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Archives for April 2025

This surprisingly competent laptop doubles as a gaming handheld

7

Verge Score

Don’t buy one unless you need both.

Sean Hollister
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Intel says its new drivers give Lunar Lake PCs better gaming performance.

Intel might have already shifted its path away from building AI PCs with on-package memory, but if you have a laptop (like Dell’s XPS 13 9350) with the Core Ultra 200V chipset inside, then this news is for you.

Following last week’s Arrow Lake update, Intel claims the 32.0.101.6734 and newer drivers bring noticeable performance boosts to Lunar Lake machines thanks to a power management update enabling “higher average GPU frequency and improved frame pacing.”

Graph showing framerate boosts to average and 99th percentile FPS after installing new drivers on a laptop with the Intel Arc 140V GPU in games like Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, and God of War Ragnarok.
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Image: Intel
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Nightreign nears.

FromSoftware has shared the minimum and recommended PC specs for Elden Ring Nightreign ahead of the game’s May 30th release. Personally, I have my fingers crossed that it will be verified for Steam Deck like Elden Ring is.

Image: FromSoftware
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Battlefield 6 footage leaks from alpha playtests.

EA started accepting applicants for the game’s alpha playtest in February, and gameplay video keeps leaking, frustrating developer DICE, as Insider Gaming noted earlier this month.

You can see some videos in the outlet’s story today (while they’re still available) via embeds of a few posts from X user goodboy. Here’s one showing what it’ll be like to fly an F-16 fighter jet in the game.

GPU prices are out of control againGPU prices are out of control again
Sean Hollister
This is Razer’s first vertical mouseThis is Razer’s first vertical mouse
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Somehow, the Blade returned.

After playing red light, green light with Blade 16 sales, Razer is finally selling all versions of its latest gaming laptop. Those who choose to study the Blade can pick from configurations with the RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, or our $4,500 review spec with an RTX 5090 GPU.

Razer never responded to The Verge about the gap in availability, but we can all take one big guess for the reason.

Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
AMD will show AI stuff at Computex 2025.

AMD SVP and GM of computing and graphics Jack Huynh shared that the company will hold a press conference livestream at the trade show in Taipei, Taiwan on Wednesday, May 21st at 11AM local time (Tuesday, May 20th, 11PM EST). Huynh says AMD will “unveil groundbreaking AI advancements” that redefine gaming, PCs, and professional workloads.

AMD @ COMPUTEX 2025 May 21 | 11:00AM UTC+8
Image: AMD