play the game. Awkwardly, this has resulted in a few leaks. 

With Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics now being acquired by Embracer Group, there has been a lot of hope for new Deus Ex and Tomb Raider games. We know that Crystal Dynamics is working on the next Tomb Raider already, but the return of Deus Ex could still be years away. 

A new Cinebench R23 multi-core world record has been set by overclocker 'TSAIK', scoring over 116K points using an overclocked 64C/128T AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX HEDT processor pushed to 5.15GHz.

By now you've probably seen from Leo's video that be quiet! are currently celebrating their 20th anniversary, and are launching a new range of FX branded products to commemorate the occasion. After seeing Leo's build, I decided to try and take things to the next level with a second anniversary build, incorporating an LCD display and powder-coated orange panels...

We're over six months on from Microsoft announcing plans to acquire Activision Blizzard, kicking off the lengthy process of gaining approvals from anti-trust organisations across the world. Most of the time, these investigations are highly secretive, but we do know that they involve seeking opinions from competing companies across the industry. Now thanks to recent filings in Brazil, documents containing these opinions have been posted online, giving us insight into what the likes of Sony, Ubisoft, WB and others think of the deal. 

Valve has consistently provided updates on its production plans for the Steam Deck. This week, those sitting in the pre-order queue got some good news, with Valve confirming that  it has secured enough units to fulfil all reservations made so far. 

Intel shares have taken a significant dip this week following the company's quarterly earnings report. Intel missed revenue targets last quarter and the company has also cut down its earnings predictions for the rest of the year. 

This week Micron announced a major development in the form of the world's first 232-layer NAND. Featuring the industry-leading areal density, the new NAND delivers higher capacity and improved efficiency over previous generations.

Rockstar has said very little publicly about Grand Theft Auto 6. The only official update we've had so far is confirmation that the game is in development. We've seen plenty of rumours about Grand Theft Auto 6 over the past couple of years but few legitimate leaks. Now thanks to a new report from Jason Schreier, we have our first real insight into the game's development. 

This summer, many retailers have had a surge in available stock for current-gen graphics cards, which has led to a solid sales season. For the next week, AMD is running a big promotion here in the UK, bringing down prices of Ryzen 5000 series processors, as well as a number of RX 6000 series graphics cards. 

Intel's open-source Vulkan graphics drivers for Arc Alchemist GPUs just brought in a pretty major upgrade. It turns out a small coding error was leading to a massive reduction in ray-tracing performance. With the code fixed, ray tracing performance has reportedly improved by up to 100x...

A newly found Core i5-13600K benchmark entry in Geekbench shows some promising results. As per the scores, the upcoming mid-range processors from Intel will contend with the Ryzen 9 5950X in multi-core workloads.

Earlier this summer, Sony surprised us all by announcing Insomniac's Spider-Man and Miles Morales games for PC. We'll be getting Spider-Man Remastered on PC in just a few weeks time, on the 12th of August. Sony has also revealed graphical features and the system requirements needed to run the game. 

Despite the success of Stranger Things Season 4, there has been a lingering nervousness around Netflix's Q2 earnings report. In Q1, the streaming giant lost subscribers for the first time in a decade, putting an end to the non-stop growth Netflix had previously enjoyed. Over last quarter, Netflix did lost almost a million subscribers worldwide, which is actually much less than initially forecast. 

Razer recently released the Kishi V2 USB-C mobile gaming controller, and after getting my hands on it I can safely say that, objectively speaking, the Razer Kishi V2 is the best mobile gaming controller currently available – though it’s far from perfect...

An apparent presentation leak may have revealed Intel's pricing strategy for its upcoming A-series desktop graphics cards. So far, it looks like Intel's flagship A770 GPU will compete with the RTX 3060 Ti or RX 6650 XT in terms of price, coming in at under $400. 

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