Micron just pulled the plug on their consumer RAM and SSD stuff under the Crucial brand because AI data centers are throwing stupid money at memory right now. The company said they'll keep shipping consumer products through February, but after that, everything goes to enterprise customers who pay way better margins. Sumit Sadana from Micron thanked everyone for 29 years of support, but basically admitted they're chasing the bag.
This whole move shows how hard AI demand is squeezing regular gamers and PC builders out of the supply chain. Cloud providers and tech giants are dropping premium cash for DRAM allocations, and Samsung plus SK Hynix are doing the same pivot toward long-term profits instead of balancing consumer markets...
The Skyblivion crew pushed their launch past the original target after realizing they bit off more than they could chew. Project Lead Rebelzize said the total conversion mod that recreates Oblivion inside Skyrim's engine will drop sometime next year instead, with the Imperial City being the main roadblock holding everything back.
Quest dungeons are basically wrapped, and the world map just got finished with all the unique zones and Oblivion realms ready to explore. Most buildings, like shops and castles, are done, but Imperial City interiors are stuck waiting on the 3D assets to get finalized. The team wants quests locked down by early next year, which leaves breathing room for bug testing before they ship it.
The UI is getting...
Embark Studios dropped ARC Raiders, and it apparently crushed the Steam charts for total copies moved, hitting 7.7 million sales across PC and consoles. The third-person extraction shooter beat out a bunch of indie games like RV There Yet and Peak, which is pretty wild for a new multiplayer title going up against free-to-play stuff like The Finals from the same dev team.
The game keeps pulling better concurrent player counts than The Finals on Steam, but the real test comes next year when everyone figures out if the hype stays alive past the honeymoon phase. Awards season basically ignored it outside of one multiplayer nomination at The Game Awards, while games like Clair Obscur and Silksong are hogging all the GOTY talk.
NVIDIA's CFO Colette Kress shut down bubble talk at a UBS conference, saying the industry is just switching from CPU-heavy setups to GPU-based accelerated computing. She mentioned Team Green has seven different chips working together versus the single-product ASIC approach, and CUDA keeps them way ahead since it delivers performance gains that make customers want to stick around.
Kress confirmed Vera Rubin already taped out and they're grinding to hit a second-half 2026 launch. The chips and networking gear are done, so mass production looks on track.
She basically said ASICs aren't stealing their thunder because NVIDIA handles the full AI pipeline from training to inference, while ASIC makers only tackle specific tasks. The whole...
ASUS pulled their ROG RTX 5090 Matrix cards from Swedish retailers after discovering some unspecified quality problems with the $4,000 limited-edition GPU. The company plans to ship a revised version, but nobody knows when that's happening or what exactly went wrong with the original batch.
Only 1,000 of these cards were supposed to ship worldwide, and they already cost double what regular RTX 5090s go for. The Matrix edition was supposed to deliver a 10% performance bump thanks to its beefier 800W power limit compared to the standard 600W models.
Some guy on the ROG forums said French retailers took orders but never actually received stock. Swedish sellers got word straight from ASUS that the cards got flagged for quality issues...
MSI dropped AGESA BIOS version 1.2.8.0 for some X870E and B850 boards like the MPG X870E Edge Ti WiFi, MPG X870E Carbon WiFi, and MAG B850M Mortar, claiming it fixes memory compatibility. At least one person on Chiphell said their X870E Carbon WiFi bricked after the update and kept crashing without even reaching the BIOS screen.
ASUS pulled their earlier 1804 BIOS and replaced it with 1805 because the previous 1.2.7.0 version apparently had problems. ASRock skipped 1.2.7.0 entirely and went straight to 1.2.8.0, which suggests AMD's middleware is kind of a mess right now.
Anyone running 800-series AM5 boards should probably hold off on updating for a few weeks until the community figures out what's broken.
Monster Hunter Wilds producer Yuya Tokuda admitted at the PlayStation Partner Awards that the game launched way easier than it should have been, and he wants people who bounced off it to give it another shot. The team apparently overdid the accessibility tweaks after studying where beginners got stuck in World, which made the difficulty curve feel flat for veteran players who blasted through launch content and dipped.
The devs have been rolling out updates with harder endgame stuff since the February release, and Tokuda thinks the challenge problem is fixed. Performance issues are still hanging around, though, which is rough since those were a major reason people quit alongside the low difficulty.
The open-world progression system is...
NVIDIA claims its GB200 NVL72 cluster delivers 10 times better performance than the older Hopper setup when running Mixture of Experts models like Kimi K2, which is a 32-billion-parameter open-source thinking model. The breakthrough came from a co-design approach that splits token batches across 72 chips with 30TB of shared memory, letting expert parallelism scale way harder than before.
MoE models only activate parts of their parameters per query instead of the whole thing, which makes them more efficient but creates scaling bottlenecks. Team Green solved this by using disaggregated serving through their Dynamo framework, where prefill and decode tasks get assigned to different GPUs, plus they added NVFP4 format for better accuracy...
Sandfall Interactive dropped its first-ever game and it absolutely crushed the competition on Game Pass, beating out even the surprise Oblivion remaster that landed the same week. Creative director Guillaume Broche said the studio was super nervous about launching their debut title, but Xbox helped get the word out early through their Developer Direct showcase. The turn-based RPG ended up becoming the platform's biggest third-party release of the entire year, measured by how many people jumped in during the first month.
Game Pass basically lets people who normally skip turn-based stuff give it a shot without risking cash upfront, and apparently, tons of curious players got hooked once they started exploring. The game already swept...
