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Sony has turned on AI upscaling for the standard PlayStation 5, and it did so without publishing a single number. The technology is called Quick Spectral Super Resolution, or QSSR, and it reached two games in patches on October 1, 2026. Ghost of Yotei was the other game patched for QSSR on October 1, 2026. Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment Sony Interactive Entertainment announced it

Sony is reportedly working on bringing Ape Escape back after a 16 year absence, potentially giving one of PlayStation's longest dormant franchises another chance on modern hardware. According to an industry insider familiar with the project, the revival is more than a general discussion about returning to older PlayStation properties. The wording used suggests that an actual Ape Escape project may already be in

Ikea and Xbox have launched a new gaming focused furniture and home decor collection called YXSTABY, bringing nine products to stores with prices starting at $17.99. The collection became available in Ikea stores on October 1, while online orders are scheduled to open on November 30. The products are planned for a worldwide rollout, although local pricing may differ depending on the market. Rather

Sea of Thieves is getting a major storage optimization that will substantially reduce how much space the game occupies on PCs and consoles. The biggest improvement will apply to versions containing 4K assets, where the installation size is expected to fall by at least 50 percent. The game currently requires more than 130 GB of storage on PC and Xbox. Its size has steadily

Sony's new QSSR upscaling technology for the standard PlayStation 5 could be relatively easy for developers to add to games that already support PSSR on PlayStation 5 Pro. Daniel Craig, Principal Engineer for Graphics R&D at Sony Interactive Entertainment, says QSSR is fundamentally designed as a direct replacement for PSSR in supported games. Developers would still need some additional tuning, but the work may

An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition owner says part of the graphics card’s heatsink unexpectedly detached after the PC was moved, leaving the cooling assembly partially exposed. The GPU was reportedly purchased in August 2023 and had apparently been operating normally before the incident. According to the owner, one section of the heatsink near the PCIe connector separated from the rest of the

A German PC gamer says a second hand AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D caused an immediate Valorant ban because the processor had allegedly been blacklisted by Riot Games' Vanguard anti cheat system under its previous owner. The CPU itself reportedly worked without any problems. The issue appeared only after the buyer launched Valorant, which had worked normally with the system's previous processor. According to the

Microsoft is expanding its Advanced Shader Delivery technology across Windows 11, with Gears of War: E Day becoming the first game to support the feature across a broad range of AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, and Qualcomm hardware. Advanced Shader Delivery, or ASD, is designed to reduce one of the more frustrating problems in modern PC gaming: long shader compilation times and the stutter that can

A rare engineering sample of AMD’s unreleased Ryzen 9 5900X3D has appeared online with a different cache configuration than the version previously shown by AMD. The processor reportedly features 12 cores, 24 threads, and 128MB of total L3 cache. That is lower than the 192MB configuration associated with earlier Ryzen 9 5900X3D samples, but the newly surfaced chip also appears to run at noticeably

CD Projekt Red has published a full set of PC system requirements for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, and one row stands apart. The Path Tracing tier is the only configuration in the chart that names a 3D V-Cache processor. Geralt inside a cathedral in Remastered, showing the reworked lighting. Image: CD PROJEKT RED That part is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Every other