Category: Industry News

Labor Day Sales are over as of September 15, 2026, which makes the best gaming hardware cuts easier to judge without the countdown-clock pressure. The most interesting offers were not all tiny impulse buys. The standout list included a 27-inch Dell SE2726HG 240 Hz FHD monitor reported at $110 on September 7, a Best Buy ASUS ROG Strix G16 gaming … Read the rest

DLSS 5 Performance became a real PC gaming story on September 3, 2026, when Nvidia’s new rendering feature set launched inside NBA 2K27. The release mattered because it was not just another upscaling toggle. It brought Frame Generation, Super Resolution, and Neural Rendering into a shipping game, with native availability limited to GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs at launch. Tom’s … Read the rest

Intel GPU pricing has shifted from a side note into a real workstation planning problem. As of September 4, 2026, research notes show the Arc Pro B70 moving from roughly $999 to $1,299 in U.S. retail checks in about a month, with memory inflation and supply limits cited as pressure points. That changes how small studios, creator-gamers, AI hobbyists, and … Read the rest

The competitive season peaks this fall. Riot Games brings the 2026 World Championship back to the United States, setting up a massive cross-country tour. Top teams from every major region clash for the Summoner’s Cup and a multi-million dollar prize pool. Fans tracking the heavy favorites often look for the best places to wager or compare stats. Just as sports … Read the rest

The AMD Radeon Price Hike became a real buying concern after supply-chain reporting said AMD had told add-in-board partners that Radeon GPU and GDDR memory kit pricing would rise by around 10%. As of September 1, 2026, this was not a simple “every card costs 10% more at retail” situation. It was a partner-cost report, tied to GPU-plus-memory bundles, with … Read the rest

Tom’s Hardware’s CPU Innovation Awards were announced on August 21, 2026, and the CPU side of the awards told a very specific story: useful innovation was not only about bigger flagship chips. The publication named Intel’s Core Ultra 5 250K Plus as the winner in the CPU category, while AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 took the HEDT award, according to Tom’s … Read the rest

AMD Price Hikes are now part of the GPU buying problem for PC gamers, not just a supply-chain footnote. As of August 25, 2026, the supported picture is clear enough to affect upgrade planning: AMD reportedly told add-in-board partners around July 1, 2026, that GPU-and-GDDR memory kit bundle pricing would rise by about 10%, effective July 2026, according to TrendForce… Read the rest

Square Enix Digital Sales are now central to how the publisher reaches players, plans releases, and manages its back catalog. The research notes say Square Enix sold 26.8 million games in its last fiscal year, with 21.7 million of those sold as digital copies, or 81.3% of total unit sales. That split does not make physical games vanish overnight, but … Read the rest

Bethesda remasters are back on the PC gaming radar because Bethesda Game Studios has reportedly put Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters into development, with no firm release dates attached yet. Gematsu’s roadmap report also points to The Elder Scrolls VI as Bethesda’s main focus, Fallout 5 sitting further out, and a new Fallout project involving Obsidian Entertainment, so … Read the rest

Amazon Luna is getting a more serious look from players who are tired of watching gaming hardware prices move the wrong way. The pitch is simple enough: if a console, GPU, or full PC build costs more than expected, cloud gaming starts to look less like a side option and more like a pressure valve. That does not mean every … Read the rest