Ubisoft associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois told YouTuber JorRaptor that Claws of Awaji is probably the final major expansion for Assassin's Creed Shadows, even though the game has been one of the few wins for the publisher lately. The studio originally wanted to drop multiple expansions, but shifted gears to keep things smaller and more reactive based on what players want.
Lemay-Comtois said Year Two will focus on solid content chunks rather than full season pass style releases, though he added that anything could change since Mirage and older crossover stories proved Ubisoft can always pivot. The change might also tie into the Tencent deal and the creation of Vantage Studios, which inherited the Assassin's Creed franchise and...
Niko Partners is warning that Japan might be about to get absolutely wrecked in the Chinese gaming market because geopolitical beef between the two countries keeps getting worse. The analytics firm pointed out that Japanese games make up around 30 percent of all foreign titles that get approved in China, which is a massive chunk of the market that publishers really do not want to lose.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made some comments about potentially getting involved if China tries to reunify Taiwan, and Beijing is not happy about it. China has already started canceling flights, issuing travel warnings, blocking seafood imports, and pausing film approvals from Japan. Video game approvals could be next on the chopping block, and that...
Samsung researchers just dropped a paper in Nature about ferroelectric transistor tech that slashes NAND flash power draw by 96 percent, which is kinda bonkers when you think about how much juice data centers and phones are gonna need as AI stuff keeps growing. The team of 34 people figured out how to use oxide semiconductors that were previously considered trash for high-performance chips because of their annoying threshold voltage issues.
The breakthrough came from using that same threshold voltage quirk to control leakage current in cell string structures where data gets stored in series. More cells typically means more power waste from leakage even when switches are off, but the ferroelectric transistor setup fixes that problem...
OneXPlayer is jacking up prices on its APEX gaming handheld by $200 across every single config because DRAM and SSD costs keep climbing. The Chinese company dropped the announcement on X and said buyers have 96 hours to lock in the current pricing before the increase hits.
The APEX is their flagship device and the only handheld running the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip with a liquid-cooled option. Base models were going for $1,399 for air-cooled and $1,459 for liquid-cooled versions, but after the hike, those jump to $1,599 and $1,659, respectively. The top-spec models with 128 GB of RAM and 2 TB of storage will run between $2,239 and $2,299.
OneXPlayer warned that another price adjustment might happen if component costs keep rising, which...
Moore Threads is about to drop what might be the biggest domestic GPU IPO Shanghai has ever seen, pulling in over 4000 retail investor subscriptions and trying to raise $1.1 billion. Western outlets are hyping them up as the NVIDIA of China, but anyone who actually knows their GPU specs can tell you that take is kinda mid.
Their consumer cards, like the MTT S80 and S90, exist, but the S80 literally gets outperformed by a GTX 1050 Ti from like a decade ago, despite having PCIe Gen 5 support. The S90 supposedly competes with an RTX 4060 after driver improvements saved it from being complete trash. Their workstation card, the S4000, packs 48 GB of GDDR6 memory and claims 25 TFLOPs of FP32 compute, but the company has not shown off any...
CD Projekt RED co-CEO Michał Nowakowski confirmed on X that The Witcher 4 will skip The Game Awards next month. The RPG is nominated for Most Anticipated Game, but won't get any fresh content at the show. Nowakowski thanked fans for voting while asking them to keep their hype levels in check.
The studio already said back in spring that the game won't drop until 2027, which makes the absence from this year's awards pretty expected. During a recent earnings call, Nowakowski shut down speculation by refusing to discuss development progress and restating that 2026 is not happening for launch.
Anyone hoping to see substantial reveals will probably have to wait until The Game Awards 2026, when a proper trailer seems more realistic.
Nicolas Pépé ditched his family to shack up with adult film actress Teanna Trump, and the soccer player is apparently ready to lock it down after barely a year together. The whole situation is pretty wild considering he walked away from his wife and children for this relationship. Pépé seems convinced this is the real deal.
Splitgate 2 is getting another shot after its messy debut earlier this year. The devs at 1047 Games are shutting down servers next month to prep for a proper relaunch before the year ends, which is actually ahead of their original 2026 timeline.
The game had a rough go of it when it first dropped. Between an overconfident co-founder making cringy promises, a bad Summer Game Fest moment, and a bonkers $145 cosmetic pack, things went sideways fast. The studio ended up putting the game back into beta after admitting they rushed it out the door. They also killed the original Splitgate servers and laid off workers twice in a month.
A few hundred people have been testing the beta since then, but that player count is not sustainable for a...
The iPhone Air bombed hard enough that it straight up murdered the entire ultra-thin smartphone category before it even took off. Chinese brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo all ditched their plans to build competing slim phones after watching Apple faceplant.
DigiTimes says these manufacturers are pivoting to throw eSIM tech into a bunch of different models instead of banking everything on skinny designs. Foxconn apparently shut down all iPhone Air production lines by the end of November, while Luxshare already pulled the plug back in October. Apple pushed the iPhone Air 2 back to spring 2027, which Mark Gurman thinks has more to do with waiting for the A20 chip on TSMC's 2nm process than anything else.
Turns out consumers just care...
