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Path of Exile 2 drops its third massive update with The Last of the Druids, bringing a shape-shifting hybrid class that switches between human spellcaster mode and three animal forms like bear, wolf, and wyvern. The Druid uses Animal Talismans to determine which beast form you can transform...

ZOTAC dropped another ZBOX Magnus mini PC that crams an RTX 5070 Ti and Core Ultra 7 265 into an 8.48-liter case, which sounds massive compared to their 2.65-liter model with the RTX 5060 Ti but still stays way smaller than regular desktop builds. The bigger version uses desktop parts instead of...

Samsung drops the Galaxy Z TriFold in South Korea, and the leaked Geekbench scores are pretty rough, considering the device costs around $2,447. The triple-folding phone runs on last-gen Snapdragon 8 Elite silicon, and it scored 2,853 single-core plus 8,501 multi-core, which falls about 10...

The iPhone Air tanked harder than any recent Apple release after dropping almost 48 percent of its value within ten weeks, and the company apparently stopped making them because nobody wants to buy an ultra-thin phone. Higher storage models got hit worst with the 1TB version bleeding value...

Apple quietly yanked the night mode portrait feature from the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max without telling anyone why, and people only figured it out from forum posts complaining about missing camera options. The combo shot that lets users brighten dark portraits with blurred backgrounds has been...

Creative Assembly dropped the news that Total War Medieval III is happening after teasing fans for years at their franchise anniversary stream. The devs said they want to bring back proper historical gameplay with heavy politics and religion mechanics instead of just conquest spam, and the...

AMD is dropping Medusa Point mobile chips in both 28-watt and 45-watt flavors, according to a leaked shipping manifest, which means the mainstream laptop space gets way more options. The higher-end models pack up to 22 cores through a weird combo of 12 regular Zen 6 cores plus some classic...

Apple dropped its app store winners list, and gaming stuff took over most of the spotlight again, with Pokémon TCG Pocket grabbing iPhone game of the year, while DREDGE won for iPad, and Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition scored the Mac category. Tim Cook said the winners showed exceptional...

A shipping manifest leaked specs for the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, and the eight-core chip sticks with the same 120-watt power limit as the 9800X3D despite pushing clocks higher. The faster variant keeps the 4.7GHz base, but cranks boost frequencies up to 5.6GHz, which is 400MHz past what the regular...

NVIDIA just dropped driver 591.44, which brings back PhysX acceleration for RTX 50 cards after ditching 32-bit CUDA support killed it at launch. The new driver adds custom support for nine classic games like Batman: Arkham City, Borderlands 2, and both Metro titles, which means those physics...

ASRock dropped the H610M Combo motherboard with both DDR4 and DDR5 slots on the same board, which seems like a weird flex during the current memory price apocalypse. The micro-ATX board supports Intel's 12th through 14th-gen chips and packs six DIMM slots in total, split between four DDR5 and...

Bad Robot Games teamed up with Sony to publish their co-op shooter that Mike Booth has been cooking up since joining the studio. JJ Abrams founded the gaming arm with Tencent money years back, and they were supposed to drop SPYJINX as a mobile game before quietly killing that project off. The...

Loric Games pushed back the early access launch of Echoes of Elysium because Brian Johnson said they needed more time to squash crash bugs. The survival RPG was supposed to drop but got bumped to next month, and Johnson thanked everyone for being patient while the team keeps grinding on this...

NVIDIA just dropped the full GeForce NOW lineup for December, and Hogwarts Legacy finally cut the first Activision games hitting Ubisoft Plus through the cloud service. Ubisoft got Activision's cloud rights as part of the Microsoft buyout deal, so subscribers can stream Modern Warfare II and...

Samsung dropped the first trailer for its Exynos 2600 chip, and it looks like the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Dimensity 9500, and A19 Pro might finally have real competition. The Korean company is bringing back Exynos chips to the Galaxy S26 lineup after three years of Snapdragon-only releases...

Microsoft is moving Xbox production to Vietnam through Foxconn's Fushan Technology, which wants approval to make 4.8 million units per year. The shift helps dodge tariffs and component price spikes hitting consoles made in China, and it covers everything from the actual boxes to controllers and...

Intel's VP of Corporate Planning, John Pitzer, hit up the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference to gas up the foundry business, saying their 18A process yields are getting better every month since CEO Lip-Bu Tan showed up. The company is cranking out Panther Lake chips right this second, and...

Bethesda pushed out the Burning Springs update for Fallout 76, and it unlocks a whole new chunk of Ohio that wasn't in any previous game. The expansion brings Walton Goggins back as The Ghoul from the show to hand out bounty contracts, with basic Grunt Hunts targeting legendary enemies and...

Nubia dropped their first foldable phone, and it's packing a 6,560mAh battery into a device with 35.7 square inches of screen space. Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold has way more display at 52.8 square inches, but only manages 5,600mAh despite being barely thinner when opened up. The Nubia Fold runs...

Jensen Huang showed up on Joe Rogan's podcast and dropped a story about how nobody wanted NVIDIA's first DGX-1 AI system back when they launched it. The CEO said Elon Musk was literally the only person who stepped up to buy one, and Jensen personally drove the machine to San Francisco to deliver...