During today's State of Play broadcast, Kojima Productions revealed that the director's cut for its critically acclaimed action game, Death Stranding, would be released for the PlayStation 5 on September 24, 2021.
Introduced in February 2021, Microsoft's FPS Boost is an exciting feature that leverages the increased performance of its Xbox Series X|S consoles to play select backward-compatible games at double (and sometimes quadruple) their original frame rate.
AMD's next Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics card, the Radeon RX 6600 XT, will reportedly launch next month. This is according to YouTubers Coreteks and Moores' Law Is Dead, whose sources claim that the Radeon RX 6600 XT will debut in August for $399. The Radeon RX 6600 XT's purported price has disappointed some users, as it's only $80 less than the MSRP of the Radeon RX 6700 XT. AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT is believed to perform similarly to the Radeon RX 5700 XT and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 1080 Ti and feature 32 MB of Infinity Cache and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory. The Radeon RX 6600 XT will also supposedly be available from third-party manufacturers only; there will be no reference model despite leaked renders alluding to the contrary.
Newegg has announced that it will begin offering a professional PC assembly service for enthusiasts who are too lazy to build their own systems but patient enough to select the individual components that will go into it.
Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG) has announced that it has entered into a deal with Peacock that will see its latest films reach Comcast and NBCUniversal's streaming service no later than four months after they debut in theaters.
There's an integrated folding screen called the xScreen in development for the Xbox Series S that allows owners of Microsoft's weaker (but still capable) next-gen console to transform it into a more portable, laptop-like gaming device.