Epic Games dropped a trailer showing off Yuki's Revenge, which is basically an unreleased Kill Bill chapter that Tarantino never put out back when the movies dropped over 20 years ago. The short film hits Fortnite as part of a collab and also gets a limited theater run at select locations across the US, Canada and UK.
Anyone who grabs tickets between late November gets a code for the Gogo Yubari skin if they catch it at participating cinemas. The whole thing goes live as Chapter Six wraps up and Chapter Seven kicks off with the Zero Hour event.
Qualcomm dropped the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and it shares the same TSMC 3nm process as the Elite Gen 5 flagship but apparently gets cooked in gaming benchmarks. A tipster on Weibo says the regular Gen 5 has way less cache on the performance cores compared to last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite and that might wreck frame rates.
The older Elite chip packs 12MB of L2 cache for its performance cluster while the new Gen 5 only gets 4MB for those cores. The Elite also runs its performance cores at 4.32GHz versus 3.80GHz on the Gen 5. Digital Chat Station claims this cache gap creates a massive performance split when you actually fire up games, even though both chips use cutting-edge manufacturing nodes.
Early AnTuTu scores show the Elite Gen 5 only...
Blizzard just locked down the release window for World of Warcraft: Midnight and the eleventh expansion drops early next year. The game launches for subscribers looking to continue the Worldsoul Saga storyline that writer Chris Metzen cooked up after he came back to the company.
Players get four zones to explore plus the new Haranir Allied Race and a fresh Devourer spec for Demon Hunters. The expansion brings player housing through a system called Neighborhoods and that feature actually goes live next week for anyone who already bought the game. Blizzard set up cross-game rewards for people who get their first house and unlock the Welcome Home achievement with free cosmetics dropping in Overwatch 2, Hearthstone and StarCraft II.
CD Projekt RED just dropped their quarterly earnings and confirmed Cyberpunk 2077 has moved 35 million units since launch. The studio managed to add 5 million sales over the past year despite the game being nearly five years old at this point.
The company has 447 devs grinding on Witcher 4 right now while 135 people are split between Vancouver, Warsaw and Boston working on the Cyberpunk sequel that they're calling Project Orion or Cyberpunk 2. Joint CEO Michal Nowakowski said the franchise still pulls in fresh players and the sales numbers prove they can get ambitious with where the series goes next.
The real redemption arc test comes when Witcher 4 drops, though. That launch will show whether gamers actually forgive CDPR for the 2020...
Noctua just dropped some good news for anyone sitting on LGA 1700 or LGA 1851 gear. Their coolers will work straight out of the box with the next LGA 1954 socket when Nova Lake chips arrive. No adapter brackets or extra mounting hardware needed whatsoever.
The cooler maker put out an FAQ saying the installation process stays the same as the current platforms. This tracks with earlier leaks showing LGA 1954 keeps the same physical footprint as the previous two sockets, meaning your existing cooling setup should just bolt right on without any fuss.
Thermaltake already confirmed compatibility for their MineCube 360 Ultra ARGB liquid cooler last month. Other brands making LGA 1851 coolers will probably follow suit since the mounting...
Microsoft brought Xbox Cloud Gaming to India and the platform just hit 29 countries total after adding the fastest-growing gaming market on the planet with over 500 million players. The company bumped up server capacity in Argentina and Brazil after seeing wild growth down there and said worldwide cloud gaming hours from Game Pass users jumped 45 percent compared to last year.
The service works on LG TVs and Amazon Fire TV sticks alongside the usual suspects like phones and PCs, with cars getting support soon for some reason. Multiple Game Pass tiers can access cloud streaming after the subscription shakeup, even though the tech still trails behind GeForce NOW despite getting 1440p support. Rumors are floating around about a free...
Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan jumped in to back the company after TSMC filed a lawsuit over their hiring Dr Wei-Jen Lo away from the Taiwan chipmaker. The exec worked at Intel for 18 years before bouncing to TSMC and is heading back to Team Blue despite accusations that he might leak trade secrets about wafer processing tech.
Tan shot down any claims about IP theft and said Intel has strict rules against using confidential stuff from competitors. The company pointed out that their tech, like PowerVia and RibbonFET, works differently from what TSMC does anyway, plus they adopted High-NA EUV equipment before the Taiwan giant even touched it. The real value from bringing Lo back might just be his knowledge about what American clients want from...
Splash Damage just told everyone at the studio they might be out of a job after kicking off companywide consultation talks that could hit the entire staff. The veteran support studio got bought by some mystery private equity crew back in September after breaking away from Tencent, but things went sideways fast instead of getting better.
The shop has been struggling to ship anything since Outcasters launched and died with Google Stadia five years back. Their big Transformers Reactivate project got canned earlier this year and triggered layoffs, while recent work has been limited to backing up titles like Star Wars Hunters and Gears Tactics. The studio has been around for two decades, but might not make it through this round of cuts if...
America basically turned into a chip manufacturing magnet with Taiwan and South Korea dumping massive cash into US fabs. TSMC leads the pack by setting up shop in Arizona to crank out everything from 4nm chips right up to their planned 1.6nm process, while Samsung got its Taylor facility back on track for 2nm production after some delays.
McKinsey data shows that almost 90 percent of global semiconductor investment landed stateside with the Trump administration pushing hard on national security concerns and threatening wild tariffs if companies drag their feet on domestic production. Samsung already locked down orders for Tesla custom AI chips, while TSMC faces pressure since most of its customers live here anyway.
Europe jumped into...
