Intel announces new free game as part of spring bundle offerings, Dying Light partnership
Intel is now partnering with Dying Light developer Techland to offer an improved game bundle that retains Civilization 7 from its previous bundle. This is in addition to providing streamers and content creators excellent value for money, thanks to extended trials for a bundle of software that includes Canvid, Vegas Pro 365, and XSplit Premium Suite.
The bundle is effectively valued at $160 by Intel as per its listing, but does not place a price tag for Dying Light: The Beast, which has yet to come with a price tag on popular PC game platforms such as Steam and Epic Games Store. This could indicate Intel is throwing in even greater value to gamers and end users than ever before.
Part of Intel’s collaboration includes working closely with the developer to optimize the title for its x86 platform offerings in addition to support for the chipmaker’s GPU-specific XeSS 2 offerings, including XeSS Super Resolution (XeSS-SR), XeSS Frame Generation (XeSS-FG), and Xe Low Latency (XeLL).
These compete with Nvidia’s DLSS, Frame Generation, and Reflex offerings as well as AMD’s Radeon anti-lag and FSR alternatives, but see lower adoption rates by developers even as Intel’s Battlemage CPU offerings continue to carve themselves a strategically important piece of a burgeoning mid-range and entry-level GPU market in 2025.
While it is no surprise that Intel currently has an uphill task when it comes to wooing gamers with its current and previous generation Intel Core Series CPUs in the face of AMD’s specialist X3D CPUs, it is pushing forward in a meaningful way in another direction: offering better value for money to its users.
This includes software updates to its chipset drivers that reportedly increase performance by as much as 10% in addition to increasingly aggressive price cuts across its 14th generation Intel Core series CPUs to attract gamers and productivity users.
The bundle is available at participating retailers, including Newegg and Best Buy in the US, and covers a plethora of CPU offerings, including Intel’s entry-level 14th generation Core i5 CPUs all the way to its most powerful Core Ultra 9 Series 2 offerings, while also accounting for laptop chips from the same generation.
Note: The offer is already live, running till the 31st of July 2025 allowing users approximately 3 months to benefit from what is one of Intel's more aggressive CPU bundles of late.
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What’s New: Intel and Techland are teaming up on Dying Light: The Beast, the latest addition to the long-running Dying Light saga. As the exclusive CPU partner, Intel has worked closely with Techland to optimize the Dying Light: The Beast experience for PC gamers when the game launches later this summer.
“It’s been an incredible decade for us working on Dying Light, watching it become one of the premier action survival horror franchises. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Intel on Dying Light: The Beast, working hand-in-hand to bring processor optimizations and innovations like XeSS 2 to Dying Light so gamers will enjoy a smooth experience from launch day onwards.” says Tomasz Szalkowski, Rendering & Audio Director at Techland.
Intel is celebrating the partnership on Dying Light: The Beast with the launch of an incredible new Spring bundle for both select Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) and Intel Core 14th Gen processors – including Dying Light: The Beast, Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, and extended trials of several professional creator applications.
The Best Intel Gaming Experience: Intel and Techland are working closely together to give the gamers a top-flight experience from the moment they boot up the latest addition to the Dying Light franchise. Dying Light: The Beast includes scheduling optimizations for the latest Intel Core and Core Ultra desktop processors, ensuring a smooth gaming experience on their Intel-powered systems. Additionally, the latest chapter in the Dying Light franchise will be the first to incorporate Intel’s XeSS 2 graphics solution – including the full suite of XeSS Super Resolution (XeSS-SR), XeSS Frame Generation (XeSS-FG), and Xe Low Latency (XeLL) technologies.
April Showers Bring May Gaming Bundles: This bundle includes select Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) and Intel Core 14th Gen processors, offering gamers and creators incredible value. Enjoy Dying Light: The Beast, Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, and extended trials of several professional creator applications including XSplit Broadcaster, Magix Vegas Pro, and Canvid. Customers will receive digital keys for the respective titles as part of their bundle purchase, with Dying Light: The Beast becoming available later this summer once it is launched.
The Intel Spring Bundle is available worldwide at participating retailers starting today and running through July 31, 2025.
