The PC is one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world, and one that’s constantly changing. Here at The Verge we cover every aspect, including the latest hardware developments from companies like Nvidia and Logitech, massively popular games like Fortnite and Overwatch, and hugely influential digital platforms like Steam and itch.io.
They are at my local Best Buy, which has a whole wall full of the console behind the Order Pickup desk. (Check out my photos below.) But there’s no line at my local Walmart or Target, and I was surprised to find my local GameStop is gone entirely. Guess that store location closed for good when I wasn’t looking.
Best Buy, Walmart and Target all have midnight ET / 9pm PT launches today.
The SF Bay Area used to have lots of PC stores. Most got wiped out! But Micro Center has returned to Santa Clara, CA, and it’s a joy to browse. (Yes, the store reportedly sold dozens of GPUs that turned out to be backpacks; the company hasn’t yet answered my questions.)
BTW, you’ll see a special gold GPU in this video, signed by Nvidia’s CEO. It’s now up for charity, with bidding at $8,600.
Nightreign’s been out for a little less than a week and it already has its first balance patch. Announced last week, FromSoftware is deploying an update that’ll give players a much easier time tackling the game’s challenges solo.
In addition to a number of bug fixes and general balance updates, solo players will now earn more runes overall and will automatically revive once during night boss fights.
It’s almost a bit boring when compared to the GameSir’s $69.99 Tarantula Pro that can change the layout of its face button labels. But for $29.99, the Nova 2 Lite could be a solid alternative to 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2C with Hall effect joysticks and triggers that can be locked to a shorter travel for FPS games.
It also includes an extra pair of remappable back buttons and is compatible with the Switch, PCs, iOS, and Android.
It’s dangerous to go alone, but do it anyway.
The grand opening is tomorrow at 10AM PT, but you can already go shop — I even got a special look inside its GPU-filled stockroom! There’s a buttload of cards, including an RTX 5090 signed by Jensen (not for sale), plenty of AMD 9070, and it’ll have “very limited quantities” of Founders Edition (including the 5090 FE) tomorrow. Maybe open the boxes before you leave, though.
The highlight for me: a 12-foot-tall motorized revolving 3D filament wall which dispenses your color of choice.
The tools, including Razer Game Assistant and Razer QA Companion, which are part of its Wyvrn platform, are going to launch on the AWS Marketplace, according to an announcement.
At least, that’s the case if you have a Valve Steam Deck or another Linux handheld, like the new SteamOS version of the Lenovo Legion Go S. Nvidia just launched its native GeForce Now app, and many of us here at The Verge have already put it to the test, attempting to perform countless parries in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, lining up headshots in Splitgate 2, and other timing-based feats to test how it performs.
The verdict? Surprisingly great, both in terms of performance and battery efficiency, but with oh-so-many asterisks.
There’s a native app for SteamOS now, and it’s pretty great.
Acer’s online spec sheet for 2025 gaming laptops lists the unannounced Nvidia RTX 5050. There are eight RTX 5050 configs, from the mid-range Acer Nitro 18 AI down to an entry-level Nitro V 15. According to the specs, the entry-level card goes up to 100W in certain laptops and as low as 60W.
RTX 5060 laptops were recently announced, and rumors are pointing to 5050 laptops and desktops coming soon.
Now that SteamOS 3.7.8 has added official support for Lenovo’s handheld gaming PC, as well as a recovery image for installation on other handhelds like the Rog Ally and original Legion Go, it’s time to find out.
YouTuber Dave2D seems impressed, saying the Steam version has better performance than the Windows version in some games, and better performance in some games than the Steam Deck OLED -- albeit with more wattage required.
Despite similar art styles and narrative elements, this ain’t ya mama’s Danganronpa.
The Lenovo Legion Go S will be the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld, whenever it finally goes on sale, but more may be coming. In January, Valve told us that Lenovo was its only partner, but today Valve published an updated FAQ stating that “We’re currently working with select partners on officially licensed Powered by SteamOS devices.” Multiple partners!
Valve might simply mean it’s looking for more partners, but if the language was meant to be precise...
On May 31th, Lock Books will release Overclocked: An Archive of Graphics Card Box Art, designed to take you back when “manufacturers fought for dominance with the most amped-up packaging imaginable.” (We remember it well.) The $27 book features over 300 different boxes and 50 classic ads, all curated after “hours of searching through dead Google links, eBay listings and defunct forums.”
It’s not authorized; rather, co-creator Mike McCabe tells us the book is “limited, transformative, and intended to preserve a visual history that would otherwise be lost.”
Fry’s is gone, CompUSA is gone, Radio Shack is a zombie, but Micro Center is finally coming back. On May 30th, the store will host its grand opening at 5201 Stevens Creek Blvd in Santa Clara — and it tells me it’s bringing 4,000 GPUs to mark the occasion! (It might not put them all on sale right away.)
If you happen to have early access, you might see me there... I’ll be dropping by on the 29th around 10AM.
The RX 9070 and 9070 XT came with AMD’s new AI-assisted brand of upscaling, FSR4, right out of the gate — this summer, they’ll also get a new “FSR Redstone” with three extra machine learning techniques. Like Nvidia’s DLSS, Redstone will add Neural Radiance Caching, Ray Regeneration, and a new Frame Generation model that uses both temporal and spatial data to generate fake frames.
All three should make “Full Ray Tracing” games easier to run on today’s GPUs.
The updated Rival 3 Gen 2 comes in black and white finishes, available either wired or wireless, and more exciting purple and blue versions exclusive to the wireless model. The big tech upgrade is click latency — now just 1.35ms wired, and 1.9ms wireless — but there’s a $5 price bump to go with it.
I’m already dying to get my hands on the Y70 Touch Infinite, but the bubbly X50 and X50 Air look just as fun. The compact mid-tower case made its debut at Computex 2025, and it comes with plenty of mesh for more airflow and enough room for up to 10 fans.
The X50 Air with the mesh panel will cost $119.99, while the X50 with glass will cost $149.99 (not including tariffs). It will come in white, black, red, pink, purple, and green when it launches this summer.
In a 22-minute video, Gamers Nexus talks about “Nvidia’s last several months of pressure to talk about DLSS more frequently in reviews, plus [Multi Frame Generation] 4X pressure from the company” and how “Nvidia has repeatedly made comments to GN that interviews, technical discussion, and access to engineers unrelated to MFG 4X and DLSS are made possible by talking about MFG 4X and DLSS.”
