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    UE 5.7 gives ARK 40% boost, stutters still cling on

    A lead developer for ARK: Survival Ascended says an upcoming engine upgrade will deliver major performance gains. Jeremy Stieglitz confirmed the team is internally testing Unreal Engine 5.7 for a planned release next March. He described the update as a near-magic bullet, expecting a thirty to...
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    Witcher 3 gets surprise DLC, Ciri’s story continues

    A financial analyst in Poland predicts a major new expansion for The Witcher 3 will launch next year. This rumored thirty-dollar downloadable content could arrive around the game's eleventh anniversary in May 2026. The report suggests this add-on would serve as a narrative bridge to the next...
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    5K monitor exists, but your GPU’s crying in 4K

    A new 5K gaming monitor from ASUS demonstrates how demanding that resolution is, even for top-tier hardware. The display offers a high refresh rate, but a recent test showed NVIDIA's flagship RTX 5090 D GPU struggling to maintain smooth performance. In a graphically intense game like Cyberpunk...
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    Assassin’s Creed series hires Chernobyl director, filming in Italy

    The long stalled live action Assassin's Creed series for Netflix is finally moving forward with key hires. Johan Renck, the director behind the acclaimed Chernobyl miniseries, has been chosen to helm the adaptation. Casting is also underway, with actors Toby Wallace, Lola Petticrew, Zachary...
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    EA sale approved by shareholders, regulators next in line

    Electronic Arts shareholders have voted to approve the company's sale to a private investment group. The consortium includes major stakeholders like the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund and a firm linked to Jared Kushner. This decision represents the first major step in a process that will...
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    iPhone 18 RAM costs soar 230%, Apple braces for pain

    Apple is reportedly facing a massive price increase for a critical phone component, which could pressure its profit margins. The cost for a twelve-gigabyte LPDDR5X memory chip has jumped to seventy dollars, a huge leap from the twenty five to twenty nine dollar range earlier this year. This...
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    Ancient AMD GPUs get 30% boost, thanks to new Linux driver

    Very old AMD graphics cards are getting a significant speed upgrade on Linux thanks to a driver change. The upcoming Linux kernel update will shift aging GCN architecture GPUs, like the Radeon HD 7950 from the early 2010s, from the old Radeon driver to the newer AMDGPU driver used by modern...
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    DJI drones banned in the US, FCC calls them a spy risk

    The United States has formally banned foreign-made drones and their parts due to national security concerns. The Federal Communications Commission placed these uncrewed aircraft systems on its Covered List, identifying them as an unacceptable risk. This action specifically blocks the import and...
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    GTA 6 stays at $70, Rockstar knows greed kills hype

    A former Rockstar animator does not believe the company will price the base version of Grand Theft Auto VI at one hundred dollars. Mike York expects the standard edition to launch at the typical seventy-dollar price point for major releases, suggesting Rockstar will sell enough copies without...
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    Samsung ex-staff leak 10nm DRAM secrets to China’s CXMT

    South Korean prosecutors have charged several former Samsung employees with leaking advanced memory technology to a Chinese semiconductor firm. A current director at ChangXin Memory Technologies, along with four other individuals now working at the company, were arrested for allegedly violating...
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    Tomb Raider runs on Snapdragon, 4K, and barely sweats

    A mobile gamer recently tested the older Tomb Raider reboot from 2013 through an emulator on a high-end Android tablet. Using a OnePlus Pad 3 powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, they ran the game's benchmark at various resolutions through the GameHub emulation app. The results showed the...
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    Epic’s store feels like a shop, Steam’s your gaming home

    The Epic Games Store carved out a big audience by offering developers a much larger revenue cut and giving away free games to users. Despite gaining nearly three hundred million accounts, it has not stopped Valve's Steam platform from also growing massively, regularly hitting tens of millions of...
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    Scammers ship DDR4 in DDR5 boxes, Amazon buyers fuming

    Scammers are now swapping expensive DDR5 memory kits for cheaper or fake parts inside sealed boxes. A recent example involved a buyer receiving older Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 sticks instead of the DDR5 kit they ordered from Amazon. In a related comment, another user reported finding just a...
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    Apple bets big on TSMC’s 2nm, snubs Samsung’s shaky yields

    Apple faces a chip shortage for its upcoming A20 processors despite locking down a huge part of TSMC's initial 2nm production. The next iPhone 18 series and a rumored foldable model are slated to use these new A20 and A20 Pro chips next year. High demand for TSMC's advanced node is creating...
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    Call of Duty finally storms Switch 2, Warzone or bust

    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...
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    Epic snubs Apple in Japan, calls fees pure digital robbery

    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...
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    AMD’s Zen 6 cache flex, Intel’s sweating in Nova Lake

    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...
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    Samsung’s 6K Odyssey drops, your GPU just cried in 4K

    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...
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    ASUS router gets AI brain, your lag’s about to get canceled

    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...
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    MSI drops 200Hz ultrawide, your eyes didn’t see it coming

    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...
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