Ubisoft has promised a special treat for PS5 Pro users when its highly anticipated upcoming adventure game is out in July. As confirmed yesterday, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced — a remake of the fan-favorite 2013 action-adventure — will have a little something extra for Sony’s pricey hardware.
Upcoming game Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced will support PS5 Pro PSSR 2
Black Flag Resynced will take advantage of the recently upgraded PS5 Pro PSSR, dubbed PSSR 2.0. While Ubisoft didn’t confirm whether the game will support PSSR 2 at launch or if it will be patched in post-launch, the company did say it’s already achieving impressive results with the upscaler.
“It [PSSR 2] allowed us to render our dynamic tropical world full of swaying palm trees, violent storms, and rogue waves without visible upscaling artifacts, delivering sharp pixel quality and great image stability,” said technical director Jussi Markkanen. “Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced pushes ray tracing further across all modes on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro. PlayStation 5 brings more consistent lighting, while PlayStation 5 Pro delivers a no-compromise experience with advanced ray tracing performance and enhanced PSSR,” added technical architect Nicolas Lopez.
Ubisoft will detail all the PS5 Pro enhancements at a later date, but it all sounds very promising.
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced will release on July 9, 2026.
Although it’s one of the more inoffensive topics on Polymarket, this news typifies the Wild West of prediction markets and betting sites. A hairdryer was allegedly used to rig Polymarket bets on temperatures at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, according to a report by The Telegraph. French authorities noted that the official temperature readings at the airport spiked twice in the past month. On both occasions, gamblers betting on those temperature fluctuations on Polymarket appear to have walked away with thousands upon thousands of dollars.
There is no indication that Polymarket forced anyone to return winnings, but the temperature sensor has been moved to a new location. The site is also still running bets on the daily temperature in and around Paris.
In a more serious development, a US soldier was arrested for allegedly making over $400,000 on Polymarket using information he had about the plans to capture the former Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro.
Gannon Ken Van Dyke was arrested and charged with using classified military information to place bets on the prediction marketplace Polymarket. Van Dyke created a Polymarket account around December 26, 2025, and made 13 bets related to Maduro from December 27 to January 2.
The soldier has also been charged with one count of wire fraud, carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and one count of unlawful monetary transaction, carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years. It’s a lot heavier than hairdryer shenanigans.
DJI is taking another stab at the budget drone market with the new Lito series. The Lito 1 and Lito X1 are both under $400 and weigh less than 249 grams — they’re ideal for beginners. Both replace DJI’s Mini series, but they offer things those models lacked, like LiDAR and 360-degree obstacle avoidance. After testing both models, I believe they offer unbeatable value and performance at these prices, by a long shot. However, due to DJI’s standing in the US, you might not see either.
As suggested by recent comments by the new boss of Xbox, Microsoft’s gaming arm is cutting the prices of both Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass, effective immediately, but there’s one big caveat. New Call of Duty games will no longer be available on Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass on day one. They’ll eventually hit those tiers about a year later, during the following holiday season.
Anker, of battery-pack and cable fame, has announced its own AI chip that it will integrate into its future headphones and other devices. The company is planning to debut the chip, called Thus, on a new model of headphones to be unveiled at its Anker Day event in May.
Anker’s Thus chip integrates computing power directly into NOR flash memory cells, which offer faster read speeds than NAND. Anker says headphones are a particularly challenging environment to demonstrate what a new chip can do because “hardly any other device places higher demands on an AI chip.” Anker announced one particular feature to showcase its silicon. Clear Calls will cancel noise “with a large neural network running entirely on the device, supported by eight MEMS microphones and two bone conduction sensors.”
PS Plus Premium has added a fresh batch of fantastic free game trials — the second such drop in a single month. There’s something for everyone in this batch, from adventure to RPG. What’s more, it includes a new PlayStation Studios game released in March 2026.
All new PS Plus Premium free game trials added on April 23, 2026
The first-party game in question is MLB: The Show 26, which needs no introduction. PS5 players can check out the full game for three hours.
Then, we have acclaimed 2025 PS5 adventure game The Midnight Walk. It’s a short adventure, so Sony‘s only offering a 30-minute full game trial, which might be PS Plus Premium’s shortest trial length yet. But we highly recommend checking it out.
The Midnight Walk can be completed in a few hours, should players wish to make a purchase.
The third new game trial is for brand-new PS5 and PS4 RPG, Eternal Exodus. The game is described as a “story-driven 2D monster-catching RPG set in the afterlife.” PS Plus Premium users can try Eternal Exodus for an hour.
Finally, we have underrated PS5 and PS4 RPG Asterigos: Curse of the Stars. This is one of those odd additions in that it’s for an older title released in 2022. Still, we recommend giving it a go for two hours. Players might find it a hidden gem, and it often gets discounted in PS Store sales.
Sony has rolled out a surprise PS5 system software update for April 2026, but don’t get your hopes up. Firmware version 26.03-13.20.00 is a little over 1 GB (size may vary by region), and brings minor improvements to communication features.
PS5 system software update 26.03-13.20.00 patch notes (April 23, 2026)
Complete patch notes for today’s PS5 firmware update are as follows:
We’ve added more emojis that you can use for message reactions.
We’ve improved the messages and usability on some screens.
There are no new system software updates for the PS4 or PS Portal remote player.
One thing we did notice, however, is that Sony rolled out at least two back-end system feature updates over the last week. When manually checking for system feature updates via the PS5’s system menu, I was prompted to restart my console to install the “latest features,” but I didn’t notice any changes. One such feature update went live just a day ago.
I searched online to see if other players noticed anything different, but beyond fellow players confirming that they, too, received new feature updates, I didn’t find any information.
We’ll keep our eyes peeled and update our readers when/if we find out what those mysterious feature updates brought.
In the meantime, if you notice any changes, leave us a comment below.
Tesla still doesn’t have a solid pathway for how to give Hardware 3 cars Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities, based on what Elon Musk said during the company’s latest earnings call. The automaker has known for quite a while that its vehicles equipped with Hardware 3 aren’t capable of unsupervised FSD, even though the company built the system specifically to give its cars the ability. Tesla used Hardware 3 on cars manufactured from 2019 until early 2023 before Hardware 4 shipped.
During an earlier earnings call back in January 2025, Musk admitted that the company was “going to have to upgrade people’s Hardware 3 computer for those that have bought Full Self-Driving.” At Tesla’s latest earnings call, Musk said that Hardware 3 “simply does not have the capability to achieve unsupervised FSD.” Tesla thought it would be able to at one point, but Hardware 3 apparently has 1/8th the memory bandwidth of Hardware 4. Musk explained that memory bandwidth is “one of the key elements” needed for unsupervised FSD.
Tesla will be offering to upgrade and replace the computers and cameras on older vehicles, but it doesn’t have a concrete plan in place yet. “I do think over time it’s going to make sense for us to convert all Hardware 3 cars to Hardware 4,” he said. To do so at service centers would be extremely slow, Musk has admitted. Around 4 million cars or so have Hardware 3, though not everyone has paid for FSD. Still, to be able to replace its vehicles’ hardware efficiently, Musk said Tesla is going to have to set up “microfactories or small factories in major metropolitan areas.” He didn’t give any indication that Tesla has already started building those microfactories, though, or even that construction is already scheduled to begin. He did say that in the meantime, the company is going to be releasing FSD version 14 for Hardware 3 around the end of June.
Musk also said during the same earnings call that Tesla’s Fremont factory will start manufacturing the company’s humanoid Optimus robots in late July or August. The Tesla CEO is known for announcing highly optimistic and aggressive timelines. Tesla made the decision to kill off its Model X and S cars earlier this year, so that it can convert its Fremont facility into an Optimus factory. The last Model S and X vehicles will be rolling off the production line in May, which gives the company just a few months to dismantle the facility’s current equipment and put new ones in place.
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Sennheiser has introduced a new high-end headphone set for audio professionals. The HD 480 Pro is essentially a closed-back reimagining of the company's popular HD 490 Pro headset. Both headphones are designed for audio professionals, aiming to fit both a studio or a live performance setting. The company is positioning this product as a versatile option that can handle recording, monitoring, producing or mixing.
The HD 480 Pro aims to address two complaints for closed-back headsets: comfort for long wearing sessions and accurate bass reproduction. Sennheiser uses what it dubs a "Vibration Attenuation System" to prevent distortions or reflections in the audio signal. The cable can be detached and used on the left or right side in order to accommodate different setups.
To address comfort, the HD 480 Pro uses some of the same proprietary fit features as the HD 490 Pro, including cushioned pads at the temples for people also wearing glasses and a design that maintains equal contact pressure for any head shape.
The headphones will retail for $479 and the set comes with recording earpads, a 9-foot coiled cable and a carrying bag. A travel case is available for $15.
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