Audialab dropped Interloper, which splits audio signals into separate frequency zones that users can blend together without messing up the original punch. The multi-band plugin works across Windows and Mac systems through VST3, AU, and AAX formats for most major studio software.
The tool lets people tweak how many bands they want and where the crossover points sit while watching everything happen through real-time spectral displays. Processing stays light on CPU resources during long mixing sessions. Audialab bundles this with their other plugins like Emergent Drums and Deep Sampler, and buyers can grab lifetime access to everything current plus whatever drops later through a one-time payment.
Camp David AudioSuite released Optomis 1, a two-stage compressor plugin built around the dynamics chain from their Miami studio. The company modeled the plugin after gear used across two decades of RIAA-certified work that racked up Grammy nods and Billboard chart toppers.
The compressor handles threshold settings between negative eighteen and zero decibels, while ratio controls span from 1:1 compression up to 20:1 limiting. A dedicated Drive section throws in optional LA-2A-style saturation ranging from negative twenty-four to positive nine decibels, and the whole thing ships with eighteen presets ready to go. Makeup gain runs plus or minus twelve decibels with separate input and output knobs.
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Apple dropped the first developer beta for iOS 26.3 and its entire OS lineup just after pushing the 26.2 update live. The company warned regular people to wait for public betas instead of messing with dev builds, but code digging already revealed some interesting additions coming to iPhones.
The biggest feature lets users finally bail from iPhone to Android without losing their stuff. Google and Apple teamed up on this, and the transfer process handles photos, contacts, messages, WhatsApp history, voice memos, app layouts, and a bunch of other data through QR codes or pairing codes. Some things like Safari bookmarks, DRM music, and paid apps that don't exist on Google Play won't make the jump, though.
Another change opens up...
Capcom dropped confirmation that Leon Kennedy joins Grace Ashcroft as the second playable character in Resident Evil Requiem after leaks already spoiled everything. Director Koji Nakinishi told reporters that Grace represents the most terrified protagonist the franchise has ever made, while Leon sits at the opposite end as their strongest hero, and watching these wildly different characters bounce off each other should create something new for the series.
The studio built gameplay around making players feel totally opposite emotions depending on which character they control. Horror games usually struggle to keep players scared once they realize they can steamroll every monster, and past Resident Evil entries featuring Leon definitely...
Ubisoft rolled out a limited-time Wildcards mode for Rainbow Six Siege to mark the game hitting its 10-year milestone. The chaotic playlist runs through early January and throws 28 different modifiers at players that mess with operator picks, weapon loadouts, and random gameplay twists like giant chickens spawning mid-match as callbacks to the franchise history.
Players vote each round for their preferred modifier from options like Multipick, which lets teams stack the same operator multiple times, or Frag Domination, which spawns random grenades during gameplay. Teams from both sides vote together, and ties get decided randomly.
The game went free-to-play back in June with the Rainbow Six Siege X update, giving access to unranked...
AMD dropped ROCm 7.1.1, and RDNA 4 owners can finally run AI workloads natively on Windows instead of being stuck with Linux or janky workarounds. The new driver support means PyTorch works directly through ROCm, which cuts out the need for Windows Subsystem for Linux and makes setup way less painful. What used to take a month of tinkering apparently takes like an hour at most.
The setup process requires specific AMD drivers, Miniconda, Git, and Python 3.12 since newer Python versions break compatibility with ROCm wheels. Users need to install PyTorch through conda environments, clone ComfyUI from GitHub, and then grab models like SDXL Turbo to start generating images locally.
The guide walks through the entire process from...
Sapphire's PR guy, Edward Crisler, told gamers to chill out about panic-buying hardware because he thinks everything will calm down within six to eight months. He compared the situation to tariff freakouts from earlier this year, where uncertainty drove people into fear mode rather than actual supply problems. Crisler said the gaming community has survived worse situations like the crypto boom, when GPUs basically vanished from stores, and people should just stick with their current rigs instead of dropping cash on unnecessary upgrades.
He thinks the DRAM mess will start fixing itself pretty soon, which goes against most reports saying the shortage will drag through 2027 and 2028. Crisler basically told people to save their money, play...
Apple keeps cooking up its own chips because the company hates relying on anyone else, and the next project dropping is Baltra. This custom AI server chip should land sometime around 2027, with Apple and Broadcom teaming up on the design work using TSMC's 3nm manufacturing process.
The chip will probably handle inference workloads instead of training massive models from scratch. Apple already cut a deal with Google to use a customized Gemini model for cloud-based Apple Intelligence features, which costs them about a billion bucks annually. Baltra's architecture will focus on speed and throughput rather than the heavy lifting needed for model training, likely using lower-precision math operations.
Apple's silicon empire keeps growing...
Bungie dropped a fresh ViDoc for Marathon and locked down a release window for their extraction shooter. The game hits shelves in March 2026 at forty bucks, which puts it between free-to-play trash and full AAA pricing. Sony's backing this one after multiple delays pushed it way past the original internal 2024 target.
The studio pitched Marathon as gunfight poker, where you decide how deep to push before bailing with your loot. Four zones range from beginner-friendly outer areas to the endgame Cryo Archive ship deck, which apparently features the gnarliest content and best rewards. Over 400 weapon mods exist alongside different shell types that let you build tank or stealth assassin loadouts. A special Rook mode lets newbies learn maps...
