This week on Zerocade

An AMD product director says CEO Lisa Su was one of the people behind reviving the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, calling it a last gift to AM4 owners, and that the plan predates the DDR5 price spike. Specs, price and what it means for Indian upgraders.

A homebrew project called Playden for PS5 lets jailbroken consoles sign in to Steam and run some Windows games through a PS5 port of Wine. Here's how it works layer by layer, which games its developer lists as playable, what's changed in recent versions, and why it's still an alpha that Valve and Sony don't support.

nxnative turns Switch game files you own into iPhone, iPad and Mac apps without a traditional emulator, and its README now lists around 86 games. Here's how it works, what you need, what runs, the catches and why Nintendo's lawyers are the real question.

A new Windows 11 Insider build adds a switch for Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), which double a CPU's registers from 16 to 32. Only upcoming chips like Nova Lake are expected to support it, so today's PCs can't use it yet. Here's what APX does and why it matters for games.

Prince of Persia helped invent the cinematic platformer, then gave Ubisoft the idea for Assassin's Creed. Here's how the series started, how each game sold, why the Sands of Time remake died, and what's left for the Prince.

AMD's X3D processors stack extra cache memory right on the chip, and they top most gaming CPU charts. Here's what cache is, why games love it, how AMD's 5800X3D, 7800X3D, 9800X3D and new 9850X3D compare, what the 9850X3D costs in India, and where the trade-offs are.

Every chip speaks a language called an instruction set. Here's the difference between x86 and Arm, which consoles, PCs, handhelds and phones use which, why a game built for one can't simply run on the other, and the three ways around it: emulation, translation and recompiling.

Apple has put its 2nm M6 chip in a new 14-inch MacBook Pro from ₹2,39,900 and a 24-inch iMac from ₹1,74,900. Both cost more than the models they replace. Here are the full specs, prices and dates.

Insider NateTheHate says Rockstar has started sending GTA 6 review copies to media, with reviews going live on November 18. Insider Gaming says it has verified the date. Here's what it means before you spend ₹5,999.

Apple's new iPad mini runs a 2nm A20 Pro with hardware ray tracing and mesh shading, and switches to an 8.5-inch OLED display with IP67 protection. It starts at ₹82,900 ($699) in India, up ₹13,000 on the last model. Here's what's changed, every Indian price, and what it means for gaming.

Sony's Sucker Punch has reportedly cut 26 jobs, about a tenth of the studio, citing market challenges and the needs of its next project. It comes weeks after Ghost of Yōtei's Complete Edition, and after a game Sony says boosted its results. Here's what's known, and what the studio's one-game-at-a-time approach means.

A Metascore is a weighted average with secret weights. OpenCritic's is a plain average of top critics. Here's how both turn reviews into one number, what the colours and badges mean, and how to read them.

Project IGI got middling reviews in 2000, yet it became a cyber-cafe legend in India. Here's how the series started, why Indian players loved it, how its studio died, and why IGI Origins is stuck in limbo.

Mesh shading lets a graphics chip break 3D models into small chunks and throw away the ones you can't see before drawing them. Here's how the old geometry pipeline worked, what task and mesh shaders change, which GPUs, consoles and Apple chips support it, and why games like Alan Wake 2 leave older cards behind.

Garena's Free Fire India is now live on Google Play, more than four years after the original Free Fire was blocked. It's free, about 390MB, and comes with daily playtime limits, parental consent for under-18s and India-hosted servers. Here's what's confirmed and what isn't.

A reliable PlayStation tracking account says GTA 6 is a 210GB download on PS5, with preloading a week before the November 19 launch. That's a quarter of a PS5 Slim and more than half of a Series S. Here's what to clear, what to buy and how long it takes to download.

Infinix's new gaming phone runs the Dimensity 8400 Ultimate, has a 6,500mAh battery and liquid cooling, and comes with a ₹24,999 accessory bundle. At ₹69,999 it costs nearly three times the GT 30 Pro. Here's every spec and what you get in the box.

An early 28-core Nova Lake sample scored 5,210 in PassMark's single-thread test, ahead of the Core Ultra 9 285K (about ₹67,500 in India) and Ryzen 9 9950X3D (about ₹80,900). It's behind both in multi-thread. Here's what the leak shows and what it doesn't.

Trade records list four unreleased Raptor Lake Next desktop chips with their cache, clock speeds and power ratings, and Intel has quietly published a driver for them. They fit today's LGA1700 boards and still run DDR4, which matters a lot with RAM prices this high.

Microsoft has launched a voluntary exit offer for about 60,000 employees in the US, Canada, India and the UK. Reports say Xbox teams are eligible. Here's what's confirmed, what's reported, and how it fits Xbox's year of cuts.

Call of Duty used to announce huge launch numbers within days. For Modern Warfare 4, Activision has shared nothing, and Steam player counts are below Black Ops 6. Microsoft's earnings, early on October 29 in India, could say more.

Digital Foundry's Richard Leadbetter says Sony has 'an exclusive of sorts' on AMD's next graphics tech for handhelds. The likely reason is volume, not a contract. Here's what's been leaked about the PS6 handheld and what it means for Xbox and Steam Deck.

PUBG Mobile, Free Fire and BGMI were all blocked in India under one law: Section 69A of the IT Act. Here's how a block works step by step, why the orders stay secret, and what games like BGMI and Free Fire India changed to return.

Every CPU leak comes with two numbers: single-thread and multi-thread. Here's what each one measures, why games care more about the first, and when lots of cores do help.

The socket is the slot your processor sits in, and it quietly decides which chips you can upgrade to without a new motherboard. Here's how sockets work, why Intel and AMD treat them so differently, and how to use that when you buy.

The PS5, Xbox Series X and Steam Deck all run on chips AMD built just for them. Handhelds like the ROG Ally use chips anyone can buy. Here's the difference, why it matters for games, and why AMD wants huge orders first.

The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display brings a tandem OLED touch screen, a Dynamic Island and 2,000-nit brightness, but keeps March's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. It starts at ₹3,49,900 ($2,899), ₹1,10,000 more than the M6 model. Here are the specs, every price and what touch on a Mac actually means.

A new leak says Intel's Moon Lake chips for cheap laptops drop performance cores completely and run on four LP E-cores built on Intel 18A, at 6W to 15W. Here's what's been leaked, how it compares with Wildcat Lake, and what a sub-$300 (about ₹28,500) laptop chip like this could and couldn't do.

Nintendo's October 28 Indie World packed 23 games into about 15 minutes. Witchbrook is dated for January 28, 2027, City of None comes from a Celeste co-creator, Slime Rancher 2 heads to Switch 2, and there's a shadow-drop plus four demos you can download today.

Sony has announced the Prism Collection: transparent DualSense controllers and PS5 console covers in Flare Orange, Emerald Green and Graphite Gray. Controllers cost $84.99 (about ₹8,100) and covers $74.99 (about ₹7,100), with pre-orders from November 10 and release from February 4, 2027. No India price yet.

The cheapest RTX 5080 you can actually buy in the US is $1,979.99, up about $800 in two months and level with the RTX 5090's launch price. In India, trackers show in-stock cards from around ₹2,02,000. Here's what's being charged, the likely reason and what it means if you're buying a GPU.

One of the world's two biggest memory makers just posted an 80% operating margin and says demand will outrun supply through 2030, with more than half of its 2027 and 2028 output already booked by AI customers. Here's what it reported and why gamers paying more for RAM, graphics cards and consoles should care.

FromSoftware has moved The Duskbloods, its eight-player Switch 2 exclusive from the makers of Elden Ring, from 2026 to 2027. The studio says the game is in its final adjustment stage but needs more work on rules and balancing after its August network test. Here's what changed and what we know about the game.

Microsoft's July to September results show Xbox revenue down 2% to $5.38 billion (about ₹51,100 crore), console hardware down 14% and Game Pass revenue lower again. Here's what fell, what grew, and why Microsoft expects the October to December quarter to look different.

Modern Intel chips mix big performance cores, small efficient cores and even smaller low-power cores. Here's what each one does, how Windows decides which runs your game, why some laptop chips now skip P-cores entirely, and what the core count on a spec sheet actually tells you.

HBM, or High Bandwidth Memory, is stacked DRAM that sits right next to AI chips and moves data far faster than the GDDR7 on a gaming graphics card. Here's how it's built, how HBM4 compares with GDDR7, why it isn't in your GPU, and why its boom is pushing up the price of ordinary memory.

Fake PS5 emulator pages on GitHub are spreading password-stealing malware, according to NordVPN researchers. Here's what an infostealer is, how one gets onto your PC, why it can get past two-factor sign-in, and the checks that catch a fake download before you run it.

VRAM is the graphics card's own memory, and running out of it causes stutter, blurry textures and crashes no matter how fast the GPU is. Here's how it works, what GDDR7 and bandwidth mean, how consoles do it, and whether 8GB is still enough at 1080p and 1440p.

Kojima Productions has released the first teaser for Death Stranding Isolations, a hand-drawn anime series streaming on Disney+ in 2027. It's set right after Sam Bridges reconnects America, with a brand-new cast, Ghost in the Shell artist Ilya Kuvshinov on character design and Mardock Scramble author Tow Ubukata reportedly writing. Here's everything we know, and what's still missing.

A report from The Verge's Tom Warren says Bethesda's next Elder Scrolls game is titled The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel, and that Xbox could make the name official as soon as November, around Skyrim's 15th anniversary. It's also said to be set in Hammerfell. Here's what's claimed, what Sentinel is in the lore, and what's still unknown.

Circana's PlayerPulse survey says 29% of US console and PC players plan to buy Grand Theft Auto VI, the highest purchase intent it has ever measured. Forecasts now range up to 51 million copies in launch week. Here's what the numbers mean, what Edge's new cover story revealed, and what it costs in India.

On its Q3 2026 earnings call, Intel confirmed its next desktop and laptop CPUs, Nova Lake, are its first client chips on the improved 18A-P process, with more details at CES in January. It also said some 18A wafers meant for Panther Lake laptop chips are being freed up for data centre CPUs, and it expects PC sales to fall about 12% this year.

KRAFTON has announced a live-action PUBG: Battlegrounds series in development at Netflix. Donald Glover, the creator of Atlanta, will direct, write, executive produce and star, with his brother Stephen Glover co-writing. There's no plot, cast or release date yet. Here's what we know, and what it could mean for the game behind BGMI.

Samsung posted the biggest quarterly operating profit any tech company has reported, KRW 107.4 trillion (about ₹7 lakh crore, or $80 billion), almost all of it from memory chips. It also said AI demand in 2027 will far outrun supply, with tight markets into 2028. Here's what that means for RAM, SSD, phone and console prices.

A DigiTimes report says TSMC will start mass-producing chips on its A14 process in the first half of 2028, and that its A14 capacity that year will be 7.5 times Intel's competing 14A. Here's what A14 promises over today's 2nm chips, how it stacks up against Intel 14A, and when it could reach phones, PCs and consoles.

Nintendo's full remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time launches on November 5 as a Switch 2 exclusive at $59.99 (about ₹5,700). Series producer Eiji Aonuma says he's nervous about how it will land, and a retailer leak points to Xenoblade studio Monolith Soft as the developer. Here's everything confirmed and what's still rumour.

Microsoft has previewed the biggest DirectX Raytracing update since it launched in 2018. Two features, Clustered Geometry and Partitioned TLAS, change how games build the data structures that ray tracing depends on. Here's how ray tracing works in a game, what these features fix, and which GPUs support them.

TrendForce expects OLED laptop shipments to grow more than 40% in 2027, pushed by Apple's first OLED MacBook Pro, while mini-LED laptops fall away. Here's how LCD, mini-LED and OLED screens actually make an image, what tandem OLED changes, and what burn-in, flicker and response time mean for gaming.

Every motherboard, graphics card and console sits on a printed circuit board. Now AI servers are soaking up the materials, with some PCB orders taking up to 30 months and laminate costs reportedly up at least 12 times since July. Here's what a PCB is, how one is built, and why the crunch could reach the PC you buy next.

OnePlus has squeezed a real cooling fan into the Ace 7 Pro, dropping the ultrawide camera to make room. Here's how phones normally stay cool without one, why a fan helps in long gaming sessions, what it costs you in dust, noise and water resistance, and what we know about the Ace 7 series.

A Chinese supply-chain source says AMD will charge graphics card makers more for its GPU and GDDR6 memory bundles in November, the third increase this year. No size or models are named and AMD hasn't commented. Here's what's reported, how this kind of hike reaches shop prices, and what RX 9070 XT and RX 9060 XT cards cost in India today.

A campaign cutscene in Modern Warfare 4 used a few seconds of real news footage from the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush in Seoul, which killed 159 people. After bereaved families protested, Activision apologised and says a November 12 update will remove it. Here's what happened and why it hit so hard in South Korea.

At Fan Festival Tokyo, Square Enix dated FFXIV's sixth expansion for February 23, 2027, about four weeks later than the January window it gave earlier. Pre-orders open November 4, early access starts February 19, and the second new job is Zephyr, a physical ranged DPS with a crossbow and a bird companion. Here's everything confirmed so far.

A Weibo tipster says OPPO is testing the Find X10 Ultra with MediaTek's 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro as well as Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, though Snapdragon is still the likelier pick. Here's what each chip offers, the leaked 200MP camera setup, and what it could mean for the Ultra's price in India.

A PlayStation insider says Sony's current roadmap puts the PS6 announcement in early March 2027, and a second report describes a Mark Cerny tech talk followed by a summer showcase and a holiday 2027 release. Sony hasn't confirmed anything. Here's what's reported, how it lines up with the PS4 and PS5 reveals, and what it could mean for a console that may cost far more than the ₹69,990 PS5.

Chinese board partners say Nvidia will replace the RTX 5080 16GB with a 24GB version using 3GB GDDR7 chips, possibly as soon as December. Nvidia hasn't confirmed anything, but the 5080 has already disappeared from its own store. Here's what's reported, how 24GB fits on the same chip, and what it could cost in India.

OpenAI's CEO says memory sitting in home computers is a poor use of the world's limited DRAM supply, and that it does more good in cloud data centres. He said it while a 32GB DDR5 kit costs four times what it did a year ago. Here's what he said, why PC gamers pushed back, and what the numbers say about RAM prices.

Turn 10 Studios, the team that created Forza in 2005, has been folded into Forza Horizon maker Playground Games and renamed Playground Games Redmond. Studio director Dan Greenawalt is retiring after 27 years at Microsoft. Here's what changed, how Turn 10 got here, and what it means for Forza Horizon 6 on PS5 and the future of Forza Motorsport.

Lenovo's Legion 27U-20 is heading to more countries, and like a growing list of monitors it has a 'dual mode': 4K at 180Hz for games that look pretty, or 1080p at 360Hz for fast shooters. Here's how one panel can do both, why you can't have 4K and 360Hz at once, what you give up in the faster mode, and who these monitors make sense for.

Phantom Blade Zero shipped with DLSS 4.5 but not DLSS 5, and modders added it anyway in less than a day. Here's how upscaler mods hook into a game, what tools like OptiScaler and the NVIDIA app override actually swap, which RTX cards can run what, and the risks before you try one.

A new Sony job listing asks for someone to drive 'Intelligent Pricing' and 'Targeted Offers' on PlayStation Store, after a year of tests where players saw different discounts on the same game. Here's what dynamic pricing and personalised pricing actually mean, what's been spotted on the PS Store so far, what the rules say, and how to check you're getting the best price.

Reports say Gears of War: E-Day cost Xbox over $500 million (about ₹4,400 crore) before marketing. How can one game cost that much? Here's where the money in a big-budget game actually goes, with real figures from leaks and court documents, and why the industry is struggling with it.

Motorola has confirmed November 5 for the Signature 27, with India among the first markets. It runs Qualcomm's 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, and a Geekbench 7 listing shows 3,313 single-core and 11,088 multi-core. Here's what's confirmed, what's leaked, how the scores compare, and what it could cost next to the ₹59,999 first Signature.

Football Manager 27's early play starts November 3 (₹4,499 on Steam, 10% off before launch), ZA/UM's Zero Parades: Director's Cut reaches Xbox the same day, and Escape Academy 2 and VOID/BREAKER 1.0 land on Game Pass. Here's every notable release from November 2 to 6, with dates, platforms and India prices.

Motorola, iQOO, Xiaomi and Vivo all have flagships headed to India this month, and they split between Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and MediaTek's 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro. Here's which phone gets which chip, what's confirmed and what's only leaked, and what prices from ₹40,000 to over ₹1 lakh are being tipped.

Dead Island 2, Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered and Monster Train 2 are November's PS Plus Monthly Games, claimable from November 3 to November 30 on every tier, including Essential at ₹649 a month in India. Here's what each game is, who it suits, and the last day to grab October's games.

Worlds 2026 knockouts start November 3, with the final at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on November 14. Here's how 19 teams got cut to eight: the Play-In bracket, the Swiss stage's three-wins-or-out rule, the quarterfinal draw, and why Fearless Draft means teams can't lean on one favourite champion all series.

The Motorola Signature 27 just scored 3,313 in Geekbench 7, which sounds slower than phones that hit 4,000 last year. It isn't. Geekbench 7 has a new baseline chip, new tests including game physics and AV1 video, and a stricter multi-core test. Here's how it works and how to read the numbers.