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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

PlayStation decided to throw in two extra games for PS Plus Essential subscribers next month as a holiday bonus. The lineup hits five total titles instead of the usual three and covers everything from fresh 2025 releases like Killing Floor 3 and Synduality Echo of Ada to solid 2024 stuff like...

Samsung locked down a deal with Nota AI that lets the Exynos 2500 chip handle on-device AI way better through compression tech. The partnership created something called Exynos AI Studio that helps advanced AI models run without needing cloud servers by squeezing more out of the hardware. The...

Grasshopper Manufacture dropped word that their next direct stream is going down and will focus entirely on Romeo Is A Dead Man updates. The broadcast hits their YouTube channel and promises some fresh gameplay footage alongside development peeks that nobody has seen yet. Korea already rated...

TSMC plans to drop around $49 billion on four facilities that will pump out 1.4nm chips by late 2028. Japan's Rapidus wants to beat them to the punch by getting their own 1.4nm plant running a year earlier in Hokkaido while also plotting research into 1nm tech down the line. The Japanese...

Apple teamed up with ISSEY MIYAKE to drop the iPhone Pocket and people lost their minds over what basically amounts to a fancy phone sleeve. The short strap version runs $150 while the long strap hits $230, which apparently was enough to get the knockoff machine fired up over on Alibaba. Clones...

Samsung dropped plans to roll out a bunch of OLED monitors next year and the twist is that one of them uses LG panel tech instead of their usual QD-OLED stuff. The company figures it's cheaper to buy WOLED from LG Display than make their own right now, even though they totally could. The lineup...

Netflix grabbed Toby Wallace for a lead role in their Assassin's Creed show, which has been stuck in development hell since they announced it five years back. The 30-year-old actor from Bikeriders and Eden got the green light to join the cast after the series finally started moving forward over...

Jennifer English dropped her take on generative AI at the Golden Joystick Awards and basically told the industry to knock it off. The actor behind Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 and Maelle from Clair Obscur Expedition 33 said devs should stick with human creativity instead of leaning on AI for...

Christie's is getting ready to sell the original Apple partnership paperwork for somewhere between $2 million and $4 million at an auction. The lot has the three-page agreement that tied together Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ron Wayne, plus the withdrawal papers Wayne signed just a few days...

MAINGEAR boss Wallace Santos is telling people to buy their gaming gear right away because prices are about to get way worse. DRAM shortages keep getting nastier thanks to AI companies hoarding everything, and that means GPUs and RAM are going to cost a bunch more pretty soon. Santos says Black...

AOC dropped two gaming monitors that actually seem pretty solid for once. The U27G4XM runs mini LED tech with 1152 dimming zones and hits HDR 1000 certification with 1200 nits peak brightness. You can swap between 4K at 160Hz or drop down to 1080p for 320Hz, depending on what you need. The color...

Ubisoft just posted a job listing for a technical sound designer to work on Beyond Good and Evil 2 at their Montpellier studio. The person they hire will handle audio integration and make sure everything from voice acting to vehicle sounds actually functions properly under the audio director...

Apple might drop the iPad mini 8 sometime between late 2026 and the end of that year. The big deal is that this becomes their first budget tablet getting OLED tech, which is a pretty massive shift for how they usually handle their cheaper products. Word is the screen bumps up to 8.5 inches from...

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT moved almost 925 cards at one German shop while the entire RTX 50 lineup combined barely hit 920 units. The flagship RDNA 4 card crushed the RTX 5070 Ti, which couldn't even crack 400 sales. The RX 9060 XT also did solid numbers with 515 units sold. Thing is, this trend...

Where Winds Meet just dropped globally on PC and PS5, and some whales have already dropped up to $68,000 on a single cosmetic boat called the Mirage Boat. The thing needs 170 special pages to unlock, and you get those by grinding through gacha draws that cost around $400 per core needed. Only...