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Steam will replace its curated discount calendar in early 2027 with personalized offers, showing each player a different selection of discounted games; Valve says testing surfaced ten times more games per day. 🎮🛍️

Mexican lawmakers have proposed requiring digital storefronts to clarify whether games are owned or licensed and to preserve access if publishers shut down servers. 🎮⚖️

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is adding Collateral, a round-based bomb mode where teams earn cash to buy gear between rounds, borrowing the economy-driven structure of Counter-Strike and Valorant. 💣🎮

Framework's new Desktop pairs AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 with 192 GB of unified memory, aimed at running large AI models locally; pre-orders open September 30, with pricing still unannounced. 🖥️🧠

Switch 2 owners can claim The Witcher 3 Remastered by borrowing an original physical cartridge, and the digital upgrade remains playable after the cartridge is returned. 🎮📀

A Reddit buyer paid $4,193 for a used ASUS RTX 5090 from an Amazon third-party seller, but the card arrived without its graphics chip or circuit board. 🖥️⚠️

Square Enix has removed Final Fantasy XI's 14-day free-trial limit and raised its trial level cap from 50 to 75, letting new and returning players explore more of the 24-year-old MMORPG. 🎮🛡️

Razer's new Huntsman V3 HE Magnetic Mini 65% brings Hall Effect switches with 8,000Hz polling and adjustable 0.2-4.0mm actuation for noticeably lower latency and precise rapid-trigger customization. 🎮⌨️

Xbox's new Mythic Achievements recognize players who complete a game's original achievements, and they apply retroactively to eligible games finished years ago. 🎮🏆

The PS5 emulator KyTyPS5 can now enter Marvel's Wolverine on PC, marking a rapid development milestone, though the game remains far from playable. 🎮🖥️

AMD's Zen 6 EPYC 9996 leads the Venice server lineup with 256 cores and a listed price of $14,904, as AMD details specs and pricing for 31 EPYC 9006 processors. 🖥️⚙️

Diablo 5 is being designed around builds and planning, with director Joe Shely saying challenges should be overcome through the right character build rather than moment-to-moment execution. ⚔️🧙♂️

Sony is limiting Japan's PS5 Pro lottery to established players, requiring at least 60 hours of PS4 or PS5 gaming since September 2024 as shortages fuel efforts to curb scalping. 🎮🎟️

AMD's optional Adrenalin 26.9.2 driver adds support for several major PC releases, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Gears of War: E-Day and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered. 🎮🖥️

AMD's $8.2 billion all-stock acquisition of World Labs brings AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li into the company as it expands beyond chips to compete with NVIDIA in spatial AI. 🤖🧠

Take-Two has issued a cease-and-desist that will end an unofficial native GTA V port for Android and Nintendo Switch on October 3, canceling a performance update that was days from release. 🎮⚖️

A former EVGA employee says the company believed it had to sell at least one GeForce card at NVIDIA's starting price, even at a loss, to protect chip allocations-a rule he says was never confirmed by contract. 🖥️📉

Microsoft says AMD chips are absent from the current Surface lineup because its limited product portfolio requires careful choices, not because of a dispute with AMD. 💻🧩

Sony will skip CES 2027 for the first time since 1967, ending a six-decade presence as the company shifts its focus from consumer hardware toward games, music and films. 🎮🎬

SteamOS runs modern games smoothly on Intel's Arc G3 Extreme handheld, but a performance-mode modification is needed to keep CPU clocks high during gameplay. 🎮💻

The Witcher 3's free remaster drew 120,975 concurrent Steam players, surpassing the game's previous peak of 103,329 set in 2020. 🎮📈

A GIGABYTE RTX 5070 Ti reached 39Gbps GDDR7 memory speeds using mvolt+, delivering a reported 40% bandwidth increase over stock, though results vary by card. 🖥️⚙️

Our MONTECH giveaway offers four readers a HyperFlow ARGB liquid CPU cooler, with 240mm and 360mm models available in black or white! 🖥️❄️

Pulsar's premium Feinmann F01 Noctua Edition gaming mouse integrates a tiny Noctua fan into its perforated shell to cool your palm during long sessions, while keeping competitive-grade sensors and switches intact. 🖱️❄️

Naughty Dog is developing two projects that will expand The Last of Us canon, though only one is expected to be interactive, leaving open whether the other will be a game or another kind of story. 🎮📺

Super Mario Galaxy has been decompiled for a native PC port, while Pilotwings 64's Windows and Linux port is already available with widescreen and higher frame rates. 🎮💻

A Linux-based mod has enabled NVIDIA's DLSS Super Resolution on the Radeon RX 7700 XT, using CUDA emulation and custom RDNA 3 code to run the upscaling models. 🖥️🔧

A custom Kubb Fanless mini PC replaces its aluminum shell with solid 24-carat gold, bringing the reported estimated price to $1.7 million. 🖥️🥇

Pulsar's X2F CrazyLight wireless gaming mouse weighs just 29 grams, using a compact fingertip-focused design that prioritizes speed and precise control. 🖱️⚡

ROCKNIX is bringing Steam and Windows game support through Proton to Qualcomm-powered Android handhelds, turning models from AYN, AYANEO and Retroid into compact PC gaming devices while the feature remains experimental. 🎮📱

ETH Zurich researchers trained a self-contained robotic hand to walk on its fingertips across varied surfaces, then use those same fingers to type and move objects. 🤖🖐️

CD Projekt Red's updated requirements show The Witcher 3 remaster's 4K path-tracing preset targets 60 FPS with upscaling and frame generation, requiring an RTX 5080 and a high-end CPU. 🎮🖥️

An unofficial DLSS Neural Rendering tool now lets AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT reach 75 FPS at 1080p in Cyberpunk 2077, a major improvement over early builds. 🎮📈

AI chip demand is tightening silicon supply, with 12-inch polished wafer contract prices projected to rise more than 40% in 2027, adding pressure to an already constrained semiconductor supply chain. 📈💾

Noctua is researching whether JouleForce micro-channel cooling can bring high-power air cooling to desktop PCs, though its pressure demands currently exceed what standard PC fans can provide. 🖥️🌬️

A prominent group behind hypervisor-based Denuvo bypasses has reportedly disbanded after a member cited concern over Denuvo's lawsuit against voices38, a separate figure not linked to the group. ⚖️🎮

A resurfaced, unconfirmed leak claims Rockstar is developing an L.A. Noire sequel set in San Francisco around the Zodiac Killer case, with a 2030 target. 🕵️🎮

Following more Xbox layoffs, Satya Nadella called the team's streamlining "great to see" and said the business needs a sustainable model for reaching more players. 🎮📉

Two NVIDIA- and PlusAI-branded trailers stolen in California contained 40,000 pounds of sand for autonomous truck testing, not GPUs; both trailers were later recovered with the cargo intact. 🚚🏖️

The WiCi One eGPU uses Wi-Fi 7 and a virtual GPU driver to send display output wirelessly, offering an alternative to the cables and ports typically required for external graphics. 📶🖥️

KyTyPS5 has booted Marvel's Wolverine to its main menu on PC, marking a new step for PS5 emulation, though footage showed no gameplay and reportedly ran at about 2 FPS. 🎮💻

Great Wall's $22 GW-330SF is a 230W power supply for low-power desktops, with a coated PCB designed to resist moisture, dust and insect-related damage. 🖥️🔌

Game Informer reports that GTA 6 will feature an advanced weather system simulating Florida's stormier conditions, though Rockstar has not confirmed whether tropical storms or hurricanes will appear. 🌧️🎮

MSI's $229 MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi II offers strong multi-thread and gaming performance with broad I/O and Wi-Fi 7 support out of the box, though it drops some features from the original for a lower price. 🖥️🔌

An unofficial Twilight Princess port is running far better on the New Nintendo 3DS, with stereoscopic 3D now working, though performance still dips and no release date has been announced. 🎮🕹️

Reports say Halo Studios was still years from releasing its next game, with Halo 7 reportedly in the concept stage before Activision took over the franchise. 🎮📰

A new RTX Remix mod gives Grand Theft Auto 2 full path-traced lighting, transforming the 1999 top-down game and adding a dynamic day-night cycle. 🎮💡

A Sony patent suggests future PlayStation controllers could support tap-to-pay, letting players use cards or gift cards instead of manually entering payment details for digital purchases. 🎮💳

An unofficial Switch emulator now runs directly on jailbroken PS5 consoles without Linux, with Cuphead reaching a relatively stable 60 FPS while performance varies widely across games. 🎮🛠️