Creative Assembly dropped the news that Total War Medieval III is happening after teasing fans for years at their franchise anniversary stream. The devs said they want to bring back proper historical gameplay with heavy politics and religion mechanics instead of just conquest spam, and the setting stays focused on medieval Europe plus nearby areas rather than going worldwide. They are building it on the new Warcore engine that will let them port stuff to PlayStation and Xbox while keeping high-end PC strategy as the main priority.
The stream also showed off the Tides of Torment DLC for Warhammer III with three new legendary lords, and they announced the Lords of The End Times pack dropping next summer with Nagash leading the charge. A...
AMD is dropping Medusa Point mobile chips in both 28-watt and 45-watt flavors, according to a leaked shipping manifest, which means the mainstream laptop space gets way more options. The higher-end models pack up to 22 cores through a weird combo of 12 regular Zen 6 cores plus some classic, dense, and low-power cores thrown in there, while budget Ryzen 5 and 7 versions stick with fewer cores but keep the same RDNA 3.5 graphics with eight compute units.
The whole lineup moves to the newer FP10 socket that sits between the tiny FP8 and massive FP11 sizes, and the split between high-power and low-power variants makes sense since cheaper models never needed all that juice anyway. Ryzen 9 chips probably claim the 45-watt bracket while...
Apple dropped its app store winners list, and gaming stuff took over most of the spotlight again, with Pokémon TCG Pocket grabbing iPhone game of the year, while DREDGE won for iPad, and Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition scored the Mac category. Tim Cook said the winners showed exceptional innovation and design, and the regular app winners covered everything from AI-powered visual planners to academic paper formatting tools.
The cultural impact section gave props to puzzle apps, language builders, and accessibility tools like Be My Eyes for helping blind users navigate daily life. This all comes when Apple's app store is hitting a weird growth slowdown, with spending increases dropping from 12 percent earlier in the year down to just 6...
A shipping manifest leaked specs for the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, and the eight-core chip sticks with the same 120-watt power limit as the 9800X3D despite pushing clocks higher. The faster variant keeps the 4.7GHz base, but cranks boost frequencies up to 5.6GHz, which is 400MHz past what the regular model hits.
AMD briefly confirmed the processor on its site before yanking the page, and the new chip should handle gaming workloads better than the current model without sucking down more power. The 9950X3D2 variant for the 16-core chip will supposedly jump to a 200-watt rating when it drops.
Nobody knows when these faster X3D processors will launch, but the first quarter of next year seems like a decent bet based on how things usually go with...
NVIDIA just dropped driver 591.44, which brings back PhysX acceleration for RTX 50 cards after ditching 32-bit CUDA support killed it at launch. The new driver adds custom support for nine classic games like Batman: Arkham City, Borderlands 2, and both Metro titles, which means those physics effects finally work properly again on the newest cards.
The update also fixes a bunch of annoying bugs across games like Battlefield 6, Black Myth Wukong performance issues, and weird visual glitches in Monster Hunter World and The Witcher 3. Adobe Premiere Pro users dealing with export freezes and Chromium browser green lines on RTX 50 cards should be sorted out as well.
ASRock dropped the H610M Combo motherboard with both DDR4 and DDR5 slots on the same board, which seems like a weird flex during the current memory price apocalypse. The micro-ATX board supports Intel's 12th through 14th-gen chips and packs six DIMM slots in total, split between four DDR5 and two DDR4.
The catch is you can only use one memory type at a time, and the specs are pretty basic, with a single Gen 3.0 M.2 slot and three PCIe x16 slots, with only the primary one running at x16. DDR5 maxes out at 96GB and 4800MT/s while DDR4 tops out at 64GB and 3800MT/s, depending on your setup.
The back panel looks ancient with VGA and DVI ports alongside HDMI, plus a PS/2 connector that nobody has needed since forever. This board screams...
Bad Robot Games teamed up with Sony to publish their co-op shooter that Mike Booth has been cooking up since joining the studio. JJ Abrams founded the gaming arm with Tencent money years back, and they were supposed to drop SPYJINX as a mobile game before quietly killing that project off.
The new title hits PC and PS5, but nobody knows when because details are basically nonexistent. Anna Sweet from Bad Robot said the PlayStation partnership lets them go bigger with the IP, while Sony's Christian Svensson talked about how the studio's creative approach lines up with what they want from partners.
Loric Games pushed back the early access launch of Echoes of Elysium because Brian Johnson said they needed more time to squash crash bugs. The survival RPG was supposed to drop but got bumped to next month, and Johnson thanked everyone for being patient while the team keeps grinding on this Greek mythology-inspired game with floating islands and customizable airships.
Players build modular ships piece by piece, then pilot them against mechanical enemies and the Heron Armada faction while exploring procedurally generated biomes. Combat happens both on the ground and in the air, with six-player co-op support and different character classes like warriors and engineers. The developers came from studios that made MMOs like Star Wars: The...
NVIDIA just dropped the full GeForce NOW lineup for December, and Hogwarts Legacy finally cut the first Activision games hitting Ubisoft Plus through the cloud service. Ubisoft got Activision's cloud rights as part of the Microsoft buyout deal, so subscribers can stream Modern Warfare II and III, plus the Crash and Spyro remaster collections.
The company is running a half-price sale on Premium memberships through the end of the month, and Battle.net accounts can link directly for easier logins. Game Pass titles like MARVEL Cosmic Invasion and Lost Records: Bloom & Rage are showing up, along with OCTOPATH TRAVELER 0 and a bunch of other releases.
