This Week in Gaming (Week 25)

Welcome to the middle of June and to those that celebrate, happy midsummer. This week is jam crammed full of new releases, kicking off with a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game as our major release. If that's too complex for you, then maybe a spot of fishing is more your thing? Alternatively, we have some first-person shooter action from Finland or a new Diablo like game, if action is more of your thing. If that's not it, some 5v5 footie might be more of your cup of tea or how about a laid back MMORPG? Don't forget the other four games that might tickle your fancy, as some of them are quite big releases as well.

Broken Arrow / This week's major release / Thursday 19 June
Broken Arrow is a large-scale real-time modern warfare tactics game that combines the complexity of joint-forces wargaming with action-packed real-time tactics gameplay. Featuring over 300 realistic military units and technologies, each battle offers an immersive experience with endless replayability. Steam link Read full story


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AMD Releases Adrenalin 25.6.2 Beta Drivers

AMD late Friday released the latest version of AMD Software Adrenalin drivers. Version 25.6.2 Beta comes with optimization for "The Alters" and "FBC: Firebreak." It also adds FSR 4 support for "The Alters," "Delta Force," "Dragonkin: The Banished," and "RoadCraft." The drivers fix a handful new issues. To begin with an issue that causes Oculus Rift S HMD to put out a green tint on Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs has been fixed. Stuttering and lower than expected performance noticed when using alt+tab to switch windows and streaming with Discord on machines with multiple monitors has been fixed.

An intermittent application crash or driver timeout observed when playing "Marvel's Spider-Man 2" with ray tracing enabled on Radeon RX 9060 XT has been fixed. An application crash observed when first launching "The Last of Us Part I" on RX 9060 XT has been fixed. Lower than expected performance when playing "Warhammer 40,000: Darktide" on RX 9070 series GPUs has been fixed. Grab the drivers from the link below.

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AMD Previews 432 GB HBM4 Instinct MI400 GPUs and Helios Rack‑Scale AI Solution

At its "Advancing AI 2025" event, AMD rolled out its new Instinct MI350 lineup on the CDNA 4 architecture and teased the upcoming UDNA-based AI accelerator. True to its roughly one‑year refresh rhythm, the company confirmed that the Instinct MI400 series will land in early 2026, showcasing a huge leap in memory, interconnect bandwidth, and raw compute power. Each MI400 card features twelve HBM4 stacks, providing a whopping 432 GB of on-package memory and pushing nearly 19.6 TB/s of memory bandwidth. Those early HBM4 modules deliver approximately 1.6 TB/s each, just shy of the 2 TB/s mark. On the compute front, AMD pegs the MI400 at 20 PetaFLOPS of FP8 throughput and 40 PetaFLOPS of FP4, doubling the sparse-matrix performance of today's MI355X cards. But the real game‑changer is how AMD is scaling those GPUs. Until now, you could connect up to eight cards via Infinity Fabric, and anything beyond that had to go over Ethernet.

The MI400's upgraded fabric link now offers 300 GB/s, nearly twice the speed of the MI350 series, allowing you to build full-rack clusters without relying on slower networks. That upgrade paves the way for "Helios," AMD's fully integrated AI rack solution. It combines upcoming EPYC "Venice" CPUs with MI400 GPUs and trim-to-fit networking gear, offering a turnkey setup for data center operators. AMD didn't shy away from comparisons, either. A Helios rack with 72 MI400 cards delivers approximately 3.1 ExaFLOPS of tensor performance and 31 TB of HBM4 memory. NVIDIA's Vera Rubin system, slated to feature 72 GPUs and 288 GB of memory each, is expected to achieve around 3.6 ExaFLOPS, with AMD's capabilities surpassing it in both bandwidth and capacity. And if that's not enough, whispers of a beefed‑up MI450X IF128 system are already swirling. Due in late 2026, it would directly link 128 GPUs with Infinity Fabric at 1.8 TB/s bidirectional per device, unlocking truly massive rack-scale AI clusters.


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(PR) MAINGEAR Unleashes ULTIMA 18 - The Ultimate 18" 4K Gaming Laptop

MAINGEAR, the leader in premium-quality, high-performance gaming PCs, today announced its most powerful laptop to date, the 18-inch ULTIMA 18. Developed in collaboration with CLEVO, ULTIMA 18 redefines what a gaming laptop can be by offering desktop-level specs, like a 4K@200 Hz G-SYNC display, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, and up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 mobile GPU, all inside a sleek chassis outfitted with metal lid and palm rest.

Designed for elite gamers and creators who demand top-tier performance without compromise, ULTIMA 18 is MAINGEAR's first laptop to support modern dual-channel DDR5 memory, PCIe Gen 5 SSDs, dual Thunderbolt 5 ports, and Wi-Fi 7. Whether plugged in or on the move, this system delivers unprecedented power, quiet efficiency, and immersive visuals for the most demanding workloads and graphics-rich game titles. Read full story


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Micron Ships HBM4 Samples: 12-Hi 36 GB Modules with 2 TB/s Bandwidth

Micron has achieved a significant advancement of the HBM4 architecture, which will stack 12 DRAM dies (12-Hi) to provide 36 GB of capacity per package. According to company representatives, initial engineering samples are scheduled to ship to key partners in the coming weeks, paving the way for full production in early 2026. The HBM4 design relies on Micron's established 1β ("one-beta&quot process node for DRAM tiles, in production since 2022, while it prepares to introduce EUV-enabled 1γ ("one-gamma&quot later this year for DDR5. By increasing the interface width from 1,024 to 2,048 bits per stack, each HBM4 chip can achieve a sustained memory bandwidth of 2 TB/s, representing a 20% efficiency improvement over the existing HBM3E standard.

NVIDIA and AMD are expected to be early adopters of Micron's HBM4. NVIDIA plans to integrate these memory modules into its upcoming Rubin-Vera AI accelerators in the second half of 2026. AMD is anticipated to incorporate HBM4 into its next-generation Instinct MI400 series, with further information to be revealed at the company's Advancing AI 2025 conference. The increased capacity and bandwidth of HBM4 will address growing demands in generative AI, high-performance computing, and other data-intensive applications. Larger stack heights and expanded interface widths enable more efficient data movement, a critical factor in multi-chip configurations and memory-coherent interconnects. As Micron begins mass production of HBM4, major obstacles to overcome will be thermal performance and real-world benchmarks, which will determine how effectively this new memory standard can support the most demanding AI workloads.


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(PR) SK hynix Presents Future DRAM Technology Roadmap at IEEE VLSI 2025

SK hynix Inc. announced today that it presented a new DRAM technology roadmap for the next 30 years and the direction for a sustainable innovation at the IEEE VLSI symposium 2025 held in Kyoto, Japan. Cha Seon Yong, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SK hynix, delivered on June 10th a plenary session on "Driving Innovation in DRAM Technology: Towards a Sustainable Future".

In his speech, CTO Cha explained that it is increasingly difficult to improve performance and capacity with scaling through current technology platform. "In order to overcome such limitations, SK hynix will apply the 4F² VG (Vertical Gate) platform and 3D DRAM technology to technologies of 10-nanometer level or below with innovation in structure, material and components," he said. The 4F² VG platform is a next-generation memory technology that minimizes the cell area of DRAM and enables high-integration, high-speed and low-power through a vertical gate structure. Read full story


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(PR) ASUS Announces the New ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X Gaming Handhelds

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) is proud to announce an all-new series of Ally handhelds built from the ground up with improved ergonomics and a seamless player-first user experience. Developed in partnership with the incredible team at Xbox, the new ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X offer best-in-class ergonomics and a full-screen Xbox experience that marries the best of Xbox and PC gaming in one cohesive package.

"We wanted to take our handheld to the next level, but we could not do it alone." said Shawn Yen, Head of the Consumer product team at ASUS. "This revolutionary partnership with Microsoft allowed us to forge a brand new device with ROG muscle and the soul of Xbox." The ROG Xbox Ally sports an AMD Ryzen Z2 A Processor with incredible power efficiency, while the ROG Xbox Ally X offers the new AMD Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme Processor for next-level gaming performance. Both launch holiday 2025 in select markets, with additional markets to follow. Read full story


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This Week in Gaming (Week 24)

Welcome to the second week of June and boy is it a crowded week of big new releases after a week of mainly Switch 2 games. It's almost as if every game publisher out there decided that this is the week to release a new game and it all kicks off with a dusty game full of worms for this week's major release. First out in the regular line-up is a retro top down arcade game, followed by a futuristic third-person shooter, an MMORPG, a long time coming Korean ARPG and a sci-fi survival game. Make sure to check out the additional release this week as well.

Dune: Awakening / This week's major release / Tuesday 10 June
Dune: Awakening is an open world, multiplayer survival game on a massive scale. More than just survival, Dune: Awakening offers a large-scale, persistent and highly immersive world with social hubs bustling with other players, server-wide politics and intrigue, and a cinematic storyline that will leave you at the edge of your seat. The Fremen have vanished. Paul Atreides was never born. Lady Jessica obeyed the Bene Gesserit and gave birth to a girl. Duke Leto Atreides survived the assault on Arrakeen and is now locked in a brutal conflict with the Harkonnen over Arrakis and its precious spice. Steam link Read full story


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AMD Announces FSR 4 Updates Project Redstone

AMD in its Computex 2025 keynote address announced an overview of FSR 4 implementation. FSR 4 introduces a new AI Machine Learning-based super resolution algorithm that's more accurate, and vastly improves image quality at every performance preset. AMD also announced FSR "Project Redstone." This is a future version extension of FSR, and "Project Redstone" is its working title. "Redstone" combines the AI ML super resolution introduced by FSR 4, with three new features—neural radiance caching, an AI ML-based Ray Regeneration, and AI ML-based Frame Generation. The company plans to launch "Redstone" in the second half of 2025.

All three features being introduced by "Project Redstone" aim to achieve technological parity with NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 and DLSS 4, particularly in AAA games with ray tracing enabled. Neural Radiance Caching sees an AI ML model continually learn how light bounces in a scene to predict and store indirect lighting, which reduces the performance cost of ray tracing. AMD FSR "Redstone" Ray Regeneration is functionally similar to NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction. It uses a neural network to regenerate pixels that couldn't be accurately path-traced. This should improve the quality of reflections, particularly when super resolution is used. The next big announcement of course is a new AI ML-based model for Frame Generation. Read full story


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Cooler Master Unveils Bold "One Cooler Master" Company Vision at 2025 Computex

Cooler Master is making a big splash at Computex 2025 with its "One Cooler Master—Where Cooling Drives the Future" showcase, held at its headquarters in Taipei. The company is showing off how it's bringing together its enterprise-level engineering and consumer-focused design into a single, streamlined approach. The idea is simple: take the cutting-edge solutions developed for demanding industries like finance and AI and turn them into powerful, customizable gear for gamers, creators, and everyday builders. CEO Jimmy Sha says it best—this structure allows ideas and tech to flow in both directions, ensuring innovation benefits everyone.

"At Cooler Master, we work as one team," Sha explains. "Whether it's solving tough problems for enterprise clients or building tools for passionate creators, we take those lessons and turn them into products everyone can use. That's what "One Cooler Master' is all about" making sure breakthroughs don't stay locked away in server rooms, but instead power the desktops and rigs our community loves to build." Read full story


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