Samsung management appears intractable, unwilling to yield to the bonus-related demands of its unionized workers, setting the stage for a high-stakes showdown next month. As the world's largest memory-related production capacity now appears headed for an utter paralysis, industry fears continue to mount, especially as production restoration might take twice as long as the planned 18-day strike. The wider semiconductor industry is gripped with fears of a prolonged production halt at Samsung, which would worsen the ongoing DRAM shortage As a refresher, Samsung's union workers are currently demanding 15 percent of the company's annual operating profit, which amounts to around $30 billion, […]

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The pricing of the new Steam Controller has just been leaked by YouTuber Techy Talk, who uploaded a review of Valve's new device earlier. Some Internet user quickly downloaded it and reuploaded it on Streamable, which means we have access to information on the price and the reviewer's first impressions. The price is $99. This means the Steam Controller sits $25 above the DualSense's price, but, according to the reviewer, it offers substantially more functionality. Their conclusion is that no single controller can be perfect for every use case, but for anyone wanting one device that handles both gaming and […]

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Thankfully, ASUS hasn't put a premium price on its new 12V-2x6 cable that will keep the RTX 50 series GPUs save from melting. ASUS Officially Launches the 12V-2x6 ROG Equalizer Cable at $50 to Protect Your 16-pin GPU Connector From Melting The ROG Equalizer, which got introduced two weeks ago has finally appeared on the official ASUS store. We all wanted to know its price since ASUS usually prices its premium components quite high. While a power cable can't be considered an actual "component", it's a crucial one, considering the fate of high-end RTX 50 series graphics cards will depend […]

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AMD's next-generation SP8 & SP7 sockets, designed for the Zen 6-powered EPYC Venice & Verano CPUs, have been detailed. AMD SP8 & SP7 Sockets Are Bigger Than Their Predecessors, Showcasing The Compute Density Increase For Next-Gen EPYC Venice & Verano CPUs Last year, AMD announced its EPYC Venice & EPYC Verano CPUs. The former comes with up to 256 cores in Zen 6C flavors with a launch scheduled for 2026, while the latter is a cost-effective Zen 6 offering that's slated for a 2027 launch. Now, Taiwanese component manufacturer HELM Technology has revealed the new socket, each featuring a larger […]

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Intel is making some big changes to its desktop gaming roadmap to deliver faster performance, with new hardware & software technologies. Intel Says They Want To Match AMD X3D CPUs By Changing Their Entire Gaming Desktop Strategy Over the Next Five Years In an interview with PCGameshardware, Robert Hallock has shared the plans of the client CPU team covering desktops, laptops, and handheld PC markets. Robert has been giving us some hints of their strategy over the past few weeks, and it looks like Intel is on the right path. A key change in Intel's desktop strategy came around after […]

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A trio of next-generation chipsets for laptops has begun flooding the market, with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme being the company’s top-end version of this generation, followed by the slightly slower Snapdragon X2 Elite and lastly, the Snapdragon X2 Plus. With the SoCs tailor-made to take on Apple’s M-series, the San Diego firm has several options for its partners, but that’s where the problem lies. A discussion on Reddit talks about how Qualcomm’s tier-based approach is hurting its position and how it should only focus on the high-end market before trickling its way down to the less expensive brackets. The current […]

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A few hours ago, a rumor started circulating about Insomniac Games canceling the leaked Venom standalone game. The rumor originated from a fairly credible source: Nadji Jeter, the voice actor of Miles Morales in the Spider-Man games, claimed as much in an interview with YouTube channel Love it Film. Let me give y'all an exclusive. We were going to have a Venom game. Yeah, we were going to have a Venom game and a Venom DLC, but we lost Tony Todd. They showed me how it was going to start. They showed me how everything was going to be. It […]

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TSMC's key supplier has stated that no technology was leaked to China, but it also filed a lawsuit against its former General Manager. TSMC Supplier Denies That Key Technology Was Leaked To China, But Files A Lawsuit Against Its Former General Manager GPTC (Grand Process Technology Corporation), which is a key supplier for TSMC's Advanced Packaging solutions such as CoWoS, has denied recent reports that key TSMC technology was leaked to China. In a recent press release, the company confirmed that no technology leaks were observed after recent rumors emerged. However, at the same time, the company has filed a […]

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Intel's next-gen Xeon "Diamond Rapids" CPUs will offer up to 512 cores, while Coral Rapids will bring back SMT on 8-channel platforms in 2028. Intel Diamond Rapids 16-Channel Slips Into 2027, Features Up To 512 Cores Intel Diamond Rapids "Xeon" CPUs were going to launch this year, but delays in plans have pushed it to 2027. The delay can be attributed to several reasons, such as yields and the fact that the 8-channel line was cancelled. Now, Intel plans to launch Diamond Rapids "Xeon" CPUs in 2027. As per Jaykihn, Intel's mid-2027 plans for Diamond Rapids include a volume launch […]

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Intel's upcoming GPU plans have been disclosed, highlighting Xe3P without discrete gaming parts, Xe4 in 2027 & a next-gen Xe architecture in 2028. Intel Xe GPU Plans: Xe3P In iGPU & AI Discrete Flavors, Xe4 In 2027, Xe-Next In 2028 Intel is working on three next-gen Xe GPU architectures, which will form the basis of its graphics lineup in the years ahead. At the same time, the lineups include both integrated and discrete GPUs; the discrete gaming lineup is missing out on the action. Intel Xe3P GPU Architecture In 2026 Starting with the first Xe microarchitecture, we have Xe3P, which […]

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You will be extremely lucky if you can buy a 64 GB RAM kit for under $500 these days, but some retailers in Japan are indeed selling it for such a low price. Several DDR5 RAM Kits in Japan See a Sudden Price Decline of Up To 22% Compared to Previous Months Prices for several DDR5 RAM kits have dropped sharply in Japan mid-April, making them more affordable than they were in the previous months. We all have been waiting for such price drops, but every time we see some relief, the prices shoot up quickly in a few days. […]

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After Naoki Yoshida told players to "please look forward to Final Fantasy XIV on Nintendo Switch," today, Square Enix not only revealed the sixth expansion for the game, Evercold, but also finally confirmed that the popular MMO will be making its way to the Nintendo Switch platform with a Nintendo Switch 2 version set for August 2026. The news was revealed by Yoshida today during the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2026 in Anaheim, and you can check out the full keynote from the first day below if you want to see Yoshida take to the stage to announce the […]

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This week has meant a lot of change for Xbox, and it's clear that there's more change coming in the future. After Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass officially got cheaper, leaks of a new, cheaper tier of Game Pass called Xbox Game Pass Starter appeared online. Now, it looks like the list of games that'll come with that tier have leaked, and we have an idea of when it'll be available for players. This comes from a new report from a very reliable leaker, Billbil-kun at Dealabs. They've proven to be a very credible source when it […]

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We have a Call of Duty movie on the way, and EA clearly decided it wasn't going to let Activision have the box office to itself. Now, a report from The Hollywood Reporter indicates that a Battlefield movie is in development, with Christopher McQuarrie set to write and direct the film, and Michael B. Jordan set to produce and potentially even star in the film. The long-standing rivalry between the two first-person franchises is officially jumping over to another medium, though with this production just being announced now, the first strike will seemingly come from the Call of Duty side, […]

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The newly launched flagship CPU has already entered the top 10 best-selling CPUs on Amazon and could eventually move up on the chart. AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Enjoys Better Popularity Than Intel's Best CPUs on Amazon, Selling as the 10th Best Selling CPU at $899 The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 didn't impress much and brought even smaller uplifts over Ryzen 9 9950X3D than Ryzen 7 9850X3D brought over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Moreover, the hefty price tag of $899 makes it unappealing and unreachable for the masses. But there are always enthusiasts who wouldn't spend a day without buying the latest […]

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One of the easiest mistakes to make when building or upgrading a PC is assuming that every M.2 slot on a motherboard is basically the same. After all, they all look nearly identical and take the same "gum stick-shaped" drives. Motherboard marketing pages love to list "4 x M.2" as though that number alone tells the whole story, but in practice, these slots can behave very differently. You could have a perfectly healthy, high-end Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solid-state drive (SSD) that performs well below expectations simply because it was installed in the wrong slot. If your shiny new PCI-Express […]

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Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek claims to significantly reduce computing resources required for token inference and memory resources with its latest V4 model, according to its release notes. DeepSeek claims that the V4 AI model requires just 27% single-token inference FLOPs and 10% of key-value (KV) cache when compared to its predecessor, the DeepSeek V3.2 model. The reduction in cache requirements addresses memory requirements, with lower requirements conserving memory and increasing the context available to model builders when creating their models. How DeepSeek V4 Slashes Compute and Memory Costs In its release notes for DeepSeek V4, DeepSeek outlines that the […]

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One of the first major current-gen exclusives for the PlayStation 5 was Returnal, the bullet-hell rougelike from first-party studio Housemarque that arrived a few months after the launch of the console on April 30, 2021. Now, five years after that launch, Housemarque is back with a spiritual successor in Saros. Saros isn't a narrative continuation to Returnal, as it features a new cast of characters and a new story for players to dive into, but it is a sequel in terms of how the gameplay evolves from Returnal to Saros. This round-up will go through everything you need to know […]

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Qualcomm is rumored to be preparing a brand new datacenter CPU, which will be just in time to power growing Agentic AI needs. Rumors that Qualcomm's New Datacenter CPU is just a few months away may not sound crazy, given the demand there is for agentic AI There's a rumor going around that Qualcomm is working on its very own "dedicated" Datacenter CPU based on the Arm architecture. Qualcomm making its own Datacenter CPU at some point was expected, but what the new rumor is suggesting is that we could see that chip being announced as early as June this […]

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This week has been a big one for the Xbox brand. Just a few days ago, recently appointed chief executive officer Asha Sharma confirmed that Game Pass Ultimate would be getting a price decrease, and followed up that news with a new plan, focus, and logo for the future of Xbox in its new era under her purview. Now, in a new interview with Game File, she and chief content officer Matt Booty explained a little more about how they see the future of the platform and confirm that they don't yet have an answer to the question everyone is […]

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Samsung is bringing some material, albeit still-iterative, improvements to the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8, especially in relation to its punch-hole aesthetics. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 to sport a substantially reduced punch-hole, owing to the use of improved HIAA tech and High-Refractive Index (HRI) lenses First, the tipster Ice Universe detailed earlier today that the punch-hole cutout for the front camera on the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8 is set to undergo a marked reduction of 32 percent, declining from a diameter of 3.7mm on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 to just 2.5mm on the Z Fold 8. Then, […]

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The AMD's new dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen 9 9950XD2 processor has secured top rankings in overclocking leaderboards on ASRock's flagship AM5 motherboard. ASRock Announces Several World Records in Synthetic Benchmarks With AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 On X870E Taichi OCF CPU world records are getting broken quite easily, especially since the AMD's new flagship Zen 5 has been dropped. While the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 failed to bring any noticeable gains in gaming over the smaller siblings, it's slightly faster than the previous Zen 5 flagship CPU in synthetic benchmarks. We have seen it delivering 2-10% higher performance in various synthetic […]

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The Colorful motherboard desktop brings a mobile Raptor Lake flagship CPU for high-performance computing and support for up to 96 GB DDR5 RAM. Colorful Silently Launches Battle-AX HM770M-K WiFi D5 V20 Motherboard Powered By Intel Core i9 13900HX Chinese hardware maker Colorful has quietly launched its first MoDT (Mobile on Desktop) motherboard, featuring the flagship Intel Raptor Lake mobile CPU. The motherboard is named "Battle-AX HM770M-K WiFi D5 V20", and is powered by the Intel H770 chipset. The motherboard comes pre-equipped with the Intel Core i9 13900HX, a 24-core/32-thread high-end mobile chip that can boost up to 5.4 GHz and […]

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Meta has partnered with Amazon's AWS to bring tens of millions of Graviton CPU cores to its AI compute portfolio for Agentic AI. The CPU Is The New GPU For Agentic AI - Meta is adding millions of Amazon AWS Graviton CPU Cores To Its AI Infrastructure. As the Agentic AI era rages on, companies are rapidly expanding their AI infrastructure to meet rising compute demands. We have seen multi-GigaWatt deals being signed here and there, and CPU usage is on the rise. With all of this happening, Meta has also announced its blockbuster partnership with Amazon's AWS. The new […]

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The partnership between Apple and Samsung has allowed the existence of newer display technologies for iPhones, and the California-based giant is doubling down on these efforts by introducing next-generation panels for its mobile devices. According to a new rumor, Samsung is not just bringing ‘filterless’ displays for Apple, but is also working to bring quad-curved designs that will most likely be found in the 20th-anniversary iPhone release. A ‘filterless’ display refers to Samsung bringing CoE (Color Filter on Encapsulation) technology for Apple’s iPhones, making them thinner The first part of the rumor shared by Weibo’s Digital Chat Station talks about […]

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Earlier this week, Xbox's new chief executive officer, Asha Sharma, took the first of what we'd later learn would be a couple of big swings with how the Xbox brand is evolving under her purview by decreasing the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and confirming that brand-new Call of Duty games will not launch directly into Game Pass anymore. But a new report claims that there will be more than enough of the long-running military shooter to go around. A report from PC Gamer claims that we'll start seeing older titles from the franchise make their way onto Xbox […]

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$INTC is massively up after beating revenue guidance for Q1 '26 and posting strong guidance for Q2. Foundry and DCAI both showed healthy growth over the last quarter, while Client Computing slumped slightly due to inflationary pressures and the ongoing RAM crisis. Some might say that the explosive growth in Intel's stock price isn't justified by its results this quarter. After reviewing Intel's earnings call, I personally disagree. Here are the most important quotes from the call. Intel Foundry - 18A Beating Internal Yield Projections, 14A Development Going Smoothly "We have made steady progress with Intel 4 and Intel 3, […]

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Intel announced that its ZAM memory project, which is being developed with SoftBank's subsidiary, SAIMEMORY, has received a big boost from Japan. Japan Accelerates The 3.5-Year Development Plan of ZAM, A Memory Revolution By Intel & SoftBank In its latest presser, Intel Kabushiki Kaisha (Intel K.K.) and SoftBank Corp. subsidiary SAIMEMORY have unveiled that Japan's NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) has now selected ZAM, a next-generation memory standard which is being seen as an HBM replacement. With the selection of ZAM by NEDO, the program will fund the project through government subsidies, accelerating its development to address […]

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Today, April 24, 2026, is the one-year anniversary of the launch of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, the game that immediately catapulted to being one of the most beloved and talked about games of 2025. It went on to earn more GOTY awards than any other game (the most recent of which was awarded last week) and has now reached over 8 million copies sold, according to developer Sandfall Interactive. Sandfall announced the milestone on the game's official X (formerly Twitter) account, thanking players for the support they have given Sandfall and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 since the RPG launched last […]

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AMD EXPO 1.2 is launching soon, and with it, some new features, along with support for Chinese DDR5 memory, are being added too. AMD EXPO 1.2 Enables Support For Chinese DDR5 Memory Makers To Tackle DRAM Shortages & Increasing Prices New information about EXPO 1.2 comes from 1usmus, the author of HYDRA, CTR, and DRAM calculator for Ryzen, & leaker chi11eddog. The new information covers various aspects of the new memory tech, which is anticipated soon. Starting with the details, AMD EXPO 1.2 will be adding support for module geometry, allowing users to mix and match various memory capacities. But […]

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Yesterday, Kwalee announced the release date of Luna Abyss, the stylish bullet hell first-person shooter game in development at internal studio Kwalee Labs (previously known as Bonsai Collective). The single player title will be released on May 21, 2026 for Xbox Series S|X, Xbox on PC, Xbox Cloud Gaming (with Game Pass), PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store, and PlayStation 5. I previously interviewed Creative Director Benni Hill and Production Director Hollie Emery to discuss the game's intriguing visual style and gameplay influences. David played the updated demo (which is still available on Steam, if you want to […]

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During the Nintendo Switch generation, Nintendo had no trouble delivering a steady stream of first-party games created using what is likely a reliable pipeline. Often, we have heard how the Japanese company likes to sit on completed games for months, only to release them when deemed appropriate, but this could become a thing of the past moving forward as the Japanese company's studios focus on the Nintendo Switch 2, according to what former employees Kit and Krysta revealed during their podcast. "That totally happened, though in the past where a lot of these things they just socked away in the […]

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There's a high-stakes game of chicken afoot at Samsung, with its management and unionized workers both trying to strengthen their hand via a series of moves and countermoves ahead of a planned showdown next month. Even so, Samsung workers appear to have won the latest round by successfully disrupting nearly a fifth of the output at the highly mechanized Samsung memory fabs as well as nearly three-fifths of the output at the more labor intensive foundry lines. Samsung workers recently managed to curtail output at the tech behemoth's memory fabs and foundry lines by 18.4 percent and 58.1 percent, respectively […]

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Until the PlayStation 5 era, Sony’s strategy was focused on delivering first-party games that stayed on the console to drive hardware sales. However, in a new interview with Back Pocket conducted during ALT. Games, where he also detailed how his 11-year PlayStation Studios run ended with Jim Ryan firing him, former PlayStation executive Shuhei Yoshida revealed that the change in strategy was essentially forced by increasing AAA budgets, and actually helped the development of all first-party titles. “When I was working on the game development side, first-party at PlayStation, from the strategy standpoint, we are not allowed to bring our […]

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A price freeze is already rumored to be a part of the iPhone 18 launch discussion, with Apple expected to become the most popular smartphone maker in the world if it doesn’t make its upcoming devices pricier due to the ongoing DRAM shortage. However, that’s not the only reason why the company’s upcoming flagship series could pick up in droves, because the Cupertino firm is reportedly planning a swath of chip and memory upgrades, including bringing its first 2nm SoCs to market, the A20 and A20 Pro. The iPhone 18 could ship with 12GB RAM as standard, with Apple also planning to […]

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Gang of Dragon, the new game by YAKUZA creator Toshihiro Nagoshi, might be in serious danger of being canceled. As spotted on Reddit, the official YouTube channel and trailers have been suddenly deleted. The Steam page is still up, though, the last flicker of hope that the game's development might continue. Gang of Dragon was unveiled just a few months ago, at The Game Awards 2025, but it was admittedly already in trouble. After his departure from SEGA in 2021, Nagoshi founded a new studio with NetEase's help the following year. However, in early 2025, reports began circulating that NetEase […]

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ASUS has become the first motherboard maker to enable AMD's next-gen EXPO 1.2 technology support on its X870 motherboards, bringing faster DDR5 memory standards to Ryzen platforms. ASUS First To Land AMD EXPO 1.2 Memory Technology Support on Its X870 Motherboards: Offers CUDIMM & Ultra Low-Latency DDR5 Support ASUS has released its new "2301" BETA BIOS, which includes one big feature that will be coming to current and upcoming AM5 motherboards: support for AMD EXPO 1.2. This technology will play an important role when coupled with the next-gen Ryzen "Zen 6" CPU family. Currently, the EXPO 1.2 support is in […]

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It looks like the rumored new Game Pass tier will be officially called Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition. The leak came from the Discord datamining GitHub, and that's because, apparently, this version of Game Pass will soon be bundled with the Discord Nitro subscription. The following lines were discovered by the dataminers: This is supposedly the Triton/Duet tier that was previously datamined via Xbox Cloud Gaming by @redphx, the author of Better xCloud, a free and open-source tool that improves the Xbox Cloud Gaming and Remote Play experiences. In fact, Redphx also spotted the Xbox Game Pass Starter Edition name […]

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Saros protagonist Arjun, for all of the scattered bits and pieces of his backstory that Housemarque dripfeeds to the player, is a pretty awful main character when you take a step back from the sci-fi mythology and look over his shoulder at the way he interacts with his colleagues and chases after his missing partner. Arjun is a flawed man with anger issues toward his father, which manifest in the brief backstory vignettes players stitch together over the course of death and rebirth. The entire time I spent on Carcosa in his standard-issue space boots was watching a man who […]

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Intel has confirmed that it will have multiple internal chip tape-outs using the 14A process technology, which will be seen as the Foundry's cleverest move to date. Intel Wants More Customers To Use 14A, And What Best Way To Make It Possible By Exerting Confidence With Its Own Products Using the Technology. Intel has gained Tesla as a 14A customer, which is the Foundry's biggest win so far, and they also have multiple external customers lining up as the company finalizes its 0.9 PDK. But while the 14A interest is gaining momentum, Intel just added a multiplier to the equation, […]

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Intel has officially announced that its 18AP and 14A nodes are seeing big customer engagements, with 14A already securing a win at Tesla. Intel 18AP & 14A Were Chipzilla's Biggest Bets, & They're Paying Off With Tesla Just Being The Beginning of What's To Come! During its Q1 2026 earnings call, Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed the recent partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to support the Terafab project. It was already confirmed that the 14A process tech will be deployed at TeraFab, marking a huge confidence boost for the chipmaker, which has spent years finding big names […]

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The ID@Xbox Spring Showcase 2026 featured its fair share of world premieres of upcoming games and new looks at previously announced indie titles, across multiple kinds of games at different scales. Similar to our round-ups of the Galaxies Spring Showcase and the Triple-I Initiative Showcase, this article will round-up all of the news and announcements from today's show, so you don't have to miss any of it. You can also check out the show below to take it all in, or look at the list of announcements to see which catches your eye. Everything Announced at ID@Xbox Spring Showcase 2026

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Minutes after we reported that Asha Sharma would be dropping the Microsoft Gaming brand and renaming the division back to just Xbox, and the significance of that change, Sharma shared a new Xbox Wire blog post that not only confirmed the change, but did so much more by laying out her and Matt Booty's plan for the next era of Xbox. In a letter sent within Microsoft titled, 'We Are Xbox,' Sharma and Booty, who are credited as co-authors on the letter, begin by explaining how Xbox "has always been different" since it joined the industry at the start of […]

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Another hike has been implemented, which makes buying SSDs even more difficult than ever. Samsung and Kingston Increase Price of All SSD Products by Around 10%, Marking Another Significant Price Hike When Prices are Unusually High Remember the Micro Center shelves, which were fully stacked by the high-end SSDs selling for thousands of dollars? Yeah, they are about to get even more expensive. This thing isn't stopping anytime soon and we don't know how long this will continue, as at hundreds of dollars for 1 TB of SSD storage, it is becoming super difficult to build a budget gaming PC. […]

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Update 23/04/2026: Minutes after reporting on this change, a letter sent internally within Xbox, co-authored by chief executive officer Asha Sharma and chief content officer Matt Booty, was published on the Xbox Wire blog. It not only confirmed the name change and the sunsetting of the Microsoft Gaming brand but also laid out a new plan for the next era of Xbox. Read the full article here. Original Story: Asha Sharma, the recently installed chief executive officer at Microsoft Gaming who has already been taking some big swings by decreasing the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate has reportedly just […]

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As AI computing capacity continues to grow, an expert from computing infrastructure provider Nebius sat with AlphaSense to describe the state of the industry. While NVIDIA's leading-edge AI GPUs remain the top in the industry when it comes to performance, the expert believes alternatives are growing in popularity, particularly as the industry shifts its cost metrics. The demand for AI computing capacity also remains high, as providers can easily run at 100% utilization rates to drive down costs and earn the most from their investment. Alternatives To NVIDIA Chips Grow In Popularity As Industry Shifts Towards Cost Per Million Tokens […]

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Project ATOM was first revealed last year as a new cozy free-to-play party platformer from developer JNG Studio. Now, during today's ID@Xbox Spring Showcase 2026 event, it's still a cozy free-to-play party platformer, but it has an official title, as it is now called Totopia. Developer JNG Studio also confirmed that the game's first public beta playtest will take place next month, starting on May 7, 2026. Totopia is really trying to be a flavour of an 'everything' game, as it combines life sim mechanics and a cartoon visual style with party platforming and a healthy dose of chaos to […]

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Today, Funcom announced Conan Exiles Enhanced, a free upgrade that brings the game from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5. Conan Exiles Enhanced will launch on the game's eighth anniversary: May 5, 2026. The upgraded version was developed in collaboration with Inflexion Games, the studio behind the survival game Nightingale. Conan Exiles Enhanced introduces four specific rendering improvements: The Enhanced version targets smooth 60+ FPS across Low, Medium, High, and Ultra settings on most PCs, with Steam Deck support. Notably, despite the graphics improvements, the client size has been dramatically reduced from 120GB to just 40GB. But there's more: the Exiled Lands and […]

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We've been hearing rumors of Halo Studios looking to add a battle royale mode to the Halo franchise, either as a new individual title or as a game mode in a larger game, for years now. Whether it was actually the case or not, to players, the idea of a Halo battle royale always seemed like Xbox trying to chase one of the most popular genre trends in the video game industry. That seems to be the same thing driving the latest rumor about what's coming next from Halo Studios, which claims that the battle royale mode has pivoted to […]

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The demand for Apple Macs is off the proverbial rocker right now, so much so that people are apparently managing to sell specific Mac Studio versions for an insane $25,000 on websites that specialize in retailing used products. People are paying insane premiums for used M3 Ultra 512GB Apple Mac Studio devices when you can still get 256GB variants from Apple at a fraction of those list prices As is evident from the above X post, the 512GB variants of the M3 Ultra Apple Mac Studio devices are currently going for as much as $25,000 on websites that specialize in […]

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced can comfortably be described as the worst-kept secret in gaming history, with its long story of rumors and leaks of all kinds. The official reveal is here at last, though, and it's juicy. The presentation opened with Matt Ryan (who was among the "leakers" last year), the voice actor of protagonist Edward Kenway, confirming that Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a faithful remake, not a reinvention. It is entirely rebuilt from the ground up using the latest version of Ubisoft's Anvil engine while preserving the original story and character arc. Notably, the original game will remain available after the […]

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AMD's Ex-FSR Lead has claimed that most team members who worked on FSR 4 & were part of the FidelityFX and GPUOpen teams left the company to join NVIDIA or Intel. AMD's FSR Shortcomings May Be Due To Its Members Leaving The Company To Join NVIDIA or Intel Recently, there has been a lot of chatter regarding AMD's FSR support on older GPUs. While the latest FSR Redstone release and the updated FSR 4.1 release were seen as big and positive updates, at the same time, many users were disappointed in the lack of FSR 4 support for older generations […]

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Apple has had to perform a fine-tuned balancing act to optimize the number of features it can offer within its first foldable, tentatively dubbed the iPhone Ultra, against the physical constraints emanating from its desire to retain an overall slim profile. And now, as per the latest metal dummy units, those compromises apparently extend to the iPhone Ultra's lack of MagSafe charging support and a dedicated LED flash. Despite costing around $2,000, Apple's iPhone Ultra is likely to come without MagSafe charging support and an LED flash The tipster Vadim Yuryev has now leaked the metal dummy units for the […]

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After telling the video game industry that they should "embrace AI like Iron Man's suit" in one interview, in another, this time with MobileGamer.Biz, the head of Google Cloud's games division, Jack Buser is claiming that the industry has actually already embraced AI-powered tools. Buser claims that "roughly nine out of ten game developers" told Google "yeah, we're using it," in a survey Google conducted during Gamescom 2026, asking developers if they are using AI-powered tools. Buser even went as far as to claim that players just don't realize that the games they are enjoying and love to play "right […]

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Apple's unified memory advantages are now manifesting in a spectacular fashion, and when combined with a shrewd strategy of eschewing price hikes, the Cupertino-based tech giant is all set to become the only major OEM in the notebook space to record a meaningful growth in shipments this year. Apple's MacBook shipments to grow by 21.7 percent in 2026 even as global notebook sales are headed towards an year-over-year decline of 8 percent According to the market intelligence firm Sigmaintell, global notebook shipments in 2026 will amount to 181.1 million units, which corresponds to an year-over-year decline of 8 percent, and […]

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Google TurboQuant was seen as a savior to the memory crisis; unfortunately, things will remain the same or get even worse from here. Google TurboQuant Isn't Going To Fix or Solve The Memory Crisis Back in March, Google launched a new algorithm called TurboQuant, which significantly compressed the KV Cache. The result was a drastic savings, up to 6x, in memory requirements for AI workloads. As soon as the algorithm was announced, reports emerged that memory prices were seeing a drastic price reduction. It was easy to link Google's TurboQuant to the price drop, and some went into panic mode, […]

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NVIDIA has revealed the latest batch of games joining its cloud gaming GeForce NOW service, with the Vampire Survivors spin-off title, Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard leading the pack, but this week's batch isn't all about the games. NVIDIA is also adding a significant quality-of-life improvement to the service, making it a little more seamless and easier to use for players. Starting with the games, there are six titles either joining the cloud streaming service or getting updates for a better experience, like Crimson Desert, one of the year's biggest releases so far which joined GeForce NOW at its launch […]

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AMD's restriction on FSR 4 on previous-gen Radeon GPUs remains a secret, but the former FSR 4 head of development seems to have an answer. AMD's EX FSR Head of Development Puts Up "Big Trouble" Meme After Being Questioned on AMD's Silence on INT8 FSR 4 Version for RDNA 2/3 GPUs It has been over a year since FSR 4 made its debut alongside the launch of AMD RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000. Since then, AMD has maintained complete silence on questions relating to FSR 4 on RDNA 2 and 3 series. While NVIDIA kept newer DLSS versions available for […]

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While everyone wants faster hardware, Intel says the answer lies in software optimization, and the P and E cores are almost identical in gaming performance. Robert Hallock Says E-Cores Don't Degrade Gaming Performance and PC Enthusiasts are "Underestimating" the Importance of Software Intel might not have been able to deliver X3D-equivalent performance in gaming with its latest Core Ultra 200 series, but it has gotten closer with the Plus variants. While still noticeably behind when it comes to the leading gaming performance, Intel blames this regression more on the "software" optimization than the hardware itself. In an interview with PC […]

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The prices of AMD's Ryzen CPUs have increased by more than 50%, signaling a panic in the DIY market amid heightened AI demand. Japanese Users Are Paying Up To 57% More For AMD Ryzen CPUs As The AI-Related Price Bumps Continue In a report published by PC Watch, it is stated that the Japanese DIY market is seeing a huge surge in hardware prices. While DRAM and GPU prices are way above their original rates, the next component that is being affected is the CPU. The report lists several AMD Ryzen CPUs, mainly the new Ryzen 9000 parts, seeing over […]

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Intel's upcoming Z970 motherboards for Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs will replace both high-end Z890 and mainstream B860 options. Intel Z970 Motherboards To Cover An Extensive Market With Both High-End & Mainstream Options For Nova Lake Builders Intel's 900-series motherboards will have a wide range of options for PC builders. The flagship Z990 chipset will be the recommended choice for enthusiast Nova Lake Desktop CPUs, featuring a dual compute tile configuration, while the Z970 chipset will retain a primary focus on the high-end market. Based on a new post by Jaykihn at X, it looks like the Z970 chipset may not […]

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Despite having been originally released on PlayStation 4, Final Fantasy VII Remake never made it to the original Nintendo Switch, debuting on the Nintendo Switch 2 earlier this year with one of the most impressive third-party ports we have seen to date. The last-generation Nintendo system, with some pointed modifications, however, can run the PC version of the game surprisingly well, even with the performance overhead of the Box64 + Wine translation layer required to get the PC version to run on an ARM-based system. This impressive technical feat was achieved by modder Naga, who detailed the creation of a […]

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South Korean-Japanese developer NEXON has announced a new PC game called Embers of the Uncrowned. It's an isometric dark fantasy MMORPG developed by a team of self-described "hardcore MMORPG veterans" with a deep passion for the genre, set on a continent ravaged by an elven invasion. In the game, players take the role of the illegitimate heir to House Harborwell. They're a mercenary called back by destiny to reclaim their lost domain and restore their noble house. The players' character growth is directly tied to their House's growth. Constructing buildings in the settlement produces essential items for the journey, while upgrading […]

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While we wait for the first Intel Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" laptops to make it to retail, the company has showcased its own reference design, which offers a clean design with a slim aluminum body. Intel Shows How Wildcat Lake Laptops Should Be Done With Its Reference Design, Awesome Colors & Fanless Operating In Low-Power Mode Last week, Intel announced its Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" CPUs. These CPUs will be powering laptops, with MacBook Neo being aimed as their main competitor. Now, Intel is showcasing its own reference design to the press, and honestly, it looks great. First […]

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Earlier this month, we reported that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie by Nintendo and Universal's Illumination set the biggest theatrical debut of 2026 in the United States. However, maintaining momentum across all territories was far from a given, especially with the rather scathing reviews from film critics. Now, according to data collected by IMDbPro's Box Office Mojo, it appears that The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is the highest-grossing film released this year, with nearly $756 million grossed across all territories. It's an almost even split: $361,825,355 earned in the United States (47.9%) and $393,990,000 earned elsewhere (52.1%), with Mexico leading […]

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Forza Horizon 5 launched on PlayStation 5 last year, and a few short months after its release, it was evident how the game was a smashing success on Sony's console, outselling even first-party games. Today, co-developer Virtuos confirmed on its official website that the racing game they helped develop was one of the best-selling games in 2025, surpassing 5 million copies worldwide. "Forza Horizon 5 was one of the best-selling titles on PlayStation 5 in 2025, surpassing 5 million copies sold on the platform, and earning widespread acclaim with a 92 Metacritic score," Virtuos wrote on a new infographic. The […]

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Today, South Korean developer Pearl Abyss released Crimson Desert patch 1.04 on nearly all platforms (Mac users will have to wait until a later time). This update adds most of the enhancements and features outlined a couple of weeks ago in the official roadmap, except for boss rematches, which will be released in a future patch. Three difficulty modes (Easy, Normal, and Hard) have been added under Settings > Play. Easy reduces damage taken, lowers enemy stats, and extends Parry/Dodge windows. Normal is unchanged from the existing gameplay experience. Hard arguably brings the most significant changes: food effects only apply after the full consumption animation completes, […]

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Alienware unleashes its most powerful Area-51 Desktop PC to date, powered by the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU & a starting price of $4299. Dell's Area-51 PC With AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Starts at $4299 & Fully-Spec'd Config Above $7000 Alienware recently launched its Area-51 Desktop PC with AMD's Ryzen 9000 & Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs. The gaming PC offers full-on ATX hardware, delivering impressive capabilities for pre-built gamers. Today, Alienware is updating its Area-51 Desktop PC with AMD's newly launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU, delivering faster speeds of up to 5.6 GHz, and the same 2nd Gen 3D V-Cache that […]

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Rambus has announced its LPDDR5X SOCAMM2 memory chipset, a vital component to enable the next-gen compact memory for AI datacenters. SOCAMM2 Lays The Key Foundation of Next-Gen AI Datacenters As Rambus Gears Up Its LPDDR5X-Based Chipset For Launch Press Release: Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, today announced a SOCAMM2 (Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module) chipset designed to enable low-power, high-performance LPDDR5X-based memory modules for AI server platforms. The SOCAMM2 chipset represents the first step in a broader Rambus roadmap of LPDDR-based server module solutions, reflecting the company’s ongoing collaboration with industry partners to support new memory architectures optimized […]

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JEDEC has previewed its LPDDR6 memory standard, powering future AI datacenters & mobile platforms with 512 GB capacities & SOCAMM2 variants. JEDEC's LPDDR6 SOCAMM2 Modules Are Going To Be A Mouth-Watering Piece of Memory Technology For AI Datacenters Today, JEDEC unveiled a new set of features for its upcoming LPDDR6 memory standard "JESD209-6". The new memory standard will play a vital role in powering future AI datacenters, PCs, and mobile platforms. LPDDR6 will not just provide a more power-efficient memory solution, but it will also offer increased performance and higher capacities than existing LPDDR5 and LPDDR5X standards. Memory makers are […]

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TSMC has presented its latest technology roadmap through 2029, bringing advanced processes such as A13 and A12 by 2029. TSMC Reluctant To Use ASML's Advanced EUV Machines Due To Cost Constraints, Focuses On Die Shrinks For 2029 With A13 & A12 During TSMC's 2026 North American Technology Symposium, the company presented its latest roadmap, which includes some major updates. These new processes will offer a further refinement, such as savings in area size, and the utilization of new technologies. Starting with the roadmap itself, following the mass production of its N2 process technology, which is expected in the first products […]

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Intel 14A finally has a big name backing it up, and it's Elon Musk, who will be leveraging the process technology at the TeraFab project. Intel & Elon Partnership Deeper Than Expected As Musk Announces 14A Process Technology For Tesla's TeraFab During its Q1 2026 earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made it official that the TeraFab project was going to use 14A, Intel's much-discussed process technology, which is expected to be a game-changer for them in the Foundry business. Elon stated that they (Tesla) are excited to use the Intel 14A process, calling it "State-of-the-Art". He also acknowledged that […]

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You should always enter into peer-to-peer transactions with circumspection and a fair degree of cautious wariness. That's the painful lesson a guileless Australian is now learning after being scammed out of his Apple iPhone by a crafty trickster. A quick-to-trust Australian becomes a victim of obviously fake banknotes, loses his Apple iPhone to a scammer Imagine you put up your old iPhone for sale on an online marketplace. After a while, you get a ping along with a fairly good offer. Everything checks out, and you ask the buyer to come by your home to collect the iPhone after paying […]

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While 2026 has already seen some major releases like Crimson Desert, Resident Evil Requiem, and Marathon, to name a few, the biggest release of the year, and the biggest release the video game industry has seen for years is yet to come, as we all wait for GTA 6 to arrive later this year at its previously announced November 19, 2026 release date. But at the time of this writing in April 2026, there's still plenty of time for things to go wrong for Take-Two and Rockstar from now until then, and concerns of another delay linger each day. That […]

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The most controversial topic in the video game industry now and for the last few years has been Generative AI and its place (or lack thereof) in video game development. The most recent hot-button layer to that has been NVIDIA's introduction of DLSS 5. While the tech likely won't be impacting games coming later this year, projects further off than that, like Fragmentary Order, the new extraction shooter from Nikita Buyanov, the creator of Escape From Tarkov, are likely going to be able to implement the tech if they choose to. As for Buyanov and his new team at Rant […]

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Apple and Google are seemingly entering into a symbiotic relationship, where the former has used its unparalleled financial heft to gain access to the latter's very capable Gemini AI models. And these mutual synergies were apparently hefty enough to merit a dedicated shout-out and prime airtime for Apple at Google's Cloud Next 2026 event. Apple has just become one of Google Cloud's most important customers Google used Apple as a very important and lucrative prop to showcase the strength of its Gemini AI models at the just-concluded Google Cloud Next 2026 event. This comes as the Cupertino-based tech giant recently […]

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Bolt Graphics has successfully taped out its Zeus GPU, which is expected to offer up to 6x faster HPC & 5x faster Path Tracing performance than NVIDIA's RTX 5090. The Bolt Graphics Zeus "12nm" GPU Aims To Offer 5x Faster Path Tracing Performance Than An RTX 5090 "5nm" Graphics Card Last year, Bolt Graphics announced its Zeus chip and claimed some big numbers. Today, we can finally confirm that Zeus wasn't just a paper announcement, as the chip has been successfully taped out. In a press release shared with us, Bolt Graphics confirms that its Zeus GPU test chip has […]

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Fallout: New Vegas Senior Designer and Writer Chris Avellone talked extensively about the Fallout franchise in a recent interview with YouTuber TKs-Mantis. Avellone (who also worked as a designer on Fallout 2 and on the canceled Van Buren project) claimed that, to his knowledge, Obsidian never provided the full source code of Fallout: New Vegas to Bethesda. Furthermore, as far as he knows, they don't have the knowledge to reassemble it, which constitutes a major problem for the rumored remaster. I don't think Bethesda has the engineering know-how to make a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas at all. And the […]

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There is, thankfully, a lot more to the camera setups within the upcoming Apple iPhone 18 Pro duo and the iPhone 20 than variable aperture bragging rights, as per the latest tidbits from a notable Weibo-based tipster (image source: Vovalenard). Apple iPhone 18 Pro duo/iPhone 20 to get a super-large main camera sensor, dedicated optical image stabilization for the ultra-wide lens, and a 200MP telephoto camera We reported a few days back that Apple was experimenting with a 200MP camera sensor, possibly for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, enabling near-lossless cropping (to a certain extent) in the […]

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At the beginning of March 2026, a report from Aftermath reveal that Nintendo had issued a lawsuit against the US government for what it claimed was "unlawful impositions of tariffs." Now, another lawsuit has appeared in relation to that suit, but it's not coming from Nintendo or the US government. Instead, it's directed at Nintendo from players in California and Washington, who claim that if Nintendo gets the money it claims the US government unlawfully charged, then that tariff money should make its way back to the players, who paid for the higher prices implemented because of those tariffs. This […]

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OpenAI is on a mission, an incredible mission, you might say, to scale up its AI compute capacity to 30GW by the end of this decade. 30GW By 2030: OpenAI Sets Ambitious Goals, but Will The Semiconductor Industry Be Able To Supply This Much Compute? Yesterday, Amazon and Anthropic announced that they were going to bring up 6GW of AI compute capacity by the end of this year. But their primary competitor, OpenAI, has more ambitious & mighty plans. Today, OpenAI announced that since the launch of ChatGPT, its revenue and compute resources have scaled at a rapid pace. This […]

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Dead by Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive confirms that it has laid off an undisclosed number of employees less than a month after it acquired the 7 Days to Die developer The Fun Pimps. After employees initially took to LinkedIn to reveal they had been suddenly let go, the studio released a statement to Game Developer to confirm the cuts. According to the statement from Behaviour Interactive, the cuts impacted members of its team that focused on "external development partnerships," and said that the decision to lay off members of that team was made due to Behaviour Interactive leadership seeing a […]

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There is apparently such a thing as being too successful. Look no further than China's display panel behemoth BOE, which is generating record revenues, albeit at razor-thin margins. What's more, this playbook on cutthroat economics might yet repeat with China's upstart memory players, CXMT and YMTC. China's CXMT and YMTC appear destined to follow in BOE's footsteps to a hellscape of cutthroat competition and near-zero margins By some metrics, China's BOE is a commercial success story. After all, it is a major supplier of LTPS OLED panels for Apple's iPhone 17e as well as a host of legacy models such […]

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Update 22/04/2026: Developer Poncle has since clarified that it has "15 new projects," which does not necessarily mean it has 15 new games in development. These projects can include anything from a new game, free updates for Vampire Survivors, DLCs, etc. The headline of this article has been updated to reflect the correct language. Original Story: Vampire Survivors was one of the standout hits when it launched in 2022, selling over a million copies in a matter of months and taking home Best Game at the BAFTAs. Its developer Poncle has grown to be able to publish other titles like […]

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The MSI Vector 16 HX AI is probably being picked up in droves on Amazon, likely because this gaming laptop offers the best value for an RTX 5070 Ti machine. Best of all, you’re getting a free copy of Capcom’s latest sci-fi AAA game, PRAGMATA, and if you have yet to indulge in this title, you’re definitely missing out. The sad part about the Amazon deal is that you have a limited amount of time to pick it up for $1,609.99 because only a few units remain in stock. The current Vector 16 HX AI configuration offers the standard RAM […]

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