Intel Teams Up With Fuse Games and Crystal Dynamics to Supercharge Two Huge Upcoming PC Releases
- Jamie Robinson
- 3 days ago
- 5 min read
Intel is taking a pretty interesting approach with this year's Intel Gamer Days campaign, partnering with Fuse Games and Crystal Dynamics on two upcoming PC releases, STAR WARS: Galactic Racer and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. What makes this partnership more interesting than your standard hardware sponsorship is the level of integration Intel is bringing to both games. Both titles are being optimised for Intel hardware and will support Intel's XeSS 3 technology, including Super Resolution, Multi-frame Generation and Low Latency.
Both games will also receive Day 0 driver support, meaning Intel is aiming to have the necessary driver support ready to go when the games actually launch.
There's also a pretty significant part of the partnership that shouldn't be overlooked. Intel has one year CPU and GPU exclusivity following the release of both games. That's a considerably deeper level of involvement than simply putting an Intel logo on some marketing material. Exactly what this means, I am not 100 sure exactly what this is going to mean exactly. But nevertheless, its a year of exclusivity.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer
The first game we'll get our hands on is STAR WARS: Galactic Racer, which is being developed by Fuse Games and published by Secret Mode. It's scheduled to launch on October 6, 2026.
If you're expecting another traditional Star Wars racing game, this one sounds like it's taking things in a slightly different direction. Fuse Games, which includes developers behind games such as Burnout and Need for Speed, is describing Galactic Racer as a high-stakes, runs-based racing adventure rather than a traditional racing championship.
You'll be able to jump behind the wheel of multiple different vehicle types, including pod racers, speeder bikes, land speeders and skim speeders, while racing across familiar Star Wars locations such as Jakku alongside completely new planets. There's also a proper single-player story campaign alongside competitive multiplayer.
From an Intel perspective, Galactic Racer is being specifically optimised for Intel Arc G3 and Core Ultra 200S Plus, with XeSS 3, including Super Resolution, Multi-frame Generation and Low Latency, built into the experience. Intel is also promising Day 0 driver support.
That's particularly interesting for a game that is built around fast-paced racing. While raw FPS is obviously important, consistent performance and latency can make a huge difference when you're throwing vehicles around at high speed.
We'll have to wait until the game is actually in our hands to see how well all of this comes together, but having the technology and driver support ready at launch is certainly the way you'd want to see these partnerships handled.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
Then there's Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, which is probably the one I'm personally more curious about.
Crystal Dynamics, alongside Flying Wild Hog, is completely reimagining the game that originally launched the Tomb Raider franchise back in 1996. This isn't simply a remaster with higher-resolution textures either. It's being built from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5, with the team reworking the original adventure while still keeping the core of Lara Croft's first journey intact.
The game will take players through iconic locations including Peru, Greece, Egypt and Atlantis, while the classic puzzles are being redesigned and expanded into interconnected environments. Modern traversal, combat and exploration are also being added while attempting to remain faithful to the original adventure.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is scheduled to launch on February 12, 2027.
Intel is again bringing its technology into the game, with Intel hardware optimisation, XeSS 3 with Super Resolution, Multi-frame Generation and Low Latency, as well as Day 0 driver support.
And again, there's that one-year CPU and GPU exclusivity following launch, making this a considerably more involved partnership than the usual co-marketing deal.
This Is More Than Just Putting A Logo On A Game, this is probably the part of the announcement I find the most interesting. We've seen plenty of hardware companies partner with game developers over the years, but sometimes those partnerships ultimately amount to little more than a logo appearing in a trailer or on a game's website. This is a little different.
Intel is tying its hardware and software technologies directly into both games, with XeSS 3 being supported at launch and Day 0 driver support being part of the deal. The company is also securing one-year CPU and GPU exclusivity for both titles following release.
Of course, the proof will ultimately be in the games themselves. None of this means much if the end result isn't a good experience, and that's something we'll only really be able to judge once both titles are available.
But from a PC gaming perspective, getting hardware optimisation, upscaling, frame generation and driver support lined up around launch is certainly preferable to buying a game on day one and then waiting months for everything to be properly optimised.
Intel Gamer Days
The two games form part of Intel Gamer Days, which is running in Australia from August 13 through to September 13, 2026.
As part of the campaign, Intel is offering two games with qualifying purchases during Intel Gamer Days. For Australia and New Zealand, the qualifying products listed in the guidance are the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Processor and Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Processor.
Participating retailers listed by Intel include:
Centre Com
Scorptec
PB Tech
Umart
PC Case Gear
Computer Alliance
PLE Computers
Auscomp
Allied Gaming PC
JW Computers
Shopping Express
Computer Lounge
Playtech NZ
Dove Computers
JB Hi-Fi, Officeworks
Harvey Norman
Mwave
Check out your local store for deals during this promotion.
The campaign's official wording is pretty simple: "get two games with a qualifying
purchase during Intel Gamer Days"
For anyone considering an Intel-based PC upgrade anyway, that's a pretty decent addition to the purchase, particularly with two fairly significant upcoming releases attached to the promotion.
A New Intel PC For Gaming Australia:
Interestingly, this announcement comes at a pretty good time for us here at Gaming Australia because we've recently built ourselves a pretty serious new PC around an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus CPU.
We've been putting the machine through its paces and, honestly, we've been extremely impressed with how it's performing so far.
It's a pretty significant step up for us, but more importantly, it gives us a much more capable platform for the kind of PC gaming testing and reviews we've been wanting to do more of.
We've got plenty more planned for the build and we'll be showing you much more of it very soon, so keep an eye out for that.
The new system is also going to let us expand the range of PC gaming content we can cover here at Gaming Australia. That means more PC game reviews, more hardware testing and, importantly, more performance-focused coverage rather than simply looking at whether something works and calling it a day.
That's something we've genuinely wanted to do for a while, so we're pretty excited to finally have the hardware to properly get stuck into it.
And with STAR WARS: Galactic Racer arriving in October and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis following in February, the timing of our new Intel-powered system couldn't really be much better.
