We’ve got gaming industry gloom, modding wizardry, massive blockbuster gmae launches, and yest, I actually survived unboxing a piece of bleeding-edge VR hardware.
Xbox is doing more corporate shakedown as several studios lay off more employees. One of the studios is The Coalition, which just released Gears of War: E-Day. We’ll talk about all of the studios affected, and how this is a result of Xbox’s reset.
There’s cross-pollination of DLSS 5 on AMD. I finally got a mod working and experienced AI-generated textures on a Radeon 7900XTX, and I’ll go over how I did it.
Two big games dropped this week: Gears of War: E-Day and Star Wars: Galactic Racer. I’ll go over those.
And yesterday a big brown box showed up with my Steam Frame. I’ve done the unboxing and my opinion on the Frame has changed a little bit now that I’ve gotten a change to play with it. You’ll be surprised what it can do, and what it can’t do…
All this and no less than 57 spicy bits of tech and gaming news.
News
The Atari 800XL hybrid gaming console is back after decades in obscurity
Cell phones
Graphics cards
- GPU prices are awful, and integrated graphics are saving budget PCs
- AMD just flaunted its own 192GB chip to spoil Nvidia’s RTX Spark party — Apple should be nervous too
- AMD and Intel finally have answers to Nvidia’s DLSS and one just took the lead
- RTX 5050 vs RTX 5060 vs RTX 5060 Ti – Test in 10 games | Watch
- Nvidia’s RTX Spark could be the future of laptops. That’s exactly why I’d wait
- I’d never buy Nvidia’s Founders Edition GPU, even though it looks better than every aftermarket card
- What does ‘FSR’ mean on an AMD graphics card?
- What’s the difference between undervolting and overclocking your GPU?
- Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB – test in 15 games | 1080p | 1440p | 4K | Watch
- Your old GPU could be worth more than you think
- NVIDIA isn’t worth considering when these older AMD GPUs are still such a great deal
- How much VRAM should you look for in a graphics card?
- Madlad applies DLSS 5 to the original Duke Nukem and Pong
- My 6-year-old GPU still handles modern games better than what the marketing wants you to believe
General tech news
- I paid for a PCIe 5.0 SSD, and my games load exactly as fast as they did on my old drive
- 6 reasons I’m buying HDDs, not SSDs
- Please stop using small AIO liquid coolers in your PC builds
- Your motherboard might be overclocking your CPU out of the box, and it’s why your cooler is working so hard
- Every cheap QLC SSD is secretly two drives, and the fast one gets smaller the more you fill it
- Your NVMe SSD has a wear meter hiding inside Windows
- 6 CPUs that are officially too old in 2026
- What do K and F mean on Intel CPUs?
- Your CPU has multiple temperature readings, and one might be making your fans scream
- I bought the cheap SSD instead of the fastest one, and I’d do it again
- 32GB DDR5 kits cost more than a flagship CPU, but waiting for RAM prices to drop is a trap
- Your M.2 slot does more than SSDs, but nobody talks about the boring cards that prove it
- I own 20TB of HDD storage but refuse to buy Seagate for one simple reason
- That empty NVMe slot on your NAS isn’t decoration — it’s the upgrade nobody talks about
- ASRock DeskSlim brings RTX Pro Blackwell GPU support to compact desktop
- 4 simple benchmarks to test your PC’s performance
Windows
- Windows finally lost its last excuse to stay on my gaming PC
- Microsoft hid a DOOM clone in Microsoft Excel 31 years ago: Here’s how to play it today
Valve
Xbox
- How long can you expect an Xbox Series X to last?
- Xbox Project Helix LIVE: New feature key for next gen fully launches
- 5 disadvantages of buying an Xbox in 2026
- Breaking down why Xbox Game Pass feels less worth it now | Watch
- GTA V playable in browser immediately nuked
- What discs can you play on your Xbox Series X?
- How much would it cost to build a PC equivalent to the Xbox Series X in 2026?
- The 5 best Xbox Series X|S games you’ve never heard of
- GTA 6 quietly reveals new open-world gameplay details
Xbox disc to digital feature rolls out to all Xbox players to enable playing disc-free - Hands-on with the rebuilt Xbox PC app and its performance improvements
- Footage from Xbox’s canceled Perfect Dark reboot leaks online
- Video game hardware sales plunge to 13-year low as prices soar on memory, storage shortage
Playstation
- PlayStation Plus users officially have until October 6 to claim 4 free games
- A beloved 1999 PlayStation franchise is finally returning
- Modder brings original Xbox emulation to jailbroken PS5
- We might be getting a PS5 emulator on PC sooner than expected
- PS Plus is losing one of its best horror games at the worst possible time
- PlayStation could revive long-forgotten franchise with new installment, trusted source claims
- PS5 Pro runs PS3 games better than Sony ever could
- Brand-new PS5 console leaked
- Ex-PlayStation boss says Sony killing discs raises the insidious discussion of game ownership
- Thanks Sony: The full Demon’s Souls remake is now emulated on PC
- PlayStation permanently shutting down popular service next month
- After 26 years, the PlayStation 2 is entering a new era
- Sony’s AI-upscaling tech is no longer PS5 Pro exclusive
- PlayStation Store credit deal brings GTA 6’s $100 Ultimate Edition down to normal game price
- The original PlayStation 2 security chip has been reverse engineered
- GameStop makes surprising PS5 Pro pricing move before GTA 6 launch
- GTA 6 is coming to cloud gaming, but it’s not what you think: What this actually means for PC gamers