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Amazon just dropped prices on AMD's RDNA 4 lineup below retail, and people probably should not sleep on these deals before component costs mess everything up. The RX 9070 XT from PowerColor is sitting at $599 when it normally goes for around $650 to $700, and that card can basically max out...

Intel's upcoming Xeon 696X workstation chip just got leaked with 64 cores and boost speeds hitting 4.6 GHz on the Granite Rapids platform. The processor showed up in SiSoftware benchmarks running on an AdLink rack system and posted a 46 percent performance jump over the current flagship Xeon...

Techland dropped Update 1.4 for Dying Light: The Beast and finally added ray tracing to the PC version after cutting it from launch. The patch brings ray-traced lighting alongside shadows and reflections to make Castor Woods look way better, plus it fixes over 70 visual bugs that were messing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Paradox Interactive ate a $37 million loss on Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 after the game flopped harder than they expected. CEO Fredrik Wester straight up admitted the publisher screwed up and said they don't really know how to handle action RPGs since their bread and butter has always...

A modder named D3DNieR dropped a playable Rufus Shinra mod for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on PC that lets you control the boss character with all his signature moves intact. The character functions pretty well based on gameplay footage, though one ability called Thread Softly can freeze certain...

The B850 chipset from AMD has been eating into B650's dominance in South Korea's DIY market. Data from Danawa shows B850 sitting at nearly 29% market share while B650 holds onto first place with around 38%, though that lead keeps shrinking each month. What's driving the switch is mostly price...

Erying dropped new MoDT motherboards that stick Intel Core Ultra 200H mobile chips onto desktop boards, ranging from the 225H up to the flagship 285H with 16 cores pushing 5.4 GHz. These boards let budget builders grab laptop silicon running at 120W instead of the usual mobile power limits...

MSI rolled out a fresh BIOS tweak called PBO BCLK Booster for their 800 series MAX boards that juices performance on Ryzen chips through base clock adjustments. The feature works as a one-click profile that bumps the base clock generator settings, with two different boost levels depending on how...

Rebel Wolves ditched the traditional main quest setup for their upcoming game, The Blood of Dawnwalker, according to game director Konrad Tomaskiewicz. Players get total freedom to tackle their enemy whenever they want, either solo or after building up gear and recruiting allies through side...

Samsung's apparently going full black on the Galaxy S26 Ultra, which sounds cool until you realize the dark frame blends with the display edges and makes the bezels look way thicker than they actually are. Ice Universe dropped this detail about the uniform color scheme that basically creates an...

Qualcomm is splitting its chip lineup with two versions, where the regular Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 gets a weaker GPU compared to the Pro model, according to leaks from Digital Chat Station. Both chips apparently use the same 2nm process from TSMC and share a redesigned CPU cluster that swaps...

Nvidia apparently stopped bundling VRAM chips with the GPU dies it ships to board partners because memory suppliers like Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix can't keep up with AI demand. According to leaker Golden Pig Upgrade, the company told its AIBs they need to source their memory themselves going...