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Danish PC accessory maker SteelSeries announces the acquisition of A-Volute, the company behind the Nahimic audio software. The financial details of the deal are not available.

"With our award-winning innovations that have redefined the gaming audio experience, and our best-in-class SteelSeries Engine software, bringing A-Volute into the SteelSeries family seemed like a natural fit and we are extremely excited about partnering with Tuyen and his team,” SteelSeries says. “With their excellence in audio software, they’ll help us improve gamers’ audio experiences even further."

SK Hynix publishes a technical blog about the features of DDR5, a memory standard the company says will be available "in the near future" as it plans to start mass-production sometime "this year."

The company first detailed its DDR5 plans back in February 2019 with the presentation of a DDR5-6400 memory chip at the International Solid State Circuits Conference. The technology offers two times the bandwidth compared to DDR4, with the aim of reaching over 4800Mbps, allowing it to handle the demands of massively multi-core CPUs.

Sony continues the slow drip feeding of PlayStation 5 details with the presentation of the controller-- the DualSense, a departure from the familiar DualShock clad in a striking two-tone black and white design.

According to the company, the DualSense keeps what gamers love about the DualShock 4 while adding more functionality. For instance, the controller includes haptic feedback, allowing users to feel sensations such as "the slow grittiness of driving a car through mud." Meanwhile the L2 and R2 triggers are adaptive, meaning the trigger mechanism has some measure of pressure sensitivity. The addition of such haptics necessitated a change in the angle of the triggers, as well as "subtle" updates to the grips.

AMD might offer mobile PC makers the Ryzen Mobile 4000 series processors, but Origin takes a step further with the EON15-X AMD, a high-end laptop powered by a choice Ryzen 3000 desktop SKUs, including the 12-core Ryzen 9 3900.

An update on the EON15 line of gaming laptops, the EON15-X AMD comes in 6-, 8- and 12-core configurations aimed at gamers and content creation wanting the multi-core performance of the 7nm Zen 2 architecture. The processor is paired with up to 64GB of DDR4-2666 RAM, up to 4TB of SATA SSD storage and a choice of Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 6GB or 2070 8GB graphics card.