The specifications area for its flagship smartphones is where Samsung has been criticized for taking a backseat, allowing Chinese competitors to overtake the company in this specific area. Fortunately, the company is introducing a major storage upgrade for its Galaxy S27 lineup that’ll make them much faster and more responsive than previous launches, not to mention provide a major boost for AI-related operations. In short, a 2nm chipset upgrade isn’t the only change that buyers will look forward to next year. Some Galaxy S27 models are to be equipped with Samsung’s next-generation UFS 5.0 storage, but no major changes to […]

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The past several months haven’t been kind to Verizon Chief Executive Officer Dan Schulman, who has had to brave through widespread network outages, layoffs, and other hardships to ensure that the biggest network in the U.S. doesn’t lose its grip on that title. However, when speaking at the Semafor World Economy conference held in Washington, Schulman implies that a mindset change in the way customers are treated is required to ensure the network’s longevity. Schulman also states that while Verizon is objectively the best network, all the basic stuff to improve the experience is required, as that’s where the competition […]

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This ultra-compact mini PC is available in various configurations, ranging from entry-level 6-core to high-end 16-core Panther Lake chips. MSI Introduces Panther Lake-Based Ultra-Power-Efficient and Ultra-Compact Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG Mini PC, Starting at $569 Popular hardware manufacturer, MSI, has launched its latest Intel Panther Lake-based mini PC called Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG, which is one of its most compact mini PCs yet. Aimed at enterprise and business environments, the Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG brings a powerful configuration in a tiny box that measures just 0.51 liters in volume. The machine is super lightweight and incredibly small, making it easier […]

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Another golden opportunity presents itself in the form of the AirPods Pro 3, Apple’s latest and greatest wireless in-ear earbuds, which launched at $249 and are now available for $199.99 on Amazon, making it yet another time that these earphones have dropped down to their best price yet. While we agree that Sony’s WF-1000XM6 are truly remarkable alternatives, even with a 10 percent discount, these are listed for $298 on the online retailer, making the AirPods Pro 3 a much better option by miles. Apple uses the same H2 on the AirPods Pro 3 as it has on the AirPods Pro […]

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NVIDIA CEO has stated that even if AI didn't exist, his company would've still been huge, but says that he is happy for the fact that AI is a reality. NVIDIA CEO Talks AI, Competition, China, & Supply Chain Moat In Podcast, Says Accelerated Computing Has Been Their Secret Sauce In a podcast with Dwarkesh Patel, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang talked about several aspects of the company. He emphasized NVIDIA's strategy in becoming a global AI superpower, while also talking about the various aspects, such as the tightening competition from ASICs, the role of China, and the supply chain moat. […]

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The entire computer industry is sweating profusely over the existence of the MacBook Neo, because Apple’s competitors are well aware that they cannot materialize anything that can compete with the Cupertino giant’s portable in the $599 bracket. It appears that the company’s only rival at this time is demand and how well it can maintain shipments in these few months. Education is a massive target market for Apple, and it has highlighted just how well the MacBook Neo is selling in its latest promotional video. The MacBook Neo is selling exceptionally well, to the point that Apple has had to […]

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T-Mobile has reportedly terminated its free in-flight Wi-Fi service for businesses, replacing it with a paid tier that entails relatively slower speeds, as per anecdotal evidence. T-Mobile's double-whammy: Free in-flight Wi-Fi for enterprise customers ends, paid service reportedly entails slower speeds As per a T-Mobile notice that is doing the rounds on Reddit, T-Mobile has apparently ended its free in-flight Wi-Fi service for some enterprise customers. The message reads: "Due to changes in airline Wi-Fi programs, free in-flight Wi-Fi may no longer be available on some flights and airlines starting April 13, 2026." Do note that T-Mobile offers its free […]

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Following the recent debut of PRAGMATA and Resident Evil Requiem, the first two RE Engine games to support path tracing, CAPCOM's GDC 2026 presentation titled 'Real-Time Path Tracing in RE ENGINE for Resident Evil Requiem and PRAGMATA' is well worth exploring. The presentation is available on the NVIDIA Game Developer YouTube channel, and that's no coincidence: NVIDIA helped a great deal with the addition of path tracing to CAPCOM's engine. Indeed, the two speakers were Hitoshi Mishima from CAPCOM's RE Engine team, who covered the architectural and artistic implementation, and Calvin Shu, a NVIDIA GeForce developer technology engineer who covered […]

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The flagship Zen 5 X3D chip gets benchmarked ahead of the official launch and here's how it performs with air cooling. AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Appears on HWBot for the First Time in 7-Zip and Cinebench Benchmarking The fastest Zen 5 X3D chip has already been tested by someone, as can be seen from the uploaded benchmarks on HWBot. AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, which was revealed two weeks ago, was tested by a Bulgarian user, "Stoikov". There are currently four benchmarks available on the HWBot website, including 7-Zip, Cinebench 2026 Single and Multi-Threaded, and Cinebench R23 Multi-core. The […]

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Intel's Xe3P graphics architecture will focus on Crescent Island discrete GPUs for AI & Workstation, while missing out on the Arc gaming family. Intel Xe3P Goes Pro & AI With Crescent Island Discrete GPUs, Arc Gaming Lineup Missing In Action Intel's Xe3 GPU architecture has been phenomenal for Panther Lake CPUs, and as the blue team continues to develop its graphics architectures, there's some good news and bad news for the next-gen discrete GPU family. According to Jaykihn, Intel's Xe3P, the successor to Xe3, will feature discrete GPU options. These graphics series will be branded under the Crescent Island lineup. […]

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In an era of price gouging and intentional sabotaging of one's competitors, as Apple appears to be doing right now, Qualcomm is seemingly taking the rare moral high ground by eschewing deliberately hobbling the vanilla Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip just to push OEMs towards its pricey 'Pro' counterpart. Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip appears good enough for most OEMs, muddying the demand outlook for its Pro variant The Weibo-based tipster, Digital Chat Station, has just penned an interesting post, highlighting the minimized disparity between the vanilla Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip and its Pro counterpart […]

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Apple intends to equip the iPad Air with an OLED screen as soon as next year, harmonizing the display specs of the entire iPad lineup with the exception of the base iPad, which will continue to sport an LCD screen for now. Apple to launch an OLED iPad Air as soon as 2027, with the production of the new display panels slated to commence by late 2026 or early 2027 According to ETNews, Apple will transition the iPad Air to an OLED screen by early next year, with Samsung Display expected to commence the mass production of these display panels […]

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Apple is viewing the ongoing AI-driven crunch in memory capacity as a strategic opportunity and a cudgel of sorts to beat back upstart competitors, as per the gist of a new research note from Daishin Securities. Apple is using strategic levers to gain an advantage over its competitors as the ongoing memory crunch continues to unfold, as per a new research note from Daishin Securities We reported on supply chain chatter in early April, suggesting that Apple was actively buying up "all available mobile DRAM on the market" to prevent its competitors from securing enough memory chips. Well, Daishin Securities […]

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In a roundtable interview attended by Gamesradar, Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard defended the developer's latest titles, Starfield and Fallout 76. When one of the interviewers pointed out that they were more divisive among gamers than all-time classics like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Howard suggested that even the early stages of now-acclaimed franchises like Elder Scrolls and Fallout were a bit divisive, until the franchises found their groove and a dedicated audience. The game designer also noted that both Starfield and Fallout 76, the studio's first sci-fi game and first multiplayer game, have eventually found their niches. If you […]

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Right before the PlayStation 5's latest price increase went into effect on April 2, sales of the Sony current-generation console peaked in the United States according to data provided by Circana's Matt Piscatella, indicating how real the fear of price increases is for consumers in the US. “US weekly unit and $ sales of PlayStation 5 hardware reached 2026 highs during the week ending April 4th, as price increases loomed,” wrote Piscatella on Bluesky. “US spending on video game hardware for the week nearly doubled when compared to the same week a year ago.” Unfortunately, Circana's Video Game Industry Advisor […]

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Nintendo has two sides -- there's the company that makes broadly appealing, polished entertainment like Mario and Zelda, and then there's that weird side that makes stuff like Tomodachi Life. While the last Tomodachi Life was a surprising success, moving nearly 7 million units on the 3DS, not many expected a follow-up to the Mii-focused life sim, as it kind of felt like the series’ time had come and gone. There's no keeping the weird side of Nintendo tamped down, though, and so, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, a game in development in one form or another for nine years, […]

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The market isn't apparently ready for lower capacity storage drives, but for most, lower RAM capacity is still acceptable. Lexar Says Demand for Smaller Capacity SSDs Have Dwindled While Smaller RAM Capacity RAM Kits are Still Popular Not every component has the same influence when it comes to building a PC. While RAM and SSDs have both gone insanely expensive in recent months, their influence varies when it comes to what gamers prefer. RAM shows a clear impact in gaming and non-gaming workloads, but storage drives contribute much except for faster loading times. Irrespective of that, faster SSDs are always […]

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Very early this year, The Blood of the Dawnwalker developer Rebel Wolves confirmed that their debut dark fantasy action RPG would release in 2026. Now, after a few months of silence, the CEO, Game Director, and Co-Founder Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has been interviewed on The Game Business Show, revealing that he is comfortable with the widespread comparisons to The Witcher games, especially after the successful focus tests. He also shared that the console versions are already shaping well, and he personally finished the whole game on a PlayStation 5. I'm really comfortable. I feel really confident about our game; we're already […]

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Something new could be coming to Dragon's Dogma 2. Although the game hasn't received a significant update in a long time, some recent discoveries made by the community via SteamDB suggest that those who believed CAPCOM teased an expansion last month may not have been too far off the mark. As spotted by Reddit user Professional-Bank469, a new 77 GB depot was recently uploaded. This massive depot was quickly removed and then updated again with smaller depots weighing 115 and 291 KB. What makes this notable is the comparison between the game's file size and the size of the now-removed […]

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The next entry in the God of War series, directed by Cory Barlog, will be an expansion of the series' universe and the first one to not feature Kratos as a protagonist. According to new reports from Mp1st and Reddit, this yet-to-be-announced game will see players explore other mythologies and have some rather weird companions, including a talking sword and a “gelatinous cube.” The first new rumor about the next entry in the series, long said to be a new IP, came from Reddit user IntrinsicGamer, who penned a report back in 2023 about the game. In their follow-up, the user revealed some additional information: […]

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It's disappointing to see GPU manufacturers cutting supply for some of their GPUs, but thankfully, the higher VRAM capacity variant isn't affected. NVIDIA Expected to Temporarily Halt Supply for RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB GPU for Two Weeks, Starting Late April The uncertainty keeps affecting components that depend on DRAM and SSD or both. With increasing prices for DRAM and SSD components, many have revised the prices of their products multiple times. These include various consumer electronics, such as popular laptop series like the Microsoft Surface series, pre-built PCs, and graphics cards that have gone pricey in recent months due […]

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The latest HWiNFO software version has added support for the upcoming AMD chips, which points at the Zen 6 lineup. Latest HWiNFO Software Version Rolls Out, Featuring Support for Zen 6 AMD CPUs/APUs; Adds RTX 5060 With GB205 Die As Well Popular hardware monitoring tool, HWiNFO, just got its latest update, and before you panic, let me tell you that HWiNFO isn't flagged with malware like CPUID's tools, like CPU-Z and HWMonitor. HWiNFO's latest version 8.46 rolled out with some crucial updates, offering new functionalities and enhancements for modern hardware. Apart from adding support for the latest and upcoming hardware, […]

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This morning, South Korean developer Pearl Abyss announced that Crimson Desert has now surpassed 5 million copies sold to date across all platforms. The game launched across PC, Mac, and consoles on March 19, so the milestone was reached in less than a month. It's an impressive figure, to be sure, and the pace remains strong. Pearl Abyss had already boasted 3 million units sold in the first week. Over time, Pearl Abyss has also been addressing some of the launch issues. For example, the game did not even launch on Intel Arc graphics cards at first, prompting the developer […]

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Yesterday, Ubisoft kicked off a behind-the-scenes video series dedicated to its Anvil Engine, which is mainly used to make the company's Assassin's Creed franchise. The latest iteration of the saga, Assassin's Creed Shadows, introduced several technological improvements that made it a stunning technical showcase upon release. With this behind-the-scenes video series, Ubisoft aims to delve into the key innovations introduced to Anvil, starting with Atmos. Atmos is Ubisoft's physically based weather simulation system built into the Anvil engine for Assassin's Creed Shadows. Rather than using pre-baked or downloaded weather states, it simulates atmospheric conditions in real time, propagating physical quantities […]

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Elon Musk has shared the very first update on the Tesla A15 chip, confirming its successful tape out & plans for A16 and Dojo3. Elon Musk Shares First Pictures of Tesla A15 After Successful Tape Out, The Road Ahead Includes A16 & Dojo3 In the latest update on X, Elon Musk has congratulated the Tesla AI team on the successful tape out of its A15 AI chip. Elon has also shared pictures of the chip, featuring a large primary die in the middle that will handle all of the compute and 12 DRAM modules on the outskirts, offering high capacity […]

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AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU is now available for pre-orders in China ahead of its 22nd April launch. You Can Now Pre-Order AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU In China - Deposit ¥100 & Get ¥300 Paid Back Towards The Final Price The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU is coming and finally bringing dual 3D V-Cache dies to the mainstream AM5 platform. The launch has been much-awaited, and a few days back, AMD confirmed the price of the chip, which will be set at an MSRP of $899, making it the most expensive AM5 […]

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Unigen's latest AI module runs on a standard M.2 slot and offers up to 60 TOPS, 32 GB memory, & can run up to 20B parameter LLMs. Unigen Amaretti AI Module Packs a 60 TOPS NPU, 32 GB Memory, & Consumes Just 10W Power On A M.2 or E1.S Slot With the rise of local AI agents, many companies are putting out some unique AI products. Unigen is one of these manufacturers that has announced the Amaretti E1.S AI module, a tiny M.2-compatible module that looks like a regular SSD but houses some strong AI capabilities. The Unigen Amaretti E1.S […]

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NVIDIA has introduced Ising, its newest OpenAI models designed to make Quantum Computers useful and faster with brand new capabilities. NVIDIA Ising AI Models For Quantum Computers Bring Up To 3x Performance Boost Quantum Computing has been cited as the next frontier of computing for decades. Several companies have been trying to perfect quantum computing for years now, and only now have a few started to break the code. NVIDIA already offers an open-source development platform for quantum computing called CUDA-Q. The platform is "qubit-agnostic" and works seamlessly with QPUs and Qubit Modalities. Today, NVIDIA is announcing its first family […]

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Meta will fulfill its massive AI demands by co-developing multiple next-gen AI Silicon "XPUs" with Broadcom. Meta & Broadcom Partner To Develop A Multi-Gigawatt AI Ecosystem Powered by Custom AI Silicon "XPUs" Last month, Meta announced four AI chips featuring a custom design for its AI tasks. These XPUs (chips with multiple IPs) were branded under the MTIA AI lineup & each chip is optimized for a specific workload that spans GenAI inference, General-Purpose, and Training tasks. The four chips are listed below with their specs: Metric MTIA 300 MTIA 400 MTIA 450 MTIA 500 Workload Focus R&R Training General […]

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The failure rate of NVIDIA's 16-Pin connector GPUs should be the primary reason why the company's warranty claims have increased by 1000%. With A Share of Over 90% In The Discrete GPU Segment, NVIDIA Witnesses A Massive Surge In Warranty Claims That Could Be Linked To Its New 16-Pin Connector Products NVIDIA's warranty expenses have seen a drastic rise over the past three years, as Warranty Week reports an unusual rise in the company's warranty claims and accrual rates. It is reported that NVIDIA's warranty claims increased ninefold, whereas AMD's warranty claim rates increased by two-thirds during the 2024-2025 period. […]

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As the United States continues to hammer down trade restrictions on China, YMTC has decided to uplift the chipmaking capacity by building new fabs. China & US Trade Wars Continue, In the Midst, YMTC Decides To Double Its Production Capacity With Two Brand New Chipmaking Factories The semiconductor industry is currently facing a trade war between two giants. On one hand, there's the United States, and on the other, there's China. From export restrictions to the banning of necessary tools that are required for making chips, the United States is trying to ensure that China doesn't get bleeding-edge materials and […]

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The Mac lineup will obtain a mammoth advantage over the competition because Apple has kept its prices in check, but this isn’t the only lineup the company is focused on. According to the latest rumor, the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max could become two of the most popular flagships on the planet because, where rivals are introducing price hikes left, right, and center, Apple is rumored to introduce a price freeze. However, there’s a catch, but not a terrible one: those who are used to picking out their favorite color options might be left sorely disappointed. iPhone 18 […]

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Path of Exile 2 is developer Grinding Gear Games' self-dubbed "next generation action RPG," and this round-up will take you through everything you need to know about the game between its early access launch, to 1.0, and beyond. After getting announced all the way back in 2019, Path of Exile 2 arrived in Early Access in December 2024 after it was delayed from its initial November 2024 release window. When it arrived a little more than a year after Diablo IV, comparisons between the two ARPGs were all over the place. But at least at the time of its early […]

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Starfield finally made its (somewhat inevitable) arrival on PS5 last week, alongside the launch of its Free Lanes update and the Terran Armada DLC expansion, and in its first week on PlayStation, according to a new report from Alinea Analytics, the game has managed to sell 140K copies. Not a bad start when you look at it on the surface, but Alinea's report seemingly proves that Starfield is mid. Or at least its PS5 launch sales are, compared to other Xbox Game Studios-published games that have arrived on PS5 within the last six months. Compared to The Outer Worlds 2, […]

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Today's exclusive interview is a bit different from the usual because it is focused on a company called Wolfjaw Studios that is probably unknown to most gamers but still powers many of the most played online games, including the likes of NBA 2K, WWE 2K, Destiny 2, Marathon, Among Us, and Magic: The Gathering Arena. Founded in 2019 by Mitchell Patterson (following a conversation at TwitchCon 2018), Wolfjaw was built from scratch around a single, focused ambition: to establish backend development as a distinct, mission-critical discipline within game development, rather than an afterthought bolted on after the "real" work was […]

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Even though Samsung has now ended the production of its triple-folding Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone, its successor might already be in the works and would likely bear a wide form factor popularized by the upcoming iPhone Ultra, as per the insights gleaned from Samsung's patents. Samsung's patents hint at an upcoming successor to the now-defunct Galaxy Z TriFold, albeit in a wide form factor We already know that Samsung has been working on a Galaxy Z TriFold 2, which is expected to sport a more refined hinge mechanism, one that is lightweight and ultra-thin, allowing the South Korean behemoth to […]

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Apple's smart investment in Globalstar now stands to yield a sizable return, while allowing for a significant expansion in the iPhone's satellite-based connectivity features further down the line, courtesy of the $11.5 billion acquisition deal between Amazon and Globalstar. Apple will not only recoup its investments in Globalstar and then some, but also benefit from the upcoming expansion in Amazon's Leo-branded constellation of satellites For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Apple acquired a 20 percent stake in Globalstar back in 2023 for $400 million, while also committing to injecting $1.1 billion in cash-based liquidity to expand […]

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EA and Full Circle have revealed a new Nike SB collab for Skate, as one of the most highly anticipated collabs finally joins the game. It also comes with a complete Nike-themed makeover to the Isle of Grom skatepark, and the introduction of Grom at night. The Nike event will be on from April 14 to May 5, during which all players will have access to the Isle of Grom. Afterwards, it's back to having to either buy a day pass to the island, or buy the premium Skate pass to access it. Which was the bit of the Isle […]

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A new report published today by market analyst firm Newzoo suggests a structural shift in the PC and console gaming market: while the biggest AAA titles still dominate, a growing share of both playtime and revenue is flowing to games ranked outside the Top 20, with the trend most pronounced on the PC platform. The headline figure is striking. In Western markets (US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain), titles ranked 21st and below accounted for 56% of total PC gaming revenue in 2025, up from 48% in 2022. That means the majority of money spent on PC games now goes […]

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Another batch of games has been confirmed to include support for NVIDIA's DLSS upscaling technology, with this list including some games that are out in a matter of days, like Pragmata, and others that have just been announced and won't release for a while, but will still arrive with support for the upscaler at launch. Starting with the games due to release soon, as previously mentioned, Capcom's latest release, Pragmata, will launch with support for NVIDIA's DLSS Multi-Frame Gen support. It'll also support DLSS Ray Reconstruction and NVIDIA Reflex, all of which will be at their best on NVIDIA's latest […]

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Last year, Samsung employees went on a strike for the first time in five decades. Now, these unionized workers are back at it, threatening a much longer, 18-day protest-led work hiatus. At the heart of this issue lies a perception mismatch, where Samsung is seen ripping off its workers to earn ginormous profits. The question remains: who will blink first? Samsung is seen as short-handing its workers, and those employees are now pushing back According to the Korea Herald, Samsung's union workers are currently demanding 15 percent of the company's annual operating profit, which amounts to around $30 billion, in […]

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Last week, following an in-depth analysis of the PlayStation 6 bill of materials and potential pricing, speculation about a PlayStation 6 "lite" model powered by the APU of the Canis handheld began circulating. Some suggested this model could launch at a lower price than both the home and portable consoles. However, the chances of this happening are nonexistent, as such a model would be a “nightmare” for developers, according to what AMD leaker KeplerL2 said on the NeoGAF Forums. After reacting positively to a post from another user who highlighted how the existence of this third PlayStation 6 model is a complete fabrication, the leaker replied to a […]

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Bungie has pushed its mid-season refresh update for Marathon, which comes with a lot of balance tweaks to weapons, Runner Shell abilities, equipment, and weapon mods, while also introducing tweaks to progression. There's also yet another experimental queue getting added to the game as the Duos experiment comes to a conclusion. If you want to dig into all of the tweaks and changes, big and small, you can check them out in the patch notes here. As you can imagine, there are several worth highlighting, so let's begin with some of the bigger changes impacting the game overall, before digging […]

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Xbox's multiplatform pivot led to the successful release of multiple former console exclusives such as Starfield on other consoles, but it seems like the new company leadership is considering returning to console exclusives, so much so that “there are very, very big discussions internally” on the matter, according to what Windows Central's Jez Corden said during the latest episode of the Xbox Two podcast. The debate stems from a growing perception that consumers are consistently steered away from Xbox hardware because “all the games are on PlayStation.” Corden noted that while releasing games on competing consoles works well, as some games […]

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With every qualifying purchase of a GeForce RTX 50 series card, NVIDIA will now provide a free game code for PRAGMATA. NVIDIA to Bundle PRAGMATA With GeForce RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards, Including Desktop and Laptop Series GPUs If you have been waiting for a GPU upgrade, this might be an excellent time to buy a GeForce RTX 50 series GPU. While the prices for most RTX 50 series cards are high due to market volatility, with every qualifying purchase of the RTX 50 series cards, users will now get the latest game PRAGMATA for free. NVIDIA just announced the […]

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WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers, the Soulslike action game from developer Leenzee Games and publisher 505 Games didn't exactly set the Soulslike world on fire when it arrived last year, but it wasn't the biggest disappointment either. Regardless, it seems like we won't see Leenzee take another kick at the can, as the studio's core development team has reportedly dissolved following the departure of its lead director. According to SavePoint Gaming (via Eurogamer), producer and director Xia Siyuan was let go from the studio amidst a change in its top-end leadership. Per multiple reports from Chinese outlets including GamerSky, the new regime […]

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The new IPS gaming monitor caters to gamers who want to afford a high-refresh-rate operation without breaking the bank. Philips Introduces Evnia 27M2N5201P 27-inch IPS Gaming Monitor, Featuring 260 Hz Refresh Rate, 1ms GtG Response Time, and HDR10 Support at $215 Popular monitor maker, Philips, has introduced a new affordable offering for gamers that are on a tight budget, but want some competitive specifications for fast-paced gaming. Most budget gaming monitors these days offer over 200 Hz refresh rate under $200, and the newly launched Evnia 27M2N5201P can touch 260 Hz refresh rate for ultra smooth gaming experience. The Evnia […]

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NVIDIA is reportedly preparing two new models of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti & RTX 5060 graphics cards, now equipped with 9 GB memory. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 Ti & RTX 5060 GPUs Will Soon Get 1 GB Extra Memory At The Expense of Bandwidth Recently, it was reported that NVIDIA is working on a 9 GB variant of the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card, but it looks like more models are on the way with increased memory capacities. As per the latest report from Chinese Board Channel forums, NVIDIA is preparing to add two new models to its GeForce […]

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Current-generation smartphones are equipped with a small Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that occupies a small portion of the SoC and is required to share the CPU’s and GPU’s power budget. Naturally, this approach constrains the computing capabilities of the NPU, which is why an analyst states that Qualcomm and Chinese firms CXMT and GigaDevice have collaborated to develop a standalone solution that leverages 3D DRAM to handle more demanding AI tasks while operating efficiently. The advanced NPUs will have a higher memory bandwidth than the LPDDR5X standard, thanks to TSV and Hybrid Bonding As TF International Securities’ analyst Ming-Chi Kuo […]

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ARM's recently announced AGI CPU powers Agentic AI & Telcom in a new partnership with SK Telecom & Rebellions. ARM, Rebellions & SK Telecom Collaboration Delivers Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Agentic AI & Telcom Needs Press Release: Rebellions, a global leader in AI inference infrastructure, announces a collaboration with SK Telecom (SKT) and Arm to develop AI inference infrastructure designed to support sovereign AI and telecommunications-focused AI data centers. Through this collaboration, the companies plan to develop an AI server combining Arm AGI CPU, the first Arm-designed data center CPU, with Rebellion’s AI chips. The system will be validated in SKT’s […]

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Today, Ukrainian developer GSC Game World has revealed more details about the next free STALKER 2 update, Sealed Truth, which will launch alongside the new Cost of Hope DLC. According to GSC, this content update expands the world of STALKER 2 Heart by offering a meaningful story encounter that ties into the deeper mysteries of the X-18 lab. It's also a sort of thank-you to the community for sticking with the Zone. X-18 was previously visited during the base game's main quest "Answers Come at a Price", in which the main character Skif fights through bandits to reach it, but […]

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Almost every major OEM has announced price hikes for its products, and laptops have suffered quite a bit in recent weeks. Microsoft Blames Higher Memory and Component Costs for Its Decision to Increase Prices for All Surface Laptops The continued rise in RAM and SSD prices is not sparing any device in 2026, and once again, we are seeing one of the major OEMs planning a price hike in the coming days. Almost all major vendors have announced a price hike at least once in 2026, but some have revised their product prices multiple times throughout Q1 2026. Microsoft is […]

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Popular mini PC and eGPU maker has debuted its most powerful high-performance AI mini PC, powered by the flagship AMD Zen 5 mobile chip. OneXPlayer Debuts Ryzen AI Max+ 395-Powered ONEXStation Mini AI PC With Up To 128 GB Memory and 8 TB Storage Popular console and eGPU maker, OneXPlayer, has introduced a powerful mini PC, featuring the flagship AMD Zen 5 mobile chip. The ONEXStation Mini AI PC now sits as the most powerful mini PC offering in the OneXPlayer catalog, offering the best possible configuration for users who need powerful computing and AI prowess. ONEXStation AI Mini PC […]

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The small amount of success that companies like Samsung, Motorola, and Google are enjoying in the U.S. will be put to a screeching halt thanks to Apple and its iPhone Fold launch that’s slated for a launch later this year. As the Cupertino firm prepares an initial stock of 11 million units, the latest data states that the North American market is about to witness a major change in dynamics, all thanks to the iPhone Fold. In short, various Android foldable smartphone manufacturers had better come up with a plan and fast to counter the impending release. New estimates claim the […]

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In yet another interesting development in a lengthy ongoing legal struggle, KRAFTON has been removed from Subnautica 2's Steam page, where it had previously been listed as the game's publisher. Now, Unknown Worlds Entertainment is listed as both developer and publisher. The same actually happened for the Xbox version (Subnautica 2 will also launch on Xbox's early access equivalent, Game Preview) a few days ago. It is unclear whether this change was prompted by the recent judge's ruling that reinstated Ted Gill to the position of CEO. It's possible Gill made the change on his own, though speculation in the […]

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Well, first it was GPUs, then it was memory, and now it is CPUs, which are being affected by severe shortages due to the Agentic AI boom. Amazon & Cloud Providers Have Ran Out of CPUs As Agnetic AI Demand Enters Frenzy As Agentic AI takes the tech markets by storm, it is also becoming a nuisance for cloud providers and chipmakers who are failing to meet the growing demand at the very end. The market is yet to figure its way out of one shortage, and we are already looking at shortages related to a new tech component, & […]

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At CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Sony Pictures took the stage to drop an unexpected movie announcement: an R-rated Bloodborne animated film is in development by Jacksepticeye (Seán McLoughlin). The Irish content creator launched his channel nearly 14 years ago and now has over 31 million YouTube subscribers. He did a cameo in 2021's Free Guy movie with Ryan Reynolds, voiced a character in the Sonic Prime TV series, and was previously announced as an executive producer on Godmother, an indie ritualistic thriller written and directed by John Veron, which began production on December 2 in New Mexico. Jacksepticeye himself shared […]

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PetaIO, a Chinese storage solutions provider based in Nanjing, China, has unveiled its next-gen PCIe Gen6 SSDs with over 28 GB/s speeds. PetaIO Is Working On Domestic Chinese SSDs featuring 6nm PCIe Gen6 Tech With Up To 28 GB/s Speeds Micron recently stepped up to become the world's first storage provider to unveil next-gen PCIe Gen6 SSDs. While others are also gearing up to launch their respective Gen6 SSDs for the enterprise and AI segments, Chinese manufacturers are also ramping up their efforts to roll out Gen6 solutions. At MemoryS 2026, PetaIO was one such manufacturer that announced its upcoming […]

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Intel might be working on its most powerful iGPU for Desktops with the upcoming Nova Lake Desktop CPUs, tackling AMD's Ryzen APU dominance. Intel To Challenge AMD APUs with Its Own Powerful iGPU on Nova Lake Desktop CPUs Intel's Nova Lake CPUs were recently reported to feature a mix of Xe3 and Xe3P graphics architectures. The Xe3 architecture was going to be used on the iGPU, while the Xe3P architecture is said to be used by the media/display engine block. There are also going to be certain laptop variants that harness the full Xe3P architecture for both graphics and media/display. […]

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Intel's recently released Core Ultra 250K Plus CPU may not have a big GPU, but it's faster than a Steam Deck & plays games at 1080p. Intel's 4Xe Core iGPU On Core Ultra 250K Plus Is Very Usable With Faster Than Steam Deck Perf, & Offers AV1 Encoding Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs come with a 4 Xe core iGPU. This configuration is enabled on all chips, including the recently released Core Ultra 200S Plus offerings. Overclocker, Alva Jonathan aka Lucky_n00b, took the Intel Core Ultra 250K Plus for some tests and found out the iGPU to be very usable. First […]

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Details of Intel's Nova Lake Desktop CPU lineup, Die & SKU configurations have been revealed, with the Core Ultra Series 4 family going for some big upgrades. Intel Nova Lake "Core Ultra Series 4" CPU Lineup Is Looking To Be A Return To Form For Chipzilla On Desktops Recently, there have been a lot of leaks surrounding the Intel Nova Lake CPU family. The lineup is going to be featured under the "Core Ultra Series 4" family with a brand new architecture, a new platform, and lots of new capabilities. Starting with the main changes, the Intel Core Ultra Series […]

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ASUS has prepared a new Mini-ITX AM5 motherboard, the TUF Gaming B850I WIFI NEO, for budget-tier Ryzen PC builds. ASUS's TUF Gaming B850I WIFI NEO Motherboard Is Catered Towards Budget Mini-ITX Ryzen Builders Motherboard makers have been making some really impressive, cost-effective motherboards based on the AM5 socket for budget-tier Ryzen PC builders. We have seen and tested a lot of these designs over the past few months, and it looks like ASUS has a new product for SFF PC builders. The company has just introduced its latest addition, the ASUS TUF Gaming B850I WIFI NEO, which is a Mini-ITX […]

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If you have the kind of market heft that Apple currently commands, you quickly become accustomed to getting your own way. It is, therefore, a rare supplier indeed that is able to stand its ground against Apple, and Largan appears to have done just that. Apple allegedly receives a rare rebuke for demanding an increased supply of the variable aperture lens destined for the iPhone 18 Pro lineup According to the Asian publication Economic Daily, the supplier of variable aperture lens for the iPhone 18 Pro lineup, Largan, has reportedly rejected an Apple request to increase order volume. Largan has […]

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In an ailing industry, Microsoft just surrendered to the inevitable by implementing across-the-board price hikes for its Surface laptops, enhancing the already-sizable competitive advantage that Apple's MacBooks continue to enjoy over their Surface counterparts. Apple's MacBook lineup expands its competitive lead as Microsoft implements an across-the-board price hike for Surface laptops Microsoft has just raised the prices of its Surface laptops within the Microsoft Store, with third-party retailers also expected to follow suit. After these ill-timed price hikes, Apple's comparative price advantage has become crystal-clear. For instance, the 12-inch Surface Pro now starts at $1,049, while the 13-inch M4 MacBook […]

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Samsung's latest flagship, the Galaxy S26 Ultra, is selling out like hot cakes, and now, you can grab one of these at a very attractive discount, that too with a 1-year warranty. If you want higher savings, you can get them with the base model of the Galaxy S26 Ultra that ships with 256GB of internal memory If you are a discerning consumer of tech products, you can't do much better than the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. Powered by the industry-leading Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, the new S26 Ultra is blazing fast, while holding its own against […]

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The race to achieve chipset autonomy for Samsung began with the Exynos 2600, which is found in various Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+ models, and is the company’s first 2nm GAA SoC. Needless to say, the Korean giant has made up its mind to put all of its faith in Qualcomm and has decided to jumpstart its silicon division to ensure that it doesn’t need to rely on any other firm for this specific part. However, the Exynos 2600 would likely not have materialized if Samsung’s incessant mistakes had not led to a $3 billion loss last year in the […]

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When Blizzard announced it would be "dropping the 2" from Overwatch 2 and going back to just 'Overwatch,' it also confirmed that the long-running hero shooter would be coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 sometime this year. Now, we know exactly when the title that dropped its '2' will be launching on the console that gained one, and that's tomorrow, April 14, 2026, alongside the launch of Season 2 for the Reign of Talon. Blizzard detailed the arrival in a larger blog post about what's coming in Reign of Talon's Season 2, like the new Hero getting added to the […]

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One of the biggest supply constraints the AI industry faces is with advanced packaging, and given that every entity relies on TSMC, it appears the firm is gearing up to add significant capacity. TSMC's Advanced Packaging Supply Constraints Force the Firm to Rapidly Add New Capacity, or Risk Losing Customers We have discussed advanced packaging (AP) bottlenecks extensively on the website, but it is important to note that without adding new capacity, there is no other way to solve this bottleneck in the future. Based on a new report by Taiwan's CNA, it appears that TSMC is now ready to […]

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Yet another reliable rumor suggests Microsoft may lower the price of its Game Pass subscription service. Yesterday, we reported Jez Corden's claim that Microsoft may be considering dropping this year's new Call of Duty game from Game Pass. Today, The Verge's Tom Warren has shared the content of a leaked internal memo penned by new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma. According to Warren, Sharma made it clear to Xbox employees that there will have to be structural changes to Game Pass: Game Pass is central to gaming value on Xbox. It’s also clear that the current model isn’t the final […]

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Apple appears to be doubling down on Claude AI in its internal workflows, going so far as to penalize low token consumption, as per new anecdotal evidence. Some of Apple's internal teams now have a daily budget of around $300 worth of Claude AI tokens, with low token consumption increasingly singled out As per an anecdote, Apple's global sourcing teams on the business development side have received a daily budget of as much as $300 worth of tokens for Claude AI over the past few weeks. What's more, backfill requests are now increasingly predicated on a given team's overall AI […]

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"AI" is easily one of the most exhausted terms in tech right now. It’s a bit ironic, really, because the actual history of the field is far more interesting than the buzzword version you see on social media. Contrary to popular belief, AI isn't just one single invention, and it certainly didn't just appear out of thin air when ChatGPT launched. It is the result of a decades-long grind — a sequence of massive breakthroughs, dead ends, and total reinventions. We’ve watched the field pivot from machines trying to "think" using pure logic to statistical models that learn from raw […]

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While it's not as easy as changing a CPU cooler, it definitely works more effectively than you can imagine. Major Hardware Demonstrates "Superdome" Capabilities in CPU Cooling by Deploying 15 Fan Arrangement on His Chassis Enthusiasts do weird experiments, but they sometimes do work. Achieving high thermal performance is something most PC builders are after and from traditional air cooling to custom liquid cooling loops, enthusiasts have tried many, but not all. The YouTuber Major Hardware thought out of the box, and made something that few would have imagined. The YouTuber wanted to make a dome of over a dozen […]

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While NVIDIA has been mostly keeping itself away from the PC market in recent times, a new rumor suggests that the company might be looking towards an AIB acquisition. NVIDIA's Acquisition of an OEM Could Spearhead the Company's Entry Into the Laptop Segment, But Details Are Slim [Update - 4/14/2026] - NVIDIA has denied any such reports and offered us an official statement on the matter: “The media report is false; NVIDIA is not engaged in discussions to acquire any PC maker." NVIDIA rep to Wccftech The PC industry hasn't been in its best state recently, as AI and shortages […]

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Sometimes, a silly mistake like uploading incorrect payment details can end up costing you dearly. Just ask our 19-year-old protagonist, who has now racked up a bill of $838 on T-Mobile across 3 smartphones, an Apple Watch, 2 AirPods, and 1 tablet. A teenager is now on the hook for a T-Mobile bill of $838, with late-payment fees and activation charges adding to the ensuing excruciating financial pain We've sort of become accustomed to seeing teenage inanity. And today, we've received bucketloads of that stuff, courtesy of a new Reddit post. Basically, our protagonist typically pays the bills associated with […]

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IO Interactive's upcoming James Bond action-adventure, 007 First Light, is weeks away from its arrival on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S (its Nintendo Switch 2 version was delayed). But you can already go see how the game ends if you want to find it, as a new report from VGC reveals that what appears to be the last hour of the game's story, along with significant spoilers for other unreleased games, have leaked online thanks to the Indonesian Games Ratings System (IGRS). Gameplay footage sent to the IGRS by IO Interactive, so the IGRS could give 007 First Light […]

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It's good to see even workstation Intel Arc GPUs being able to play Crimson Desert, but the game shows some weird behavior. Crimson Desert Now Supports Intel Arc Pro B70 Workstation GPU, But Shimmering Ruins the Experience Except on Ultra Settings After nearly three weeks of launch, the latest Pearl Abyss title Crimson Desert received support for Intel Arc GPUs. The official notes for the latest game patch revealed that the game should now run on Intel Arc discrete and integrated graphics cards, and should also bring the XeSS 3 and Frame Generation support. Since Arc GPUs are categorized into […]

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On the eve of the current generation of consoles, CAPCOM announced a brand-new sci-fi intellectual property called PRAGMATA. It was the Japanese studio's first new global franchise since 2012's Dragon's Dogma, and a return to sci-fi for a studio historically more focused on other settings, such as zombie horror and fantasy. Following the initial trailer from PlayStation 5's The Future of Gaming event, though, PRAGMATA largely disappeared from radars. Its original launch window was 2022, but it wasn't until June 2023 that we got another trailer, and then there were two more years of silence. Finally, in June 2025, CAPCOM […]

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The Apple iPhone Ultra might well be one of the most anticipated consumer devices of the year, especially given the intriguing prospects of its revolutionary creaseless display, made all the more intriguing by the disappointing real-life results from Chinese competitors like the Oppo Find N6, whose foldable display crease gradually becomes more pronounced with time. Now, TrendForce has published an interesting report, noting that Apple might be pinning its hopes for a genuine creaseless foldable display on a specific glue. Apple's secret sauce for the iPhone Ultra's creaseless foldable display revealed in detail While declaring that Apple's iPhone Ultra will […]

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Rockstar, the studio behind several of the biggest video games of all time who will soon add another game to that list with the release of GTA 6 later this year, confirmed over the weekend that a group of hackers had indeed successfully stolen some measure of data from the company. The hackers are the ShinyHunters group, and they threatened to release the data if Rockstar didn't meet their demands for a ransom. ShinyHunters released a statement after it had obtained the data, which it seemingly did not by hacking directly into Rockstar, but by jumping through a loophole created […]

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[Update 2 - April 13, 10:15 AM] With Patch 1.03.00, Pearl Abyss implemented the Focus-Boost movement tech in Crimson Desert as an official skill called Focused Aerial Roll. Instead of consuming Stamina, however, it consumes Spirit. [Update - April 6, 5:04 AM] The Focus-Boost tech has been patched in game version 1.02.00. In this version of Crimson Desert, using Aerial Roll while in Focus cancels this state immediately, preventing you from using Unleash to gain a significant speed boost. Original guide follows. [Original] Crimson Desert features a lot of secret traversal and movement tech, such as a fast-travel trick based on […]

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With Linux 7.1, the focus will be more on improving and optimizing modern architectures. Early Linux 7.1 Patches Reveal a Major Cleanup and Modern CPU Enablement, and Driver Improvements for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA Hardware With the Linux 7.0 release, the merge window for Linux Kernel 7.1 has opened, and the new kernel is already getting readied through subsystem pull requests and feature-branch activity. The patches show that there will be another substantial update for the desktop and server users. While Linux 7.0 is just landing, developers are quickly moving toward the next merge window with changes that bring various […]

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Global AR smart glasses shipments are slowly picking up the pace, with several players like Meta, RayNeo, XREAL, and others poised to grow at an impressive rate, with this particular category estimated to witness a 98 percent year-over-year increase for H2 2025. Naturally, all of these companies needed to create a market to reach this stage, meaning the heavy lifting has already been done, giving Apple a tremendous opportunity to scale new heights with its first display-free AR glasses, which are scheduled to arrive in early 2027. Pricing to play a pivotal role in the success of Apple’s AR glasses, […]

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4A Games, the studio behind the beloved Metro series has announced the next entry, Metro 2039, with a full reveal set for this coming Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST, as part of an 'Xbox First Look' event. This comes after a rumor that a new Metro game would be revealed popped up at the end of last week, amidst rumors of a State of Play event also set for this Thursday. So while we don't have official confirmation yet about a State of Play event (which, as we said last week, likely […]

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One of the major display makers in China is planning to introduce a dual-mode monitor that can quadruple the refresh rate. TCL CSOT Reportedly Prepares 4X Refresh Rate Dual Mode Monitor, Featuring 160–640 Hz Refresh Rate If dual-mode monitors weren't sufficient for you, TCL CSOT might have something in the near future that will take these monitors to the next level. As per IT Home, TCL CSOT, a prominent display maker in China, has planned to introduce a dual mode monitor that can quadruple the refresh rate, unlike regular dual mode monitors that can only double it. The new monitor […]

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Samsung may have entered the 2nm race with TSMC, but it is far from competing with its rival on an even playing field, despite being considered a viable option for many customers. According to the latest report, the South Korean foundry has hit a progression barrier with its 2nm GAA technology, with the latest estimate stating that its yields remain in the mid-50 percent range. What’s worse is that the figure is expected to drop to 40 percent once back-end processes are completed. In short, the 60 percent yields of its 2nm GAA process may not have been accurate. 2nm yields in […]

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Constructing a notebook from a solid block of aluminum will always have the advantage of superior build quality over those plastic or hybrid options, which is why Apple’s MacBook lineup is considered the gold standard in this particular area. In yet another incident in which the machine came out relatively unscathed, a MacBook Pro owner states that the latter fell out of a backpack and down a 25-step staircase, with images showing it should have sustained more damage than it appears to have. The fall might not have inflicted any external damage, but there’s no confirmation of how bad the […]

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At 40 percent off, the ASUS Vivobook 14 offers a tremendous ‘price to performance,’ with Amazon’s discount sweetening the deal for those looking for a portable Windows 11 machine to keep as their daily driver. For $452.60, you get to be the proud owner of a notebook that’s equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chipset, coupled with ample memory and storage to sate your requirements. The latest deal on Amazon gives buyers $20 off Microsoft 365 for months, but there are other free options available Despite the fact that the MacBook Neo is selling in droves, if you want to save a […]

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Playground's long-awaited Fable reboot finally showed itself at length during January's Xbox Developer Direct, when the team also shared the planned Autumn 2026 launch window on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S and X. Autumn, however, is a pretty large window, not to mention one that intersects, at least in its latter half, with the release date of Grand Theft Auto 6, currently slated for November 19. Nobody really wants to be in the vicinity of Rockstar's title, which is practically guaranteed to suck all oxygen out of the gaming industry for a while. That might lead Playground to […]

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Apple's MacBook Neo appears to be heading towards an unqualified success, judging from the size of the rush orders that Apple is now reportedly placing with its suppliers to meet the oncoming demand. Apple is placing rush orders with its suppliers as the demand for the base MacBook Neo overwhelms existing inventory According to a Taiwanese publication, the initial stock of the MacBook Neo's base variant, which retails for $599, has run out, forcing Apple to place rush orders for additional units with Hon Hai (Foxconn) and Quanta. With the lead times for the base MacBook Neo already extending to […]

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Apple helping an Israeli incursion into the south of Lebanon by suddenly removing nearly every village and town in the area from Apple Maps was not on anyone's bingo card this weekend. Yet, this is exactly what appears to have occurred, either as a result of an error or a deliberate move to depopulate the region by virtual means. Apple Maps virtually depopulates the entire south of Lebanon As is evident from the X post above, Apple Maps has removed nearly every label for a town or village in the south of Lebanon while clearly preserving such labels for the […]

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The memory industry saw a rollercoaster ride in the past few weeks following the debut of Google's TurboQuant, but the idea of shortages being over is seen as a "misinterpretation", to say the least. Google's TurboQuant Isn't Slowing Down the Memory Supercycle At All; the Demand Will Stay For Several Quarters With DDR prices coming down over the past few days, we did discuss the role of Google's TurboQuant algorithm; however, tying it to the end of memory shortages was a mere misperception, according to The Financial Times' latest report. Following the blog post about TurboQuant, we saw a huge […]

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Apple is gearing up to give Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses a run for their money by launching a superior competitor, replete with a more premium build and greater design versatility, as per the latest Power On newsletter from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple's smart glasses to sport a premium build and greater number of design options vs. Meta's relatively more staid offerings, with launch expected by early 2027 Mark Gurman has disclosed today that Apple's upcoming display-less smart glasses will likely launch by early 2027, and come equipped with integrated cameras, microphones, and speakers, enabling the wearer to interact via an […]

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China's semiconductor industry could witness a potential shock, as US lawmakers are now moving towards banning the export of critical ASML equipment to the region. US Lawmakers Are Looking To Ban the Export of ASML's DUV Technology to China, Targeting Huawei, SMIC & Many Others China has been battling US export restrictions, particularly on the semiconductor front, for quite some time now, and the industry saw a massive downturn when the US administration imposed an indirect export ban on EUV equipment to China via the Netherlands' ASML. While this did prompt Beijing to bolster efforts to build a domestic chip […]

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A user reports how his CPU appeared as a bigger model in most hardware identifiers, but it wasn't the reality. CPU-Z, BIOS, and Even Windows Identified Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus as Ultra 7 270K Plus, Despite Showing 18-Core Configuration A Chiphell user reports that he recently purchased the Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus, a new Arrow Lake Refresh SKU that boasts more cores than the 245K. However, when he switched his motherboard from Colorful to GIGABYTE, an unusual behavior was observed. While his CPU box clearly mentions "Core Ultra 5 250K Plus", his CPU kept getting detected […]

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The timing of the Snapdragon X2 Elite could not have been more perfect, as the release of a significantly powerful chipset to take on Apple’s M5 series and x86 CPUs was only matched by how the Windows on ARM platform improved with more native apps available for the operating system. In short, developers are finally recognizing that Qualcomm’s latest and greatest SoC offers a decent footing for them to make the required effort towards optimizing their programs. Unfortunately, in the latest discussion on Reddit, OEMs using Snapdragon X2 Elite in their machines are targeting short-term gains rather than joining hands to […]

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It's a powerful GPU block for enthusiasts who wouldn't mind spending over $600 for the premium cooling experience it offers. Der8auer Demonstrates the Exceptional Cooling Performance of Deltamate GPU Block for ROG Astral RTX 5080 GPU; GPU Block Costs Over $600 The ROG Astral RTX 5080 GPU from ASUS falls under the high-performance/premium GPU category, but its stock cooler may not be very appealing to enthusiasts. If you are someone who already owns the Astral RTX 5080, then you should take a look at what Der8auer calls "The Most Ambitious GPU Water Block..." they (Thermal Grizzly) have ever built. This […]

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Following Microsoft's expensive acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the biggest question mark was whether the latter's most popular product, Call of Duty, would join Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft eventually decided to add new installments starting with 2024's Black Ops 6, developed by Treyarch and Raven Software. Right away, it broke franchise and Game Pass records, but later it became clear it wasn't such a good decision for the franchise. Now, according to Windows Central's Jez Corden, Microsoft might even remove 2026's Call of Duty from Game Pass. Speaking in his latest podcast, Corden said: It'd be interesting to see if they […]

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Apple’s biggest test in the foldable smartphone is to address a design problem that none of its competitors have scaled past; the crease. Despite the iPhone Fold being rumored to enter trial production at Foxconn, there have been multiple instances where the California-based giant has been reported to have faced problems and attempted to fix them using a different set of materials. These would not just strengthen the primary inner display but also prevent that crease from materializing. Given that Apple is a company that is under the scrutiny radar more often than its rivals, the longevity of the iPhone […]

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Well, you read the headline right, and we are talking about a critical element in AI chips that is not only in tremendous shortage but also originally comes from an MSG maker. Ajinomoto, the MSG Maker, Controls the Production of ABF That Is Absolutely Crucial For Advanced Packaging The aggressiveness of the AI demand cycle has left almost every supply chain entity involved facing shortages, whether in semiconductors, advanced packaging, OSAT services, and more. Traditionally, the computing industry has an idea of demand cycles, given how they have historically evolved, but with the AI datacenter buildout, the scale of customer […]

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Notebooks shipping with elaborate cooling solutions is exactly the path manufacturers should take so customers actually obtain the performance that they’ve paid a premium for. ASUS Zenbook 16 takes the correct approach to properly cool the extremely powerful Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, and it’s a lesson that Apple could strongly adhere to when introducing its newer MacBook Pro series. Remember, the company’s base M5 MacBook Pro handles all the heat with just a single fan, which is insufficient to tame the SoC. The Zenbook A16 takes it one step further by sporting removable storage, but ASUS still left out some valuable space […]

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The popular PS3 emulator is now closer to true plug-and-play disc backups as encrypted ISO support has been added to the utility. RPCS3 Removes the Requirement of Loading a Decrypted PS3 ISO and Can Now Directly Play Encrypted ISO Files The popular PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 continues to make steady progress in simplifying game loading. As one of the most popular PS3 emulators on the planet, RPCS3 has undergone several changes over the last decade and has brought major updates in the last few months. A few months ago, RPCS3 devs made it possible to directly load the game through […]

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In what might well turn out to be a watershed moment for the smartphone sphere at large as it continues to contend with a full-blown memory chip crisis, Qualcomm is now reportedly working with China's CXMT to develop custom mobile-centric memory solutions, hoping to ease the chronic bottlenecks that have nearly paralyzed the global mobile industry. Qualcomm and China's CXMT are now reportedly working together to create custom mobile-focused DRAM Back in February, Qualcomm had conceded during its earnings call that while the "majority" of DRAM that goes with Qualcomm's SoCs is purchased directly by its customers, the chip designer […]

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While memory shortages have been a problem for almost everyone, Samsung and other businesses have started to see revenue figures that would've never been anticipated a few years ago. Samsung's DRAM Business Alone Has Managed To Achieve $37 Billion In Q1, And The Growth Won't Stop Here DRAM has become a commodity in the AI industry, in high demand, and suppliers like Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron are unable to meet customer requirements, driving a wider shortage across the supply chain. With that, a report by Counterpoint Research has talked about Samsung's Q1 financial results, but the interesting parallel drawn […]

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In pure rasterization, the Radeon RX 9070 XT makes NVIDIA’s RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080 look overpriced because of its impressive gaming performance in the most demanding of titles, without charging that ‘flagship tax.’ AMD has truly delivered a wonder GPU, and what’s even better is that you can grab the XFX Quicksilver at a much lower $719.99 price, thanks to the $110 discount applied on Amazon. With the upgrade, you can say goodbye to those low framerates as the RX 9070 XT packs sufficient graphics horsepower and the VRAM to crank all of those visual settings to the maximum […]

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Finally, the game has received official support for Intel Arc GPUs as well as its upscaling technology and Frame Gen feature. Pearl Abyss Adds Support for Intel Arc GPUs, XeSS 3.0, and Frame Generation for Crimson Desert Three Weeks After Launch With the latest Intel Arc driver update released a few days ago, Pearl Abyss's Crimson Desert finally started to launch on Intel Arc GPUs, but the latest patches further optimize the compatibility. If you have been following the developments around the game, you might be aware that the Intel Arc GPUs weren't supported in Crimson Desert. After a huge […]

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At nearly $400, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D stands unmatched, and this is one of the best deals we have seen for this CPU this year so far. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Gets Closer to $400, Offering Much Better Value Than Ryzen 9850X3D for Nearly $100 Less There's no reason why you should buy the newer and marginally faster Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor when the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is available for $90 less. AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D remains the top choice on Amazon despite 9850X3D's presence in the market for a while. This is because there is hardly a 2-3% […]

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The Apple Silicon MacBook Pro range, armed with the latest chipsets and paired with faster flash memory and macOS, is a solid guarantee that the machine will be snappier than its competitors in the same price range. However, that’s not the case anymore with older MacBook Pro models. One owner shows that an M3 Pro version is slightly slower than ASUS’ Zenbook S16, which is equipped with AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 processor, in a basic app opening speed test. In short, Windows notebooks are keeping up the pace, but we’re still keen to find out how the same configuration would […]

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You might recall that just two short years ago in February 2024, Disney invested $1.5 billion in Fortnite maker Epic Games, with grand plans to create a persistent Disney universe within Fortnite based on Disney franchises. We've already seen part of this deal bear fruit with the introduction of Disnyeland in Fortnite, and according to a new report from Bloomberg, we're due to get the next fruit in November 2026. And according to the report, it's an incredibly significant release for Epic, because it is meant to mark the beginning of its comeback tour. Epic Games recently laid of 1,000 […]

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The foldable smartphone form factor was assumed by many to be the catalyst that succeeds the ‘candy bar’ shape that we’ve grown to own and love. Unfortunately, years have passed since Samsung introduced the Galaxy Fold, and this particular category still hasn’t been able to accumulate the required attention from the mass market. In short, customers aren’t too thrilled about spending thousands on a device that offers the same internal specifications but also has a smaller shelf life due to all the moving parts. Then again, they don’t carry the same iPhone Fold magic, which is why a rumor claims that […]

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At GDC 2026, Intel graphics engineer Marissa du Bois took the stage to present Intel's version of neural texture compression, very similar to NVIDIA's NTC in that both technologies are deterministic. The presentation was a follow-up to the original R&D prototype shown at GDC 2025, with the key news being that Intel has now productized that research into a standalone SDK. Texture Set Neural Compression (TSNC) is essentially a smarter way to store game textures. Traditional GPU block compression formats (BC1 through BC7) use fixed mathematical rules to reduce texture size, and while they're fast and universally supported, they leave […]

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So far this week, we've heard rumors about a new State of Play event set for next week, on April 16, 2026, and we've heard that the upcoming Assassin's Creed Black Flag Remake, officially titled 'Resynced,' will be fully revealed next week, on the same date. Now, a third rumor has entered the fray, this time claiming that 4A Games will reveal a new Metro game next week. This comes from AlexandreNGamR on X (formerly Twitter), who had also previously claimed that a State of Play is happening next week, which was corroborated by insider NateTheHate, who also elaborated on […]

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As endearing as Samsung is, it has a weird knack for tarnishing its image by artificially gating some features so as to nudge its customer base towards newer offerings. In doing so, the South Korean behemoth not only reeks of desperation but also risks alienating some of its most loyal customers. Samsung is perplexingly gating Buds 4 Pro's Super Wideband speech, excluding the S24 series, when the underlying hardware support exists One of the features of the Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro is its Super Wideband speech, which doubles the standard Bluetooth call bandwidth from 8kHz to 16kHz, resulting in […]

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Valor Mortis is the next game from One More Level, one of the studio's behind first-person fast-paced cyberpunk sci-fi action platformer, Ghostrunner. It was first revealed back at Gamescom 2025, where Wccftech's Francesco De Meo got to check it out and called it one of the best games at the showcase. Now, we're finally starting to get closer to its release, as One More Level reveals a new release window for Fall 2026. The news came as part of Valor Mortis' inclusion in the Triple-I Initiative Showcase 2026, where it showed off new gameplay and capped off the trailer with […]

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Apple is beginning to lay the critical groundwork for its next-gen custom chips, including a much-anticipated server chip, dubbed Baltra, as per a new analysis from Morgan Stanley Apple is increasing its reservation slots for TSMC's SoIC packaging tech in anticipation of its next-gen custom chips, including the Baltra ASIC Morgan Stanley has noted in a fresh analysis that Apple is "ramping up" SoIC-related activity at TSMC: "Apple is materially ramping SoIC capacity at TSMC, pointing to a major push in Apple silicon for AI servers. TSMC (covered by Charlie Chan) is expanding its SoIC (System on Integrated Circuit) capacity, […]

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Amazon announced more changes to its gaming-focused service, Amazon Luna today, after it re-launched the brand last year with a renewed focus on social and casual experiences like an "AI-powered improv courtroom game" featuring the rapper Snoop Dogg. Starting today, April 10, 2026, the platform will no longer let players purchase games from third-party stores or purchase subscriptions from third-party platforms. It will also stop supporting its Bring Your Own Library service, and no, you can't get a refund for any of your third-party purchases. In case you weren't already aware, Amazon Luna had previously allowed players to purchase games […]

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Amazon's CEO, Andy Jassy, issued a letter to shareholders about the company's custom chip business, and his words showed strong optimism about the in-house infrastructure stack. Amazon's Andy Jassy Hints Towards Selling Their Custom Silicon To External Customers, Given Their Internal Success There's no doubt that hyperscalers are experiencing what we call a 'compute crunch' today, with current infrastructure unable to meet the demand driven by AI and related services. We have seen giants like Amazon, Google, and Meta resort to custom silicon efforts as a way to address this gap in compute capabilities, but out of the bunch, Amazon's […]

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Samsung is not breaking the mold with any of its upcoming foldables, barring perhaps the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide, and the Galaxy Z Flip 8 is shaping up to be no exception, as per its latest CAD renders. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 resembles its predecessor down to a tee OnLeaks has now published some of the first CAD renders of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, showing a device that bears the dimensions of 166.8mm x 75.4mm x 6.6mm when unfolded and 85.4mm x 75.4mm x 13.2mm while folded. This means that the Flip 8 is just around […]

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Yesterday, we reported on accusations from former and current workers of Gunzilla Games that the studio had not been paying its workers, in some cases, "for many months." Several developers came forward to share that they are still waiting on pay owed for work they did, calling out the studio's leadership for trying to convince them to work for free to work towards 'an idea.' Well, the studio's leadership, chief executive officer Vlad Korolev has responded in a lengthy post on X (formerly Twitter), denying the accusations and calling them "a new narrative from haters." A brief reminder, Gunzilla Games […]

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The newest price cut observed by Amazon brings Apple’s 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro closer to an incredibly well-rounded machine that’s easier on the wallet because of the $200 discount. Now, you don’t just get a powerful portable Mac with 16GB of unified RAM, but the memory is paired with a 512GB SSD, all for $1,400. Now, is this a steal of a deal or what? The latest price plunge is the highest applied to the 14-inch M5 MacBook Pro, but the discount is only available on the Space Black version For the majority of users, the 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD […]

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Talk about the shortage? Micro Center seems to have plenty of memory and storage drives, but the volatile market keeps pushing the prices up. Micro Center Packed With SSDs And RAM Spotted Selling 2 TB SSD At $699, And 128 GB DDR5 Memory Kit At A Whopping $4199 Looks like some retailers have enough for their inventories, but you still can't escape the inflated prices. Micro Center is one of the major retailers in the US, and it usually prices its products pretty well. While you will mostly find cheaper hardware in the store, RAM and SSD remain out of […]

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The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro are expected to be exclusively mass produced on TSMC’s 2nm ‘N2P’ process, making it yet another year where Qualcomm and Samsung cannot come to terms on becoming partners. To be fair, it’s not the San Diego firm’s fault, as a new report states that even the Korean giant’s 2nm GAA node is running into stability issues, to the point that the technology cannot reach the desired benchmark. These limitations have apparently created a rift between the two companies, preventing them from forming a long-term foundry business. With the […]

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The PC industry is entering a 'tough period', as IDC warns that the upcoming quarters could be very difficult for both vendors and customers, due to the current market conditions. PC Shipments Did See a Modest Growth In Q1, Driven By Buyer Interest to Get Protection From the Upcoming Price Hikes The consumer market has been difficult to navigate for the past few months, as shortages of key components like CPUs, GPUs, memory, and SSDs have prompted retailers to hike prices, giving the impression that the shortages have been factored in. However, OEMs have now held off on price hikes […]

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Two of the most popular hardware monitoring utilities have been compromised as they have been flagged by Anti-Viruses with malware. HWMonitor 1.63 and CPU-Z Download Flagged as Malware; Users Report Unexpected Installer and Antivirus Warnings Some concerning reports regarding popular hardware monitor tools, HWMonitor and CPU-Z, have been surfacing on social media. According to the reports, users who are attempting to download their latest versions are receiving a suspicious installer flagged by Antivirus software. This raises concerns and puts millions of devices at risk as the download channels appear to have been compromised. The issue first surfaced on Reddit, where […]

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Like its predecessor, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie seems destined to go down as one of this year's most divisive films, which is kind of odd when you think about it. These generally inoffensive crowd-pleasing movies based on a near-universally-beloved IP, carefully shepherded by Shigeru Miyamoto himself, probably shouldn't be getting folks so riled up, and yet! Following in the footsteps of 2023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie, professional reviews for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie have been witheringly negative, and to listen to some folks, the flick represents nothing less than the demise of cinema. An egregious example of […]

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Dune Awakening developer Funcom has outlined some major changes coming to the game soon. First and foremost, there's the fact that the game is essentially pivoting to be PvE-first. Funcom said that over 80% of the game's players engaged only with Player-versus-Environment content, forcing the studio to rethink the existing convergence of PvE and PvP towards optional PvP. Starting in Patch 1.3.20.0, the following changes will be introduced to Dune Awakening: Another big news is that the long-requested self-hosted servers are finally on the way. The initial iteration, which will soon be available for testing, will require a few extra […]

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Due to current trade and economic tensions, the price of all computer hardware has been on the rise, including gaming systems such as the PlayStation 5, whose price has once again been increased this month worldwide. Due to these price increases, it has been heavily speculated that the PlayStation 6 will launch at a high price; however, according to an in-depth analysis of manufacturing data conducted by Moore's Law is Dead, the system's price will be pushed close to the $1000 range only if tariffs remain in place and if the current trade tensions do not ease up by the […]

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This morning, Phantom Blade Zero Game Director Liang Qiwei (known to the public as Soulframe) posted a lengthy letter on X about the studio's commitment to human artistry and creative expression over AI-generated content. Above all, though, it seems like the studio is quietly withdrawing support for the new NVIDIA DLSS 5 technology. Phantom Blade Zero was and still is officially listed among the first games to support NVIDIA DLSS 5, alongside AION 2, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Black State, CINDER CITY, Delta Force, Hogwarts Legacy, Justice, NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, NTE: Neverness to Everness, Resident Evil Requiem, Sea of Remnants, Starfield, The […]

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Following the first few patches, which focused mainly on bug fixes, Pearl Abyss has now outlined a brief roadmap of new content and feature additions coming to Crimson Desert between this month and June. To begin with, the South Korean developer will be adding difficulty settings to the game. Players will be able to choose between the three traditional presets of Easy, Normal, and Hard, therefore customizing their experience to be more or less challenging. Crimson Desert players will also be able to challenge bosses again and again after defeating them, thanks to the "boss rematch" feature. The goal, said […]

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Companies like Apple, Qualcomm, and MediaTek have benefited greatly from extending their partnership with TSMC, as not only have they developed the most cutting-edge smartphone chipset technology, but the level of performance is uncanny and would likely not be possible without the Taiwanese semiconductor behemoth providing its advanced nodes. Later this year, we shall bear witness to SoCs reaching clock speeds of 5.00GHz, making it the first time in history, with Huawei sadly unable to keep up with its rivals as it doesn’t have access to the foundry giant’s technology. Huawei didn’t jump into EUV lithography fast enough, as its […]

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A new report from The Hollywood Reporter reveals that a Metal Gear Solid movie is in development, with Final Destination duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein behind it. The film is part of a new set of movies Lipovsky and Stein will be making for Sony, as the pair have just been signed to Sony Pictures. Details on the film are still entirely unclear, though the promotional image from Columbia Pictures suggest that it'll be an adaptation of the first Metal Gear Solid game, though it's realistically all still up in the air at the moment. "Metal Gear Solid was […]

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While many of us rejoice when gamers get multiple RAM sticks despite ordering a single unit, this has been a nightmare for Amazon retailers, who, interestingly, cannot avoid it. Retailers Are 'Tired' By The Negligence of Amazon's Warehouse Staff, Saying That They Are Dispatching Entire Boxes of Components We have noticed a rather interesting trend among those in the PCMR: those who find it very appealing when Amazon screws up someone's package, ultimately benefiting them. We have reported numerous incidents where a particular buyer orders a unit of a PC component, prominently RAM or SSD, and in return, they manage […]

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Last month, Bungie released its first new game in years (which is technically just a reboot of an old series). Marathon, a new extraction shooter for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, takes the first sci-fi world Bungie created and brings it into the modern-day gaming landscape, and according to a new report from Paul Tassi at Forbes, Bungie put aside a fair chunk of change to make it. In a report going over the first month of Marathon being on the market and in players hands, at the end of a list of different metrics about the game, Tassi […]

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Evil Empire's new indie-focused event, the Triple-I Initiative Showcase premiered its 2026 edition today, and it was jam-packed with announcements from indie developers, some of which were brand-new world premieres for games, while others were highly-anticipated updates about previously revealed titles. This round-up will take you through everything that was announced at today's showcase, so you don't miss checking out any of today's announcements, some of which could very well be the defining indie games for 2026 and beyond. Everything Announced at the Triple-I Showcase

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More vendors are coming to rescue the burning 16-pin connectors, and ASUS's latest innovation tries to do it outside of the PSU and the GPU. ASUS Launches ATX 3.1 and PCIe 5.1-Compliant ROG Equalizer Cable to Balance Load Across All Pins on 16-pin Power Connector Since NVIDIA keeps neglecting fixing its 16-pin power connector, its board partners are innovating new technologies/parts to mitigate the issue. With countless melted power connector reports, many refrain from buying the higher-end RTX 50 series GPUs. Many of those who buy them live under constant fear, checking their GPUs now and then. Many vendors started […]

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When Samsung and SK hynix vow to only sell DRAM via long-term contracts going forward, it naturally prompts uncomfortable questions regarding additional price upside. After all, why would these companies try to lock in today's DRAM prices if substantial upside lies ahead? The newfound penchant for long-term DRAM supply contracts from Samsung and SK hynix suggests there might not be a lot of price upside left ahead According to a recent report from South Korea, Samsung and SK hynix have "virtually abandoned the one-year memory short-term supply contract method with global big tech companies and decided to supply products only […]

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Spacecraft was one of two major announcements from Shiro Games, the studio behind games like Dune: Spice Wars, Wartales, and more. After its initial reveal back in 2024, Spacecraft as accumulated over 300K wishlists on Steam leading up to its early access release date, which Shiro Games revealed today during the Triple-I Showcase to be next month on May 20, 2026. Spacecraft sets players in a vast universe with multiple star systems, where you can freely explore and build your own space-faring ships to cross galaxies and endlessly explore new planets, while hunting and discovering valuable resources along the way. […]

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Today, as part of the Triple-i Showcase, publisher 11 bit Studios (Frostpunk, This War of Mine) and developer Carbonara Games have announced Crop, a gritty farming thriller game. The title is targeting a PC (Steam) release first, with console versions to follow, timing still to be determined. Wccftech checked out a press-only presentation ahead of the reveal, and there might be something interesting here. A single-player experience with a main campaign estimated at around 15 hours, Crop opens with your character half-naked, disoriented, and stumbling out of a truck on a dark, eerie forest road in the pouring rain. You […]

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Developer and publisher Shiro Games has revealed two new titles at today's Triple-I Showcase, one of which is set to arrive next month, and another that will have a playtest as early as next week. This is the latter, Frostrail. An upcoming co-op first-person shooter survival game published by Shiro Games and developed by FakeFish, and it was just shown off with a new action-packed trailer. If Shiro Games rings a bell, that's because they are also the team behind games like Wartales, Dune: Spice Wars, and Spacecraft, which was the studio's other major announcement at today's Triple-I Showcase that […]

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Sunset Visitor, the studio behind one of the best and most beloved narrative-driven games in recent years, 1000xResist, has revealed its next game titled Prove You're Human, a first-person narrative adventure where an AI called Mesa believes she's human. It's Sunset Visitor's second project after the award-winning 1000xResist, and is the first project to be published by Black Tabby Publishing, the brand-new publishing arm of indie developer Black Tabby Games, the studio behind titles like Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow. Prove You're Human seems to be picking up right where 1000xResist left off - not narratively, as the games […]

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In late March, Digital Extremes released a version of Warframe natively optimized for the Nintendo Switch 2 console. The studio hailed it as a major improvement over the Switch version, not to mention a significant milestone: it meant the long-running free-to-play action game is now available on all the major gaming platforms. The Android version had launched in February, and the game was already available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X, and iOS. Wccftech sent a few questions to Digital Extremes about the development of the Nintendo Switch 2 version and its features, such as […]

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TSMC's dominance over the semiconductor industry also stems from how disciplined its supply chain partners have become, and rivals are now looking to capitalize on this edge. TSMC's Supply Network Has Created a Moat For Them In The Chip Industry, After Passing Them Through Stringent QC Tests The Taiwan chip giant has been known for its work in the semiconductor industry, not just in terms of the process technology it has brought into the market, but also how it has created standards that have become industry benchmarks, whether it is customer relations, dealing with geopolitical tensions, or managing the supply […]

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The MacBook Neo is an excellent example of how it’s possible to incorporate iPhone parts into a notebook, but the binned A18 Pro isn’t the only component that Apple has added to its larger machines from mobile devices to streamline its product range with the same parts. In fact, according to a SSD modification, both the MacBook Neo and the iPhone 16 Pro feature the same NAND flash, which is an excellent way to maintain margins while the DRAM crisis is in full effect. A specific NAND flash chip with particular dimensions used on the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro […]

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We all know Apple's A-series chips are some of the most efficient consumer-grade processors in the market, with the new A19 Pro chip also meticulously adhering to this well-established pattern. While multi-chip comparisons are a convoluted exercise at the best of times, a single metric - instructions per CPU clock cycle - is sufficient to delineate the unequivocal superiority of Apple's A19 Pro chip architecture versus that of its competitors, which include MediaTek's Dimensity 9500, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and Samsung's Exynos 2600. Apple's A19 Pro chip is an unequivocal winner when it comes to processor efficiency, leaving […]

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Gunzilla Games is the studio behind Off the Grid, an NFT battle royale title that arrived in early access back in October 2024. It's also the studio backed by District 9 and Gran Turismo film director Neil Blomkamp (who is listed as its chief creative officer), and last year it also became known as the studio that 'saved' long-running publication Game Informer after it was unceremoniously shuttered by GameStop. Now, however, the studio has been accused of not paying its workers "for many months." The accusations come from former and current Gunzilla Games employees, who shared the accusations on their […]

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Another batch of games has joined the library of games playable through NVIDIA's cloud streaming service, GeForce NOW, headlined by two new releases, while an old release finally becomes RTX 5080-ready, just in time for its latest major DLC expansion release. Starting with the new games entering GeForce NOW this week, there are four titles in total joining the library. The first two brand-new releases are Samson: A Tyndalston Story, the debut game from independent developer Liquid Swords, and the second new release is Morbid Metal, a hack-and-slash rougelike from developer Screen Juice, published by Ubisoft. Morbid Metal is launching […]

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A new memory record has been made by the popular overclocker Saltycroissant and even though the score couldn't achieve the top position, doing it using ambient cooling is insanely impressive. Saltycroissant Pushes DDR5 Memory to 12,917 MT/s on Z890 AORUS Tachyon Duo X ICE Without Nitrogen Cooling This isn't your original Z890 AORUS Tachyon, which overclockers used to break overclocking records with; it's the newer Z890 AORUS Tachyon Duo X ICE, which GIGABYTE released earlier this year. Having seen DDR5 memory world records getting broken every week or two, a new world record doesn't appear surprising to us, except this […]

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With limited reviews available, you will hardly hear about the Arc Pro B70's performance. Here's a sneak peek into the analysis by Hardware Luxx. Hardware Luxx Intel Arc Pro B70 Review Reveals GPU's Performance Against Its Competitors Intel's flagship workstation Big Battlemage GPUs were released roughly two weeks ago, but since then, we have hardly seen any reviews for the Arc Pro B65 and the Arc Pro B70. It appears that the GPUs don't have good availability, and similar to what we heard about the Arc Pro B60 last year, both the newer GPUs may not be that abundant in […]

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Dell's CEO, Michael Dell, has discussed his estimates of the AI memory supercycle at a recent event, claiming that the explosive demand will persist for several years. If Hyperscalers Do Not Spend Money on Memory, There's a Fear Within Them of Getting Behind the Competition We have been tracking the memory supply chain for quite some time now, noting that the supply-demand gap has widened in the past few quarters; however, questions remain about how long we will see such conditions in the memory industry. Following the recent TurboQuant fiasco and the wider selloff within memory companies, there was a […]

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Crimson Desert developer Pearl Abyss recently confirmed it has begun research and development for a possible Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game. According to the tech experts at Digital Foundry, the current generation Nintendo console can likely handle the game at 30 FPS with acceptable image quality thanks to NVIDIA DLSS, but it may be similar to The Witcher 3 Switch port, where some changes were required to get the game running on hardware much weaker than the other consoles of the time -PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. As the Xbox Series S is the system closest to the […]

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ASUS has released a new BETA BIOS for its X870 motherboards, which adds support for a future Ryzen CPU, could it be Ryzen AI 400 or 9950X3D2? ASUS X870 Motherboards Receive Support For A Future AMD Ryzen CPU In Latest BIOS ASUS has rolled out a new BETA BIOS for its X870E and X870 motherboards, which adds support for a future CPU. This new BETA BIOS is based on the AGESA 1300a firmware. It is stated that this BIOS may be released as a stable version on the main webpage, with X870E/B850 being the first to roll out this week, […]

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Apple only stated that the MacBook Neo ships with either a 256GB or 512GB SSD, because if the company had mentioned how fast its NAND flash storage is, potential customers might be discouraged from picking it up. According to the latest comparison, the most affordable portable Mac in the company’s lineup doesn’t even cross the PCIe NVMe Gen 3 bandwidth. In the latest Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, Apple’s M5 MacBook Air, the second most affordable portable Mac, has up to 316 percent faster SSD speeds than the MacBook Neo If there was one shocking compromise that we didn’t know about until […]

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It's unusual to see a hardware maker recommend older, slower hardware, but ASRock justifies it by noting that the Arc A380 now supports the latest XeSS 3. ASRock Says DeskMeet Series + Intel Arc A380 Will Deliver "Strong Performance" While Providing an "Outstanding Value" The sky-high prices of memory and SSDs have made it extremely difficult for gamers to build a budget gaming PC. Previously, it was easy to build a powerful gaming PC for 1080p gaming for a sub-$1000 gaming PC. It's still possible, assuming you can manage both memory and a storage drive at good prices or by […]

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Intel's next-gen CPU series will support much higher memory frequency out of the box, compared to the current lineup. German PC Maker ECS Showcases Liva P300 Embedded PC With Intel Core Ultra 400S Processor; Specs Reveal Support for DDR5-8000 The upcoming Intel CPU series is going to deliver a much better memory support, as spotted in one of the mockups. At the Embedded World 2026 event in Germany, the hardware manufacturer ECS showcased its new embedded PC mockup called Liva P300, based on the Intel Nova Lake S. It's a mockup, so obviously, there is likely no Intel Nova Lake […]

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The launch of Apple's 'budget-oriented' MacBook Neo was a shocker for manufacturers like ASUS, but the firm now intends to compete in the same segment. ASUS's co-CEO Claims Apple's MacBook Neo Is Limited To Content Consumption Due To Its Specifications Apple's MacBook Neo is focused on bringing the intriguing elements seen in the traditional Mac and slapping a mobile SoC into a price segment that has made the Windows laptop industry rethink its strategy. Coming in at $599, the MacBook Neo is seen as a 'sigh of relief' in a market plagued by memory shortages and pricey devices, and when […]

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The class-action lawsuit, branded as "PlayStation You Owe Us", filed by consumer rights champion Alex Neill against Sony's PlayStation has finally kicked off in earnest today, with the plaintiff's legal counsel, Mr Palmer, delivering the opening statement (the proceedings were livestreamed on the Competition Appeal Tribunal's official website). The legal action was filed in 2022 to challenge Sony's monopoly over the PlayStation Store digital platform, which, according to the plaintiffs, led to higher game prices for consumers. The damage figure sought by the plaintiff has changed, though: it initially stood at $5 billion in 2022 and rose to £6.3 billion in November […]

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As they do pretty much every month, thanks to the same reliable source, Billbil-kun at Dealabs, the monthly PS Plus Extra and Premium Game Catalog titles have leaked. Or at least, some of them have, and there will likely be a few more revealed tomorrow when the official announcement is live. According to the report, while players won't be able to expect Dragon's Dogma II, we will get Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, Metal Eden, Persona 5 Royal, and more. The note about Dragon's Dogma II is regarding a rumor that gained some traction regarding the March 2026 batch of […]

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NVIDIA has struggled to balance its consumer and enterprise opportunities, as Microsoft's CEO has reminded Jensen of his 'gaming beginnings'. The Buildup Towards Modern-Day AI Infrastructure Was Initiated With NVIDIA's Focus on Gaming Ever since the launch of ChatGPT, demand for NVIDIA's AI chips has grown to unprecedented levels, to the point that the firm's market capitalization has soared to the trillions in just a few years. Since then, NVIDIA has been predominantly focused on catering to enterprise customers, and the inclination towards them comes at a cost, which we have already begun to see with consumer GPUs. There has […]

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Sucker Punch Productions has released Ghost of Yotei Legends as free DLC for all owners of Ghost of Yotei today on PS5. It's a welcome return of the surprise multiplayer mode that players loved digging into in Ghost of Tsushima, but its arrival on PlayStation today, days after we learned more about Sony's evolving strategy with its PC ports, makes the strategy pivot sting even more. When Ghost of Tsushima arrived on PC, it set new records for concurrent player counts on Steam amongst PlayStation's current suite of PS5 to PC releases and was the best-selling game in the US […]

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Hope is the engine of optimism and the indomitable force behind a will to change for the better. But, when it comes to Google's Pixel lineup, that hope is in short supply and getting progressively scarce with each passing year, especially judging from the latest CAD renders of the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, which depict bezels the size of football fields, a bloated, chunky design, and nary a concerted effort to add additional camera sensors or tweak the device's aspect ratio. Google's Pixel 11 Pro Fold: A masterclass in ugly aesthetics Steve H. McFly has now revealed the CAD renders […]

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Monster Hunter Stories 3 proves that it's not just about the thrill of the hunt, but setting up the ecology to support it for generations to come.

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Publisher and developer ProbablyMonsters have revealed a new gameplay trailer for the upcoming third-person stealth-action brawler, Nekome: Nazi Hunter, a game that looks like what you'd get if you took some of the cinematic brawling of Sifu and mixed it into a story where you play as a a young Romani man on a war path against the Nazis for killing his family. The trailer introduces us to the game's protagonist, Vano Nastasu, who is seeking revenge for the aforementioned homicide. There's no release date or early release window for the game yet, but we do know it'll be arriving […]

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The last general Nintendo Direct event took place in September 2025, and while we've had several Nintendo Direct events this year (like two Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct events), we're still waiting for 2026 to get its first big Direct event. Unfortunately, this year's iteration of Mario Day so far has not included a surprise Direct announcement, but we did get a release date for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book on the Nintendo Switch 2, the game that closed out September's Direct. It's frankly still a bit shocking that the Direct event that revealed several ways Nintendo was celebrating the […]

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Today, Pearl Abyss has revealed detailed PC, console, and macOS specifications for its highly anticipated upcoming open world action/adventure game Crimson Desert. The minimum and recommended system requirements for PC were actually first announced (and then lowered) months ago, but this time the South Korean development team has provided much more in-depth information for gamers on how the game powered by the BlackSpace engine will run on their systems. Minimum Low Recommended High Ultra Graphics Preset Minimum Low Medium High Ultra Performance Specs Upscaled 1080p (from 900p) 30 FPS 1080p 30 FPS 1080p 60 FPS 4K 30 FPS 1440p 60 […]

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Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Remake could be setting out to be an impressive game, contrary to what its long stay in development hell suggests. X user and known insider Luke "100% Star Wars" claims to have seen the remake, and believes canceling Aspyr's version of the remake and starting from scratch was the right choice. While the insider, who was among the first to talk about the game's troubled development, did not reveal any specifics about the remake, which was just confirmed to still be in development last week by Saber's CEO Tim Willits, they did suggest […]

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NVIDIA's GDC 2026 announcements also include updates for the RTX Remix remastering platform. The biggest news is the new Advanced Particle VFX system, which will be released some time next month. With this new system, NVIDIA is directly responding to the RTX Remix's open-source community's top feature request: a substantially more powerful and expressive particle system. The Advanced Particle VFX system introduces three distinct capability areas: The other news is the availability of a Quake III RTX early access (version 0.6) made by modder Woodboy, who took it upon themselves to remaster several levels of the original game by id […]

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Some can't stop panning Apple over a myriad of compromises that it undertook to price the MacBook Neo at a base price of $599. Others can't stop gushing over the fact that Apple just launched a fairly decent, if somewhat spartan, budget MacBook, one that is near-perfect for browsing, social media consumption, and research. In our roundup of the Apple MacBook Neo's first impressions and initial reviews, we've tried to cover all of the bases, bringing you appreciative brownie points as well as merited criticism. Here is everything that is being said about Apple's MacBook Neo CNET's Matt Elliott is […]

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Today may be Mario Day for Nintendo fans, but it's Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2026 week for the rest of the video game industry. On top of B2B-focused announcements from companies like Razer, this week also brings us plenty of insights into the video game industry and some of the biggest games from the past year, like 2025's Game of the Year, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Developer Sandfall Interactive is one of many hosting talks during GDC 2026, and during a talk it hosted, it revealed a significant aspect regarding how the studio put the game together, and for a […]

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NVIDIA has announced that CDProjectRed's upcoming title, The Witcher 4, will leverage its updated RTX Mega Geometry technology, offering higher frame rates and lower VRAM usage. CDProjectRed & NVIDIA To Integrate Next-Gen RTX Mega Geometry Technology In The Witcher 4 With its RTX 50 GPUs powered by the Blackwell architecture, NVIDIA introduced a new technology called RTX Mega Geometry. This technology clusters millions of triangles that make up tens of thousands of objects you see in every scene. These clusters are compressed and cached over many frames, where they are intelligently reused as the player traverses the world. This makes […]

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NVIDIA has announced that its MFG 6X mode arrives on 31st March, and more AAA titles with DLSS 4.5 & Path Tracing are coming. NVIDIA MFG 6X "Dynamic Multi Frame Generation" Technology Will Be Available on 31st March NVIDIA's Multi-Frame Generation technology, or MFG, is getting its latest update on 31st March with 6x Mode. NVIDIA first introduced frame-generation with DLSS 3 with a 2x mode, dialed it up to 4x with DLSS 4, and now, users will be able to enjoy 6x the frame-generation in DLSS 4.5. The new NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 MFG enables up to 6x mode, offering […]

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NVIDIA accelerates AI Video Gen in ComfyUI with a new App View feature, alongside FP4 & RTX Video Super Resolution support. NVIDIA Adds App View, FP4 & RTX Video Super Resolution Support To Comfy UI's AI Video Gen Today, NVIDIA is announcing a new app view in Comfy UI. It's a simplified panel-based interface designed to make advanced AI workflows accessible to more creators. Traditionally, Comfy UI relies on these complex graph node graphs. They're extremely powerful but intimidating for many users who are just getting started. App view hides that complexity. Creators can pick a model, set their prompts, […]

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As part of its GDC 2026 news, NVIDIA also provided some updates for GeForce NOW users. Two upcoming games have been confirmed to be available for streaming on day one: Remedy's CONTROL Resonant and Samson: A Tyndalston Story from Liquid Swords. There's little surprise when it comes to the former game. Remedy has always worked closely with NVIDIA on its most recent games, Control and Alan Wake 2, adding NVIDIA RTX like DLSS and ray tracing/path tracing to the PC version and also making the games available on GeForce NOW. Indeed, today, NVIDIA confirmed that CONTROL Resonant will also support […]

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NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, has posted a rather interesting blog post about the state of the AI industry from a much broader perspective, and he has summarized it in a "five-layer" cake. Jensen Has Basically Summed Up AI Into a Five-Layer Cake, Claiming that the Opportunity Still Hasn't Been Realized There is no doubt that Team Green is one of the biggest catalysts of the ongoing AI infrastructure buildout, given that the company not only provides essential compute resources but also several other utilities to the world that we'll discuss ahead. As we move towards GTC 2026, NVIDIA's CEO recently […]

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The A18 Pro running in the MacBook Neo is tailor-made for AAA titles on the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, which only meant that it was a matter of time before someone tried something as ridiculous as attempting Cyberpunk 2077 on Apple’s most affordable portable Mac. It turns out that one YouTuber was daring enough to attempt this experiment and, according to the content creator, the experience wasn’t terrible at all. At the absolute lowest settings possible, the MacBook Neo can achieve around 50FPS, though the relevant metrics aren’t shown in the video Right off the bat, Dave2D […]

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Some of the specifications of the upcoming Wildcat Lake CPUs have been leaked through the NBD shipping manifest. Wildcat Lake NBD Shipment Log Reveals Wildcat Lake Will be Rated at 15W, Up To 1.5 GHz of Boost Clock, and 6 MB of L3 Cache Intel's power-efficient Wildcat Lake family has been spotted in an NBD shipping manifest, unveiling some of its specifications. The series will be based on the same Cougar Cove Performance cores and Darkmont LP-E cores used in the current Panther Lake series. However, the Wildcat Lake is aimed at ultra-power-efficient devices, including laptops and mini PCs, succeeding […]

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Embark Studios has pushed a new patch to ARC Raiders today, which adds a new outfit set and two new haircuts for players to customize their characters with, on top of several bug fixes. But it's not what's added with today's patch that makes the latest update from Embark significant. Last week, major server issues caused players to lose their loadouts in ARC Raiders, even after they had successfully extracted from the Rust Belt and made it safely back to Speranza. While being adamant that the studio does not normally compensate players for every incident where players lose their loot […]

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Apparently, Epic Games hasn't been making enough money on Fortnite, and needs to raise the price of its premium in-game currency, V-Bucks, to "help pay the bills." "The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills." That's what Epic tells players right at the top of a new blog post, which announces that the base price of the premium currency will be going up. The change goes into effect on March 19, 2026, after which every dollar you spend on V-Bucks will earn you less than it did before. After […]

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The comic book series turned Emmy award-winning TV series, The Boys, is making its first foray into video games later this month. Initially announced back in December 2025, The Boys: Trigger Warning is a VR adventure from publisher Sony Pictures VR and developer ARVORE, and it'll arrive on Meta Quest 3 headsets on March 26, 2026. The news comes with a new release date trailer, which shows off more gameplay compared to what we saw in December and includes a few more characters from the show that'll be featured in the game. It doesn't, however, confirm if any more of […]

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Resident Evil Requiem is getting additional content soon, including an unspecified surprise coming in May that sounds a lot like the engaging Mercenaries mode features in past entries in the series, as confirmed in a new video message by director Koshi Nakanishi. But that is not all: the rumored story expansion has also been confirmed to be in the works. In today's video message, Nakanishi-san commented on the current state of the game while thanking players for their support. "We released an update the other day to fix a variety of issues, and we will continue to address any other […]

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The first batch of gaming benchmarks to test Apple’s latest and greatest M5 Max is here, and what better way to kick things off than to fire up Cyberpunk 2077, which is a title that has been ported to the macOS platform. Even though the technology giant has switched to a superior Fusion Architecture for both the M5 Pro and M5 Max, the maximum GPU core count is limited to 40. While we should still witness a slight framerate boost, what’s disappointing to see is that our laptop RTX 4090 ends up being 63 percent faster. Newest Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark comparison also […]

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Fallout 3 Remastered is one of gaming's worst-kept secrets. While the game has yet to be announced, a new McFarlane toy listing spotted on the series subreddit leaves little doubt that the iconic third entry in the series is indeed coming at some point. The listing spotted by the Fallout subreddit, originally shared by Toy News International, features, among DC and Marvel toys, an "ELITE EDITION 7IN – FALLOUT 3 REMASTERED – #13 T-45B NUKA COLA." As noted on the subreddit, "while there's no confirmation from McFarlane themselves, this comes from a new set of toy listings via an online […]

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The ASRock X870E Taichi OCF remains one of the best motherboards for enthusiasts, looking to break world records. Overclocker "Alex2305" Scores 14,290 Marks in PCMark 10 Express Using Ryzen 9 9950X3D on ASRock X870E Taichi OCF Another overclocker has made a new world record by using ASRock's popular flagship AM5 motherboard. The user "Alex2305" just broke all previous records for the highest scores in PCMark 10 Express, a popular benchmarking tool for CPUs. Alex2305 used AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU on the ASRock X870E Taichi OCF, which we have declared as one of the best AM5 motherboards for overclocking. […]

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The PC components keep getting expensive, directly affecting the laptop costs, and could introduce a nearly 40% price hike. TrendForce Forecasts 40% Price Hike for Mainstream Notebooks as Memory and CPU Availability and Pricing Worsen While desktop memory prices seem to have somewhat stabilized in some parts of the world, we have seen a rapid surge in laptop memory costs. Coupled with the increasing prices of SSDs, we have been witnessing a significant rise in laptop prices, and it looks like it's about to get worse. According to a new report, the mainstream notebook prices can rise by nearly 40% […]

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Not even a couple of weeks after the New York state's Attorney General announced a lawsuit against Valve for their gambling-like loot boxes in games such as Counter-Strike 2, the Steam owner is about to be hit by another lawsuit, this time on the other side of the "pond" (where it already faces a £656 million class-action lawsuit directed to the 30% fee it collects from each game and software distributed on the platform). The Performing Rights Society (PRS), a UK-based music licensing and royalty collection organization that works on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers whenever their music […]

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By all accounts, Nioh 3 is a great success for Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo. It was lavished with praise by critics (such as our own Francesco De Meo, who rated it 9.8/10 and called it the best game the Japanese studio has ever made) and fans alike, as confirmed by the fact that it's the fastest-selling game in the trilogy so far. That said, the development team is aware there's further room for improvement. Fumihiko Yasuda, producer for Nioh 3 and studio head of Team Ninja, confirmed as much in a candid interview with Gamesradar: Nioh 3 is a […]

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Independent Polish game developer Bloober Team has recently updated its investors on the studio's upcoming lineup, including the freshly announced Layers of Fear 3. The game was teased in mid-February during the franchise's tenth anniversary livestream. Now, though, we have learned that the game won't be developed by one of the internal Bloober Teams; the studio will instead work alongside a partner (although it will still provide significant input, being the franchise holder and creator). The studio was not mentioned explicitly, but odds are they might be fellow Polish studio Anshar, which already worked on Layers of Fear, the "collection" […]

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This morning, KONAMI Digital Entertainment announced that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has surpassed two million units sold as of February 17, 2026, as shown in the celebratory screenshot. The game became a million seller on day one when it launched on Thursday, August 28, merely on the heels of pre-orders. The game took 173 days to get to the second million, though, which isn't great. Still, the fact that KONAMI bothered to send out a press release about it means they must be reasonably happy with the figure. It all depends on the budget of the game; we […]

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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5050 9 GB graphics card specs have been revealed, revealing similar core specs & updated memory config. NVIDIA Goes With Same Core Specs But Updated Memory Specs On Its Upcoming GeForce RTX 5050 9 GB Graphics Card So last week, we reported that NVIDIA was preparing a new variant of the GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card with 9 GB of memory. The rumored variant was later reported to launch around Computex 2026, and it would be aimed at a similar entry-level price point. Now, Kopite7kimi has revealed the exact GPU and Memory configuration used by the NVIDIA […]

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SK hynix has announced the successful development of its LPDDR6 memory utilizing the 1c process node, offering up to 10.7 Gbps speeds. SK hynix LPDDR6 Memory Delivers 33% Faster Speeds While Saving More Than 20% Power Press Release: SK hynix announced that it has successfully developed a 16Gb LPDDR6 DRAM based on the sixth-generation 10nm-class (1c) process technology. After unveiling the product at CES last January, the company recently completed the world’s first validation of 1c LPDDR6 development. SK hynix plans to complete preparations for mass production within the first half of the year and begin supplying the product in the […]

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The survival-horror genre has been in a great spot in the past few years. With Resident Evil returning to its former glory with the seventh entry in the series and every game that has followed it, culminating with Resident Evil Requiem, the Silent Hill series returning with a remake of the second entry in the series and the first brand new game in years, and a wealth of solid indie titles, fans of the genre have had plenty of scary experiences to immerse themselves into. While it doesn't enjoy the same level of popularity as the CAPCOM and Konami series, […]

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The year 2026 is officially the worst time to require a RAM or storage upgrade because AI data centers have held the supply hostage as they wish to sate their monstrous requirements. This crisis has skyrocketed the prices of SSDs and memory, which is why you’ll see drives like the Silicon Power US75 in the 4TB capacity available for figures like $459.97 on Amazon, which, given the current situation, isn’t all that bad. The only thing keeping you from installing this solid-state drive in your system is how badly you need this upgrade. The US75 offers reliability, capacity, and performance […]

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Nintendo hosted its fifth Nintendo Direct event of 2026, which was an event dedicated to the Super Mario Galaxy Movie ahead of its premiere this coming April 1, 2026. The event showed off the final trailer for the film, and revealed some of Nintendo's plans for Mario Day tomorrow, and the lead-up to the film's premiere. The trailer for the film showed off a couple of the characters the recent poster revealed, like the character Wart, who is being played by Luis Guzmán. We also learned that Honey Queen will be in the film, and voiced by Issa Rae. The […]

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Samsung has remained very conservative in its experimentation in the smartphone battery department ever since the Note 7 fiasco back in 2016. However, this reluctance is now costing the South Korean behemoth dearly as Chinese OEMs increasingly take the initiative with monster silicon-carbon (Si/C) batteries. Against this relatively challenging backdrop, we reported towards the end of 2025 that Samsung had commenced and then abandoned its testing of a mammoth 20,000mAh silicon-carbon battery. Well, now we know a lot more about those failed tests as well as Samsung's ongoing testing of a smaller 18,000mAh battery, courtesy of a few leaked documents. Samsung's […]

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Apple had originally intended to launch its new Smart Home Display as a part of last week's product launch marathon. However, in the face of the ongoing delays related to the rollout of the revamped Siri, Apple has been forced to substantially extend the launch timeline of the new device, as per the latest tidbit from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple was not able to launch the Smart Home Display last week, as the revamped Siri is not ready yet to power AI features For the benefit of those who might not be aware yet, Apple intends to launch a revamped […]

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Marathon has been out on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series for its first weekend, and just like the Server Slam, developer Bungie is doing its best to respond quickly to issues players are noting as they spend more and more time on Tau Ceti IV. The game's first major update with those fixes will arrive sometime this week, and Bungie is already looking to tackle three of the biggest issues players have spotted with the game. Firstly, and arguably most importantly for all players, you'll be able to know where your objective is for a contract from further away. Instead […]

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Today is officially the start of Game Developers Conference 2026 (GDC 2026), a week where a huge portion of the video game industry joins together in San Francisco to discuss the latest happenings within the video game industry, and in the case of companies like Razer, showcase the B2B-focused initiatives it has coming down the pipeline. After first unveiling its AI QA companion tool and its Project AVA AI companion in 2025, Razer showcased both products at GDC 2026, with Project AVA now simply called Razer AVA, which it describes as "a more capable agentic assistant with the ability to […]

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The promised "open-source" upscaling technology remains closed-source, as we see Intel rolling out the XeSS 3 SDK. Intel Rolls Out XeSS 3 SDK on GitHub for Game Developers, Still Distributed as Windows Binaries Intel has released the XeSS 3 SDK (software development kit) on GitHub recently, giving developers broader access to its latest AI upscaling and frame-generation technology. While this improves accessibility to the latest upscaling technology, it remains closed-source since the SDK is currently distributed as proprietary Windows binaries. XeSS 3 and Multi-Frame Generation, which debuted alongside Intel Panther Lake series, have already expanded to more hardware recently, including […]

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Such is the relentless cadence of Apple's convoluted product launch cycles that the iPhone 17e has not even reached physical stores just yet, and already Apple has started beating the proverbial drums for the iPhone 18e, which is not expected to debut until the spring of 2027. Apple has broken ground on the preparatory work for the iPhone 18e The notable tipster, Fixed Focus Digital, has declared in a new Weibo post (translated below) that Apple has formally commenced development work on the iPhone 18e: "Confirmed. Although 17E has just been released, 18E has already been finalized." Do note that […]

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Game engine maker Unity has published its 2026 Unity Game Development Report, which surveys developers who use Unity software to make their games. That includes developers like The Game Bakers, who recently released the mountain-climbing game Carin, the team behind Outbound, Square Glad Games, and Mega Cat Studios, the developers behind God of War Sons of Sparta. The report, which draws its data from developers across PC, mobile, web, social, XR, and console game makers who use Unity, as well as direct responses from over 300 game developers, includes five key takeaways while providing an insight into the section of […]

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The NUC 16 PRO mini PC will be available in various configurations and looks like it won't be cheap if you are considering the Ultra X7/X9 chips. ASUS Launches Ultra X7 358H-Powered NUC 16 Pro Mini PC With 32 GB/1 TB Configuration at $1600 in China Looks like the Ryzen AI Max-based mini PCs aren't the only ones that cost over $1500. With RAM and SSD shortages affecting almost every system, you can expect even higher prices for mini PCs based on the higher-end Panther Lake chips. ASUS has recently debuted its NUC 16 PRO mini PC 2026 edition based […]

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The consumer GPU segment hasn't seen many launches this year, but China's Lisuan has plans for gamers, as it is expected to launch its G100 GPU this week. Lisuan Will Become The First to Offer a 6nm Gaming GPU in China, With Performance Rivaling NVIDIA/AMD Mainstream Options NVIDIA/AMD aren't looking too proactive about launching newer GPU models for the gaming segment, and based on what we have seen, one shouldn't expect any new lineups this year. However, the Chinese GPU manufacturer Lisuan has rather interesting plans for this year, as @realVictor_M reports that the company intends to launch the G100 […]

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The ASUS Prime RTX 5070 OC SFF-Ready drops to its lowest tracked price at $699.99, saving $60 at Amazon.

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Intel has launched its brand new Bartlett Lake & Panther Lake CPUs aimed at Edge applications with up to 12 P-Cores. Intel Finally Brings 12 P-Cores With Its Bartlett Lake CPUs, Panther Lake For Edge Also Launched Intel is expanding its Edge AI offerings with the launch of two new processor lineups, the Core Series 2 "Bartlett Lake" and Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake". Both of these families are designed for various AI applications, with the Bartlett Lake offerings aiming at desktop solutions & Panther Lake offerings aiming at the mobility side of things. Starting with Intel Bartlett Lake-S […]

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Publisher EA has laid off an unknown number of developers from across Battlefield 6 development studios, including Criterion, DICE, and Motive Studios, according to a new report from IGN. These layoffs appear absolutely unjustified by the game's sales performance, as the sixth entry in the series was among the best-selling AAA PC and console games of 2025 and the best-selling game in the United States. At the time of writing, the reason behind the latest, sad new wave of layoffs is unknown, as is the number of impacted staff. However, IGN reports that individuals are being informed that layoffs are […]

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Now that Apple's product launch cadence has seemingly slowed down for the time being after the marathon that was last week, which saw the unveiling of the iPhone 17e, the M4 iPad Air, the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro, the Studio Display and the Studio Display XDR, and the all-important MacBook Neo, attention is predictably turning to Apple's next major product launch volley in the fall of 2026, which would likely entail the iPhone Fold along with the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. As such, a new report out of Taiwan has just demonstrated Apple's sunny optimism […]

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When Palworld was first announced back in 2021, the internet immediately clocked it as 'Pokémon with guns,' and it was the least surprising thing for Nintendo to initiate a lawsuit against the game's developer, PocketPair, even if it meant trying some "Hail Mary" tactics by going after patents for game mechanics, rather than attempting to catch PocketPair on copyright infringement with the design of the Pals coming very close to the design of popular Pokémon. But even amidst the lawsuit, Palworld has been a smash success - it may never arrive on a Nintendo console, but it doesn't have to […]

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"For 20 years, Cyrodiil belonged to heroes walking alone… Not anymore!" announced the reveal teaser trailer for an Oblivion Remastered multiplayer mod which promises to shake up the remake's experience considerably with community-driven features. In development by ReadyM, the development team behind the WukongMP mod, which brought PvP and co-op to Black Myth Wukong, this mod will deliver community-driven multiplayer, allowing users to run massive community servers and "experience roleplaying scenarios, battle arenas, establish player guilds, and crawl dungeons with friends." Although short, the teaser trailer shows just enough for fans of last year's remake to get excited about a […]

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Intel's next CPUs, the Arrow Lake Refresh lineup, are set for a 'technical' showcase on March 17, focusing on giving consumers a rundown on what to expect. Intel Intends to Target Arrow Lake Refresh for 1080p-Class Performance, Likely Staying Limited to Mainstream SKUs For those unaware, Team Blue plans to launch a new CPU lineup this year, but it won't be a massive overhaul; rather, it will be a refresh. The Arrow Lake Refresh launch has been discussed several times in the past, and it appears Intel is now gearing up for a showcase on March 17. Based on official […]

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Apple didn’t change anything on the outside when comparing the iPhone 17e to the iPhone 16e, but the internals have been upgraded significantly, and that too, while charging the same $599 price. These are some of the advantages highlighted in the latest review roundup, but that doesn’t mean that some outlets aren’t calling the latest release overpriced. In fact, some are recommending buyers to get the iPhone 17 instead, and if you check out our detailed buying guide, we’ve also mentioned that spending $200 extra is the right move to make. CNET’s Abrar Al-Heeti says that the iPhone 17e is a solid […]

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Geopolitical tensions have risen to new levels, disrupting the global trade supply chain, and in the midst of it, the AI frenzy sees a major risk, with suppliers getting cut off from economic resources. Asian Suppliers Are Heavily Dependent On Energy Imports From the Middle East, Creating Huge Long-Term Risks When we talk about the AI frenzy, several risks need to be addressed to ensure the pace doesn't slow down, and one of the major ones is supply chain disruptions. We have already seen a glimpse of it with tariffs under the current US administration, and how difficult they are […]

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The M4 iPad Air is one of the more underrated devices that Apple launched in the veritable marathon that was last week, culminating in the 'Apple Experience' event on March 04. Even though the MacBook Neo eventually stole the proverbial show and nearly all of the limelight, the new iPad Air continues to garner a healthy share of attention. And today, we bring you a roundup of first impressions and reviews from a diverse set of tech experts. Here is everything that is being said about the Apple M4 iPad Air Gizmodo's Kyle Barr highlights the new iPad Air's "more […]

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The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, one of the Lovecraftian games set to arrive this year from French publisher Nacon, the same publisher that is on the brink of liquidation, has an official release date. After Nacon and developer ACE Team revealed it would arrive sometime in Summer 2026 back in November 2025, we now know it'll arrive on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S on July 15, 2026. Last week, Nacon was supposed to host its annual Nacon Connect showcase, which would've likely included today's release date announcement for The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, along with looks at other games […]

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New benchmark shows the upcoming mid-range Arrow Lake Refresh chip is even faster than we previously expected. Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Delivers 4,955 Points in Single and 53,561 Points in Multi-Threaded Tests in PassMark We hope that the Arrow Lake Refresh CPUs do better than we expect, since the current Arrow Lake CPU stack doesn't have a great appeal. One of the Intel Arrow Lake Refresh SKUs was spotted on PassMark for the first time a few days ago, and it was delivering some promising uplifts over its predecessor. While the gaming performance remains in the shadows, the […]

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Steve Downes, the voice actor behind Halo protagonist, Master Chief, is the latest to call out a recent video posted by the official White House X (formerly Twitter) account, which uses clips from several popular film, TV, and video game franchises mixed together with real-life footage of the United States bombing Iran. The video in question reuses a lot of the footage included in the video that Chance Glasco, one of the original developers of Call of Duty, called out just last week, when Glasco shared that the video was not a surprise for him. Not because videos like this […]

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Flying on the Highwind airship will be a big part of Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3, according to what game director Naoki Hamaguchi told Bloomberg in a new interview. Likely to be one of the highlights of the experience still being built in Unreal Engine 4, the Highwind's role suggests a massive shift in how players will interact with the game world, although the status of other iconic late-game mechanics from the original remains a mystery. The Highwind "gameplay experience" has been expanded for the third and final entry in the Remake trilogy, although precisely how it has been […]

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Apple’s newest 11-inch and 13-inch M4 iPad Air have not even gone on sale, and Amazon has already made these premium slates ooze significantly better value thanks to slashing up to $100 off for the Wi-Fi-only models as part of its pre-order offer. While it would have been the icing on the cake if the online retailer had discounted the cellular variants, we can’t always have what we want. The highest discount is unsurprisingly applied to the 1TB version of the 13-inch M4 iPad Air, which also happens to be the most expensive out of the lineup With the new price […]

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Qualcomm introduced its third-generation Oryon cores to its Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, bumping up the specifications to an impressive 18-core CPU, resulting in significantly increased single-core and multi-core performance. Unfortunately, these upgrades might give Windows laptops some bragging rights when compared as individual products, but as soon as you put the M5 Pro and M5 Max into the mix, the story changes immediately. In the latest single-core and multi-core benchmark comparison, the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme continues to lag behind its direct competition. Disappointingly, the M5 Pro and M5 Max are up to 26 percent faster than the Snapdragon X2 Elite […]

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Microsoft remains fully committed to its gaming division, with CEO Satya Nadella and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma affirming that the company is "long on gaming" during a recent internal Q&A. The session provided reassurance to employees, coming at a time when the brand is undergoing yet another significant change with the upcoming Project Helix, which will bring PC and console gaming together in a single system for the first time. During the discussion, as reported by Windows Central, Nadella highlighted how gaming is not just a side business for Microsoft but a core pillar of the company's identity. “We’re long […]

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MSI has a brand new entry-level motherboard, the MAG B850M Gaming PRO MAX, which comes with an OC Engine for Ryzen overclocking. MSI Adds An OC Engine On Its Entry-Level MAG B850M Gaming PRO Motherboard MSI's new MAX series refreshed motherboards come with an external BCLK generator or an OC Engine, as MSI likes to call it. This OC Engine provides independent BCLK control for better overclocking potential & it's always great to see entry-level options with such capabilities, as they allow AMD Ryzen owners to get better performance out of their systems. So, looking at the specs sheet, the […]

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A torrent of rumors and speculation that had been churning out for years eventually led to the materialization of the MacBook Neo, making it Apple’s most affordable product from this lineup. The launch allows the company to target an entirely new category, which should make Windows notebook manufacturers quite nervous right about now. With a decent assortment of specifications and a stellar build quality for the price, we expect this machine to be quite a popular pick amongst consumers, and if you want to learn more about it, check out our detailed roundup. Display and Design No expense was spared […]

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A design overhaul of the M6 MacBook Pro is expected either in late 2026 or early 2027, with Apple introducing a display transition from mini-LED to OLED for the first time in the portable Mac’s history. Typically, when the technology giant introduces a newer lineup, it ends up discontinuing the older-generation models, like it has done with the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max versions now that the M5 Pro and M5 Max family is here. However, according to the latest report, Apple isn’t going to phase out its newest SoCs or the MacBook Pro lineup that houses them because its M6 […]

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The Ryzen 7 9850X3D and Radeon RX 9070 XT are one of the most powerful pairings that you can stumble upon to make a gaming PC, as both can handle the most demanding of resolutions and still deliver incredibly high framerates to provide that visual ‘eye candy.’ Unfortunately, this configuration can be pricey for the majority of buyers, with some readers outright self-discouraging a purchase because of the ongoing DRAM crisis. Fortunately, Skytech’s monster of a gaming PC, the Gaming O11 Vision, has the entire build ready to plug and play for $1,999.99 on Amazon. The Gaming O11 Vision is also kitted […]

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The demand for compute power has gone wild out there, and in the midst of it, the AI startup TinyCorp has a rather interesting demand for AMD, involving a 'chonky' RDNA 5 GPU. TinyCorp Hopes To Get an RDNA 5 GPU With 96 GB VRAM For $2,500 Each; Probably Ignoring the Memory Shortages Every AI startup whose world revolves around 'tokenomics' is hungry for compute power and ready to go to any lengths to get it. One of the primary reasons consumer GPUs saw massive availability constraints was that, for small- and medium-scale AI enterprises, they were a viable option […]

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In addition to a chipset upgrade, the M5 MacBook Air has received a major boost in SSD performance, mimicking the gains obtained by the M5 MacBook Pro that launched last year. In fact, what’s remarkable about the latest comparison is that Apple’s latest portable Mac is faster than some premium M4 Pro models, not to mention that the machine runs circles around its immediate predecessors, the 13-inch and 15-inch M4 MacBook Air. Let us take a look at these SSD speeds in more detail. Faster SSD speeds will enable the M5 MacBook Air to become more responsive than previous-generation models, making everyday […]

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NVIDIA now plans to bring older GPUs back to life, and according to a new report, Samsung Foundry is preparing to restart production lines for the GeForce RTX 3060. Samsung Foundry Reportedly Plans to Restart 8nm Production of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs The consumer GPU industry has seen significant changes over the past few months, amid DRAM shortages. Not only have we witnessed changes in product launch cycles, but the retail availability of popular SKUs has worsened since then. Given that NVIDIA is having a difficult time managing both the AI/consumer businesses, the company does have a few options […]

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Apple Silicon is the gift that keeps on giving, entailing not only insane performance boosts for Apple's ever-expanding portfolio of products but also unlocking the kind of granular control that would have been impossible with off-the-shelve chips from Intel and AMD. And now, Apple's A18 Pro has just awarded huge bragging rights to the MacBook Neo, albeit with an equally huge catch. Apple's MacBook Neo gets huge bragging rights with a sizable catch Apple finally unveiled its much-anticipated MacBook Neo earlier this week, bringing a 13-inch Liquid Retina display with a 2,408 x 1,506 resolution and 500 nits brightness, uniform bezels, […]

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After the regular fan version, MAXSUN has also debuted two more Arc PRO B60 Dual cards, featuring fanless and liquid-cooled designs. MAXSUN Officially Introduces Single-Slot Arc PRO B60 Dual 48G Liquid Edition, Equipped With 16-pin Power Connector It's not just the Turbo edition that comes with the 16-pin power connector; the new "Liquid-Cooled" Intel workstation GPU also features the same connector on the PCB. MAXSUN has introduced two new editions for the Arc PRO B60 Dual 48G card, including a Passive one and a Liquid-Cooled edition. Last year, the company debuted the Arc PRO B60 Dual 48G Turbo, which brought […]

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The new MacBook Neo will not mark a pivot in Apple's reigning product strategy, with a bucketload of high-end, Ultra-category products still in the pipeline, as per the tidbits gleaned from Mark Gurman's latest Power On newsletter. The MacBook Neo, despite expanding Apple's TAM, will not change the Cupertino giant's fixation on high-end products According to Gurman, a number of stars had to align for Apple to launch the MacBook Neo, including Apple's increasing reliance on its own silicon instead of Intel chips, a wide-ranging overhaul of the macOS to allow it to run on ARM processors, and the A18 […]

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The $599 starting price of the MacBook Neo with its aluminum chassis is something that can only be achieved by production magic, or at the very least, it’s Apple’s decision to employ a newer approach that allows it to save as much raw material as possible to make its latest portable Mac affordable to the masses. If you thought this was impressive, the technology is reportedly moving to an even more cost-effective way to manufacture aluminum, and that is by 3D printing it. The 3D printing process will initially be involved in manufacturing Apple Watch casings, and after that, larger products […]

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Users are reporting performance gains after updating to the latest NVIDIA Hotfix driver that fixed several bugs. Redditor Reports His Best Ever Scores With RTX 5080 Using the Latest NVIDIA Hotfix Driver 595.76; Others Confirm the Same After re-releasing the new Hotfix driver 595.76, some users are now reporting better performance on their GeForce RTX 50 series cards. Just a few days ago, NVIDIA rolled out the Hotfix driver 595.71, which reportedly fixed the performance issues in Resident Evil: Requiem; however, the driver also introduced some bugs related to core voltage. We found it limiting the voltage on the RTX […]

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[UPDATE - March 8, 9:48 AM] As some pointed out, UWP was deprecated in 2019, and Xbox Series X|S use containerisation technology to manage backward compatibility and system resources and enable features like Quick Resume. As such, SneakersSO may have provided inaccurate information, unless the Xbox Project Helix handles software differently than its predecessors. Original story follows. [Original Story] The next-gen Xbox Project Helix will reportedly abandon a native console SKU in favor of a specialized PC architecture designed to run games released on the Windows Store. New insights from well-known insider SneakersSO (who correctly revealed Xbox going multiplatform before […]

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The proper competitors of the AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 3 have arrived in the form of Samsung’s Galaxy Buds4 and Galaxy Buds4 Pro, offering impeccable audio quality, noise cancellation, battery life, and more, while rewarding freebies to those willing to pre-order either of the two from Amazon. The online retailer is giving you a gift card of up to $30, and before you ask, yes, this reward can be redeemed for all products on the website. Galaxy Buds4 Pro offer slightly better listening features than the Galaxy Buds4, but they are also pricier at $249.99 The more affordable Galaxy […]

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This ultra-compact device will carry powerful hardware despite being so small, and will have all the modern connectivity. FEVM is Reportedly Preparing an Ultra-Portable and Thin Panther Lake-Based Device; Brings Dual LAN Ports, 3x M.2 Slots, and Dual-Fan Cooling FEVM's new prototype doesn't look like a mini PC because it's incredibly smaller than conventional mini PCs. This even appears smaller than the ultra-compact form-factor mini PCs, as it measures just under 2 CM thick. While the information is not official, the leaker @94G8LA says this device will be powered by a Panther Lake processor, rated at 55W. So, it's most […]

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NVIDIA's RTX 50 memory clock limit has been bypassed by none other than Teclab, allowing their RTX 5070 Ti to hit 36 Gbps speeds. Bypassing NVIDIA's RTX 50 Memory Clock Limit Is Possible If You Have The Right Tools & The Engineering Experience As Teclab Demos 36 Gbps On 5070 Ti The folks over at Teclab have been showcasing some awesome mods with the latest NVIDIA GPUs and have also broken various world records. The tech and overclocking enthusiasts from Brazil were the first to mod a GeForce 10 series card with higher VRAM, and also unlocked higher memory clocks […]

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Ever since I laid my hands on our first AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 Mini PC, I wanted to try the same chip in a compact laptop. AMD's Strix Halo lineup already impressed me a lot in my previous review, and with the launch of Panther Lake, I was more curious to see how Strix Halo would do in a similar lightweight, slim & stunning design that Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs were shipping in. Well, AMD heard my call, and they were able to arrange a Strix Halo laptop for me instantly. I do want to thank the team […]

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Among the myriad companies that have dug their hands deep into wired and wireless gaming mice, Logitech stands out from the pack with its continuous innovation and drive to use the best possible hardware to deliver accurate, enjoyable gameplay sessions. Its G PRO X Superlight 2 isn’t just a piece of plastic, but the pinnacle of wireless gaming mice designed to give you an unfair advantage in your favorite competitive shooters. Best of all, with the latest discount on Amazon, the G PRO X Superlight 2 is now $50 off, with both the white and black colors down to $129.99. […]

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Apple AirPods 4 with ANC hit $119 at Amazon, their lowest tracked price and $60 below the $179 list.

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Samsung has not just made the Galaxy S26 Ultra a flagship that checks all the boxes of a premium smartphone without going overboard like its rivals, but it has also turned its focus on two areas that properly tackle user complaints; battery replacements and thermals. In the latest teardown, we take a look at how the Korean giant has implemented these changes, and how some competitors should take down valuable notes. Extensive use of graphite films and thermal paste on the chipset, storage, and DRAM allows for effective heat dissipation on the Galaxy S26 Ultra It was fairly easy to […]

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Apple has announced two notebooks that occupy entire entirely different pricing brackets, which is a first for the company, meaning that it can become confusing as you attempt to figure out if you should opt for increased savings and get the MacBook Neo or spend the premium to make the M5 MacBook Air your daily driver. This buying guide will highlight all the differences that you need to know so let us begin. Display The MacBook Neo and the M5 MacBook Air sport a unibody aluminum chassis, offering users a premium exterior regardless of how much they choose to spend. However, when […]

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With one fell swoop, Apple seems to have opened for itself a market opportunity of at least 50 million units by launching the MacBook Neo even as most sales projection argue for a healthy but modest take-up rate, hampered by the budget device's copious compromises. Apple's MacBook Neo sits within a market opportunity zone that is worth at least 50 million units per year That Apple's latest MacBook Neo was always expected to sell well was never in doubt. After all, TrendForce continues to expect Apple to sell between 4 million and 5 million units of the budget device. Even so, the […]

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G.SKILL Flare X5 DDR5-6000 CL30 16GB kit drops to $248, an all-time low — but 32GB CL36 kits cost far less.

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Apple’s ambitious plan to cater to every price bracket has led the company to bring forth the MacBook Neo, and as soon as the announcement concluded, comparisons were immediately drawn with the technology giant’s first portable Mac to lead the in-house silicon revolution, the M1 MacBook Air, which launched in late 2020. Since a large percentage of individuals believe that Apple’s 5-year-old machine offers better value, the latest comparison should make them believe otherwise, as the MacBook Neo delivers up to a 43 percent performance increase in CPU tests. The only time the M1 MacBook Air gets the better of the […]

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It's been a while since we heard about NVIDIA GPUs with missing ROPs, but here we are, seeing one more GPU having fewer ROPs. Redditor Reports 160 ROPs Instead of 176 on His NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell GPU; The First Workstation Blackwell GPU With Fewer ROPs Right after the launch of the Blackwell NVIDIA RTX 50 series, we heard a few reports that confirmed a small percentage of the inventory had fewer ROPs (Render Output Units). This issue was mostly observed on the flagship card, the GeForce RTX 5090, but we also saw slower GPUs, including the GeForce RTX […]

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The WD_Black C50 2TB Xbox expansion card hits $250 at Amazon, its lowest tracked price at $125 per terabyte.

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Late yesterday evening, Valve posted a 2025 Steam retrospective that also included some small but significant tidbits on the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller shipping. As you will certainly recall, their original goal was to ship all three products in early 2026, as confirmed even by AMD CEO Lisa Su. However, shortly after that statement, Valve told consumers that it was forced to delay the timetable on the heels of the ongoing memory and storage crisis and was now targeting the first half of 2026. The new blog post appears to quietly push the shipping window even further. […]

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After confirming that South of Midnight would be coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 sometime in Spring 2026 a few hours ahead of The Game Awards 2025, developer Compulsion Games has confirmed that its previously Xbox Series console exclusive will arrive on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 later this month on March 31, 2026. The release date for the new versions of the game came with a new trailer, which you can see below. After Avowed, Compulsion Games' South of Midnight was the next major release from an Xbox Game Studios team to hit shelves last year. Now, it'll […]

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SanDisk's 256GB Extreme microSD card drops to an all-time low of $34.28 on Amazon, saving you 24%.

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Since April 2025, the wider video game industry has been discussing how Nintendo and other hardware makers would respond to the tariffs imposed by the current US government and how those tariffs would affect the price of devices and consumer sales. In all that discussion, the idea that Nintendo, despite its litigious nature, would respond with a lawsuit aimed at the US Government was not what you would call a popular guess. Well, Aftermath's latest report is a reminder to never underestimate Nintendo's willingness to go to court. Nintendo is officially suing the US Government, specifically Scott Bessent, Secretary of […]

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This year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) kicks off next Monday, and a controversy has already emerged following today's LinkedIn outburst by industry veteran Greg Costikyan. First things first, though: context. While not a household name among gamers like Hideo Kojima or Todd Howard, Costikyan is a renowned game designer whose career spans tabletop roleplaying games, board games, wargames, video games (he worked from 2019 to 2023 on Stars Reach, the upcoming sci-fi sandbox MMO by Playable Worlds, as Game Design Lead), and more. He also wrote four novels. A friend of Warren Spector (Ultima, System Shock, Deus Ex, Thief, Epic […]

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Intel's packaging services are being considered a viable alternative to TSMC's CoWoS, as supply constraints are forcing US fabless customers to seek other options. Intel's EMIB Packaging Orders Could Reach 'Billions in Revenue' Moving Into H2 2026; a New Prospect For the Foundry Business Advanced packaging has emerged as a major driver of computing power in modern-day AI architectures, and alongside semiconductors, solutions like CoWoS are seen as vital for firms like NVIDIA and AMD. With the start of the AI frenzy, advanced packaging has been dominated by TSMC, but as demand for CoWoS and derivatives ramps up, a supply […]

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Despite putting forth what is largely an iterative update with the new Galaxy S26 series, Samsung appears to be raking in higher sales relative to the last year's Galaxy S25 series, at least as per initial impressions. Should this trend continue, however, it risks rewarding complacency, one that might feasibly result in progressively less competitive offerings from Samsung further down the line. Samsung Galaxy S26 series has recorded a pre-order volume of 1.35 million units in South Korea so far Samsung has now revealed that its initial pre-order volume for the new Galaxy S26 series stands at 1.35 million units […]

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PC players are still reeling from Bloomberg's report earlier this week that Sony will be pulling back on its strategy of putting its first-party PlayStation titles on PC. Ghost of Yotei and Saros are the first two that seemingly won't be making the jump, and it doesn't seem like any PlayStation Studios titles (at least the single-player ones) will get PC ports in the future. The key element as to why Sony is backing off from putting its single-player games on PC fell on claims that it simply wasn't worth it. Despite the first batch of PlayStation titles selling well […]

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Apple’s M5 Max delivered some decent performance gains over the M4 Max in Geekbench 6’s single-core and multi-core results, with the most impressive feat for the 18-core CPU configuration being that it beat the top-end M3 Ultra in both tests. Now, it is time to look at the technology giant’s ‘middle of the pack’ SoC, the M5 Pro, and according to the latest single-threaded and multi-threaded benchmarks, it nearly matches its powerful brother while trading blows with Apple’s current-generation workstation-class SoC. In short, the company has made an M4 Pro on steroids. Thanks to Apple’s new Fusion Architecture, the M5 Pro packs as […]

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This is probably the oddest way for what appears to be a fairly major leak to appear. RoboCop: Rogue City developer Teyon seems to have accidentally leaked its next project, or an early build of a project that never got off the ground, or an early build of its next project. That's all unclear, but what's happened is that someone at Teyon accidentally swapped RoboCop: Rogue City out with an entirely different game when updating it on Steam, revealing what could potentially be a new 3D Hunter: The Reckoning game. First noted by X (formerly Twitter) user Silent, an update […]

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Higher memory speeds are finally possible on high capacity DDR5 configuration, as demonstrated by ASRock on its Z890I Nova WiFi. ASRock Demonstrates CQDIMM Support With 256 GB DDR5-7400 Memory Configuration on Z890I Nova WiFi R2.0 Reaching higher memory speeds becomes difficult as you increase the memory capacity. While most users don't have a problem reaching 7000 MT/s or much higher on 32 GB or even 64 GB DDR5 memory kits, doing the same with a high capacity RAM kits, such as 256 GB, becomes incredibly difficult. This problem arises due to signal noise and jitter, which makes high frequencies unstable […]

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Earlier this week, Nintendo hosted its fourth Nintendo Direct event of 2026, and considering that we're only a few days into March at the time of this writing, that's a pretty condensed window for the Mario company to be setting up what players can look forward to for the year. Today, Nintendo has already announced it will host a fifth Nintendo Direct event next week, but it's not the kind you were hoping for. Instead of following up Tuesday's Indie World Showcase Direct with a larger, general Nintendo Direct like Nintendo has in the past, the very next Direct event […]

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A new benchmark appears just a week before the launch. The Core Ultra 5 250K Plus is the new and fastest mid-range Intel desktop CPU. Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Benchmarked in PassMark for the First Time, Delivering 50,478 Points in Multi-Threaded and 4,854 Points in Single-Core Tests Just a while ago, we reported that HP is preparing its new OMEN 35L Gaming Desktop with the upcoming Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor, and now we just spotted another Arrow Lake Refresh chip. As we have mentioned before several times, the Arrow Lake Refresh lineup is going to be […]

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Update 06/03/2026: Following the publication of this article, the co-founder of MegaCrit and one of the main developers behind Slay the Spire 2, Casey Yano, has further clarified that the sarcastic jab the studio took at Bungie's Marathon really was just a joke, and has apologized for it now seeming "a bit meaner than it was intended." "This seems a bit meaner than it was intended...To be fair I didn't think we'd actually pass Marathon in concurrent users." At least two of the developers on Marathon, UI designer Elliot Gray and Marathon's community manager, Cozmo, responded to the post with […]

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The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic remake is officially "still in development," as confirmed by Saber Interactive CCO Tim Willits in a new interview with IGN. The statement provides a rare moment of reassurance for a fanbase that has spent years wondering if the project had quietly joined the list of canceled projects of the past few months. Unfortunately, this is where the good news ends today. Willits did not provide any additional information on the remake, saying that confirming its development status is all that he could say. “Yes, it is still in development. That’s all I […]

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