Beelink was established in 2011 & is regarded as one of the top sellers in the Mini PC category at Amazon. The company has a diverse portfolio of Mini PCs, Players, and gadgets, but the core focus is on the Mini PC segment, which includes both Intel and AMD options. While we have looked at several of Beelink's Mini PC options in the past, ranging from AMD & Intel CPUs, the company has introduced a new Intel model recently, the EQi 304, which is based on Intel's Wildcat Lake SoCs. This is the first Mini PC to feature Wildcat Lake, […]

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AMD's AM5 platform has been a solid entry, featuring some of the best chips on the market and a wide variety of entry-level and high-end options to select from. Despite the AM5 launch, AMD was still focusing on releasing the more mainstream and budget-tier solutions for the older AM4 socket, which still holds the majority share, but the company has recently started to launch affordable CPU options in its AM5 segment. The Ryzen 5 7600X was one such example. But with recent component price hikes, it has become even more vital to support older lineups. The commitment to AM4 remains […]

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More than half a decade on from the game’s release, Cyberpunk 2077 remains as popular as ever, thanks in part to a number of surprise updates alongside the huge success of Netflix’s Cyberpunk Edgerunners. Having already crossed over with other IPs, Cyberpunk 2077 is now set to join the world of Apex Legends.

Making the surprise announcement, EA / Respawn officially unveiled their Apex Legends x Cyberpunk Event. Going live on the 14th of July (and running until the 4th of August), this crossover features far more than just some collab skins, with the E-District being transformed into Night City. The event also adds in two new ‘cyberware mods’:

• Sandevistan (allowing you to dash in any direction multiple times)
• Blackwater breach (giving you teleport / EMP abilities)

These all tie into the mode’s cyberware capacity mechanic, in which picking up too many upgrades can cause you to “go full Cyberpsycho and become a high-speed melee monster.”

Of course, this event also brings with it a ton of cosmetics – some paid and others free-to-earn. Alongside various weapon skins, 8 different cosmetic packs are available for different Legends:

• Axle (Lucy)
• Sparrow (David)
• Lifeline (V)
• Crypto (V)
• Rampart (Rebecca)
• Loba (Panam)
• Ash (Lizzy Wizzy)
• Gibraltar (Royce)

Unlike the event itself, these cosmetics will be available to purchase up until the 18th of August. While some of these skins are seemingly better than others, Apex Legends tends to have its crossovers embrace more of a cosplay-style of look, as opposed to bringing in the character themselves.

Either way, this crossover looks to have quite a bit of work put into it. Hopefully the new LTM is fun to play.

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The GPU isn't that bad at all, and performs slightly slower than its competitor from the team Red. However, being capped at just 100W, it can't perform similar to a desktop variant. Reviewer Tests Desktop RTX 4080M GPU With Mobile GPU Core and Finds Slightly Lower Performance vs RX 9700 GRE in Games You may or may not be aware of such a graphics card, but it exists in the Chinese markets. This isn't the regular RTX 4080, but a variant that uses the RTX 4080 mobile chip. Yes, it's still a desktop graphics card that sells without a warranty […]

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Cyberpunk 2077 is back in the spotlight this week. Following the reveal of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Season 2, set to debut on Netflix later this year, CD Projekt Red has confirmed that the game has now surpassed 40 million copies sold.

Cyberpunk 2077 had a huge launch back in 2020, with millions of pre‑orders and over 13 million copies sold within the first two weeks. However, once players discovered how rough the launch version was, sales slowed dramatically throughout 2021 and CD Projekt stopped sharing updated figures for a time. That changed as the game began to recover, helped along by next‑gen console updates, major patches, free DLC and the runaway success of the first Edgerunners anime. By late 2022, the game had climbed past 20 million copies sold.

Now, Cyberpunk 2077 has doubled that achievement. In a new post from the official Cyberpunk account, CD Projekt Red confirmed that the game has reached 40 million sales across all platforms. With renewed interest thanks to Edgerunners Season 2 and ongoing discounts, that number is likely to continue rising throughout the year.

Cyberpunk 2077 is currently in the best state it has ever been. While the game is no longer receiving ‘major' updates, we do anticipate that there will be a small content update coinciding with the release of Edgerunners season 2, similar to the 1.6 update that dropped after the success of season 1.

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KitGuru Says: Cyberpunk 2077 has had one of the most dramatic turnarounds in recent gaming history. Have you revisited Night City recently, or are you planning to jump back in ahead of Edgerunners Season 2?

CD Projekt Red, Studio Trigger and Netflix have revealed that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 will debut later this year. The new season will tell a completely new story with a fresh cast of characters, once again set in Night City.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners became a breakout hit when it landed in 2022, helping boost sales of the Cyberpunk 2077 videogame considerably and re-sparking interest in the game for millions. A second season was finally announced in 2025, and now, it has a ‘Fall 2026' release window, meaning it should be out around September / October.

The announcement of Edgerunners 2's release has already resulted in a new playercount spike for Cyberpunk 2077 on PC, with the game hitting its highest peak concurrent player count in years over the weekend.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 will once again be produced by Studio Trigger and will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix. While the new series will focus on a new cast of characters and a new story, the setting and tone established in the first season will remain consistent.

KitGuru Says: Do you think we'll see another patch for Cyberpunk 2077 after Edgerunners 2 comes out?

Users are already seeing huge gains with the latest AMD upscaler on older-generation graphics cards. Radeon RX 7900 XTX Reportedly Hits 2X Frame Rates With AMD FSR 4.1 in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K RT Ultra As you might know, AMD's FSR 4.1 support for the RX 7000 series dropped two days ago, and users have already started seeing huge gains in games. It's well-known that FSR 4 is more demanding than FSR 3.1, but even on the Balanced preset, games usually see much better visual fidelity than FSR 3.1 Quality. This is exactly what we are seeing in benchmarks reported […]

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CD Projekt RED famously suffered a major hit to its sterling reputation with the launch of Cyberpunk 2077, mainly because of the major bugs and terribly underwhelming console performance on previous-generation hardware, which forced Sony to remove the game from the PlayStation Store until it was fixed a few months later. The Polish studio worked very hard to resolve all these technical issues and further improve the game's features and content, culminating in the release of Update 2.0 and the Phantom Liberty expansion, both of which were extremely well received and made the game very appealing to gamers once again […]

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Let's face it: the days of running FurMark for 30 minutes, watching nothing explode, and calling your GPU "stable" are long gone. Modern GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel are smarter, more power-hungry, and far more dynamic in their clock-speed behavior than the older graphics cards we grew up overclocking. GPU synthetic/stress tests like FurMark, OCCT, and 3DMark absolutely still have their place, but treating any single tool as the holy grail of stability is a big mistake. Today's GPUs constantly juggle clocks, voltages, and temperatures on the fly. A GPU overclock (or undervolt) that flies through a traditional rasterized […]

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Intel's Arc Pro GPU journey began with the first-generation Alchemist A-series products, and last year, the company introduced its Battlemage B-Series products. The first generation of products was aimed at the budget segment, offering good perf/$, and while the positioning continues with the Battlemage lineup, it looks like Intel is slightly moving towards a higher-end segment with its Arc Pro B60, B65, and B70 series. This move comes at a time when AI is the talk of the town, and local AI agents are becoming more and more popular. Also, Intel's recent workstation lineup, the Xeon 600 series, makes getting […]

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Last year, Qualcomm introduced its Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs. These SoCs promised some big uplifts over the competition and the first-generation X Elite chips. With the first laptops rolling out in the market now, we decided to reach out to Qualcomm and ASUS to send us a 14" design to see if the laptop holds up to those claims. ASUS Zenbook A14 Laptop - Specifications At A Glance In terms of specifications, the ASUS Zenbook A14 is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme SoC. This is the flagship processor within the Snapdragon X2 lineup, which is designed to […]

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is launching on Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S in a little over a week on June 3, and the second entry in the series is already set to break a record on the Nintendo current-generation system in terms of file size, making games like Cyberpunk 2077 Special Edition feel like very small games in comparison. According to new information found on the game's Japanese My Nintendo Store page, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will be 102 GB big. Although the final file size may differ, as the official European Nintendo website shows a 91.5 GB […]

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Coming after what is commonly regarded as one of the finest open-world role-playing games ever made, CD Projekt Red will have to go the extra mile with The Witcher 4 to deliver a game that will meet the high expectations its predecessor has set. Although it was eventually fixed and improved, Cyberpunk 2077's known launch woes are making more than a few worried that the studio's next big adventure will have a similarly troubled release. However, the Polish developer is imposing certain requirements to prevent the same development chaos that affected their previous games. “We've got some new requirements, especially a new […]

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ASUS is no stranger to collaborating with media franchises on special edition releases for their components. Most notably, anything from the ROG x EVANGELION collection becomes an instant collector's classic with a massive premium on the secondhand market. When ASUS UAE first reached out to me looking to sample the Flow Z13-KJP, I assumed it would be similar to those previous ROG collaborations: gear that looked decent and certainly amassed a fan following, but nothing really deeper than a decal slapped on existing components. Boy, was I wrong. What's In The Box Inside the box, you'll find the laptop along […]

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Despite stating previously that they had no plans to support the PlayStation 5 Pro with a bespoke update, CD Projekt Red did ultimately reveal that Cyberpunk 2077 on Sony’s higher-end console would be getting a welcome update in the future. Well, the future is now, with the team fully detailing all of the enhancements arriving today for Pro owners – including multiple forms of ray-tracing.

Taking to the PlayStation Blog to detail the update, CDPR’s Kuba Knapik confirmed that the highly-anticipated PS5 Pro update is finally coming to Cyberpunk 2077 today. A full breakdown of all the various tweaks and specificities can be found HERE, but some of the most notable enhancements include:

• PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) support
• BVH8 (8-way Bounding Volume Hierarchy) support allowing for:
  • Ray-traced lighting
  • Ray-traced shadows
  • Ray-traced reflections
• 3 PS5 Pro graphics modes:
  • Ray Tracing Pro (RT reflections; AO; skylight; shadows and emissive lighting at 40fps)
  • Performance Mode (up to 90fps without RT features)
  • Ray Tracing Mode (select RT features at 60fps)

Curiously, CDPR did not make any mention of target resolutions, aside from the confirmation of “4K visuals”. Of course, seeing as how the Pro version makes use of PSSR, the final result is able to look perceptively sharp while technically running at lower resolutions. Regardless, this latest update is a massive one for PS5 Pro owners.

Given just how impactful ray-tracing has been for Cyberpunk and the world of Night City, bringing over a majority of these features to the Pro version should make for an immediately noticeable increase in visual fidelity and grounded realism.

It’s been a long time coming, but the PS5 Pro update for Cyberpunk 2077 seems to have been worth the wait.

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If you can believe it, Cyberpunk 2077 is about to get yet another visual improvement, at least for players who power their console gaming with a PS5 Pro. Developer CD Projekt RED's infamous RPG is getting a new update tomorrow, April 8, 2026, specifically around allowing the game to take full advantage of the professional-grade PlayStation, and the additional power that comes with it over a base PS5. A new PlayStation Blog post digs into the numerous enhancements that PS5 Pro owners will be able to take advantage of, including support for PSSR (and yes, it is PSSR 2.0 support), […]

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Over the years, CD Projekt have had a relatively close relationship with Kickstarter, having successfully released various Witcher and Cyberpunk-related projects through the crowdfunding platform. Even so, their latest efforts have proven to be record-breaking, with the recently-launched Cyberpunk TCG becoming the “Most Funded Game in Crowdfunding History.”

With a total of £12.7 million pledged (and counting) across nearly 25 thousand backers, The Cyberpunk Trading Card Game is officially the most-funded game in Kickstarter history (and the biggest tabletop game in crowdfunding history).

Being created by WeirdCo (and licensed by CDPR), the ever-growing project is managing to hit multiple fronts, said to be “designed for trading card players, avid collectors, and fans of the Cyberpunk franchise alike.”

As with many of CDPR’s previous Kickstarter projects, the Cyberpunk TCG appears to be well thought out and of a high quality. Of course, we will have to wait and see how the game actually performs when it is shipped out (estimated to be December 2026), but regardless, the Cyberpunk TCG is already a certified success financially.

Full details on the project, its various tiers and rewards can be found HERE.

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PC game performance analysis has become dramatically more complex in the DirectX 12 and Vulkan era. Between asynchronous compute, hardware ray tracing, temporal reconstruction, frame generation, and machine learning-assisted denoising, a modern game’s rendered frame is no longer a simple sequence of rasterized draw calls. If you actually want to understand where your performance is going, you need to move beyond basic performance overlays and into a tool that can expose how work is distributed across the GPU, how shaders behave at runtime, and which stages are truly limiting the frame. That is exactly where programs like NVIDIA Nsight Graphics […]

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Intel's Arc Pro GPU journey began with the first generation Alchemist A-series products, and last year, the company introduced its Battlemage B-Series products. The first generation of products was aimed at the budget segment, offering good perf/$, and while the positioning continues with the Battlemage lineup, it looks like Intel is slightly moving towards a higher-end segment with its Arc Pro B60, B65, and B70 series. This move comes at a time when AI is the talk of the town, and local AI agents are becoming more and more popular. Also, Intel's recent workstation lineup, the Xeon 600 series, makes […]

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