Forza Horizon 6 is launching next week on PC and Xbox Series X|S, but a massive failure in Steamworks publishing leaked a fully playable build of the game without DRM. With the latest entry in the series being one of the biggest titles published by Xbox this year, the publisher is dealing with the situation in the harshest way possible, hitting users playing the leaked build with what essentially is a lifetime hardware ban. As widely reported in now-deleted threads on the series' official subreddit, early players are being suspended for "cheating/unallowed modding," which was to be expected. The suspension […]

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Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate has been known to be in the works since the series' 35th anniversary in May 2021, but very little is known about the next main entry in the long-running JRPG series other than the fact that it will be powered by Unreal Engine 5. Since the game's reveal, we saw the release of four remakes, but series creator Yuji Horii recently teased that the game will be back in the spotlight starting later this month. Speaking during the latest episode of the KosoKoso broadcast, the Dragon Quest series creator confirmed that a series […]

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Following the disappointing launch of the Steam Controller, which saw units sell out almost immediately, only to end up in the hands of scalpers, Valve introduced a reservation queue to prevent a repeat of the situation. As spotted in the same Steam update that introduced the system for the new controller, a similar safeguard will be in place for both the Steam Machine and the Steam Frame. Users analyzing the system via Steam Tracker have discovered code for four Steam Machine packages and two Steam Frame packages alongside the Steam Controller and Steam Deck entries. This heavily suggests that the […]

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We might have a probable launch month for Gears of War: E-Day, The Coalition's new installment in the third-person shooter series. The rumor comes not from an insider but from an unlikely source: a sponsorship. During WWE Backlash on Saturday, May 9, it was announced that Gears of War: E-Day is the official presenting sponsor of AAA Triplemania 2026, the premier Lucha Libre event happening on September 11 and 13 in Mexico City. The thing is, publishers don't sponsor major live events months before their game releases: the whole point is to reach a mass audience at peak marketing momentum. Moreover, historically, […]

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Missing the early weekend release window of the previous major patches, the Crimson Desert 1.06.00 patch is now live across PC and consoles, introducing yet another highly requested feature by the community - the Extraction feature that essentially rolls back weapon upgrades to receive materials back - new Special Mounts and the one feature no one would have expected to see in the game: a gacha vending machine. The new patch significantly expands the Special Mounts options, allowing you to register Bears, Boars, Wolves, Deer, Mountain Goats, Kuku Birds, Raptors, Camels, Lions, and Tigers as a mount after subduing and […]

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As the race for the AI buildout continues to intensify, a shortage in the packaging industry has led memory manufacturer SK hynix to team up with Intel for chip packaging technology. After a strong comeback under CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Intel is now aiming to expand its presence in the packaging industry. The firm and SK hynix are collaborating on 2.5D packaging technology and Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology as shortages create tightness in the current packaging supply chain. Intel & SK hynix Collaborating On EMIB Packaging As Shortages Impact 2.5D Packaging Supply Chain Intel's EMIB packaging technology is […]

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Renowned CAPCOM leaker Dusk Golem recently corroborated a claim from an anonymous insider that Ada Wong will appear in Resident Evil Requiem DLC. However, after Dusk Golem named that insider as his source, Reddit users went digging through the same person's post history and surfaced a series of additional CAPCOM-related claims, none of which Dusk Golem has vouched for. The leaker has since explicitly distanced himself from the two most attention-grabbing ones: "The Devil May Cry 1 Remake and RE10 protag rumor did not come from me. Typical deal of people stuffing rumors together and then claiming I said them — that […]

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AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D continues to be one of the finest gaming CPUs of this generation, and Amazon is making life much easier for gamers wanting to set up their high-end rigs at a lower price. With the DRAM crisis showing no signs of slowing down, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to own semi-decent hardware at incredible discounts, but this combo is a great start. You now get a premium ASUS TUF motherboard, and with the two parts combined, you get $136 in savings with the $622.98 price. You couldn’t have asked for a better motherboard pairing, as the ASUS TUF Gaming X870-PLUS […]

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In what is entirely in line with rumors that have been swirling fairly persistently, AMD appears to have settled on Samsung's chip fabrication arm to produce its next-gen 2nm CPUs, Venice and Verano, as per the outlines of a fresh speculative reverie, this time from Daishin Securities. AMD best fits the contours of a fresh rumor that suggests Samsung has just won an order for 2nm CPUs The prolific tipster Jukan has just cited Daishin Securities to note that Samsung has likely won a new order for 2nm notebook CPUs. While Daishin only referenced a "North American fabless customer," Jukan […]

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NVIDIA has accelerated the rollout of its next-gen AI powerhouse, Vera Rubin, with first shipments commencing as early as July this year. Despite Rumors of Design Issues, NVIDIA is pushing ahead with a spectacular Vera Rubin Launch, The Center of Next-Gen AI A few days ago, we reported a few rumors that were going around regarding NVIDIA's Vera Rubin related to its design and specs changes. While the rumors sounded similar to what we heard about Blackwell GPU servers before their launch, NVIDIA has the ability to quickly address these pre-shipment drawbacks with the help of its supply chain partners, […]

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New GPUs are optimized substantially for AI workloads, but what if old GPUs like the 8-year-old NVIDIA V100, costing around $100, start to outperform recent offerings in LLMs? NVIDIA V100, an 8-Year-Old GPU, Dusted The 5-Year Old RTX 3060 & 3-Year Old RX 7800 XT With Better Performance & Efficienct In AL LLMs The NVIDIA Volta generation was the first purely dedicated data center series that wasn't available in the standard consumer gaming segment. Volta was the first family to feature the Tensor Core architecture, which has since become the staple for its AI advancements. The tensor core architecture was […]

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Silicon Motion's CEO has said that memory (DRAM) and SSD (NAND) shortages would last until 2028 due to the continued demand from AI firms. Memory & SSD Shortages Are So Bad That They Are Expected To Last Till 2028, And Prices Are Expected To Continue To Climb We know that memory and SSD shortages are bad, both in the enterprise and consumer segments. DRAM & NAND makers are adding new factories to boost production capabilities, but these aren't expected to become operational within this year. At the earliest, the first facility expansion and bring-up plans are expected around 2027, which […]

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TSMC’s success in the semiconductor industry is primarily due to the manufacturer’s unyielding focus on its advanced processes and ability to achieve stability in record time, allowing the company to form long-term business relationships with trillion-dollar firms like Apple and NVIDIA. While being able to mass produce 3nm and 2nm wafers at a mammoth scale is certainly a tremendous feat, SMIC founder Richard Chang does not consider these accomplishments as a benchmark for success and calls it a misconception in the latest interview. Instead, he believes that there’s another attribute that semiconductor companies must acquire. SMIC’s founder says that “excellence […]

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Intel's CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, has congratulated NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, on his Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology, while working together on "exciting new products". Intel & NVIDIA's Journey Has Just Begun, & The World Will Soon See "Exciting New Product" Collabs Between The Tech Giants Today, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote at Carnegie Mellon’s 2026 Commencement and received an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan congratulated Jensen on this achievement and also announced that the two firms were working on new and exciting products. Lip-Bu acknowledged Jensen's contributions to accelerated computing and […]

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Apple’s M5 Max is currently the company’s top-end SoC to be found in the MacBook Pro, but there’s no universe in which the M4 Max would be considered diminished in any way because it’s still a ridiculously powerful SoC, and a downright expensive one at that. Naturally, any portable Mac featuring the previous-generation silicon would be sold at a premium, but one lucky customer managed to find a top-notch configuration from the most unlikely of places: a pawn shop, for just $1,501. Near-top-tier specifications of the M4 Max MacBook Pro found in a pawn shop featured 64GB of unified RAM and a […]

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There is a torrent of jobs available for Apple’s visionOS platform, which may hint that the California-based giant is going through an aggressive hiring spree since there’s incredible demand for the Vision Pro. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman didn’t believe this was the case and, as a result, was receiving flak for shutting down claims that Apple’s expensive $3,499 mixed-reality headset was a dud, despite the myriad of job postings. Now, he has come forth to bury the confusion by mentioning that Apple has grand plans for the future of visionOS. New job posts are for optimizing the visionOS platform, not to […]

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The M5 Pro is a fantastic chipset upgrade for those who want to migrate from Windows or those who believe that their older Apple Silicon is no longer the performer that it used to be. Fortunately, you get to pocket incredible savings on the powerful 14-inch MacBook Pro featuring this chipset because its base configuration has now broken yet another record by crossing the $200 discount threshold on Amazon and can be yours for $1,983.94. The M5 Pro MacBook Pro delivers legendary firepower, which is surprising given its double-digit battery life claims, all that and more, while being $215 off on […]

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Memory prices continue going up, and to make matters worse, fake DDR5 memory modules are now flooding the PC segment. Beware, Your Expensive DDR5 Memory Might Be Fake, PC Buyers Advised To Double-Check Their RAM Asian markets are now seeing fake DDR5 memory at several retailers, both online and in shops. These DDR5 memory modules might look real to an average buyer, but on closer inspection, they're equipped with fake DRAM modules and sometimes even worse. So there are several cases of fake DDR5 DRAM modules circulating in Asian markets. Some of these RAM sticks feature fake DRAM modules, which […]

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A weird incident was just reported by a Redditor, detailing how his GPU got a different shroud instead of the GeForce one. GIGABYTE Mistakenly Swaps GeForce and Radeon Coolers on NVIDIA and AMD GPUs; Both Users Report Different Branding on Their Cards It's rare to see such incidents, but both reports confirm that GIGABYTE indeed made a mistake in the GPU assembly. A Reddit user u/atta4821 reported that he bought a GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5060 Ti from Canada Computers. Weirdly, something was unusual when he opened the box, as his GPU didn't look like an NVIDIA GPU. He reports that […]

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Maxsun has updated its Intel MoDT (Mobile on Desktop) lineup with two new motherboards featuring the Core 200H "Raptor Lake" CPUs. Intel Raptor Lake "Core 200H" MoDT Motherboards Are Now Super-Affordable, & Compatible With DDR4 Memory MoDT motherboards come in all shapes and sizes. We have seen ATX and mATX offerings, with higher-end versions featuring up to AMD 9955HX3D and Intel 285H options. The thing is that MoDT boards generally aim at the value segment, offering prices that are much lower than traditional socketed CPUs and motherboard combos. These motherboards offer a 2-in-1 design, and while they lack the option […]

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AI is great for many tasks, but the costs to run AI are also exponentially higher than those of human workers, says NVIDIA. NVIDIA Highlights Large Cost of Running AI Versus Human Employees, While Suggesting That Humanity's Future Revolves Around The Adoption of AI As AI becomes part of every single IT domain, the costs to keep the entire ecosystem up and running have also grown rapidly. AI firms are spending trillions of dollars in upgrade costs of their existing AI factories while setting up new ones in multi-Gigawatt projects. At the same time, NVIDIA, the pioneer of AI advancements, […]

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Smartphone titans like Samsung have made efforts to ensure that the DRAM crisis doesn’t adversely affect their ‘day to day’ operations, but these attempts were futile as the Korean giant has been forced to introduce a price hike to the Galaxy S26 series. However, the company is working to ensure that it minimizes additional component cost bumps by moving to a dual-sourcing strategy. Since displays are among the more expensive parts of a smartphone, the base Galaxy S27 could feature panels from Samsung and another manufacturer, but this could lead to quality disparities in the future. Chinese suppliers could become a […]

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One person's loss is another's gain, or a company's in this case. After all, AMD seems to be having a field day with its older 5nm CPUs, which entail crazy-high yields by the way, as both Qualcomm and MediaTek vacate some of TSMC's 4nm and 5nm lines on shrinking smartphone demand. AMD reaps the benefits as the broader smartphone industry enters a deep freeze, forcing Qualcomm and MediaTek to abandon some of their reserved capacity at TSMC By now, it's public knowledge that the global mobile industry is contending with a chronic DRAM shortage as most of the associated fabrication […]

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The upcoming ACPI support could allow OS like Windows and Linux read CPU frequencies directly without having to estimate them for optimal performance. AMD's New CPPC HighestFreq Could Improve CPU Scheduling on Future Ryzen Chips, Resulting in Better Responsiveness Traditionally, OS like Windows and Linux do not have the capability to read the CPU boost frequencies directly from the firmware, but the AMD CPPC HighestFreq could change this forever. The new feature reportedly would allow CPUs to directly report their real maximum boost frequencies to the operating systems through the firmware, which eliminates the need for frequency calculations by the […]

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Whatever else one might think of President Trump, it is plain as day that he is a connoisseur at shaping narratives. And, apparently, the President seems to have played a material role in selling an Intel deal to Apple, one that might accrue sizable short- and long-term benefits to the Cupertino-based tech giant. Apple's chip fabrication deal with Intel entails sizable margin benefits, reduces supply chain risks, and weakens TSMC's monopoly Apple has reached a preliminary chip fabrication deal with Intel, according to the Wall Street Journal. While the specifics of this agreement are not known at this time, it […]

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AMD has further detailed its DGF or Dense Geometry Format technology, which rivals NVIDIA's RTX Mega Geometry, delivering vastly higher geometry counts in ray tracing games while offering new compression methods designed with future RDNA GPUs in mind. As Geometry Scale Increases in Games, Tech Such as AMD's DGF & NVIDIA's RTX Mega Geometry becomes vital in powering advanced ray-traced games Last year, AMD announced its Dense Geometry Format technology, or DGF in short. This tech aims to handle massive polygon counts by streaming geometry clusters rather than full scenes. The principle of AMD's DGF is simple. It is designed […]

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NVIDIA's AI chips have once again bypassed barriers and landed at Alibaba in China, as the US suspects Supermicro's role in smuggling through Thailand. NVIDIA's AI Chips Still Carry Immense Interest In China As Alibaba Lands Restricted Supermico Servers That Were Smuggled Via Thailand Despite China dropping the hammer on NVIDIA's chips to increase dependency on in-house AI chips, the leading Chinese firms, such as Alibaba, are still procuring the latest hardware from NVIDIA through illegal channels. As per Bloomberg, several Supermicro employees, including high-level executives, are involved in a $2.5 billion smuggling case. The case revolves around shipping several […]

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UAE has just announced that its AI Campus, being built with the United States, is coming online soon, housing a total AI compute capacity of 5 Gigawatts through next-gen chips. More Gigawatt-Level AI Facilities Are Coming Online, Like The One Being Built By the UAE With Thousands of Next-Gen Chips Last year, the UAE (United Arab Emirates) signed a deal to invest $1.4 trillion in the United States, with a total of 30 planned projects. The investment encompasses AI infrastructure, energy, and manufacturing projects, which will create thousands of jobs across America. UAE states that a large portion of these […]

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NVIDIA's Rubin platforms are rumoredly facing design/spec issues, making way for the competition, such as AMD MI500, to get the headstart with HBM4E in 2027. Will AMD Beat NVIDIA In The Race To HBM4E? Design & Spec Changes In Rubin Platforms Can Give MI500 The Lead Based on recent reports, NVIDIA's upcoming Rubin and Rubin Ultra platforms are undergoing serious design and spec changes. These changes come ahead of the expected launch of the Rubin generation, which is going to uplift AI performance miles above Blackwell with new features, efficiency upgrades & brand new architectures. As per the rumors, NVIDIA […]

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As agentic AI now dominates the conversation when it comes to AI computing, investment bank Goldman Sachs is out with a report that agentic computing will drive a jump in token consumption. The bank believes that token consumption will grow 24 times by 2030 compared to 2026's figures as AI queries jump from five billion to 23 billion, driven particularly by non-human agents. Goldman Sachs Out With Optimistic Report About Agentic AI The central theme in Goldman Sachs' report concerns a rapid growth in the use of agentic AI. Agentic AI involves the use of software bots that compute through […]

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The volunteer team behind Skywind, the ambitious fan-made recreation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in Skyrim's engine, has released a new 33-minute development update video titled "Skywind 2026: The Road Continued". It's the first full-fledged developer update since 2024, and followers of this total conversion mod will be happy to learn that the numbers suggest the project is closer to completion than ever before. All of Skywind's approximately 3,000 NPCs have now been fully cast, a feat accomplished with the help of nearly 300 volunteer voice actors. Over 92% of those NPCs are fully recorded, meaning the voice acting pipeline, historically one of the most […]

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The industry’s first 2nm chipsets are launching later this year, with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro rumored on multiple occasions to take advantage of TSMC’s next-generation lithography. As expected, this manufacturing process is costly, with phone makers likely adopting these solutions in their absolute top-tier offerings, and in the middle of a DRAM crisis, their margins will be drastically affected. Fortunately, the latest rumor from a tipster states that Qualcomm will have plenty of options arriving this year for customers, allowing them to offer immense diversification of smartphone models in the fourth quarter […]

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There's no doubt that GTA 6 will attract an absolutely massive audience when it launches on November 19 across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. According to Circana's Matt Piscatella, though, a lot of casual gamers may be in for a rude awakening when they head to the store to buy one of those consoles and the game in six months' time. Speaking to The Game Business show, he said: Those folks who don't pay a lot of attention that have heard, okay, well GTA 6 is coming, but they're not really keyed in. That's a lot of […]

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Back in October 2024, 2K announced an upcoming title codenamed Project Ethos from developer 31st Union Studio, a team that was founded within 2K five years prior by former Visceral Games director Michael Condrey. After little to no update on the project six years after the studio's founding, Condrey was ousted as president, but 2K was insistent that Project Ethos was still in the works. Now, new studio head Ben Brinkman is just as insistent and confident that the game is still coming as he announces a round of layoffs at 31st Union. In a statement seen by GamesIndustry.Biz, Brinkman […]

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Intel is on a roll today as it has not only managed to bag a deal with Apple, but its cutting-edge Oregon Fab also got a visit by Elon Musk. Intel's 18A Fab in Oregon Sees a Surprise Visit by Elon Musk, Paving the Way for AI Chip Supply Allocation Ahead of TeraFab Bring-Up? A deal with Apple and now a visit by Elon Musk, today seems to be Intel's day. It is reported that Elon Musk has toured Intel's state-of-the-art Oregon fab, which is part of its Foundry business & producing cutting-edge chips such as Panther Lake CPUs on […]

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Unlike conventional DDR5 memory modules that need to push to 8000 MT/s manually, the GeIL Spear V can reach 8000 MT/s out of the box. GeIL Announces Spear V DDR5 Memory Ahead of Computex, Rated at 8000 MT/s Under Official JEDEC Standards Memory maker, GeIL, has reached a major milestone by achieving what conventionally was possible only through manual overclocking. Since the debut of the DDR5 memory standard, enthusiasts have been trying to push the DDR5 memory speeds beyond the official JEDEC standards, but the new GeIL Spear V DDR5 memory breaks that constraint. With the announcement of Spear V […]

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April had a few major game releases across PC and consoles with games like Pragmata, Saros, and Invincible Vs. all arriving within its 30 days, but a new report from Alinea Analytics points to only one of those games reaching near the top of the sales charts. While Pragmata reportedly made the top-five games sold across Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox, it was the recently released pirate adventure Windrose that landed at the top spot, with March's Crimson Desert slightly behind in second place. According to the report, despite only being available on Steam, Windrose was the best-selling game of the […]

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In what is nothing short of a veritable earthquake, Apple has finally signed a preliminary chip-making agreement with Intel, adding critical optionality within its supply chains at a time when TSMC's advanced node capacity largely remains choked. Apple and Intel formalize their rumored chip-making tie-up via a preliminary agreement According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple and Intel have now reached a preliminary agreement, whereby the silicon powering some of Apple's devices will be fabricated within Intel's fabs. It remains unclear at this stage exactly which Apple products will get their silicon from Intel. At any rate, the agreement is […]

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Intel and Apple have just entered a "preliminary" chipmaking deal, which will see the production of the A21 chips for MacBook Neo. Apple Wants Extra Supply For Its Highly Successful MacBook Neo Laptops & Intel Is Here To Save The Day Currently, Apple uses TSMC's N3B process technology to make its A18 chips, the ones that power the MacBook Neo and its iPhone 16 series. But the recent surge in MacBook Neo demand has prompted Apple to diversify its chip production strategy. As per the latest announcements just minutes ago, both Apple and Intel have reached a "preliminary" chipmaking deal […]

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The saga of Nacon's upheaval continues, as the French publisher has officially put another one of its subsidiary studios up for sale, and this time it's not one of the studios that already filed for insolvency. Midgar Studios, which is currently working on Edge of Memories, a game featured in yesterday's Nacon Connect 2026 event, is looking for a buyer. Spotted by French outlet Origami, a listing for the studio appeared online today, which, it's once again worth noting, is just one day after Edge of Memories held a major spotlight in Nacon's annual showcase event. It's not clear what […]

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SK Hynix is being crushed by massive memory demand, but investors are offering assistance to increase its production capacity. SK Hynix Memory Demand Swells, but It Is Wary of Investments Towards Its Production Capacity While Agentic AI shifts gears from GPUs to CPUs, the DRAM demand continues to remain high as both components require memory. SK Hynix, being one of the leading DRAM makers, is already facing severe production constraints. At the same time, SK Hynix is being approached by tech firms to invest in its chip production capabilities. As per Reuters, it is reported that tech firms, mainly in […]

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IO Interactive has updated the PC specs for 007 First Light once again ahead of the game's launch at the end of this month. Thankfully, the update doesn't return to the first iteration of the game's PC specs that would've had you go into debt just to afford the RAM required to run the game. Instead, it adds specifications for Enthusiast and Ultra settings, showing what you'll need to run the game at 1440p and 60 FPS or 4K at 60 FPS. Everything save for Ultra requirements has stayed at 16GB of RAM, with the recommended CPUs staying the same […]

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