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Zimbabwe's state broadcaster just slashed licensing costs after people got absolutely wrecked by the old fees. Business vehicles dropped from 200 bucks to 90 yearly, private cars went to 84 from 92, and households saw the biggest break with combined radio-TV licenses tanking from 100 dollars...

Zimbabwe's government is shutting down unregistered schools and colleges across Manicaland after kids bombed their Grade Seven exams. Provincial Education Director Richard Gabaza said any illegal institution needs to get registered by year-end, or they're getting closed down with police backup...

Apple is dealing with a massive executive exodus after losing four major C-suite figures this week. The company's AI chief, John Giannandrea, got replaced by Microsoft's Amar Subramanya, while Meta snatched up UI design head Alan Dye, who had been behind iconic looks like the iPhone X interface...

After going quiet for over two years, the first-person shooter Luna Abyss has returned with a fresh trailer and a 2026 release window for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S|X. Players take control of a prisoner who gets sent into a crumbling megastructure underneath the mimic moon Luna to grab...

The studio behind Crosswind just pulled a full rebrand to Windrose after ditching the free-to-play MMO concept for a regular buy-to-play survival game, and producer Philip Molodkovets said they wanted to make a solid survival experience instead of botching an MMO. The pirate game takes heavy...

Red Thread Games just showed off Hello Sunshine at the PC Gaming Show, and the narrative-focused studio is trying something weird with this survival RPG set in a corporate-destroyed desert wasteland. Creative director Ragnar Tørnquist walked through a demo where you play as the last employee of...

Deep Silver and KING Art Games showed off a new story trailer for Dawn of War IV at the PC Gaming Show, and Black Library writer John French helped craft the 70-plus mission campaign that supports both solo and co-op modes. The RTS drops players onto Kronus, where the Blood Ravens clash with...

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...