Samsung dropped trademark filings for something called DeepPix in America, the EU, and Argentina, which looks like a brand-new camera sensor lineup that could eventually replace the ISOCELL branding they have been using since 2013. The Argentina paperwork specifically calls it a CMOS image sensor, suggesting this tech uses photodiodes and transistors to convert light into digital images with better power efficiency and faster processing than older designs.
The Galaxy S26 series will stick with existing ISOCELL hardware like the 200MP HP2 main shooter and various 50MP and 12MP sensors across the lineup, but DeepPix might be Samsung's answer to Sony's latest 200MP LYTIA 901 sensor that features advanced HDR tech and a bigger aperture...
Sony dropped MLB The Show Mobile as a free-to-play game exclusively in the Philippines for testing, with San Diego Studio building the entire experience from scratch for touchscreen controls and card-based team building. The company might be waiting to see how it performs before launching globally, around when MLB The Show 26 hits early next year, which would make sense since America represents a huge chunk of the baseball market.
The trailer shows off the interface designed for mobile devices, plus a card collection system where players assemble their dream roster, which is probably where the monetization happens. This marks another platform expansion for the franchise after it became the first PlayStation exclusive to jump to Xbox...
Apple's App Store revenue growth got cut in half since the summer, according to Sensor Tower data that Goldman Sachs analyzed, dropping from 12 percent year-over-year expansion down to just 6 percent. The gaming category that makes up 44 percent of store spending actually shrank by 2 percent compared to last year, and even the top markets like America and Japan saw their growth rates slide month after month.
The EU forcing Apple to allow third-party app stores and cutting commission rates for developers who signed up for the modified program basically kneecapped the revenue machine. Apple's broader services stuff like iCloud and Apple Music, should still do fine, but the App Store momentum loss looks pretty permanent, given all the...
Helldivers 2 just got a massive storage diet after Nixxes helped Arrowhead slash the PC install from 154GB down to 23GB, saving players about 131 GB of precious drive space. The devs measured how many people still run the game on ancient spinning hard drives and found only 11 percent of the player base, which convinced them to push forward with the compressed version since load times barely increased by a couple of seconds at worst. Players can jump into the beta right away through Steam's properties menu by selecting the prod_slim branch.
The shooter has been printing money for Sony since launch, moving over five million copies within a month and performing well on Xbox consoles after expanding beyond PC and PlayStation 5. The team...
Nvidia cut off Maxwell and Pascal GPUs from getting regular Linux driver updates with the beta 590.44.01 release, meaning GTX 900 and GTX 10 series cards are stuck with quarterly security patches instead of game-ready optimizations. The company kept these decade-old cards on life support longer than expected by extending Linux support past the 580 branch, but anyone still rocking these relics should probably think about upgrading to RTX 50 series hardware before VRAM prices spike.
The Linux driver 590 supports Turing architecture and newer models while delivering bug fixes and better compatibility, though most gamers have already ditched these ancient cards based on Steam hardware surveys showing barely anyone uses them anymore.
Capcom dropped some fresh Resident Evil Requiem combat clips showing Grace blasting zombies with a handgun in third-person sequences that feel straight out of RE4, but the footage still has zero confirmation about Leon Kennedy being in the game. The clip aired on Japanese TV in censored form, so the gore should be way heavier in the international release, and producer Masato Kumazawa recently addressed the Leon rumors without shutting them down.
Fans were hoping the combat reveal would finally show Leon since leakers speculated he would handle the action-focused sections while Grace does the survival horror stuff, but the window for that announcement keeps shrinking as the launch approaches on PC and consoles.
Apple just got slapped with another court battle after the EU's top judges ruled that Dutch courts can actually prosecute the iPhone maker over App Store commission abuse, potentially costing the company around 743 million dollars. Two consumer advocacy groups claim Apple's 30 percent developer fees jacked up prices for 14 million Dutch users, and the company tried arguing the case belonged in Irish courts since that's where they run EU operations from, but judges weren't buying it.
Poland's antitrust watchdog started digging into whether Apple breaks its own App Tracking Transparency rules by showing personalized ads without asking permission first, while Germany and Italy are running similar investigations. Chinese consumers filed...
Intel's Core Ultra 7 366H just showed up on Geekbench with four Xe3 graphics cores that basically match the old GTX 1050 Ti mobile, beating AMD's Radeon 840M by about 26 percent but getting destroyed by the Radeon 860M. The chip runs 16 cores total with four performance units, eight efficient cores, and four low-power cores, plus it can supposedly hit 4.8 GHz even though Geekbench only caught the 2 GHz base clock.
The gimped graphics setup makes sense since this variant targets budget laptops and can't hang with AMD's stronger integrated options on higher-end chips. Panther Lake models with 10 or 12 GPU cores already perform like the RTX 3050, but those beefier versions will cost way more than mainstream SKUs, where AMD's Krackan Point...
Apple plans to push out only 8 million iPhone 17e units with BOE handling most of the OLED screen orders, and the phone basically looks like a minor spec bump over the 16e rather than any kind of major redesign. Samsung and LG are chipping in some display panels for the budget model launching sometime in the first half of next year, but the tiny shipment numbers show Apple isn't expecting this thing to sell anywhere near what the flagship 17 lineup will do.
The hardware gets an A19 chip upgrade from the binned A18 with the gimped GPU, though Apple might cheap out by using the basic C1 modem instead of the fancier C1X that other models get. The single rear camera setup could free up room for a bigger battery since the 16e already...
