As a new studio founded by ex-Witcher Alumni, Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco allowed us an intimate four hours with the studio’s inaugural title: The Blood of Dawnwalker. While players may have been initially concerned about being rushed with the story’s thirty-day limit, our experience proved that there’s more than enough content here to enjoy the adventure at your own pace. In The Blood of Dawnwalker, players take on the role of Coen, a perfectly normal human male with a single goal: to save his family from the clutches of an ancient vampire lord named Brencis. Our play session saw […]

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A Windows PC can look seemingly fine and yet still have some nagging issues. Your CPU usage may be low, your GPU may be running well, your gaming performance may be fine, and yet you may still get random audio crackles, mouse hitches, USB audio dropouts, or short system-wide freezes that seem to come out of nowhere. One possible culprit is high DPC latency. This is one of those technical problems that sounds obscure at first, but once you understand the gist of it, it becomes much easier to diagnose properly. More importantly, it is also one of those problems […]

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AMD Radeon GPUs have now gained support for NVIDIA's PhysX with the ZLUDA v6 release, providing a massive boost in PhysX games. NVIDIA's PhysX Can Now Be Enjoyed on AMD Radeon GPUs At A Playable Frame Rate with ZLUDA ZLUDA, an open-source library, has been in the headlines for bringing NVIDIA CUDA support to Non-NVIDIA GPUs. The team behind the library has been working hard on adding new features, but at the same time, they have faced crackdowns for not complying with legal terms. Due to the nature of ZLUDA's work, the team is no longer receiving commercial assistance, but […]

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CD Projekt has announced plans to update its corporate name, bringing the parent company’s branding in line with its game development studios. For years, CD Projekt has operated as the umbrella organisation overseeing CD Projekt Red, but the company now intends to adopt the same branding at the corporate level.

As reported by VGC and confirmed through regulatory filings spotted by Bankier.pl, the change is intended to “ensure consistency” across the company’s public‑facing brands. CD Projekt Red has long been the more recognisable name globally thanks to the success of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, while CD Projekt has primarily existed as the formal parent entity.

The update will not affect the structure of the company’s development teams or GOG, which will continue operating with no changes to branding. The change is expected to be formalised following shareholder approval.

CD Projekt has a big year ahead, with Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 set to come out, which should bring another boost in sales for Cyberpunk 2077. On top of that, the company has a new expansion for The Witcher 3, giving us all something to play while we wait on The Witcher 4 to be finished.

KitGuru Says: CD Projekt Red is already the name most players associate with the studio, so this shift makes sense from a branding perspective. What do you think of the change?

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While CD Projekt Red may have rebuilt much of its reputation with the turnaround of Cyberpunk 2077 in 2022 and 2023, the studio's co-CEO, Michał Nowakowski, believes there is still more work to do to restore the studio's reputation.

Speaking with Knowledge, a video games industry newsletter published by Edge, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski reflected on the years following Cyberpunk’s troubled launch, calling the period “heartbreaking” after building up such a solid reputation amongst gamers with The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3. While many fans say CDPR redeemed themselves with Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion in 2023, Nowakowski is unconvinced, saying: “I'm not 100 percent convinced we went through the full redemption arc”.

Nowakowski believes that CDPR “lost the faith of some people indefinitely”, but added that he hopes the studio can make it up to those people with The Witcher 4 and whatever comes after that.

The Witcher 4 has been in development for a few years already and has quickly accelerated towards full production. However, the game is not expected to release until 2028. At the same time, CD Projekt Red also has another studio based in the US working on Cyberpunk 2. The Witcher 4 team will immediately move from The Witcher 4 to a Witcher 5 as part of a new trilogy focused on Ciri rather than Geralt.

KitGuru Says: As incredible as Cyberpunk 2077 is now, the first two hours or so of the game still remain largely the same today as they did in 2020. To me, that portion of the game has always been the most disappointing, but everything that comes after that is some of CDPR's best-ever work.

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The latest market statistics from Jon Peddie Research for Q1 2026 show a decline in both GPU and CPU shipments. Rising component and memory prices significantly impacted the PC segment during this period, with discrete graphics card shipments falling to 11.8 million units and desktop CPU shipments to 15.7 million units.

According to the report, add-in board (AIB) GPU shipments declined by 0.6% compared to the previous quarter. Nvidia managed to retain its lead despite a decline in shipments, while AMD sits in second place with an 8% share. Intel captured 1% of the market, securing a small uptick in shipments during the quarter. The overall attach rate for discrete GPUs in desktop PCs rose significantly to 76%, up 33.3% from the prior quarter. Jon Peddie Research estimates a compound annual growth rate of -3.3% from 2024 to 2029, with the installed base eventually reaching 183 million units.

None of the major GPU makers have launched new architectures yet this year. However, AMD did just introduce the RX 9070 GRE to the global market after a period of China exclusivity. Intel also released new ‘Pro' series graphics cards.

Desktop CPU shipments experienced a sharper downturn, down 24% quarter-on-quarter and 25% year-on-year. The report notes that price hikes and component shortages only began to hit in Q1 2026, suggesting the PC segment could face tougher quarters ahead.

KitGuru says: Rising costs of memory and components are clearly squeezing the desktop PC market. With next-gen architectures potentially pushed back to 2027 or 2028 due to supply constraints, the upcoming quarters could prove challenging for hardware vendors.

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Following the release of Cyberpunk 2077, studio CD Projekt Red offered fans insight into their next decade worth of developments, revealing that they plan to release a Witcher remake, a new Witcher trilogy and a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077. Given their schedule, it makes sense that according to CDPR, there are no plans for The Witcher 4 to receive any expansions in the vein of Hearts of Stone / Blood and Wine.

During the company’s recent earnings call (as transcribed by GamesRadar), the joint CEO for CDPR – Michał Nowakowski – was asked whether future Witcher titles would receive any expansions a-la The Witcher 3, stating:

“Given the very ambitious project pipeline, does the company see room for developing expansions for the new Witcher saga?” to which Nowakowski responded:

“As you mentioned in the question, the plans are pretty ambitious. Specifically, it's to release three Witcher games within a six-year period. It would be difficult, to be very honest, for us to add an expansion to the upcoming trilogy. This is where we are here and now with this particular issue.”

While this does not mean that the games won’t see any post-launch support, don’t expect any major DLCs or expansions moving forward.

That said, given that they hope to release an entire trilogy in the span of 6 years, fans shouldn’t be hurting for more Witcher any time soon – especially with The Witcher 3’s Song of the Past arriving next year.

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11 years ago The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt released, quickly becoming one of the most celebrated games of all time while catapulting studio CD Projekt Red to new heights. A decade later and the open world RPG continues to be more popular than ever. Following the announcement that the game is set to receive a surprise 3rd expansion next year, CDPR have confirmed that The Witcher 3 has officially sold over 65 million copies.

Making the announcement as part of the studio’s Q1 2026 Earnings report, CDPR officially confirmed that since its release back in 2015, The Witcher 3 has sold over 65 million copies.

This puts it as one of the best selling games of all time, currently sitting between the original Super Mario Bros. (58 million) and Terraria (70 million copies sold) in 8th place.

For context, back in January of this year CDPR confirmed that TW3 had sold a total of 60 million copies, meaning a further 5 million were sold in the past 4 or so months alone.

Given that we’re set to receive a new major expansion over a decade on from Blood and Wine, it will be interesting to see how sales for the title continue to track over the next year in the lead-up to ‘Songs of the Past’s release.

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Following months of rumors, The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past expansion was officially announced yesterday. Set for release in 2027, 12 years after the launch of the base game, the new expansion will see players accompany Geralt of Rivia in yet another adventure. While details are scarce at the moment, and will only come in late Summer, some eagle-eyed fans took a good look at the expansion's key art, proving that it hides more information behind some apparently small details. With a new image shared on the series' official subreddit, user KvasirTheOld summarized some interesting findings regarding the sword […]

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Over the past few months, we have been hearing rumours that CD Projekt Red is secretly working on a third expansion for The Witcher 3, more than a decade after the game's initial launch. Today, CDPR confirmed exactly that, however, the new expansion, titled ‘Songs of the Past', is still quite some ways off from release.

Sitting at over 60 million copies sold, The Witcher 3 is one of the most critically acclaimed and highest-selling RPGs of all time. Now, almost a decade on from the release of the game's original expansions, CD Projekt Red has a third new story arc on the way, helping to bridge the gap while CDPR gets The Witcher 4 ready.

Unfortunately, we do not yet know much about the Songs of the Past expansion. All we know for now is that we will once again be playing as Geralt, setting off on a “brand new adventure”, developed in collaboration with Fool's Theory. More details about the expansion are expected to drop during ‘late Summer'.

While there is not a final release date yet, CD Projekt Red says the expansion will only be coming to current-gen platforms, including PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and it will release sometime in 2027.

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KitGuru Says: It is extremely rare to see a single-player games studio still supporting their titles this long after launch. Will you be jumping back into The Witcher 3 for the new expansion when it arrives?

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TSMC's next-generation A16 or 1.6nm process tech will be the start of its "Angstrom Era" journey, delivering improved performance/power profiles versus 2nm. Angstrom Era For TSMC - A16 Process Tech Offers Better Performance/Power Profiles Versus 2nm While Adding Backside Power At the 2026 VLSI symposium, TSMC will be presenting its A16 process node technology. A16 is part of TSMC's Angstrom era family of nodes, which includes A14 and the recently announced A13 & A12. In a preview provided by VLSI of the upcoming paper titled "T1.5", TSMC restates the performance/power profile advantages. One of the biggest features for A16 will […]

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NVIDIA pulling out from China's AI market has boosted the share of domestic firms, with Huawei winning the biggest chunk. Huawei's China Market Share in AI to Reach 60% as NVIDIA CEO Confirms Zero Chip Share in China After US Policy Shift The US Government has moved to ban all leading-edge AI chip sales in China. NVIDIA, being the biggest name in the AI industry, has seen its share drop to zero after the policy shift, prompting an increased reliance on domestically produced chips in China. Currently, the situation has prompted China's AI chipmakers to double down on production and […]

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DeepSeek V4 is out, bringing major optimizations, including up to 1.6T model sizes, and NVIDIA is ready with Day-0 support on Blackwell GPUs using NVFP4. NVIDIA Blackwell NVFP4 Architecture Delivers Major Speed-Ups In DeepSeek v4 With More Optimizations On The Way With the launch of DeepSeek V4, we saw some major optimizations in compute & memory requirements. The updated AI model uses just 27% of single-token inference FLOPs & 10% of the KV cache when running a one-million-token context window. Two new models were also introduced, one being a Pro model with a parameter size of 1.6T, and a Flash version […]

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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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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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Huawei's newest AI chip, the Ascend 950PR, might not deliver strong compute performance relative to NVIDIA for domestic hyperscalers, but it offers a major upgrade with CUDA compatibility. Huawei's Ascend 950PR Sees Massive Interest, Mainly With CUDA-Like Programming Brought In With CANN Next The Chinese computing industry has been trying to challenge NVIDIA's market dominance, and while the focus has been on upgrading offerings in terms of architecture and onboard features, it hasn't worked out to a large extent. Reports suggest that Chinese hyperscalers remain strongly inclined toward NVIDIA's hardware, and a key reason isn't just the compute gap; CUDA […]

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The app can support translation in over 100 languages and can work across other apps. Wispr Flow said it has done an infrastructure rewrite that makes dictation 30% faster than before.