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    Total War - Medieval III returns to roots, Warcore engine powers new era

    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...
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    AMD's Medusa Point splits into 28W and 45W Zen 6 chips

    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...
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    Pokémon TCG Pocket bags iPhone Game of the Year, Apple names 2025 winners

    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...
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    AMD’s 9850X3D confirmed at 120W, clocks hit 5.6 GHz

    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...
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    NVIDIA brings PhysX back to RTX 50 GPUs, fixes legacy game support

    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...
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    ASRock H610M Combo lets you pick DDR4 or DDR5, not both

    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...
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    Bad Robot Games teams with Sony on new co-op shooter

    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...
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    Echoes of Elysium delayed, stubborn bugs ground airships

    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...
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    Hogwarts Legacy and CoD hit GeForce NOW, Ubisoft+ deal delivers

    NVIDIA just dropped the full GeForce NOW lineup for December, and Hogwarts Legacy finally cut the first Activision games hitting Ubisoft Plus through the cloud service. Ubisoft got Activision's cloud rights as part of the Microsoft buyout deal, so subscribers can stream Modern Warfare II and...
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    Samsung limits Exynos 2600 to Korea, citing heat and yields

    Samsung dropped the first trailer for its Exynos 2600 chip, and it looks like the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, Dimensity 9500, and A19 Pro might finally have real competition. The Korean company is bringing back Exynos chips to the Galaxy S26 lineup after three years of Snapdragon-only releases...
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    Microsoft moves Xbox production to Vietnam, dodging tariffs

    Microsoft is moving Xbox production to Vietnam through Foxconn's Fushan Technology, which wants approval to make 4.8 million units per year. The shift helps dodge tariffs and component price spikes hitting consoles made in China, and it covers everything from the actual boxes to controllers and...
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    Intel Foundry bets big on chips and packaging synergy

    Intel's VP of Corporate Planning, John Pitzer, hit up the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference to gas up the foundry business, saying their 18A process yields are getting better every month since CEO Lip-Bu Tan showed up. The company is cranking out Panther Lake chips right this second, and...
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    Ghoul’s bounty hunt ignites Fallout 76’s biggest map drop

    Bethesda pushed out the Burning Springs update for Fallout 76, and it unlocks a whole new chunk of Ohio that wasn't in any previous game. The expansion brings Walton Goggins back as The Ghoul from the show to hand out bounty contracts, with basic Grunt Hunts targeting legendary enemies and...
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    Nubia folds a bigger battery into a slimmer frame

    Nubia dropped their first foldable phone, and it's packing a 6,560mAh battery into a device with 35.7 square inches of screen space. Samsung's Galaxy Z TriFold has way more display at 52.8 square inches, but only manages 5,600mAh despite being barely thinner when opened up. The Nubia Fold runs...
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    Elon Musk was NVIDIA's first AI believer

    Jensen Huang showed up on Joe Rogan's podcast and dropped a story about how nobody wanted NVIDIA's first DGX-1 AI system back when they launched it. The CEO said Elon Musk was literally the only person who stepped up to buy one, and Jensen personally drove the machine to San Francisco to deliver...
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    Angel-powered chaos descends in Diablo IV overhaul

    Blizzard is dropping Season of Divine Intervention for Diablo IV, and it brings monster AI upgrades, a complete itemization rework, and new defense mechanics. The update adds evolved enemies with smarter behavior, over 20 fresh elite affixes, and less clumping in champion packs. Items get four...
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    Steampunk vengeance simmers in Ming-flavored metropolis

    Pathea Games showed off The God Slayer, and their Business Development Director, Aaron Deng, spilled details about the open-world steampunk RPG. The team switched from their previous engine to Unreal Engine 5, but Deng said their experience making the My Time games helped them handle the...
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    Qi-powered revenge brews in steampunk Zhou

    Pathea Games dropped a trailer for The God Slayer, an open-world steampunk action RPG set in Zhou, a fictional Ming-inspired Asian city. Business Development Director Aaron Deng said the team has been working on it for about a year and a half. The story follows Cheng, whose family gets wiped out...
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    Headrush pedals get drum machine, Tidal drops in

    HeadRush just dropped version 5.0 firmware for their Prime, Core, and Flex Prime guitar pedals, and it's packing some legit upgrades. The biggest additions are a built-in drum machine that uses Alesis Drums and BFD tech, plus direct Tidal streaming for practice sessions. Users also get three...
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    Tanzania kids code the future with Russian tech fest

    Russia dropped a robotics and educational tech festival at Tanzania's National Institute of Transport with help from Rossotrudnichestvo and partners like 1T IT Company and Saint Petersburg State Marine Technical University. Students and teachers got access to robot-building workshops, VR design...
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