Following on from the RX 9070 and 9070 XT that hit the market earlier this year, AMD's RDNA 4 architecture is now going mainstream with the release of the RX 9060 XT. Just like the RTX 5060 Ti, this GPU is available in both 8 and 16GB variants, but it is the latter we are focused on today. With an MSRP of £315/$349, it is the only current-gen GPU to offer more than 12GB VRAM for less than £400, while it's still cheaper than even Nvidia's 5060 Ti 8GB. Interested? Let's take a closer look…

Just like the RX 9070 and 9070 XT, there's no reference (or MBA) card for the RX 9060 XT 16GB, and instead AMD sampled us with the ASUS Prime model. This card does come factory overclocked, but as regular readers will know, we manually test all GPUs at reference specifications for these day one reviews, so we can ensure that all testing is ‘apples to apples.'

Timestamps

00:00 Intro
00:48 9060 XT recap, specs
01:49 Test setup
02:46 Alan Wake 2
03:16 Black Myth: Wukong
03:43 Cyberpunk 2077
04:15 Dragon Age: The Veilguard
04:48 Final Fantasy XVI
05:10 Ghost of Tsushima
05:37 Horizon Forbidden West
06:12 Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
06:45 Plague Tale: Requiem
07:04 Ratchet and Clank
07:40 Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
08:08 Starfield
08:49 Performance summary
10:31 Cost per frame analysis
11:36 Ray tracing benchmarks
14:38 FSR 4
16:02 Meet the ASUS Prime model
16:46 Clocks, thermals, acoustics
17:52 Power draw + efficiency
19:36 Closing thoughts

 

	RX 9070 XT	RX 9070	RX 9060 XT	RX 7600 XT	RX 7600
Architecture	RDNA 4	RDNA 4	RDNA 4	RDNA 3	RDNA 3
Manufacturing Process	TSMC N4	TSMC N4	TSMC N4	6 nm	6 nm
Transistor Count	53.9 billion	53.9 billion	29.7 billion	13.3 billion	13.3 billion
Die Size	357 mm²	357 mm²	199 mm²	204 mm²	204 mm²
Compute Units	64	56	32	32	32
Ray Accelerators	64	56	32	32	32
Stream Processors	4096	3584	2048	2048	2048
Game GPU Clock	2400 MHz	2070 MHz	2530 MHz	2470 MHz	2250 MHz
Boost GPU Clock	Up to 2970 MHz	Up to 2520 MHz	Up to 3130 MHz	Up to 2755 MHz	Up to 2625 MHz
ROPs	128	128	64	64	64
AMD Infinity Cache	64MB	64MB	32MB	32MB	32MB
Memory	16GB GDDR6	16GB GDDR6	8/16GB GGDR6	16GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6
Memory Data Rate	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	20 Gbps	18Gbps	18Gbps
Memory Bandwidth	645 GB/s	645 GB/s	322 GB/s	288 GB/s	288 GB/s
Memory Interface	256-bit	256-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit
Board Power	304W	220W	160W	190W	165W

First, let's take a quick look at the specs. The RX 9060 XT is built on the new Navi 44 die, measuring just 199mm², and it's worth pointing out this is a monolithic chip, so AMD is not using a chiplet-based design as per RDNA 3. In total, Navi 44 silicon packs in 29.7 billion transistors.

As a full implementation of Navi 44, the RX 9060 XT packs in 32 Compute Units, and each CU houses 64 Stream Processors, for a total of 2048 shaders. There's also 32 Ray Accelerators – one per CU – and 64 ROPs.

As for clock speed, the RX 9060 XT has the highest speeds of any RDNA 4 GPU so far, given it sports a rated game clock of 2530MHz and a boost clock of up to 3130MHz.

The memory configuration offers either 8 or 16GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 20Gbps, operating over a 128-bit memory interface, for total memory bandwidth of 322 GB/s. 32MB of Infinity Cache is also present.

Power draw for the RX 9060 XT is rated at 160W Total Board Power (TBP), but we are using our updated GPU power testing methodology in this review, so read on for our most detailed power and efficiency testing yet.

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The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT launches at a highly competitive $350 price point, which is much lower than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, yet the card offers similar performance. Thanks to the dual BIOS feature, noise levels of the ASUS Prime are incredible: whisper quiet!

Yesterday during the State of Unreal livestream, CD Projekt Red showcased a healthy chunk of gameplay from The Witcher 4. The tech demo showcased Ciri on a monster contract mission in the region of Kovir, which has not appeared in any of the previous games.

While CDPR did use this opportunity to confirm that The Witcher 4 will, at least in part, take place in Kovir, the tech demo was an isolated build, so it didn't contain any content actually taken from the game. Instead, what we saw is supposed to represent the level of fidelity and performance that the team is aiming for.

“This is a tech demo, and a first look at the cutting-edge technology powering The Witcher 4 – but not The Witcher 4 itself”, a CDPR spokesperson told VGC. “It showcases the powerful foundation we’re building in close collaboration with Epic Games to push open-world design further than ever before and the core systems and features we’re developing using Unreal Engine 5.”

It is worth noting something similar to this took place with The Witcher 3. An E3 tech demo showcased a version of the game that did not line up with the final product. The art and assets for the game are likely to be heavily tweaked throughout development.

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Back in 2023, SEGA announced that they had acquired Rovio – the team behind the classic smartphone game Angry Birds. It appears the studio has been hard at work under SEGA, with a new collectible card game – Sonic Blitz – having been officially announced for mobile devices.

Making the announcement via a press release, SEGA officially detailed the previously-leaked Sonic Blitz, writing:

“Sonic Blitz is a collectible card game with an emphasis on lightning-fast gameplay that is easy to jump into at any time. Sonic Blitz draws on the rich roster of characters in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe to create a diverse pool of cards that players can collect, upgrade, and assemble into strategic decks to take on opponents in fast-paced one-on-one battles that unfold in a matter of minutes.”

Seemingly inspired by the success of Marvel Snap, Pokemon TCG Pocket and the like, SEGA isn’t wasting any time in getting the game in the hands of users, confirming that Sonic Blitz “will move into a technical launch in the Philippines starting today. During the technical test period, the game will be available for download on iOS and Android devices directly from the App Store and Google Play Store in the Philippines.”

Curiously, though unlikely to be the case, the company seems to suggest that a global launch is not guaranteed, writing: “The purpose of the limited technical test is to identify and resolve potential issues that may arise, as well as identifying gameplay improvements and evaluating the overall player experience. During this period, the Sonic Blitz developers will be actively looking into the game’s metrics and performance to determine its potential for a future global launch.”

Sonic has a massive roster of popular characters within its IP, and so creating a digital card game makes sense. Whether it will see the same success as Pokemon TCG Pocket and Marvel Snap, we will have to wait and find out.

KitGuru says: What do you think of Sonic Blitz? Is SEGA jumping on the bandwagon too late? Who’s your favourite Sonic character? Let us know down below.

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It’s become a bit of a joke at this point to speculate on the release date for Hollow Knight Silksong, given how we’ve been waiting for more than 6 years now since its initial announcement. That said, it seems as though finally – FINALLY – Silksong could be almost upon us, with the game’s Steam page currently seeing a ton of behind-the-scenes activity.

As discovered by ResetEra user CommodoreKong, the Steam page for Hollow Knight Silksong has seen a bunch of changes over the past day, with SteamDB noting 3 separate updates to Silksong’s package in the past 24 hours.

Prior to this, the last package update was roughly a year ago – though no real activity has occurred since all the way back in 2019 when the game was first announced and added to the database.

As mentioned, rumours have persisted for years regarding when we might finally get to play Hollow Knight: Silksong. That said, the stars do seem to be finally aligning, with the game being present at the Switch 2 Direct alongside a 2025 release year – as well as a slight tease from Xbox in recent months.

Could this all be hopium? Maybe, but given the fact that we are about to enter ‘not-E3’ season, now would be the time for an announcement.

KitGuru says: Are you still excited for Silksong? Can it live up to the half a decade of hype? When do you think the game will launch? Let us know down below.

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Earlier this year, a rumour popped up claiming that God of War was set to receive a surprise spin-off title some time in 2025. Though little else was known at the time, insiders have now revealed it to be a 2.5D metroidvania.

In the wake of the announcement that Sony would be hosting a State of Play on the 4th of June, known industry insider Tom Henderson was asked about the rumoured God of War spin-off and whether it will be present at the show.

In response, Henderson claimed to be “Hearing a lot of scuttlebutt about the 2.5D/metroidvania game or whatever it will be, yeah” – indicating that it could indeed be announced at the State of Play.

Interestingly however, the insider added that the game “Seems to be much smaller in scale than what I initially thought,” though no further elaboration was made.

Despite persisting for over two decades now, the God of War franchise has remained mostly static in its presentation and genre – with the original trilogy and its spin-offs being hack and slash spectacle fighters with a slight emphasis on puzzles and platforming.

Of course, we’ve since gotten the God of War soft ‘reboot’ in 2018 followed by Ragnarok in 2022 – both being over-the-shoulder action-adventure oriented titles with a more Souls-like inspired combat alongside RPG elements.

That said, a 2.5D metroidvania God of War could actually work really well, especially if it leans more closely to the original trilogy’s gameplay. Regardless, it will be exciting to see exactly what Sony Santa Monica has in store.

KitGuru says: Are you excited for a potential metroidvania God of War? Do you welcome a more small-scale experience? What other popular franchises would work well as a metroidvania? Let us know down below.

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Epic Games chief Tim Sweeney complains that "Fortnite" should not have been off the App Store for so long, ignoring the fact that he willfully violated Apple's terms of service.


Back in 2020, Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store, while makers Epic Games cried foul and made out that this was big brother-style interference, done with no notice or warning. It was soon revealed that Epic Games had not only knowingly violated its App Store contracts, but had also spent months planning the violation, the protest, and its accompany video.

Subsequently, Apple won every scintilla of its legal case against Epic Games, bar one concerning anti-steering. And Apple managed to mishandle that one loss that the company was ultimately forced to allow the game back onto the App Store.


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Developers using the Godot game engine will soon be able to build for the Apple Vision Pro, as visionOS support is actively being tested after Apple staff offered support.


Godot is a free and open-source game engine that, in April, caught the attention of Apple. A good-natured request from Apple to help add visionOS support to the game engine has borne fruit just over a month later, with it now being beta tested.

On Monday, Godot release coordinator Thaddeus Crews posted to the official blog about the fifth developer beta of Godot 4.5, the next release of the engine. With a content freeze on the horizon for the update, the post discusses some of the highlights of the release.


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Tales of Kenzera: ZAU is an underrated side-scrolling metroidvania which released back in 2024 as the debut title from Surgent Studios. In a surprising move, the team’s follow-up project is perhaps the furthest thing from a side-scrolling metroidvania – having now announced ‘Dead Take’: A first-person Psychological Horror.

Making the surprise announcement, the team at Surgent Studios and Pocketpair Publishing officially unveiled Dead Take: a first-person survival horror experience in which “you play as an actor who becomes uneasy when your friend won't answer the phone. Delve into the gilded rot of the entertainment industry and show up at the last place he was before he went quiet: a dark, opulent mansion.”

While certainly different to Tales of Kenzera, Dead Take continues in the steps of Surgent Studios’ first title with an emphasis on a single-player story which is “shaped by real experiences” – this time in the entertainment industry.

Though far from the best metroidvania around, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU represented a great start for the studio, especially being the team’s first game. It will be interesting to see how Dead Take is received when it arrives some time later this year. Full details on the game can be found HERE.

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In a world of many "samey" mechanical keyboards, the Epomaker Split65 really stands out for one key reason.In a world of many "samey" Mac mechanical keyboards, the Epomaker Split65 stands out. It features a split design that's supposedly more ergonomic, but not everyone will actually be able to type with it.


I'm a sucker for a keyboard and I have more than enough of them lying around my office — perhaps too many. But when Epomaker offered the Split65 for review, I couldn't say no, if only because it's so different.

Sure, it's a mechanical keyboard like the rest, but one look at it tells the story. This is a keyboard that splits in the middle for added, customizable ergonomics.


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The Enhanced Visual Search in the iOS Photos app sends encrypted, anonymized data from photos to Apple. Here's what that means and how to turn it off.


Apple's Enhanced Visual Search (EVS) is a new ML-based technology in iOS 18, iPadOS, and macOS Sequoia. Using EVS you can search for geographical landmarks in photos, even if the images don't contain any geolocation info such as GPS or EXIF metadata.

Using EVS in the Photos app, you can type a landmark name in and the app will scan your photos for matching landmarks. You can also swipe up on any building in an image and tap Look Up Landmark. If Photos recognizes the landmark it will tell you what it is.


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New features for Messages, Music, Notes, and CarPlay have possibly leaked ahead of their reveal for iOS 26 during WWDC 25.


Almost every rumor surrounding iOS 26 has focused on the possible redesign that'll bring it closer to visionOS. Few feature updates leak out, if ever, but a last-minute rumor reveals five possible changes coming in iOS 26.

According to reliable, anonymous sources speaking to 9to5Mac, there are a few app-specific features we can expect on June 9. These features could offer some nice quality-of-life upgrades that users will immediately notice.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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A new report claims that the Apple Vision Pro could gain support for spatial controllers in a future visionOS update, amplifying a previous leak suggesting support was coming soon.


The Apple Vision Pro currently supports game controllers used with the Xbox and PlayStation, but only for Apple Arcade games. That could soon change, however, as a new report claims that Apple has plans to add support for spatial controllers with a future visionOS update.

Back in December 2024, a different rumor suggested that Apple had approached Sony in an attempt to implement support for the PlayStation VR2 controller. At the time, it was also said that the iPhone maker had reached out to third-party developers to bring more games to the Apple Vision Pro, with support for controllers as an inducement.


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Designer Sebastiaan de With imagines what Apple's upcoming OS redesign might look like ahead of WWDC 2025.


With WWDC less than a week away and Apple dropping hints that changes are coming, everyone is curious about what the Cupertino-based tech giant has up its sleeve. We're nearly positive that there's a big change coming to Apple's operating system's designs, and we're quite certain that it'll take cues from visionOS.

But, even knowing that, we still don't know entirely answer what it will look like.


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The A20 chip widely expected to debut in the iPhone 18 Pro and folding iPhone will take advantage of a new packaging technique, on TSMC's 2nm chip fabrication technology.


Rumors about the iPhone 18 generation are already spreading, even though we have yet to see the iPhone 17 range. However, the future model could be packing some design changes involving packaging.

According to GF Securities analyst Jeff Pu, Apple should be using the A20 chip for the release of the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max, and iPhone Fold. This makes sense, as the A20 is two generations away from the iPhone 16 range's A18 chip family.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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Two app companies with widespread penetration in the smartphone market, Meta and Yandex, have been caught breaking Android's sandboxing and pass unique identifiers from your browser to their apps.  This behaviour violates…

Less than a week before WWDC, Apple has revealed the winners of the 2025 Apple Design Awards, honoring the best apps in the App Store.


The Apple Design Awards are Apple's way of celebrating the best apps and games that have been submitted to the App Store. Announced as usual just before WWDC, the list includes 36 finalists and 12 winners, with one app and one game winning across six categories.

All six categories carry over from the 2024 awards. However, a seventh category for "Spatial Computing" introduced in 2024 has not been brought back for 2025.


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Top MacBook Pro price cuts for 2025 are in effect now at Amazon, with deals delivering up to $558 off M4 Max models.


We're following several steeper price drops on Apple's current MacBook Pro line today, with this $558 discount especially enticing on a high-end M4 Max 16-inch model with a 40-core GPU. Now priced at $3,440.48 in Silver (the lowest on record), this spec has 48GB of unified memory and 1TB of storage.

Save $558 on 16" M4 Max


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A message about WWDC sent to retailers outside of Apple has been taken to mean there will new device launches, but it's most likely wishful thinking.


Every year, it's been rumored that Apple will update almost everything it sells at the annual World Wide Developer Conference. While there have been some releases, they are the exception rather than the rule.

Maybe there will be hardware unveiled at WWDC, since even as it's a software conference, Apple has announced new Macs there before, such as the iMac Pro.


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Apple could expand its worldwide network of brick and mortar Apple Store into Egypt, as the country's foreign trade minister has given the company an explicit invite to do so.


The introduction of an Apple Store in a country is a strong sign of interest by Apple to expand sales in the territory. If talks result in action, the first retail Apple Store could eventually open up in Egypt.

Apple Director of Government Affairs for the Middle East and Pakistan Omar El-Rifai met with the Egyptian Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade, Hassan El-Khatib, on June 2, according to Egyptian Streets. The meeting was about Apple's presence and potential growth in the country.


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Apple is researching how AirPods could use sensors like the ones used in Face ID to read the user's lips and process what the user wants, even if there isn't a spoken request.


Apple has been looking into the idea of AirPods detecting gestures for more than five years, including how such detectors could learn a user's unique movements. In 2024, the first significant result of this research came with how AirPods Pro could detect when a user nods or shakes their head.

Now in a newly granted patent, Apple has revealed that it is aiming to go further. The "Wearable skin vibration or silent skin gesture detector" patent proposes using what it calls self-mixing interferometry to recognize more nuanced gestures.


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Apple's biggest software event of the year kicks off June 9. Here's how you can watch the WWDC 2025 keynote live on just about any device.


Apple is preparing to introduce the most significant overhaul of its software interfaces in over a decade. The WWDC 2025 keynote will take place Monday, June 9, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, and will be streamed live on Apple's website, the Apple TV app, and YouTube.

The company is expected to roll out a new system-wide design called "Solarium," which will bring consistent visual changes across iOS 26, macOS 26, iPadOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26.


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The expected fifth season of Apple TV+ espionage drama "Slow Horses" has been announced, with Gary Oldman returning in the lead role.


Some 15 months after Apple ordered a fifth season of the thriller, it has now been revealed to begin streaming from September 24, 2025. It's based on "London Rules," Mick Herron's sixth novel in the "Slough House" series, which was published in 2018.

The six-episode season continues the story of Jackson Lamb (award-winning Gary Oldman) and his team of spies, all rejects from the UK's MI5. In "London Rules," Apple says that a "series of increasingly bizarre events" occur across the city — and somehow Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung) has a girlfriend.


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The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT has reportedly become available early through unofficial channels. Redditor “uesato_hinata” shared images and screenshots of the card running with a modified driver.

Initial findings regarding the card's overclocking capabilities suggest that users won't be able to increase the VRAM speed, as the Reddit user could not exceed 2538MHz without crashing. However, the GPU frequency was boosted by 200MHz with a -40 mV voltage offset and a 10% increase in power limit. The card has a maximum Total Board Power of 182W, but after overclocking and undervolting, the user achieved 3.46GHz at 199W. In terms of performance, the RX 9060 XT scored 17,069 in Time Spy, putting it at the same level as a Radeon RX 7700 XT.

 

Moreover, another Reddit user (via VideoCardz) shared the results of a leaked review, giving a better picture of how the upcoming Radeon RX 9060 XT compares against other GPUs. Compared to the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, the RX 9060 XT 16GB was 3.5% faster in 1% lows but 3.6% slower in average FPS at 1080p. In 1440p, the RX 9060 XT was 7.8% faster in 1% lows but 5.6% slower in average FPS. Lastly, with ray tracing at 1080p, the RX 9060 XT was notably slower, with 1% lows being 10.5% lower and average FPS 10.1% lower than the RTX 5060 Ti.

AMD plans to release the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics cards on June 5th. These cards are expected to be cheaper than the RTX 5060 Ti, going for £269.99 for the most affordable 8GB cards to £359.99 for the 16GB models.

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It looks like Sony is looking to make some new headlines ahead of the Switch 2 launch later this week. Today, Sony confirmed that a new State of Play stream is due to take place, airing tomorrow, June 4th. 

The next PlayStation State of Play stream will be taking place tomorrow at 10PM BST. The stream will be over 40 minutes long, which means we will be getting quite a few substantial announcements for upcoming PS5 titles.

The stream will give us a preview of what is coming to PS5 in the months ahead. Borderlands 4 and Mafia: The Old Country are two titles likely to get a trailer. The big focus is likely to be Ghost of Yotei, the long-awaited sequel to Ghost of Tsushima.

It is unclear if Bungie will have much of a presence during this stream. While Marathon was poised to launch in September, the recent alpha playtest led to mixed reception and on top of that, Bungie was found to have been using stolen art … again. With all of the negativity surrounding Bungie at the moment, we'll either see things going quiet on Marathon for a while, or Sony will attempt to override the recent bad press with fresh new headlines about the game.

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Elden Ring Nightreign has been off to a good start sales wise, despite being the lowest-rated From Software game in years. Currently, players are awaiting balance updates to make the game more playable solo, but beyond that, fans are also waiting for From Software to add a duo mode.

Ahead of launch, Elden Ring Nightreign director, Junya Ishizaki, said that the lack of two-player mode was an ‘oversight' during development. Now, From Software has confirmed that it will be making an official duos mode for the game, allowing for teams of two players.

The announcement was made as part of From Software's thank you post, after the game amassed 3.5 million players. Here is the full quote: “In addition to the DLC releasing later this year, new additions will be gradually implemented, including enhanced fights against existing Nightlords starting this month, as well as Duo Expeditions at a later date.”

There is no date for Duos yet, but considering a modder has already implemented two-player co-op, it shouldn't take From Software too long to figure out from a technical perspective. At present, Elden Ring Nightreign can only be played either solo, or in a group of three players.

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KitGuru Says: From Software tends to focus on single-player games, so I'm not too surprised there have been some initial oversights in multiplayer game design. Hopefully the studio learns from the launch and adapts quickly.

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After the success of The Witcher 3, CD Projekt Red invested in a number of spin-off games in an attempt to diversify its portfolio beyond massive single-player RPGs. Unfortunately, efforts like Gwent and Thronebreaker did not pay off, and now it sounds like CD Projekt Red won't be going down that path again.

On CDPR's podcast, AnsweRED, Marcin Iwiński and Adam Badowski discussed CD Projekt Red's spin-off attempts, saying that the experience has led them to the belief that the company needs to focus on the open-world RPGs it is known for, rather than branching out into new genres.

“In all that we’re doing, we’ve learned that we need to be razor sharp focused. We cannot do so many things we would love to do, we are tempted to do. We tried, and it didn’t work out. We have to focus on what we are good at and really put 100% into it.”

The quote is in reference to CDPR's previous attempts at new genres, like the standalone version of Gwent, the card game that first appeared as a mini game in The Witcher 3, as well as Thronebreaker, a small deckbuilding RPG that told a new story set in The Witcher universe. CDPR also made attempts to break into multiplayer gaming with Cyberpunk 2077, only for the game's multiplayer component to be cancelled.

Previously, a Witcher co-op game was also in development under the title Project Sirius, but previous concepts for the game were scrapped and now, the current status and scope of the project is unknown.

Moving forward, CDPR will focus primarily on what it is good at – single-player RPGs. The first new RPG coming from CD Projekt Red will be The Witcher 4, which just had a gameplay reveal earlier today.

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KitGuru Says: Thronebreaker was good but it fell into a very niche genre. Gwent unfortunately got too ambitious and turned into a far, far different game compared to what we had in The Witcher 3, which put many off of trying it. I'm not sure the answer here is to ‘only' focus on open-world RPGs, as I'd hate to see CDPR fall into the same trap as Ubisoft, where most games feel the same, with different coats of paint.

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It turns out CD Projekt Red had much more to show off at Unreal Fest than I had anticipated. At the event this afternoon, CD Projekt Red showcased a chunk of Witcher 4 gameplay footage for the first time, giving us a look at the region of Kovir, which is making its first appearance in the videogame series.

The Witcher 4 tech demo follows Ciri in the midst of a monster contract in the region of Kovir. While Kovir has not appeared in any of the games so far, it is a prominent location in the books, rich in natural resources thanks to its mountains and lush forests. So far, the game is looking fantastic:

Since the strategic partnership was announced in 2022, CDPR has been working with Epic Games to develop new tools and enhance existing features in Unreal Engine 5 to expand the engine’s open-world development capabilities and establish robust tools geared toward CD PROJEKT RED’s open-world design philosophies. The demo, which runs on a PlayStation 5 at 60 frames per second, shows off in-engine capabilities set in the world of The Witcher 4, including the new Unreal Animation Framework, Nanite Foliage rendering, MetaHuman technology with Mass AI crowd scaling, and more.

The tools showcased here will soon be available to all Unreal Engine 5 developers as part of the engine's 5.6 update. Speaking on tech demo, CDPR co-CEO, Michał Nowakowski, tempered expectations, stating that the game is still “far from finished”. Previously, CDPR confirmed that The Witcher 4 would not release until 2027 ‘at the earliest', so we're a good 2 to 3 years away from getting to play the game for ourselves.

The Witcher 4 is described as a new open-world RPG from CD Projekt Red, kicking off a brand new saga where players will take on the role of Ciri, Geralt's successor. While not confirmed yet, rumour has it that Geralt will indeed still be alive in The Witcher 4, so while he isn't the main character anymore, he will still play a role in the story ahead.

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KitGuru Says: What did you think of The Witcher 4 gameplay shown this week? So far, the game looks incredible, but I'm a little hesitant to take things at face value. After all, The Witcher 3 did look vastly different in its original E3 tech demo, only for the art direction to completely change for the final release in 2015.

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Last night, IO Interactive announced 007 First Light, the studio's long-awaited James Bond game. As it turns out, IO Interactive has much more up its sleeve, with the company set to showcase a trio of games later this week as it transitions into being a game publisher, alongside a development studio.

The IOI Showcase will go live on the 6th of June as part of Summer Game Fest. During the event, IO Interactive will be showing off the latest updates for HITMAN: World of Assassination, and give us our first real look at 007 First Light, the studio's new original James Bond game.

On top of those two in-house titles, IOI will also showcase MindsEye. This game is being published by IO Interactive but developed by new studio ‘Build a Rocket Boy', which was founded by former Rockstar producer, Leslie Benzies.

The IOI showcase goes live at 6PM PDT on Friday. Unfortunately for those of us in the UK and Europe, that puts the live time at 2AM BST on June 7th for the UK, or 3AM CET for mainland Europe.

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KitGuru Says: IO Interactive has blossomed since leaving Square Enix and now appears to be bigger than ever before. Hopefully this first showcase goes well, but due to the timing of it, I certainly won't be staying up to catch it live.

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The AQIRYS Andromeda Pro is a $105 wireless gaming headset with an understated design, oversized 53 mm titanium drivers, and a strong focus on absolute ease of use, to the extent that it doesn't even come with a software driver.

A new report from a leaker with a mixed track record says that the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air may get a high-refresh rate display, but it won't be ProMotion.


ProMotion is the display technology that allows for the screen to refresh at different rates, to accommodate different needs. So for games or video, the screen or portions of it, can be faster and more responsive, while at other times it saves battery power with slower refreshing.

The feature was introduced with the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022, and has remained a Pro model feature. But since February 2024, persistent rumors have said that ProMotion will come to every model in the iPhone 17 range.


Rumor Score: 🙄 Unlikely


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Despite there not being too much hubbub around The Crew Motorfest, Ubisoft’s relatively new racing series has been a success for the publisher (minor controversies aside), with the first game in the series surpassing 12 million players and its most recent release becoming the fastest-selling entry yet. While Motorfest continues to receive post-launch support, Ubisoft has reportedly greenlit the next entry in The Crew.

Taking to Twitter, known industry insider Tom Henderson has claimed that “The next The Crew game has been greenlit at Ubisoft,” offering very little else in the way of additional details.

Interestingly however, Henderson did share one extra titbit of information, responding to the question “The Crew or Motorfest?” with a simple: “Crew.”

Based on this, it seems as though Ubisoft will be moving away from the Forza Horizon style of festival racing as was seen in The Crew Motorfest – instead going back to the format of the first two titles.

Regardless, thanks to its continued support, The Crew Motorfest remains one of the best open world racers around right now, and so it will be interesting to see what the team have in store for its 4th entry.

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KitGuru says: What do you think of The Crew Motorfest in 2025? Would you welcome a return to the series’ more traditional format? How could The Crew 4 elevate things? Let us know down below.

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Hell is Us has been shaping up to be one of the most interesting games of the year. Ahead of the September launch, a demo has now arrived on PC, although it will only be available for a limited time. 

The Hell is Us demo is now available on Steam, but only until the 16th of June, so if you are interested in trying the game out, you'll need to do so in the next couple of weeks, otherwise you'll be stuck waiting until the game's official release on the 4th of September.

If you do plan on grabbing the demo, then you'll want to take a look at the game's PC system requirements, which you can find below:

The recommended spec calls for an RTX 2080 Ti or an RX 6750 XT graphics card for 1080p/60FPS gameplay. If you are looking to play at 1440p with High settings, you'll apparently need an RTX 3080 or an RX 6800 XT.

Due to ‘technical constraints' the demo version of the game will not be available for consoles, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence for the game's Xbox and PS5 launch but we'll have to see how things go.

In Hell is Us, players will be thrown into a country divided by a brutal civil war and overrun by supernatural creatures. Armed with a drone and a sword, players will have to fight their way through, exploring and investigating along the way. Players will be encouraged to follow their instincts while roaming the world, as there will be no quest markers or compass.

Hell is Us releases on the 4th of September 2025.

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KitGuru Says: This is one of my most anticipated games of the year, so I'll be checking out the demo. Have any of you grabbed the demo already? What do you think of the game so far? 

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More than a decade on from its predecessor’s release, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time launched late last month to near immediate success – selling half a million copies in its first few days. Since then, momentum has yet to slow down, with the game having surpassed another milestone on its journey to 1 million units sold.

Making the announcement on Twitter, the team at Level5 wrote: “Over 800,000 Copies Sold Worldwide! Fantasy Life i has officially sold over 800,000 copies worldwide!”

Interestingly, and in a rather uncommon practice, the studio also offered projected sales figures, adding “Thanks to everyone's support, we might even hit 1 million copies by the end of June. Join players around the world and enjoy your own kind of slow life!”

For context, Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time arrived to relatively little fanfare on the 21st of May, however quickly gained traction almost immediately after – reaching a peak concurrent player count of 65k on Steam by the 25th.

Though we never received official sales figures for the original Fantasy Life, the game was confirmed to have sold over 300,000 units in Japan by April 2013 – 4 months on from launch. That said, international figures were never revealed following its global release in 2014, and so it is unknown exactly how well the first game performed.

Given the fact however that reviews for the sequel are sitting high above the 3DS’ release (and that the title is continuing to sell consistently ahead of the Switch 2 version’s arrival), is it safe to say that with 800,000 copies already sold Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is a major success.

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Stig Asmussen made a name for himself as the director of the Star Wars Jedi games. Unfortunately, before completing the planned trilogy, Asmussen departed EA to start a new studio, Giant Skull, and now, we know more about their first project. 

Asmussen's next game will be a Dungeons & Dragons title, having signed a licensing deal with Wizards of the Coast. The untitled game is described as an “all-new single-player action-adventure title set in the world of Dungeons & Dragons”.

The game is in development for both PC and consoles, using Unreal Engine 5. We don't really know much more than that at this stage but as this is a new studio, we would expect to be waiting a couple more years before we see anymore concrete information.

Giant Skull is the latest in a growing number of studios signing deals with Wizards of the Coast. After the success of Baldur's Gate 3, there has been a resurgence of interest in D&D video games, and other companies like Starbreeze, Invoke Studios and Game Loft are all working with the D&D license right now.

Larian Studios won't be amongst the new wave of studios developing D&D games though. The company butted heads with Wizards of the Coast during development of their masterpiece, Baldur's Gate 3 and as a result, the studio has already confirmed that it has no plans to make Baldur's Gate 4.

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Following the successful launch of Hazelight Studios’ Split Fiction earlier this year, it was quickly announced that a film adaptation would be on its way. With the ‘bidding war’ over, it seems as though Amazon is finalising a deal to distribute the film.

As reported by Deadline, Amazon MGM Studios is said to be finalising a deal to acquire the rights to the Split Fiction film adaptation. Back when it was first announced in March, the media company Story Kitchen was “putting together” the cast list, director, writers and more.

Since then, we’ve gotten a great deal more information, with Jon M. Chu and Sydney Sweeney reportedly involved – and Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese (of Deadpool and Wolverine fame) helming the script.

According to Deadline, the deal ultimately exceeded $2 million, with other potential buyers having included Sony.

With Split Fiction now coming from Amazon, it will be interesting to see whether the film will get a cinematic release or launch as an Amazon Prime exclusive.

Split Fiction is the latest game from Josef Fares and Hazelight Studios. Released back in March, the title saw universal acclaim and has gone on to sell over 4 million copies in the 2 months since – making it rife for adaptation. Will it wind up being as successful as the game? We’ll have to wait and see.

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Roughly one year ago, Microsoft made the shocking announcement that they would be closing down Tango Gameworks – the publisher’s only Japanese studio who also happened to release the critically acclaimed success “in all key measurements” Hi-Fi Rush. Fortunately, the studio was saved thanks to publisher Krafton last August. Finally Tango Gameworks is ready to step back out of the shadows.

As part of an overhaul to their website, Tango Gameworks has announced that the studio is fully back and ready to work on new games, writing “It took us some time, but the official office for Tango Gameworks, Inc. is open, and our hybrid work environment finally has its in-office counterpart! These things take time, but our office in Tokyo is back open as we fill it with our memorabilia from our projects and begin decorating based on our new brand identity!”

Alongside this, the team debuted its new logo, branding and studio philosophy, writing: “Finally, after months of waiting, Tango Gameworks is back, and in a brand-new way. We’ve opened our site to give our fans and future team members a look into our studio.”

They continue, “Focused on what it feels like to make a game, our vision is centered on a studio that acts like a creative workshop, making games and experiences that emphasize that ‘hand-made’ feel we put into our work.”

Of course, don’t expect a finalised project from the team any time soon, with part of this latest announcement also focusing on their hiring efforts – currently recruiting for a dozen positions including Senior Animator; Senior Character Artist; Senior Graphics Programmer and more.

That said, the studio is in good hands, with John Johanas (The Evil Within 2 and Hi-Fi Rush director) serving as Tango’s Creative Director.

All in all, while the Microsoft debacle certainly set the company back by quite a bit, it is exciting to see Tango Gameworks gearing up for its grand return.

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ChatGPT is OpenAI's extremely useful chatbot for answering questions. Here's how to use the generative AI tool in Apple's Notes app in macOS.


Apple Intelligence is now integrated with OpenAi's ChatGPT in macOS, ad well as iOS and iPadOS. Many features of ChatGPT are integrated with Apple apps starting in macOS Sequoia 15.1, and iOS and iPadOS 18.2.

While Apple has stated support for Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT are evolving and still in progress, some features are working and included in Apple's operating systems. Expect a further phased rollout of Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT in the near future.


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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon is an ambitious passion project that clearly invokes some of the highlights of Bethesda's signature RPG series while retaining some unique quirks all their own. Unfortunately, the first few steps out of Early Access show that this adventure into Avalon could have used a little more time fending off the Red Death.

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Sunday night baseball games may soon be available via Apple TV+, as the company is reportedly seeking to land additional MLB streaming rights.


Apple has reportedly emerged as the company most likely to acquire Major League Baseball streaming rights previously held by ESPN. The iPhone maker currently offers Friday Night Baseball via Apple TV+, which consists of two baseball games every Friday without interruptions or restrictions, but that could soon change.

According to a Sports Business Journal report on Monday, Apple is looking to land streaming rights for MLB content beyond the scope of its current arrangement. Legacy media outlets such as NBC are also said to be in talks with MLB over the same streaming rights, but Apple's offer is said to be noticeably higher.


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