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It has been a few weeks since Asus first teased the ROG Ally handheld gaming system and now, the company is ready to share more in-depth details. Today, Asus is officially launching the ROG Ally, with prices starting at £££ and the first units set to ship out in June. 

We'll have another opportunity to play Diablo 4 ahead of release during the upcoming 'Server Slam' weekend, designed to stress test the game's servers ahead of launch. Interestingly, the Server Slam beta version of Diablo 4 will have a number of launch-day features, including DLSS 3 support. 

With newer games requiring larger amounts of memory to run at higher graphics settings, there has been concern around continued 8GB GPU launches. With the RTX 4060 series coming up, rumours have pointed to an 8GB model, but according to new rumours Nvidia might also be cooking up a 16GB version of the RTX 4060 Ti.

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AMD has officially announced the Ryzen "Phoenix" 7040U series. Designed for low-power mobile devices such as lightweight laptops and handheld gaming consoles, these APUs will feature up to eight Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 3 iGPUs with up to 12 CUs.

Last week, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched in pretty rough shape across all platforms but so far, most coverage has focused on the PC version. Even Respawn's public apology only addresses PC performance, completely ignoring the fact that the console version is broken too. 

Over the past 4 years Dreams has time and time again surprised fans and critics alike with just how versatile and impressive creations can be. To many, the platform was just getting started – but unfortunately, Sony has gone ahead and crushed my ‘Dreams’ dreams.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was delayed from its planned March release date to late April in an effort to polish up the game ahead of release. Unfortunately, the game has arrived today in pretty rough shape for all platforms. 

So far, the only thing Asus has officially revealed about the ROG Ally's price point is that it will be under $1000. An official announcement is due in May, but a leaker claims to already know the price for the Z1 Extreme version. 

While Microsoft was able to convince the UK's Competition & Markets Authority that its acquisition of Activision Blizzard would not harm the console gaming market, it would seem the CMA was not convinced that the deal wouldn't impede competition in the cloud gaming market. 

We've been hearing about the Ryzen Z1 series processors through leaks recently. Today, AMD is making it official, announcing the new Ryzen Z1 and Z1 Extreme processors for a new generation of handheld gaming PCs. 

Last week, Seagate officially unveiled its latest Special Edition SSDs. This time around, we're getting Star Wars-themed M.2 SSDs with special faceplates with a glowing lightsaber right on the front. Now, we're giving away one of the 2TB models, as well as a few other prizes.

Leo presents his review of Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs

Leo unboxes two Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs, worth about 10 grand

A few weeks ago we reported that the actor playing Venom in the upcoming Spider-Man 2 game by Insomniac claimed that the much-anticipated title would be arriving this September. Following this, an industry insider has corroborated the claims, stating that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will indeed be launching in September.

While Xbox has spent a great deal of time pushing its cloud gaming services (thanks in no small part to Microsoft’s ownership of the Azure cloud computing service), Sony has focused much more on local gaming solutions. This seems to be shifting somewhat with a number of new job listings – alongside recent rumours – suggesting that Sony is going all-in on cloud gaming.

While The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is traditionally a single-player game, fans have often wished for some form of co-op or multiplayer. The Skyrim Together mod was the most successful attempt at delivering on this, but it would seem that Bethesda might be looking to implement multiplayer elements in a more official capacity with The Elder Scrolls VI. 

Persona 3 Portable rolled out for modern platforms earlier this year but ATLUS may have something even bigger planned. Earlier this year, it was claimed that a full remake of Persona 3 is in the works and now, we've got our first glimpse at it. 

In recent years we have seen the price of PC hardware, particularly graphics cards, take a substantial hike – due to a whole host of factors both internal and external. As such, being able to snoop out a good deal is paramount when looking to build a new PC or upgrading your current one. EKWB is currently hosting a massive sale on their website with deals up to 60% across their range of waterblocks, motherboards and more...

Bethesda is unlikely to get around to Fallout 5 until the end of this decade, as the company plans to tackle The Elder Scrolls 6 before making a new Fallout game. This has left fans asking for Obsidian to step in and make a new spin-off similar to Fallout New Vegas. We've heard that Obsidian would be interested and curiously enough, references to New Vegas 2 have now been found on SteamDB. 

Intel has started to discontinue the first few 11th Gen Core "Tiger Lake" processors. The process began on April 3rd, 2023, and will run until January 26th, 2024, when Intel will ship the last batch of these CPUs to customers.

Earlier this week, rumours claimed that Sony was creating new PlayStation hardware, separate from the upcoming PS5 revision and rumoured PS5 Pro. It was quickly theorised that this could be a new handheld, like a PS Vita 2. Now, sources have clarified that Sony is working on a dedicated Remote Play device, rather than a native-gaming handheld. 

It's the first Tuesday of the month, which means it is time for a new batch of Xbox Game Pass games to be announced. There will be five more games hitting the service over the next couple of weeks, including former PS5 exclusive, Ghostwire: Tokyo, as well as Mojang's next big release, Minecraft Legends. 

Back in January Studio Wildcard revealed that the team is working on a remaster of ARK: Survival Evolved which was stated to be a “complete free upgrade/remaster”. Now, the team have officially detailed the remaster – but unlike what was promised, the upgrade will in fact cost more than a brand new game.

While the ESA and new E3 organiser ReedPop had big plans to bring the event back this year, it would seem that too many companies pulled out. Last night, the ESA confirmed that E3 has been cancelled and at this point, it is being widely assumed that the event won't be returning again. 

In recent weeks, we've been hearing rumours about the RTX 4070, including specs and an apparent mid-April launch date. While some earlier rumours suggested that the RTX 4070 would be priced uncomfortably close to the RTX 4070 Ti, it would seem that Nvidia has now settled on a much more palatable price tag. 

2023 was meant to represent the triumphant return of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, following its fumblings over the past few years. The parties in charge of E3 (the ESA) even brought in the organisation experts ReedPop to ensure that this year’s event goes off without a hitch, Unfortunately, it seems as though E3 2023 might in fact be cancelled as more and more publishers pull out from the upcoming expo.

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Operating system fragmentation has always been an issue for Windows, and while the situation had been mostly resolved thanks to Windows 10 (until Windows 11 was introduced), many users still run much older versions of Microsoft’s OS, including Windows 8 and even Windows 7. Those wanting to play games via Steam however will soon need to upgrade as come the end of the year support for older versions of Windows is officially ceasing.

At GDC last week, AMD shared some more official details about FSR 3, the next generation of its upscaling technology. FSR 3 is still in early development, but AMD has some lofty goals for the new version, including a 2x frame rate improvement over FSR 2.