A reporter with a decent track record on Microsoft rumors says the first Call of Duty game for Nintendo systems is almost finished. Jez Corden stated the initial port will launch within a few months, targeting a 2026 release window. This follows a ten-year agreement Microsoft made with Nintendo during its Activision Blizzard acquisition, promising to bring the franchise to its platforms. With the newer Switch 2 console now available, questions have lingered about when and how Microsoft would fulfill that pledge.
The specifics of the port remain unclear. It might be a version of the free-to-play battle royale game Warzone, a mainline title like the upcoming Black Ops 7, or even a unique standalone experience built specifically for...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is still going hard at Apple, calling out new fees the company set up in Japan. Despite recent court wins for Epic, Sweeney says Apple is keeping Fortnite off iPhones there because of what he labels junk fees on payments. He specifically criticized a reported 21 percent charge on third-party in-app purchases, along with a separate 5 percent cut from revenue earned by competing app stores, plus mandatory transaction tracking.
This fight extends from ongoing legal battles in the United States. A judge previously found Apple in violation of an order about opening up payment methods, stopping them from collecting commissions on outside purchases. An appeals court agreed with the judge's overall ruling but...
New leaks hint AMD's next Zen 6 desktop chips might get a huge cache upgrade to fight Intel's future Nova Lake parts. A known source says each compute chiplet in Zen 6 could pack 144 megabytes of last-level cache. That would mean a two-chiplet model has a massive 288 MB total, matching the rumored specs for Intel's competing platform. Earlier guesses had put Zen 6's cache, especially for the gaming-focused X3D versions, closer to 96 MB, so this is a big jump if true.
This rumored cache size would come on top of an expected ten percent improvement in instructions per clock for Zen 6. AMD's current 3D V-Cache tech, which just stacks extra cache on top, has already proven that more cache seriously helps gaming performance and smoothness...
Samsung just announced its next wave of Odyssey gaming monitors for 2026, headlined by their first-ever 6K screen and a wild glasses-free 3D model. The five new displays push resolution and refresh rates way up, with one competitive model even claiming a possible 1040 Hz. The flagship is a 32-inch 3D monitor called the Odyssey G90XH that uses eye tracking to create a stereoscopic effect without needing special glasses, adjusting the image based on where you are looking. It runs at 6K and 165 Hz normally, but a special mode can double that to 330 Hz.
For esports maniacs, the 27-inch Odyssey G6 model aims for pure speed with a 600 Hz refresh rate at QHD resolution, which can also be pushed to that insane 1040 Hz figure in another mode...
ASUS is cooking up a future gaming router called the ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI that runs on the next Wi-Fi 7 standard. This beast is slated for a spring 2026 release and is all about cutting lag and managing traffic with its own onboard AI brain, avoiding any cloud dependency. The hardware packs a quad-core processor plus a dedicated AI chip designed for local network optimization, letting it automatically prioritize gaming packets and other sensitive data. For raw speed, it uses a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 setup that can theoretically hit a combined 19 Gbps across its frequency bands.
On the wired side, it is loaded for bear with two 10-gig and four 2.5-gig Ethernet ports for monster internet plans and local transfers. A wild feature is the...
MSI just dropped a new curved gaming screen called the MAG 345CQRF E20. This thing is a 34-inch ultrawide built for high refresh rate gaming, featuring a sharp 3440 by 1440 resolution and a super aggressive 1000R curve that supposedly wraps around your face. They are using a Rapid VA panel that hits up to 200 Hz with a super-fast claimed response time. It boasts a high native contrast ratio for deeper blacks, a peak brightness of 300 nits, and HDR support.
For colors, it covers a good chunk of the DCI-P3 and Adobe RGB color spaces while hitting over a billion colors, which is decent for games and some media work. You get one DisplayPort and two HDMI ports on the back, plus a special mode to help it play nice with consoles. The stand...
A pirate archiving group says it just dumped a massive chunk of Spotify's music catalog online through torrents. They claim the whole thing is about three hundred terabytes, packed with both audio tracks and detailed information like song titles and artist data. The group explained they gathered it all slowly using bots, not a one-time hack into the company's servers.
Spotify is looking into how this happened, with security experts guessing the scrapers probably exploited public-facing access points. The data's appearance on tracker sites is confirmed, but the full size has not independently checked yet. Having all that structural metadata is a bigger worry for the music business than just the songs alone, because it could let someone...
A group called the SaveUNISA forum is formally challenging the university council's choice to give Professor Puleng LenkaBula another five years as vice chancellor. The council recently approved her second term, praising her leadership during a time of digital change and calling the review process thorough. Critics, however, point to old reports from independent assessors that found serious governance and management problems.
The forum argues this reappointment ignores those unresolved systemic failures, hurting efforts to fix the university's reputation and operations. This conflict puts Africa's biggest distance learning school in a tough spot, with some staff backing the current leader while the opposition pushes for new management...
GIGABYTE finally admitted it stopped using that weird thermal gel on its newer graphics cards. The material was supposed to work better than standard pads for cooling parts like memory chips, but it had a habit of getting soft and oozing out when hot, especially in vertical mounts.
People started noticing gooey residue around the edges of their circuit boards after a while, which raised alarms about potential cooling problems over time. Even though it did not seem to instantly break hardware, builders got worried the gel could shift and create hotter spots on already stressed components.
The company did not say which specific models got the gel or what they are using instead now. They also are not doing any recalls or offering fixes...
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