The Polish studio 11 bit is throwing together its first-ever digital event next week to show off what's coming for Frostpunk 2 expansions, fresh stuff for The Alters, and a few other projects like Moonlighter 2 and Death Howl. They're streaming it through their YouTube page and teaming up with IGN, with some mystery announcements probably tucked in there somewhere.
The company had a solid year between publishing Moonlighter 2 and developing The Alters, even though they caught heat for sneaking generative AI into localization work and some minor art pieces without telling anyone upfront. The Alters still landed an 85 on Metacritic despite the controversy.
The showcase drops the same day as Frostpunk 2's first big expansion called...
FromSoftware is dropping The Forsaken Hollows expansion for Elden Ring Nightreign, adding two fresh characters and a couple of bosses to fight. The Undertaker swings around heavy weapons and has this wild aerial charge move that can stun even the toughest enemies. The Scholar joins as the second playable addition, while The Great Hollow opens up as another chunk of the Limveld map to mess around in.
Players have been griping for months about the lack of post-launch stuff, and this 15-dollar DLC might not hit the mark for what people expected. The expansion feels small compared to what the community wanted after watching Nightreign coast on minimal support. The speedrunners will probably blast through everything in 48 hours and then...
Lenovo crushed it in mainland China with 14 percent more computers sold compared to last year, pushing out nearly 4.4 million units during the third quarter. The company grabbed 39 percent of the entire market while everyone else took losses. Huawei dropped seven percent to roughly one million units, but ASUS held steady at 900,000 shipments and an eight percent share.
China moved about 11.3 million computers total, which beats last year by two percent. Analysts expect the whole year to clock five percent growth, driven mostly by government subsidies and corporate buyers snapping up machines. Lenovo has been pushing AI-focused computers hard to both business clients and power users.
The outlook for next year looks rough, with a...
Amazon dropped details on their Trainium3 UltraServers and teased the next Trainium4 chips at their annual conference. The UltraServer racks cram 144 Trainium3 processors into one system, delivering over four times the performance and efficiency compared to the older version. They built custom networking tech called NeuronSwitch to link these things into clusters that could theoretically hit a million chips for training massive AI models.
The upcoming Trainium4 generation will pump out six times better FP4 performance and pack way more memory. Amazon is adding support for NVIDIA's NVLink tech, so companies can mix their existing NVIDIA setups with Trainium hardware without rebuilding everything from scratch.
Big cloud customers are...
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii got asked about a potential Chrono Trigger remake during a YouTube discussion program, and he refused to shut it down. He said he can't talk about it and people should stop asking, which is basically the most non-denial denial you can give without getting fired.
This guy worked on the original SNES game as a writer back in the day. A translation mix-up earlier this year made people think a remake was happening, but apparently, the studio is only considering an HD-2D version instead of going all out. The classic JRPG hit Nintendo DS, PC, and mobile with extra dungeons and bosses that tie into Chrono Cross better.
Sony and Tencent are pumping the brakes on their lawsuit over Light of Motiram after everyone called it a Horizon knockoff. Both companies asked a California court to push back hearings and extend their briefing deadlines while they hash things out behind closed doors.
Tencent promised not to run any marketing campaigns or public tests for the game while the injunction hearing is pending. The release window got locked to Q4 2027 at the earliest, and Tencent agreed not to chase expedited discovery on the case.
Both sides will show up for hearings on the motion to dismiss and the injunction at the end of January next year. They might settle before then if their private talks actually go somewhere.
Apple just tanked its macOS security bounty payouts right when Mac malware is getting worse. Csaba Fitzl from Iru called them out on LinkedIn for cutting rewards by half to 83 percent across different categories. Full TCC bypasses that let sketchy apps grab your personal data without permission dropped from around 30k to just five grand.
Sandbox escape bugs got chopped in half to five thousand bucks, and certain TCC data vulnerabilities only pull a thousand dollars these days. The company has built up solid defenses like Lockdown Mode and memory protection on newer chips, but slashing researcher payouts seems backwards when threats keep climbing.
The crew behind the Cyberpunk 2077 CyberMP multiplayer mod just wrapped up some closed testing, and apparently, things went way better than expected. They tested vehicle sync, player interactions, a new overlay system, and how well everything holds up under pressure. Footage from a race event shows cars handling pretty smoothly, and a PvP battle on some custom map looks genuinely fun.
CD Projekt Red scrapped their official multiplayer years back to focus on single-player stuff, so this fan project is filling that gap. The mod does not let people run story missions together, but it uses the game's existing mechanics to create racing competitions and combat events instead.
The team has been grinding on this since before 2024, but only...
Pat Gelsinger just popped back up in the chip game after getting booted from Intel. The startup xLight grabbed $150 million in CHIPS Act money and brought him on as executive chairman. They want to build better light sources for EUV lithography machines using free-electron lasers instead of the usual plasma method, which they claim runs way more efficiently.
The company plans to use particle accelerators that shoot high-energy electron beams to make EUV photons. This marks one of the first times an American startup has tried tackling this specific corner of chipmaking. They're teaming up with Albany Nanotech Complex to build the tech.
The catch is that xLight still needs to get ASML to play ball and integrate their FEL sources into...
