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    Yakuza creator debuts Gang of Dragon, Don Lee takes the lead

    Toshihiro Nagoshi dropped the trailer for Gang of Dragon at The Game Awards after leaving SEGA back in 2021 and starting Nagoshi Studios under NetEase. The action-adventure game stars Korean actor Ma Dong-seok as Shin Ji-seong, a high-ranking thug in a crime syndicate operating around the...
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    Intel teases Arc B770 again, gamers left waiting for launch

    Intel keeps teasing the Arc B770 graphics card but refuses to actually ship the thing. The chipmaker dropped another vague reply on social media about being hyped for the B770 alongside Panther Lake and Nova Lake, yet nobody has seen a release date or hard confirmation that this GPU will even...
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    id Software devs vote union, power shift hits the gaming industry

    Developers at id Software just unionized after 165 workers voted to join up with the Communications Workers of America, and the DOOM studio became another Microsoft-owned team using that labor neutrality deal the company signed during the Activision Blizzard buyout. Lead programmer Chris Hays...
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    ASUS teases Zenbook DUO with dual batteries, power play on display

    ASUS dropped a teaser for their upcoming Zenbook DUO laptop that apparently stuffs battery packs on both sides of the chassis instead of just one. The company posted a short clip showing off the dual-battery setup before the official CES reveal, and this thing seems pretty wild compared to most...
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    Colorful debuts iGame X870E Vulcan OC, DDR5-10000 ready

    Colorful dropped their iGame X870E Vulcan OC V14 motherboard for AM5 socket chips, and the thing pushes memory speeds past DDR5-10000 with a dual-DIMM layout. The board rocks a beefy 22-phase power delivery system rated at 110 amps per phase, plus it supports Ryzen 9000 chips at DDR5-8600 speeds...
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    Deadpool lands in Marvel Rivals, Rogue joins the brawl

    NetEase dropped a Season 6 trailer for Marvel Rivals at The Game Awards, showing Deadpool joining the hero shooter roster mid-January. The Merc with a Mouth brings his usual fourth-wall-breaking nonsense to a cinematic reveal that matches his comic personality, and the developer tagged the...
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    Jonathan Blow drops epic puzzle game, indie world buzzes

    Jonathan Blow and his studio, Thekla, just dropped a trailer for Order of the Sinking Star at The Game Awards, and the indie dev behind Braid and The Witness says this puzzle game absolutely dwarfs anything he has shipped before. The PC release hits sometime next year with over a thousand...
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    Elon Musk sets up shop at Samsung fab, Tesla chip plans heat up

    Samsung gave Elon Musk his personal workspace at the Taylor factory, where he can babysit Tesla's chip production lines directly. The Korean chairman met with the Tesla boss to hash out details on AI5 and AI6 silicon, and both companies locked in a massive $16.5 billion partnership that puts...
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    Framework hikes DDR5 prices for laptops, desktops spared for now

    Framework just announced they're jacking up DDR5 memory costs by 50% for their Laptop DIY Edition because DRAM supply went to hell. The modular laptop company posted on X that supplier prices got brutal, and they had to pass some pain along, even though their new rates still undercut regular...
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    Intel Core Ultra Plus chips leak online, core count takes a jump

    An Indian retailer just leaked Intel's Arrow Lake refresh lineup with specs for the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus and Core Ultra 7 270K Plus chips. Prime abgb posted full details showing the 290K Plus keeps the same 24-core layout as the current 285K but bumps max clock speeds by 100 MHz to 5.6 GHz...
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    Apple faces fresh antitrust fire, regulators circle the wagons

    Switzerland just launched an antitrust probe into Apple Pay after the iPhone maker started letting third-party payment apps access NFC tech there. The Swiss Competition Commission wants to know if rival mobile wallet providers can actually compete with Apple Pay on iOS devices and whether the...
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    Epic Games drops Hogwarts Legacy for free, Fortnite gets magical perks

    Epic Games just kicked off another holiday giveaway, and this time it's Hogwarts Legacy for free until mid-December. Avalanche Software's 2023 open-world adventure game hit 35 million copies sold and crushed Call of Duty that year. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment teamed up with Epic to...
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    HKC M10 Ultra wows with RGB Mini LED, color game levels up

    HKC just dropped the M10 Ultra gaming monitor with RGB Mini LED backlighting that supposedly makes colors pop way harder than regular displays. The panel rocks a 27-inch 4K screen running at 160Hz with quantum dot tech for better color accuracy. Mini LED backlighting means the screen has...
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    Where Winds Meet races past 9M downloads, iPhone flexes on Android

    Everstone Studio's free-to-play action RPG just hit 9 million downloads across PC and PS5, and the mobile version dropped on iOS and Android. Dame Tech ran performance tests comparing the iPhone 17 Pro Max with its A19 Pro chip to the REDMAGIC 11 Pro with its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. Both...
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    Ace Combat 8 takes flight, Theve's wings roar back to war

    Bandai Namco Aces dropped the trailer for ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE at The Game Awards after an actor accidentally leaked it over a year back. The studio is launching the game for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series consoles after keeping fans waiting seven years since the last mainline entry...
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    Galaxy S26 Ultra ups its game, dials satellites, and 60W speed

    Samsung is gearing up to slap satellite connectivity onto the Galaxy S26 Ultra for the Chinese market after getting hammered by local competition for years. The leaked certification confirms emergency satellite features plus 60-watt wired charging, while previous filings suggest a 5,000mAh...
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    Nioh 3 unsheathes fury, demo cuts deep in January

    Team NINJA and KOEI TECMO confirmed that a fresh Nioh 3 demo drops for PlayStation 5 and PC, letting people grind solo or team up online with three others. The previous trial version was locked to PS5 only, but cross-play remains unavailable for multiplayer sessions even when the full game...
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    No Law guns for chaos, Port Desire runs on vengeance

    Neon Giant dropped a reveal for NO LAW at The Game Awards, and the Swedish studio behind The Ascent is shifting from isometric twin-stick action to a first-person open-world RPG that looks heavily inspired by Cyberpunk 2077. Players control Grey Harker, an ex-soldier dragged back into violence...
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    Mega Man’s back blasting, Dual Override fires up the hype

    Capcom finally threw Mega Man fans a bone after leaving the Blue Bomber on ice since 2018. The publisher dropped a teaser for Mega Man: Dual Override at The Game Awards, and the footage shows classic 2D platforming wrapped in cell-shaded graphics. The trailer hints at some kind of transformation...
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    Galactic Racer speeds in, Star Wars goes full throttle

    Fuse Games just announced Star Wars: Galactic Racer at The Game Awards, and the studio is packed with ex-Criterion devs who built Need for Speed and Burnout. The racing title drops on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S next year under Secret Mode's publishing wing, mixing pods with classic speeders...
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